Portraits
People are what I’m interested in. I’ve always been fascinated with faces. Everything you need to know about a person is written there, while masks are used to hide truths within.
Self Portrait 2016
2021
Skirts #1 - #13, Acrylic on Cotton Duck, 204 x 114cm each
Collection of Penrith Regional Gallery
2020
Peggy, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 71 x 71 cm
Blacktown City Art Collection, Winner Blacktown City Art Prize
Laurissa, Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 20cm
2019
Common Ground
(in the name of womanhood…..sisterhood……neighbourhood)
I find myself continually consuming stories of women, what they said and did, how they lived, how they died. Searching for common ground and sometimes being taken aback by their expressions of my own private thoughts.
Reverently painting portraits of women who have influenced me through their art, writing or lifestyle is a way of bringing them to life. Realistically I can’t know someone that I have never met, yet by analysing their images and stories I strive to conjure them up.
Common Ground Series, 2019, 12 portraits, oil on wood panel
Images L - R Katherine Mansfield, Diane Arbus, Camille Claudel, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Edith Sitwell, Sonia Delaunay, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Diana Vreeland, Peggy Guggenheim, Jenny Holza, Francesca Woodman, Paula Modersohn-Becker
2017
Diana Vreeland Series
2016
Bride, 2016, acrylic on domestic cleaning wipes on artist’s board, 36cm x 28cm
As a girl I was brought up to believe in family, with the expectation I would get married and continue traditions. The implications of what that life entails causes me to question all notions of governance. In the Bride portrait, the domestic cleaning wipe underlies practical truths of domesticity in which material and social matters are cleaned up.
Vivian Vidulich, Acrylic on canvas, 76x61cm
2015
2014
Family Secrets
Before Series
2008
Behind Closed Doors Series