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.
“It is a matter of keeping the internal landscape in order. In the silence, the smallest thing becomes a monumental event: the way the light hits a blue bowl, the way a single flower in a vase begins to lean, the way the dust settles on the table. One survives by the quality of one's attention. If I can look at these things clearly, if I can paint them or write them into existence, I am no longer just 'waiting.' I am participating in the life that is happening right now, in the shadows and the quiet corners."
May Sarton - Journal of a solitude
Banana and batik
Acrylic on linen, 195cm x 178cm, $1600
Hornbill II
Acrylic on canvas, 151cm x 120cm, $1400.
Finalist 2025 Du Rietz Award
Territory vanitas
Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 90cm, $720.
Youth
Acrylic on canvas, 101cm x 76cm, $740.
Banana flower, Parap
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm, $460.
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 46cm, $440
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Spider Lily II
Spider Lily I
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm, $440
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Acrylic on canvas, 101cm x 76cm
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Hornbill I
The palm and the vine
Acrylic on canvas, 101cm x 76cm
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Banana flower, Bark Hut
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 46cm
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Gold bomber on batik
Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 60cm
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Memento Mori (Coconuts with cross)
Acrylic on canvas, 91cm x 91cm
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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.