Warnibald

I got an honourable mention in the Warnibald art competition this year.

The Warrnibald has a similar format to the famous Archibald Prize, with a local focus. Artists currently residing in Warrnambool, Moyne or Corangamite are invited to enter a portrait of a subject who has made a significant contribution to local culture, charity, business, sport or politics in our region or has represented our region in these areas nationally or internationally.

I created a portrait of Len Byron who is the president of the Triton Woodworkers Group. For the last 15 years, Len and his group of retired wood-working men have been cutting, sawing and drilling wood into kits for children to make a toy at the Fun4Kids Festival.

The Fun4Kids Festival is a fun-packed seven-day event, offering kids interactive workshops, games and activities. Including the popular Construct It Area, where children hammer together their very own wooden toy, supervised by the Triton Woodworkers Group and a group of volunteers.

Woodprint and linocut
Len Byron, Woodprint and linocut on Fabrino Paper AUD $300

Roundabout

EmbedED

This artist in residency worked like artists embedded with the military. Karen Richards, Gareth Colliton and myself joined the Warrnambool Emergency Department of South West Health Care, for three months, to observe staff and (consenting) patients then make art in response to what they experienced.
This project  culminated in an exhibition, opened by Guy Ben-Ary,  at Scope Gallery in Warrnambool.
We were featured in Spoonful, Imprint and Embelish Magazines and presented a paper at the Art of Good Health and Wellbeing Conference. Below are a number of the articles written about the project.

ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-15/embeded-warrnambool-art-exhibit-aims-to-cut-fears/5893508

Australian College of Emergency Medicine:

https://www.acem.org.au/About-ACEM/Inside-ACEM/EmbedED-an-outsiders-view-of-inside-the-ED.aspx

South West Health Care:

http://www.southwesthealthcare.com.au/swh/events/australia-first-exhibition-embed-yourself-in-embeded

i remember a man who
I remember a man who, Jigsaw coloured linocut, Fabrino  Paper 44 x 30cms AUD $375
Addiction, linocut
Addiction, linocut on Fabrino Paper 28 x 41cms AUD $325