Education:
1981- 86 St George TAFE Art & Post Art Certificate
Solo Shows:
1990 Chroma Aus Scapes, Menzies Hotel Wynyard.
1997 Images From The Salt Pan - James Harvey Gallery.
2002 Landscapes - James Harvey Gallery.
2005 Landscapes - James Harvey Gallery.
Group Shows:
NSW Travelling Scholarship
Bondi Pavilion
!995 Gallery Kafka
1998 Smalls, James Harvey Gallery.
1999 Animalistic, James Harvey Gallery.
2001 Top Drawer, James Harvey Gallery.
2002 Pocketsized, James Harvey Gallery.
2004 Xmas Show, James Harvey Gallery.
2007 Different Worlds - 110 Crystal St Petersham.
2007 Smalls x 9 - 110 Crystal St Petersham
2008 Smalls x 9 II - 110 Crystal St Petersham.
2009 Glebe Art Prize
2009 Six Points of View - 110 Crystal St Petersham.
2009 Smalls x 9 III - 110 Crystal St Petersham
2010 Waverley Art Prize
2010 Network - Ballarat Regional Gallery
Prizes and Awards
NSW Travelling Scholarship Finalist
1997 Winner contemporary Section - Joseph Banks Prize
2002 Winner Open and Painting Section - Camden Art Prize
2007 Finalist Mosman Art Prize - Mosman Art Gallery
2008 Commended for "Newtown" and "Georges River" Glebe Art Show
2008 Finalist Mosman Art Prize - Mosman Art Gallery
Fishers Ghost, , Willoughby Prize, Waverley Prize etc
Collections:
St George Hospital Mural
Camden Civic Centre
Private Collections, Japan, U.S, Australia.
This
exhibition is a collection of landscapes depicting predominately the Salt Pan
Creek – Georges River areas with additional images from around Sydney.
The
paintings move seamlessly between the representational and the abstract in a
robust freely rendered expressionist manner.
The
purpose of these pictures is to portray nature through the landscape. The
compelling qualities of this subject are its vitality and freshness while
displaying infinite capacity for rejuvenation. To express this random energy
with static medium such as a painting presents a challenge that is not realized
through pictorial mimicry. The use of exaggerated tone and colour accentuate
light and shadow while visible drips and under drawing contribute to represent
the raw complexity of the landscape. It is the unrefined properties of the
mediums used that convey the energies that nature exudes. The non-descriptive
textures, drips and lines perform as a metaphor for the randomness of fallen
leaves and branches wind, erosion, dappled light etc.
The result is a fresh painterly interpretation of the Australian landscape combining images of abstracted foliage fragments and standard landscapes to depict the painters’ experience.
- from 2002 exhibition - James Harvey Gallery