In Vogue and Belle Magazine

My ceramic work 'River Effigies' has recently featured in Belle and Vogue Living.

Vogue Living, Art at Home, May/June 2023, p105

Belle Magazine, May/June 2023, p105, Arent Pyke studio

Belle Summer Dreaming, Dec/Jan 2023/2024, p150

Selected for the Fishers Ghost Art Award 2022 and 2023

The painting, ‘Language of the River’, acrylic on linen, 168 x 214 cm, 2022, 'Aquifers and River Language' acrylic on linen, 168 x 214 cm, 2023 were both selected for the Annual Fishers Ghost Art Award, exhibited at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.

ARTIST STATEMENT :

"My work focuses on the significance and ecological concerns of the river, an iconic source of fertility with its cyclical nature of renewal and destruction."

"In a land with limited water supplies the politics and necessity of water is essential to our environmental needs. Calligraphic marks infer a text or a series of musical notes acknowledging our need to understand the life blood of aquifers and rivers in order to work with these fragile resources."

'Language of the River', acrylic on linen, 169 x 214 cm, 2022, 'Aquifers and River langugae', acrylic on linen, 168 x 214 cm, 2023

Selected for Still : National Still Life Award 2023 and now part of the Yarrila Arts and Museum collection, Coffs Harbour

My work, 'Effigies of Domesticity' has been slected for the 2023 Still : National Still Life Award exhibited at the newly renovated Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour, NSW. The work is a grouping of four sculptural works with concrete embedded with ceramic shards, shells and found materials, displayed on timber plinths. The work is now proudly part of the YAM art gallery collection.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

"Deconstructed and reassembled, ceramic shards representing the domestic are embedded in elemental concrete forms. Personifications of the juggle of work and motherhood, the primordial in conjunction with the refined porcelain, referencing ideals of the feminine, are captured in an awkward dance.

Placed on plinths adorned with artificial flowers and fruit they become fragmented remnants of an ideal. The feminine body is metamorphosed as vessel, with its functional role of pouring and holding is held still."