Artist Statement

1 - Fallen Memories 01

2 - Fallen Memories 02

3 - Fallen Memories 03

4 - Fallen Memories 04

Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.

Artist Statement

1 - Fallen Memories 01

2 - Fallen Memories 02

3 - Fallen Memories 03

4 - Fallen Memories 04

Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.

Artist Statement

1 - Fallen Memories 01

2 - Fallen Memories 02

3 - Fallen Memories 03

4 - Fallen Memories 04

Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.

Artist Statement

1 - Fallen Memories 01

2 - Fallen Memories 02

3 - Fallen Memories 03

4 - Fallen Memories 04

Urban spaces defined by autumn colour. Walking on leaves, looking up, not down to define place. Yet underfoot, if one looks, ephemeral landscapes can be found. Here the fallen wait to return to an earth which gave them life. Feet tread them in, rain washes them, wind remodels them, but they hang on, resisting their extinction. Annually this vision appears and disappears, but the moment of glory, relating to place and season, becomes a memory for what was. This set of work denotes place and memory, depicting the fallen leaves upon the wet and worn streets of humankind.

Artist Statement

1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale

2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong

3 - Plant--South-Penrith

4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo

The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.

Artist Statement

1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale

2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong

3 - Plant--South-Penrith

4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo

The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.

Artist Statement

1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale

2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong

3 - Plant--South-Penrith

4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo

The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.

Artist Statement

1 - Glasshouse--Moss-Vale

2 - Motel-Window—Mittagong

3 - Plant--South-Penrith

4 - Crow-Flying-Over-Hill--Dorrigo

The Holga Experiment is a body of work about my personal spiritual connection with photography and experience with creative practice. It connects me spiritually with two ancient Japanese philosophies; ikigai and wabi sabi. The simplification of the photographic process with a hyper-awareness of the environment around me is what this body of work attempts to capture. The work displays an ephemeral moment of my life’s journey with images that celebrate the beauty of the everyday with the imperfection of life. It contains an eclectic set of images utilising the Holga lens aesthetic to emphasise the sense of wabi sabi.

Artist Statement

1 - Cawndilla

2 - Combiruni-Hartley

3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi

4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs

Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.

Artist Statement

1 - Cawndilla

2 - Combiruni-Hartley

3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi

4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs

Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.

Artist Statement

1 - Cawndilla

2 - Combiruni-Hartley

3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi

4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs

Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.

Artist Statement

1 - Cawndilla

2 - Combiruni-Hartley

3 - Minnergong-Mundi-Mundi

4 - Mulladon-Milo-Downs

Returning from travelling through time to explore and investigate the new world of the future. A place of drastic change and contrast to our very own but seemingly similar in its outcome. The dawn of a post-modern world reveals the shifting perspective in power structure and stability. A plane leading to questions of mistakes gone past, the visual world left to its desires. Landscapes spanning of global destruction. Isolated instances of universal chaos. Rivers choked, deserts intense. Nature dares to try. One thing brought back with absolute certainty, it was unquestionably dry.

Artist Statement

1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie

2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie

3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey

4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa

Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.

Artist Statement

1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie

2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie

3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey

4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa

Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.

Artist Statement

1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie

2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie

3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey

4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa

Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.

Artist Statement

1 - To Dear Mary from Mollie

2 - To Dear Mary from Monnie

3 - To Dear Mary from N Dempsey

4 - To Dear Mary from Teresa

Christmas 1929 Irish schoolgirl Mary received a notebook and asked her friends to write in it. The sentiments those teenage girls penned are strikingly poignant: an insight into a country that had experienced famine, civil war and mass migration. The poems and sayings carry recurring promises of ongoing friendship despite separation and loneliness. In the Australian outback I have found various signs of past habitation and wondered about the stories behind them - of loss, abandonment and heartbreak. I admire the bravery and resilience of those early migrants and imagine them seeking comfort in letters and keepsakes from 'home'.