About
My painting and drawing practice are grounded in a fascination with memory, place, and the traces left behind in the natural world. To have inhabited a landscape is to have left behind some form of trace. Working within an abstract expressionist framework, I use gestural mark-making, layering, and constructive erasure to evoke both the fleeting and enduring imprints of lived experience— human and non-human—on the landscape.
Memory operates in my work in dual ways: as an archive of personal encounters with landscape and as a process embedded in the physical act of painting. Each mark, scrape, and wash on the canvas is a residue of thought and feeling, a record of gesture and observation. Walking is central to my practice—it is how I gather sensory impressions and bear witness to the ephemeral: the shifting path of a flock of birds, the imprint of a well-travelled footpath, or the brief impression of waves on sand or to the more enduring trace such as a fossilised rock that has survived the millennia.
It is these sorts of images that find their slippery way into my paintings.
These observations, both intimate and universal, are translated into visual language through colour, rhythm, and form. My paintings do not depict place, but rather evoke its emotional resonance.
In this way, the work becomes an archive of my experience of the land I draw inspiration from, shaped by past movement and open to new interpretation—traces not just seen, but felt.
Curriculum Vitae
My creative credentials were founded on a career in advertising that spanned four decades, where working alongside the most creative and inventive minds some of Australia’s most iconic ads were made. For eight years I also worked with a Fine Art Auction house based in Melbourne. The insights and ideas from these years have contributed to my practice today.
Residing and working in Eora/Sydney Australia
Education
2024- 2025 // Master of Fine Arts at National Art School
2020- 2022 // Bachelor of Fine Arts at National Art School
Solo Exhibitions
2025// “scintilla” Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2025//”On Shared Ground”, Drawing Gallery NAS, Darlinghurst
2025// “traces” Exhibition at Tiliqua Tiliqua Gallery Enmore
2023// “about” Exhibition at Sheffer Gallery Darlington
Group Exhibitions
2025// “Yellow” Exhibition, Tiliqua Tiliqua Gallery, Enmore
2025// Library Stairwell Gallery NAS, Darlinghurst
2024// “Nine” Exhibition, aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo
2024// Raglan Gallery, Cooma
2024 // Clyde and Co Art Awards Exhibition Sydney
2024// ‘Shared Table “ aMBUSH Gallery , Waterloo
2024// “This Must be the Place” 25b Gallery , Darlinghurst
2024// Taralga Art Show Taralga NSW
2024//Drawing Exhibition Library Stairwell Gallery NAS Darlinghurst
2024// “ Lesperon” aMBUSH Gallery Waterloo
2023 //”A Shared Table “ aMBUSH Gallery Waterloo
2023 // “NEXUS” Exhibition Sheffer Gallery Darlington (also Curated )
2023 // Clyde and Co Art Awards Exhibition Sydney
2022 // Grad Show National Art School
2021 // “Harvest” Exhibition M2 Gallery Sydney
2016 // Wunderman Photographic Exhibition