Sydenham Station
A series of pulp prints inspired by textures expereinced on my everyday commute at my local train station. The works are made from recycled cotton pulp, sourced from donated clothing and domestic cloth from my local community.
$400 each H.41 x W.29cm
Street Pulp
I am drawn to and affected by undulating textural elements I experience while walking the streets of my local area in Marrickville, Sydney. When I traverse the cityscape, I photograph and mentally absorb surfaces for future reference in my studio. Textures of hard mottled concrete, brick and bitumen surfaces sprayed with paint by graffiti artists, council and construction workers hold my attention. ‘Street Pulp’ is inspired by reflective light on a graffiti sprayed brick wall surface, discovered after a rainfall. These vivid over-sprays and splatters are immersive and visually resemble the soft textural layering of sprayed cotton pulp and water that create the surface depth of my artwork.
$890 each H.82 x W. 63 cm
The Looking Glass
The Looking Glass - Objects crafted from recycled cotton rag mat, repurposed from gallery and museum off-cuts. The material has been blended and pressed into a mold, then left to dry to form its distinctive shape. The mold itself is a found object - a discarded security camera cover from the streets of Sydney’s Inner West where I live. These bowl-like vessels present a visual deception; while they appear to be functional, they are deliberately unusable, embodying deeper social and cultural commentary beneath their familiar form.
$140 each vessel- black through too shades of grey to white H. 8 x W.16 x D.16cm
Fold, Vessel
As a process-driven artist, making allows me to work through my everyday experience of being in the world. This emotive body of work emerged naturally during creation, reflected in my color choices and treatment of light. The titles—'fold in,' 'fold over,' 'on the edge'—reference fabric, geography, and physical responses to emotional experiences.
During a residency at the Morgan Conservatory, I began manipulating wet cotton paper sheets through creasing and folding, using cotton linter and aqueous pigment to mark these gestures. I wanted to capture the actual moment of material manipulation through pulp spraying, then press and return it to paper form.
$450 each H. 41 x W. 29
The Guardians
Guardians are inspired by a recurring dream I had experienced of tall dark figures with grand presence where each guardian has its own personality and part to play. This series of work was made during a residency in USA at Morgan conservatory where the idea of a guardaian was inspired by what I was seeing in my everyday. These four works were paprticularly inspired by the water tower that was ontop of the abandoned overall factory near the studio in Cleveland, Ohio.
These works are hand formed paper made from abac fibre, sprayed and printed with pigment infused cotton pulp.
$550 each H. 61 x W. 46
