River Costumes featuring in my Cementa 24 work, 'Theatre of the River'.

A particpatory element of my installation, 'Theatre of the River' at Cementa 24, 19th - 22nd September 2024. Up cycled clothing re presented as art and theatrical costumes, inviting everyone to wear the river costumes around the town of Kandos for the Cementa 24 Festival. Becoming collaborative actors and active participants of the Theatre of the River. Representing the river running free, no longer restricted by industry and the local weirs and dams that once supported Kando's cement factory. The river now returns to an ecological path, beyond the man made structures to expand and saturate into the water table, as part of regenerative farming practices of sustainability.

My ceramic, 'The River's Ancient Song' on exhibition within the 'Country' section of the Art Gallery of Ballarat's collection exhibition.

One of my career highlights is finding my ceramic work, ' The River's Ancient Song', stoneware ceramic with glaze, 42 x 23 x 20 cm, on display with a new rehang of Art Gallery of Ballarat's collection. Featured in the 'Country' section in the company of so many esteemed artists and many of my art heros, Arthur Boyd, Tom Roberts, John Olsen, and one of my favourite ceramic artists, Merric Boyd.

Ceramic, 'Fusion, River Icon' is a finalist for the 2024 Biennale North Queensland Ceramic Award

My ceramic, 'Fusion, River Icon', stoneware ceramic with glaze, 37 x 33 x 31 cm, 2023, has been slected for the 2024 Biennale North Queensland Ceramic Award. It will be exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville along with other finlaists, from the 18th of October 2024 to the 16th of February 2025.

"This hand-built ceramic vessel, a container and holder of liquid, echoes forms of antiquity. Using the ancient coiling technique with a layered surface it speaks of an archetypal symbol—the river. The liquidity of poured glaze combined with a painterly approach to glaze application is fused with iron oxide within the stoneware clay. Layers of glaze and slips applied to the surface are combined with an unorthodox approach to multiple firings, becoming a fusion of glaze, clay, and calligraphic marks, an inferred language or script. The work explores the river as subject, symbol and metaphor, acknowledging the need to understand and decipher in order to preserve the precious resource of water"

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