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Visual Arts

A publicity shot for 'Subterranean Nights' a solo show at No. 9 artist run initiative in 2002
No 9 was set up by Niko Vuletic and Tobias de Maine, then a larger group of us assembled to run the gallery until we lost the space. Other people involved included artist, Sebastian Moody and the writer, Brentley Fraser

My shopfront studio in Merthyr Rd, New Farm.. I loved this place!

Click here to see some photos of the opening night!

After a while in the Merthyr Rd studio, my good friend Adam Head and I decided to take over the whole building and opened the New Farm Art Stockroom! Here we are doing what we do.. Click here for images of it and to see it's website! For the short time that it existed, it was fantastic!

The first few days of the Bowen Hills Studio!

Some lovely friends at the 2017 studio show

A poster for the solo show, 'Icarus and Other Angels' in 1991. I was making sculptural paintings at the time and living in my studio in the old Target Building in Fortitude Valley.

Working in the 2001 Bardon studio. It was a great place, until it was pulled down..

The Bardon studio, I took to the wall with a circular saw and installed some windows for northern light! A vast improvement, I worked in this excellent studio for a couple of years around the beginning of the century

Various manifestations of studio computers which I built.. One in St Kilda and one in Bardon set in a wheel barrow so I could move it around the studio, my first portable computer!

Painting in my Charles St. studio in New Farm, 2004. Many thanks to Juanita Broderick for the photos!

Other Arts

Here's me at 20 years old in the Queensland Theatre Company's design studio.

I started working in theatre in 1979 by walking into La Boite Theatre in Brisbane, to help with the bump-in of 'They Shoot Horses... Don't They' and basically lived there for the next 2 weeks!! I put an art exhibition on in the theatre's foyer for the next show and was asked by the Twelfth Night Theatre Company to help paint their set for 'The Threepenny Opera', my third show, and first professional gig at 18 years old...
Then there was a pile of shows painted and built and a few designs made for La Boite and the Brisbane Arts Theatre... When I was 20 I was employed for a season by the Queensland Theatre Company as the design assistant, working with James Ridewood and Graham McClean... We painted with powder pigment paint in glue size and I learnt a great deal...

Painting a backdrop for the feature film, Nim's Island. I was a leading hand scenic artist, in charge of murals and backdrops. I loved working on this film, and met some fantastic people!

Nim's Island bath room, 2007

When I was between 28 and 30, I became involved with Horizon Circus in Hobart, Tasmania. I mainly did contact improvisation, juggling and clowning..

Rehearsing the 'Dragon Dance' with Debbie Rodrigues, Adam Wallace and John Campbell for 'Horizon on Fire' in 1990

Exhausted at the end of a training session with John Campbell, Debbie Rodrigues and Prue Dudley

I designed and made 2 floats for the 2001 Australia Day parade i Brisbane.. 'Billy Cart' and 'Billy Tea'

Painting the doors for The Met nightclub, for Heads Up Film Services

A beautiful sculpture designed by Adam Head that we made and installed

Playing slide didgeridoo with my sister's Irish band, Banshee in Hobart, 1994