ink, watercolour on Arches paper 102 x76 cm, 2022
ink, watercolour on Arches paper 102 x76 cm, 2022
ink, watercolour on Arches paper 102 x76 cm, 2022
ink, watercolour on Arches paper 76 x76 cm, 2022
ink, watercolour on Arches paper 76 x76 cm, 2022
screen shot from video, 2017
Single channel 4K video 2:00/ 3:50 minutes, 2017
Music: Philip Glass
This video considers the sustainability of my art practice in terms of material use, which is mainly paper. A pair of rotating ceramic Australian river gums highlights the death of trees to produce paper.
The passage of time is captured by morning light moving across the still life arrangement.This still life contains contemporary and cross cultural references, as well as objects and compositions favoured by Golden Age Dutch painter Jan Davidsz de Heem.
Still: National Still Life Award Salon Exhibition, Sawtell Art Gallery 2017
‘Centering’ 2012
Kate Murphy’s ‘Prayers of a mother' expresses concerns of all mothers across the globe, from small villages in unheard of places to idyllic Australian suburbia. Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery invited 10 local artists to respond to her work.
My own mother's 'prayer/mantra' comes to me as a voice on the telephone. Time and distance have distilled this mantra into basic universal human needs, such as looking after oneself, eat good food, dress warmly in cold weather etc. With age, my mother’s concerns are repeated at each conversation, swirling around like the growth of petals in flowers.
My response in this work combines cultural reference of the lotus flower and contemporary reference to “buttons” in meditations (as in contemplating one’s navel), and centering of body and mind.
Chinese ink on Xuan paper
assemblage 90 x 135 cm 2003
Project at Side-on Gallery, Annandale, NSW
collaborative project by mail, 2006
Chinese ink and water colour on Arches paper
121 x 91 cm
Three Women Exhibition 2013
East West Gallery, Victoria
Chinese ink and water colour on Arches paper
121 x 91 cm
Finalist, Northern Exposure 2016 at Glasshouse Regional Gallery,
Port Macquarie, NSW