Untitled Fossil (detail looking west), 1991, AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTA - Western Sites Component, 31m x 50.5m x 75cm, basalt, red clay, shale and sand from the surrounding quarry at New Penrith Lakes Development Site. I made a fossil-like image to allude to the fossils, and evidence of tool fragments, found at the site that conjure up the past. I drew the image with ‘lines’ and ‘dots’ in deference to the Dharruk people. This area had been used as a quarry for thousands of years. Possibly the oldest known evidence of human occupation has been found here. It is a site of major significance. With assistance from Peter Carrol, The Greater Western Educational Resource Centre, St Marys, Ken Upton, Dharruk Link, Aboriginal Liaison Officer, UWS, Nepean, and Dr Jim Cotton, Earth Sciences Dept, Macquarie University.
Untitled Fossil (detail looking east), 1991, AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTA - Western Sites Component, 31m x 50.5m x 75cm, basalt, red clay, shale and sand from the surrounding quarry at New Penrith Lakes Development Site
Untitled Fossil (aerial view), 1991, AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTA - Western Sites Component. Photo taken at 700 ft by BHP Engineering NSW
Untitled Fossil (detail looking south), 1991, AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTA - Western Sites Component, 31m x 50.5m x 75cm, basalt, red clay, shale and sand from the surrounding quarry at New Penrith Lakes Development Site
Disjecta Membra, 1990, week one work-in-progress, woodchips, 7.6m x 2.8m x 25cm at W.I.N.D.O.W. Gallery, CBD Sydney
Disjecta Membra, 1990, week two, work-in-progress, export-grade and reject quality woodchips, 8 x 3m x 50cm at W.I.N.D.O.W. Gallery, CBD Sydney
Whorl, 1998, tussock grass on hessian on rattan structure, 1800mm diameter x 200mm at Sweet Foray Gallery Katoomba, part of SUSTENANCE-Song of the Winds Festival
Vertigo, (detail) from Out on a Limb, 1998, installation of 12 words suspended in the trees in the grounds of Varuna Writer's Centre, Katoomba for SUSTENANCE-Song of the Winds Festival
Edge, (detail) from Out on a Limb, 1998, installation of 12 words suspended in the trees in the grounds of Varuna Writer's Centre, Katoomba for SUSTENANCE-Song of the Winds Festival
Quiver,(detail) from Out on a Limb, 1998, installation of 12 words suspended in the trees in the grounds of Varuna Writer's Centre, Katoomba for SUSTENANCE-Song of the Winds Festival
Labyrinth (detail), 1990, woodchips on grass, 15m diameter, for The Extra-Triennial (Fringe of 4th Melbourne Sculpture Triennial) at Gasworks Park
Labyrinth (detail week 3), 1990, woodchips on grass, 15m diameter for The Extra-Triennial (Fringe of 4th Melbourne Sculpture Triennial) at Gasworks Park
Labyrinth (detail), 1990, wood-chips on grass, 15m diameter for The Extra-Triennial (Fringe of 4th Melbourne Sculpture Triennial) at Gasworks Park. Wood-chips from SE native forests, donated by Harris-Diashowa Pulp Mill, Eden, NSW. With the support of an Australia Council, NAVA Pat Corrigan Artists Grant. This work was made in response to the contamination of the Gasworks Park site. The wood chips are representative of our exploitation of place, by laying the wood-chips on the ground as a Labyrinth they can symbolically recover or heal the ground and be absorbed back into the earth. Visitors engaging with this ancient symbol, follow the path to the centre from where a 180-degree turn is required to navigate a way out. This can be seen as symbolic of the need for humankind to look back, to find the right way into the future.
