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The relationship of the solitary individual to the space that he or she inhabits is the prevailing theme of my work of the past 25 years. I have explored elements of urban landscape through images of institutional and domestic structures (both interior and exterior), which threaten, or are threatened by their peripheral space. Time spent in New York in 1998 manifested as a series of works that dealt with the claustrophobia of dense urban space. Scenes of crowded skylines, streets devoid of life, government housing and towering architectural monoliths, mirrored the estrangement and lifelessness of the modern metropolis. In Australia I'm using images of the country's vast terrain to further my exploration of the solitary. I have journeyed to, and produced works about, the Kimberley and Kakadu, the South Australian desert and the Daintree Rainforest.
While this may be called landscape painting, it is also a topography of psychosis; of hallucinogenic states filtered through a reality of survival - both as an artist in a peripheral land (in terms of international culture), and an individual in a physically daunting environment.
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