Saw David Ahern up the street today, up ahead.

Well, I knew pretty quickly it wasn't him. He's been dead twenty years.

The current exhibition of work at 146 Abercrombie Street Redfern is co-hosted by The Commercial Gallery and Australian Galleries. It runs from the 28th March to 25 April, 2015.

There was a palm tree here, in my studio …

My current exhibition at 146 Abercrombie Street Redfern is a collaboration between my gallery, Australian Galleries and The Commercial Gallery.

Thoughts on The McClelland Sculpture Prize In relation to Progress

How can my sunglasses not be my favourite object?

Yet to be Dressed with Sound …

SILENCE HERE
IS NOISE ELSEWHERE

Let's first up establish that all sculpture is ultimately made to be indoors. Why go to all the trouble of making something and then leave it outside to be vandalised and subjected to the weather?

shoes and bananas

Various Ups, 2010

Going through my plan drawers,
A Selection

For all the consideration of the liveliness of each figure in the bowl sculptures, often the figures are reduced to pattern and  become subjugated.

The Archibald Prize from my perspective represents the challenge to keep the genre of portraiture alive.

You can only leave stuff out once the weight of excess has left you bruised and confused. I came at this work relishing the prospect of finishing the work as soon as possible after beginning it.

The Story came to me from realising the tree had not fallen from the cliff but had been excreted from the belly of the wall …

Matthew's Tumber's brush, once wet with paint is dry now. The paint and the brush are one integrated object. The brush has painted itself painting.

I will digress from my specific considerations about The Sydney School of Sculpture briefly, to consider the nature and layout of the blog which favours the present most recent posts as the most pressing posts to read.

A Response to John McDonald's Article in The Sydney Morning Herald on 5th February, 2014