My studio practice is an exploration into the contemporary expanded field of painting: at the fore, practice led painting research. I create works that employ repetitive action, and in turn I engage a meditative process in the making of artworks. These paintings trace the time and act of creating the artworks and, consequentially, the artwork becomes an abstract form of diary of the creative experience completed by artist for the viewer to further contemplate.
A fusion exists in the paintings created: in the attention paid to the appearance, form and means of presentation of the formal aesthetic detail of works, meaning an engagement with the art theory and practice of the abstract painters of New York from the 1950s to now. This art historic consideration also blends the acts of 1960s and 70s Australian, American, and European conceptual artists: questioning elements of the definition of the studio term painting. This formal artistic practice and consideration for the conceptual activity of artist occurs alongside an exploration into the creative meditative experience of any artist, with particular consideration for my own practice as an Australian painter following after a rich history of landscape, romantic, Aboriginal, modern and contemporary Australian painters.
