SWELL 2022 currumbin beach - community exhibition/installation
each year, around to 60 contemporary sculptures appear along and around currumbin beach, queensland. claudia de salvo and i were stoked to be selected to install our work as part of this festival in 2022. artists also submit a more manageable sized work to swell small.
honoured to collaborate on this little story teller ‘artefact and fantasy’ with claudia de salvo for the ceramic arts queensland siliceous awards. claudia came up with the name: she’s class like that.
SILICEOUS 2023 - finalist
MAS & MIEK feb 2024 newstead, meanjin - joint show
sharing the beautiful gallery space with pimparat tantisukarom for a 2 week show.
THE CURIOUS NOVICE july - sept 2024 noosa regional gallery - group show
“The Curious Novice examines the artist’s connection to their work- the anticipation, wonder, and joy that comes with the firing of each piece- and culminates in the final presentation to the recipient. Through exploring the notion that ceramics represents more than mere objects, The Curious Novice dives into the metaphysical connection between the artist, the medium, the object, the recipient, and the user.” - Noosa Regional Gallery
group show featuring works by dennis forshaw, claudia de salvo, angus mcdiarmid, anwen thomas, pimparat tantisukarom, and laura cope.
Incoming:
SWELL 2025 currrumbin beach - community exhibition/installation
taking on a series of structures under the title of ‘community housing project’ with the ever patient and ever so clever claudia de salvo. stoked to have the opportunity to show work alongside so many legends.
PARADISE GLOSS dec 2024 side gallery, meanjin - group show
The theme Paradise Gloss is the exhibition title that curator Laura Brinin has explored this year with a project for the Outdoor Gallery, presented by Brisbane City Council. In this theme extension, Laura invites artists in the broader community to consider how they will respond to the concept.
“The last couple of years have left a lot of us searching for understanding, watching a world catch fire, reports of crime and violence escalating and fear that our leaders are not acting in our best interests. Socially, politically and culturally, we have been challenged in unprecedented ways. Historically, art's immediacy can communicate our shared realities, engage with critical social questions, and envision an inclusive future. It reminds us of the beauty and joy inherent in the everyday, even in the mundane and familiar that we take for granted, and can act as an antidote to the daily grind. The main objective for Paradise Gloss was for artists and audiences alike to participate and engage in creative play, to take their minds off the realities of the world around us, and focus on well-being through making.”
— Laura Brinin
In this iteration of the concept, we have invited artists to submit works representative of their experiences over the last couple of years and explore how their well-being is bettered through making.
INCOMING:
MAKERS/BREAKERS jan - feb 2025 sawtooth gallery, launceston - joint show
this joint exhibition will be a playful diorama of organic and whimsical story telling where new life forms dwell as one species, presenting in a variety of physical forms. the work is primarily ceramic, incorporating hay, pebbles, yarn and sticks. wandering through and around the structures and characters, our visitors are as giants, interventionists, moving above the height of clouds, surveying a civilisation that they are able to interact with or upon to be forces of creation or destruction or concurrently both, recognising that the acts of making and breaking are inherent to the human condition.