Work in Progress
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Drawings, 2024 -
I’ve started doing drawings using natural pigments and timber fibres, capturing scenes of local landscapes next to rivers and along the catchment area. These riparian corridoors are fascinating, for their natural beauty and resilience but I’m also interested in the politics of these sites as contested natural resources being exploited in continued and evolving ways.
I love drawing en plein air, and this medium helps me work quickly, decisively and sustainably.
These two drawings are from an August 2024 exhibition held at Landslide gallery alongside fellow Blue Mountains artist Byron Kinnaird. I also framed the entire show using salvaged and reclaimed timber, through my business Mount Framing.
Long Swamp Rocky Outcrop
These photographs are part of an ongoing series investigating the environmental conditions of Long Swamp, located in Wiradjuri country on the western edge of the Blue Mountains. Like all swamps in the region, Long Swamp performs many duties in regulating and filtering water. It is a habitat for numerous endemic plants, animals and insects.
Tree beside Long Swamp
Long Swamp is culturally significant for Wiradjuri people and recently has become a destination for park users seeking off-road thrills on a network of roads furrowing the perimeter and adjacent hills. Longwall mining in the vicinity has brought millions of tonnes of coal out of the ground and reshaped the landscape above in fissures and sinkholes. There are many stakeholders who use the swamp and surrounds for their endeavours - symbiotically and otherwise.
Long exposure of Long Swamp on a Full Moon
Being a popular site on the weekends I have been staging visits to the swamp at night, choosing full moon events to walk around and take photographs of the understory, tree canopy, surrounding pagoda country and peaty grasslands.