Labyrinth scar after the event, 1990, for The Extra-Triennial (Fringe of 4th Melbourne Sculpture Triennial) at Gasworks Park
Installation view of Along The Lachlan Stock-route, 2002 at BrightSpace Gallery, Melbourne. Elsie Screen 1987, Ti-tree frame with rice paper and Indian ink and Camera 1986, River Redgum bark, mud, plywood and foil, and photos strung along the wall taken with the camera
Along the Lachlan Stock Route (detail)
(detail) DIS-SOLUTION-Paradise Lost, 1998 (1990), gossamer fibre, 'export grade' wood chips (donated by Harris-Diashowa, Eden), ochres from Twofold Bay, and Humpback whale songs, 3.2mH x 3.6mW x 4.8mD
(detail) DIS-SOLUTION-Paradise Lost, 1998 (1990), gossamer fibre, 'export grade' wood chips (donated by Harris-Diashowa, Eden), ochres from Twofold Bay, and Humpback whale songs, 3.2mH x 3.6mW x 4.8mD
(detail) DIS-SOLUTION-Paradise Lost, 1998 (1990), gossamer fibre, 'export grade' wood chips (donated by Harris-Diashowa, Eden), ochres from Twofold Bay, and Humpback whale songs, 3.2mH x 3.6mW x 4.8mD
Darawhal-Sunfish Dreaming, 1997, Mark's Park, Bondi for Sculpture by the Sea, sand from Bondi and Tamara Beaches, 5m x 7m x 2cm (with permission from KJ Foster, Chairman La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council)
Darawhal-Sunfish Dreaming, 1997 (looking south) Mark's Park, Bondi for Sculpture by the Sea, sand from Bondi and Tamara Beaches, 5m x 7m x 2cm (with permission from KJ Foster, Chairman of La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council)
Darawhal-Sunfish Dreaming, 1997, (looking west) Mark's Park, Bondi for Sculpture by the Sea, sand from Bondi and Tamara Beaches, 5m x 7m x 2cm (with permission from KJ Foster, Chairman of La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council)
Darawhal-Sunfish Dreaming 1997 at Mark's Park, Bondi for Sculpture by the Sea, sand from Bondi and Tamara Beaches, 5m x 7m x 2cm (with permission from KJ Foster, Chairman of La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council). The rock engraving can be seen in lower right-hand side of the photo
Spirit Ladder, 2013, eucalyptus saplings, ochre and emu feathers, 3550 x 380 x 50mm
Spinifex (detail), 2015, toothpicks, acrylic paint, coconut fibre and desert sand. A floorpiece installation with 21 mounds, dimensions variable. Photo Greg Piper
Spinifex (detail), 2015, toothpicks, acrylic paint, coconut fibre and desert sand. A floorpiece installation with 21 mounds, dimensions variable. Photo Greg Piper
Threshold 2009-2015, emu feathers on hessian on rattan frame on stand of ti-tree, 1600 x 1300 x 650mm. Photo Jo Lafferty
Spinifex, 2015, toothpicks, acrylic paint, coconut fibre and desert sand. A floorpiece installation with 21 mounds, dimensions variable
2015 Installation view of MIRAGE-Desert Forms and Images, M16 Artspace, with Salt Lake Light, Louise Owen, Millenium Mark, Ewaninga and Spinifex
2015 Installation view of MIRAGE-Desert Forms and Images, M16 Artspace, with Spinifex, Spirit Ladder, Threshold and Sleep Imprint
The Writing's on The Wall - the gas man told me..., mixed media installation with text and sound, 4800 x 2400 x 850mm, What Lies Beneath? at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 2013
CONSEQUENT MMXX, 2021, contents of the incinerated hut from the 2019-20 fires, on coals and ash, 590 x 1030 x 610mm
CONSEQUENT MMXX (detail), contents of the incinerated hut from the 2019-20 fires on coals and ash
Installation view from ICE BREAKER MMXXI with CONSEQUENT and Tipping Point-Antarctic Beech Ablaze at The SHAC Gallery, Robertson NSW
Lakebed, detail from EXPOSURE 2015, a site-specific intervention on a dried out lagoon, Tanja NSW, 5320 x 8565mm
Close Encounter, detail from EXPOSURE 2015, a site-specific intervention, on the dried-out lagoon, in Tanja NSW, wallaby tracks and cut and turned desiccated lakebed, 3270 x 500mm
Burial, detail of a site-specific intervention EXPOSURE 2015, on a dried-out lagoon, in Tanja NSW, desiccated lakebed, rolled and wrapped, 1800 x 450 x 25omm