Kia ora & welcome
After 25 years exhibiting and developing my art practice - alongside curating, teaching, writing and arts management, in New Zealand and overseas - I’ve fallen in love with drawing again.
This website shows my recent work using metalpoint and other media. Alongside drawing I make my own art materials such as pigments and ink, and often use these investigations to expand my work, sometimes exhibiting material experiments as part of the final artwork.
My current focus is on observational drawing of botanical forms and, more broadly, the intertwining of plant life with heritage, culture and industry.
I particularly enjoy research, collaboration, art-science projects, and making a mess in my Ōtepoti Dunedin studio.
Thanks for visiting my corner of the world.
NEWS:
Currently exhibiting at the Auckland Botanical Gardens in the group show 'Our Plants - Past, Present and Future O Tātou Tipu o Mua - o Ināianei me te Āpōpō'. Until 29th June. www.botanicalartnz.org/baww25-new-zealand
Currently exhibiting with ‘The Botanicalists’ at the Margaret Stoddart Cottage, Diamond Harbour, Christchurch. Until 27th April. www.stoddartcottage.nz/current-exhibition
I will be teaching an ‘Introduction to Silverpoint’ course at Among the Sparrows in Dunedin on the 10th and 17th May. www.amongsparrows.com/workshops2-1
