biography
I was born in small-town New Zealand in the mid-seventies. After finishing my studies I moved to Germany in 1996 before settling in Perth, Western Australia in 2002.
Isolation is a recurring theme in my life and work – the remoteness of growing up in semi-rural New Zealand, the loneliness of living in Germany as a poor German speaker and lately the geographic and ideological seclusion of life in the purportedly most isolated city in the world, Perth, have all coloured my artistic practice.
Context, broader concepts surrounding the use of captions and a lack of a personal cultural library have been central themes explored in my work.
The images have always been very personal and have a therapeutic nature to them. They are typically how I work through problems or issues in my life.
I majored in Photography with a Fine Art bias and exhibit on
a regular basis in Perth, Western Australia where I now live with
my artist wife. Please see the press
archive for some insight into our working practice.
selected exhibitions
2014
five - fremantle prison @ Global Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2013
six @ Subiaco Museum, Subiaco, Australia
2012
five @ Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
five - fremantle prison @ Fremantle Prison, Fremantle, Australia
seven from five @ Perth Council House, Perth, Australia as part of FotoFreo
2012 Core Exhibition Programme
seven @ Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia as part of FotoFreo
2012 Open Exhibition Programme
Collective @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth,
Australia
2011
Joondalup Invitational Art Award*, Perth, Australia.
* I removed my work from this award on October 19 in protest over the treatment of the work by the curatorial team. Read more...
2010
Collective @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth,
Australia
five (epilogue) @ the Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, Australia
National Photography Prize 2010 (Modern Narratives: Photography as Story Teller), Albury, Australia.
Joondalup Invitational Art Award, Perth, Australia
2009
Fremantle
Print Award @ Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia
five @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia
CLIP Awards @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth,
Australia
2009 Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury & Margaret River, Australia
2008
drei @ Breadbox Gallery as part of FotoFreo
2008 Perth, Perth, Australia
2007 IPA/Lucies Tour, Los Angeles, USA
2007
2007 IPA/Lucies Tour, New York, USA
BankWest Contemporary Art Prize, Perth,
Australia
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography
Award,
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Transitions
@ Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia
2006
BankWest Contemporary Art Prize, Perth,
Australia
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Australia
What I Am @
Breadbox Gallery, Perth, Australia
2003–2008
Joondalup Invitational Art Award, Perth, Australia
2001
Kommando
Konrad Zuse, Hilden, Germany
1996
Fashion, Furniture & Photography, Whangarei, New
Zealand
1995
Independent
Silence**, Whangarei, New Zealand
Tutors and Allied Staff, Whangarei, New Zealand
1994
Te hua
ngatoki* (Graduation Show), Whangarei, New Zealand
collections
City of Perth (7)
City of Wanneroo (2)
Edith Cowan University (3)
Office of Shared Services (3)
Royal Perth Hospital (1)
Various private collections in New Zealand, Australia & Germany
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Above: five
#08 (800mm x 1000mm Lightjet Print, Edition of 5, 2008).
Above: drei
#07 (700mm x 1000mm Lightjet Print, Edition of 5, 2007).
Above: Kommando Konrad Zuse (150+ 20cm x 20cm image and text panels, 3 headphones, 2001). Viewers (re)move panels to create new dialogues between images and text.
Above: Silence (32 30cm x 30cm photographic tiles, vinyl film, 1994). |
