In 2022, I presented my first solo exhibition in nearly two decades. Although I had been painting throughout the preceding years, it was a time spent exploring ideas in the privacy and intimacy of my own studio space, away from external pressures. After moving into the Creator Incubator studio complex in late 2021, the warmth and camaraderie of fellow artists and the expansion in space opened a new period in my painting practice culminating in the exhibition, a series of abstractions, Creator Incubator Galleries, Newcastle, NSW.
image: double portrait of Lucas van Uffel (after Anthony van Dyck) and Robert Durst (detail) 2022
image above: double portrait of Lucas van Uffel (after Anthony van Dyck) and Robert Durst 2022 oil, acrylic, spray paint and graphite on canvas 196.5 x 149.5cm
image above: Portrait of an aesthete - the trial of Robert Durst 2022 oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 197.5 x 159.5cm
image above: after William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s The Flagellation of Christ - speedball 2022 oil, acrylic and chalk on canvas 210 x 146.5cm private collection
image above: Portrait of William-Adolphe Bouguereau 2022 oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, framed 80 x 63.5cm
image above: Portrait of Robert Durst 2022 oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, framed 80 x 63.5cm
image above: From the Museum 2022 oil and graphite in timber panel 55 x 28cm private collection
image above: fragments from a museum - after Jusepe de Ribera 2022 oil and acrylic on linen 121.5 x 100cm private collection
image above: fragment from the museum 2022 oil on timber panel with heritage frame 62 x 47cm private collection