Collage as Commentary
Collage has scope for creating multilayered narratives. I use collage as a technique to create commentaries on social, environmental and political issues.
Juggernaut 2022. Stitched collage created on hessian dipped in hessian paper pulp from sandbags used during the 2022 floods. Exhibited in the Paper exhibition, Beaudesert 2023.
Extinction Tourism: Walking the (receding) Glaciers 2020. Paper pulp collage on screenprinted papers in response to the the tourists who are thronging to Iceland before all the glaciers melt. Exhibited in Fire & Ice solo exhibition, The Field gallery, Murwillumbah 2020.
Avalanche Risk 2023 Stitched cyanotype collage as part of my Stone Stories project responding to the floods in New South Wales in 2022 and the avalanche in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland in 2020. Upcoming exhibition Ice Stories: Dispatches from the Arctic at Art Post Uki, 2024.
24th July 2021. A collage reflecting on the democracy rallies in Syntagma Square, Greece in 2011. Exhibited with the Foundation for Hellenic Studies, Adelaide, South Australia 2021.
We Still Live Here 2020. Daily collage responding to the Black Lives Matter movement
Endeavour 2023. Digital collage from a screenprint using text sourced from government newspaper advertisements. Exhibited Mertz Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland 2023.
Pilgrim 2014. Collage on canvas responding to a man’s walk to Canberra in protest against the Australian governments refugee policy. Screenprint of James Cook’s barque Endeavour and text sourced from government newspaper advertisements. Exhibited Lismore Regional Gallery as part of my I Was Here solo exhibition, 2016.