Phantasmagoria (extremus phantasma)
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I am a multidisciplinary artist delving into the complexities of human emotion and experience. Exploring the blurred boundaries between love and hate, war and sex, uncovering beauty in the most extreme circumstances. (without ugliness, could we see or understand beauty?)
I believe that you need to have recognised that a blossoming flower will wilt over time. That things that are alive will die. Happiness is the mirror to sadness. A never-ending cycle of opposites. Love/hate, happy/sad, cold/hot, light/dark and so on.
Mirroring each other in an endless struggle of recognition.
The notion of extremities has always fascinated me as an artist.
The idea that without experiencing love you could not understand that there is also hate.
Because what are you comparing love to?
Does it exist in a vacuum?
I know not to touch a fire because I know I will get burnt.
But I only know this from an experience of touching a fire.
Did I touch a fire and get burnt?
Or was I warned never to touch a fire because I may get burnt?
These conundrums can apply to everything.
These fine lines between experience and the imagined is what I have been exploring and manifesting in my works.
My paintings elicit a feeling from the viewer that confuses their eye and perhaps stirs a faint dream or recognition that drifts into a memory.
There are a multitude of ghosts and hidden landscapes within my paintings.
A trick of the eye.
Hence extremus phantasma.
Art CAREER HISTORY
2026 Gallery Unbound Gallery -Melbourne. Group Exhibition
2026 The Taps of The Holy Trinity. Album Cover
2025 Michael Plater. Album Cover
2025 FortyFive Downstairs Small Works- Melbourne- Group Exhibition
2024 Brunswick Street Gallery -Melbourne. Solo
2023 Red Gallery- Melbourne- Group Exhibition
2020 Brunswick Street Gallery. Small Arts Prize Entry
2020-2026 Bush Kult Productions. Film Work
2020 Lethbridge Gallery Art Prize Entry
2019 Brunswick Street Gallery – Small Arts Prize Entry
2017 Bacigalupo -Sydney
2001-2015 3rd Eye - Sydney, Melbourne, Frankfurt, Prague. (street art counter propaganda)
2000 Perc Tucker Gallery- Townsville. Solo Exhibition
1998 Perc Tucker Gallery-Townsville. Solo Exhibition
1990- 2015 TropicLine Theatre- Townsville