It's the waiting
2025 was a year of waiting.
Hoping for good news, anxious in the unknown.
Hoping for ourselves, hoping for so many others.
Digging deep, leaning in, scraping the barrel of patience and resilience, while the constant lack of control nags at you.
Finding ways to be philosophical, to be engaged, to be distracted, but always there in the back of your mind.
Using my surrounds in Northern Australia, this body of work reflects a mood of time slowly moving when you're waiting, of taking in more detail and trying to stay present when your mind wants to be elsewhere.
Banana and batik
Acrylic on linen, 180cm x 180cm, $1600
Hornbill II
Acrylic on canvas, 151cm x 120cm, $1400.
Finalist 2025 Du Rietz Award
The palm and the vine
Acrylic on canvas, 101cm x 76cm, $880
Acrylic on canvas, 101cm x 76cm, $580.
Hornbill I
Gold bomber on batik
Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 60cm
Sold
Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 90cm, $720.
Territory vanitas
Memento Mori (Coconuts with cross)
Acrylic on canvas, 91cm x 91cm, $670
Acrylic on canvas, 101cm x 76cm, $740.
Youth
Banana flower, Bark Hut
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 46cm, $560
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm, $460.
Banana flower, Parap
Spider Lily I
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm, $440
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 46cm, $440.
Spider Lily II
A very big thank you to Untitled Gallery + Studio and Darwin Community Arts for their support in exhibiting this body of work.
And a very big thank you to Jack Bullen for the photography.