Exposure
One of the things I tried in 2022 was to start an art project about the Ocean. The Ocean is a really fascinating thing. In a lot of ways, water defines Earth...
Autonomy is magic
I'm sure I'm not the only one who, from time to time, finds themselves doing some life or values questionnaire. Sometimes these come mandated from my job (as...
Rick Owens
No one has ever accused me of being fashionable, for very good reason. I think my Mum and girlfriend have a secret chat where they share photos of me in...
The 24 Hour Milo
Milo is a type of chocolate powder that you can add to milk/water to make a hot chocolate. It’s malted and has a very particular flavour. It’s popular here...
Keep on keeping on
So, I was supposed to be sharing that I'd been out bush and made lots of photos and wow what a great time. But, due to the floods, I was unable to head out...
Publishing as business
Hello everyone, I'm in the bush this week and I hope I'm happily snapping photos while you read this. If you're new here, welcome! I've been prompted by a...
Nice images and moral imperatives
So - I did not get out to the bush the last week. For those not in Australia, we've had record breaking rainfall and huge floods. While the area I was...
Can rejection be fun?
Hello all, I am in the middle of nowhere this week, documenting wildlife surveys in a big property. It is (I hope) fun and important work. It is (I hope)...
Anti-elite art vernacular (or, the most specific topic I've ever written 1000 words on)
One of the really particular quirks of education in Australia is that, around the age of 14-16, a lot of schools assign their classes Of Mice and Men, the...
Perfect foods
I love food and am having a quiet week. Food consistently makes me happy. I love cooking, preparing, shopping, eating, enjoying. Here are a list of some...
A cat has nine lives - how many do we have?
Something I've written a bit about is here before is how my life is split between my day job in Education and my life as an artist. For many years, it's felt...
What is understanding?
On the weekend just past, I went to a stable and visited some horses. A friend's sister has two horses and I wanted to photograph them because I'm trying to...
Birthdays
Something a bit odd about me is that I don't really celebrate my birthday. When I was 16 I woke up thinking 'this will be a great day, everyone's going to be...
Australia: the land of fences
I'm obsessed with fencing and fences right now. I think that they are the most mundane expressions of a sense of inclusion, exclusion and control that most...
Getting older is getting easier
When I was a teacher, there was a segment of my colleagues who would often lament that working with teenagers made them feel old. Responding to the warp...
Adam Sandler
During COVID I got really into Saturday Night Live. I don't know why, it's not always funny, but there was something about watching compilations of sketches...
What we feel when
I'm off to Sydney tomorrow and Hawaii the day after. It's my first non-art-making holiday (and first international trip) since early 2019. For 2019, 2020,...
No Silver Bullets - money and art part 2 (fuck it!)
One of the things I want to do is show The Killing Sink in places that aren't Australia. To me, this seems like it would be a big step up and allow me to...
No Silver Bullets
One of the things I want to do is show The Killing Sink in places that aren't Australia. To me, this seems like it would be a big step up and allow me to...
Sophmore Album
I think the question that I ask myself in my art life is 'what's next?'. With art making, we often fixate on the wrong end point, and this can cause some...