A Secret Life
Wentworth Galleries, Sydney
May 2026
Over the course of the last seven years this practice of making has now, maybe more so than ever, taken an evolution of sorts. Tuning into the finest energetic shifts within me and growing alongside me as I move through a life that is becoming more in-tune with self. I like to think of it as developing a comfortable relationship with self whether I am particularly happy or not at any given time.
‘A Secret Life’ places emphasis on the internal dialogue between self and the material, expressing an internal response to my external world. What I find interesting about the process in which these works were made is that my memory fails me regarding the process. I simply cannot tell you how they came to be, or when. In hindsight, of course, these works hold significant personal meaning and resonance. They are, in fact, a direct response to the world I live in, on both a grand scale and a micro scale. A response to the emotional challenges and comforts of life itself.
‘A Secret Life’ is brimming with significance personally (always understood after-the-fact), visually represented within recurring motifs and words hidden beneath layers of paint or titles themselves. I continue to place an emphasis on this idea of energetic frequency as I realise my paintings aren’t about verbal dialogue at all - how can they be? In honesty, I don’t think they ever really have been. My interest lies in a viewer’s relationship with the work; what the viewer takes from the paintings, how they feel, what they feel, and perhaps most significantly why they feel it.
I continue to explore the way in which visual language can evoke emotion, meaning and message. Something so riddled with verbal language, sparked from a tangible object, and yet, so clearly without it.
A SECRET FOR A SECRET, 2026
A SECRET LIFE, 2026
BIT ON!, 2026
CAMILLE, 2026
CATFIGHT, 2026
EASY BILLIE, 2026
GIRLFRIEND CHAIR, VERSAILLES, 2026
HONEYTRAP 2, 2026
IF YOU'RE LUCKY, 2026
NAUGHTY MIMI, 2026
NO SMOKING, 2026
THE BIG TEST, 2026
RUBY!, 2026
SUNDOG, 2026
THE DARKER SIDE OF LIFE, 2026
THE WATERING HOLE, 2026
UNITY, 2026