Organic Gardening Teacher : Australian Contemporary Artist

2010 Artist Statement

Helping You Live a Healthy + Abundant Life by Growing Your Own Organic Food + Connecting with Nature

2010:  Logan Art Gallery

Artist State­ment Accom­pa­ny­ing the Exhibition

My art prac­tice cen­ters on a search for inti­macy, spir­i­tual con­nec­tion and adven­ture through travel to new and revis­ited places. Landscape, travel, mem­ory and inti­mate rela­tion­ships are themes cen­tral to my work. I doc­u­ment jour­neys through local and inter­na­tional land­scapes; mak­ing works rep­re­sen­ta­tive of my phys­i­cal sur­rounds and/or psy­cho­log­i­cal experience.

This lat­est body of work looks at every­day peo­ple and implies our culture’s long­ing for celebrity. The pho­tographs from the streets of New York City and Los Ange­les appear famil­iar; they tap into a genre from tabloid mag­a­zines show­ing movie and tele­vi­sion stars going about their day-to-day busi­ness. Only these peo­ple are not famous, they are ordi­nary folks going about their lives like any­where else in the West: shop­ping, talk­ing on mobile phones, cross­ing the road, and trav­el­ling on the subway.