In late 2022, I was an artist in residency for Barkly Arts in the Northern Territory. During the week long residency, I worked closely with artists from surrounding communities documenting them while they undertook their painting and traditional practices including seed and traditional medicine gathering.
I was recently commissioned by Leica Australia to produce a body of work with the new Q3 camera. A selection of images have been produced as large street posters around the streets of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Documentation of a photographic window decal for a private residence in Melbourne.
My latest book Second City self published by Sling Shot Press. Designed by Yanni Florence and featuring a foreword by Tony Birch.
Copies available HERE
In late 2022, I was one of four photographers from around the world commissioned by the Pohang International Foto Festival to produce a body of work around the Korean city of Pohang.
Ongoing series documenting my decomposing posters around the streets of Melbourne.
At the beginning of 2021, mid pandemic, I was commissioned by the multi award-winning Australian architecture firm Architectus to produce a book showcasing a selection of their buildings in celebration of their 21st birthday.
The brief was succinct; depict the key pillars of Architectus’ practice - people, place, purpose, planet and production - through a series of photographs to be published as a hardback book. Over a 15 month period, 25 buildings across four states were photographed. This could very easily have been an architectural documentary project, but instead the creative vision of Ruth Wilson and the team at Architectus is testament to a belief in originality and risk taking that is not often seen in projects of this scale. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had them champion my work.
‘21’ was beautifully designed by Yanni Florence and printed by Adams Print in Australia. Ray Edgar has provided an insightful essay to accompany the images. My thanks also go to David Hagger for his wonderful project management skills, hard work and patience.
‘21’ is being distributed through Architectus’ private events in 2022, where images within the book will be displayed on large-scale screens.
Four images from my book Second City have recently been installed at QV Melbourne as part of a visual display celebrating the unique fabric of the City of Melbourne’s culture, laneways and people. Produced in collaboration with Eve & Adam.
On November 9th, 2019, I was visiting the remote indigenous community of Yuendumu (300 km’s North West of Alice Springs) for my friend’s funeral.
After a long and emotional day, the sunset burial was interrupted by word of a shooting back at the town, two kilometres away.
Anxious family member rushed back to the community the news of teenager being shot three times by the police.
Members of the community and family desperate for news sat peacefully outside the Yuendumu Police Station. The police fearing a riot, locked themselves in the station until support from the army were flown in at midnight. It wasn’t until the next morning that the community were told Kumanjayi Walker had sadly passed away at the police station the night before;
Northern Territory Police office Constable Zachary Rolfe was charged with murder four days later.
My photos from the night, the days following and the recent trial of Constable Rolfe in Darwin were published in the The Monthly alongside a a long-form essay by my high school friend and longterm collaborator, investigative journalist and author Anna Krien.
The article can be read in full here.
Anything Can Happen and Probably Will
2015 - present (ongoing)
Series of fish-eye portraits of horse racing identities for a book advertising the boutique housing development The Darley at the Flemington race track.
A selection of images from my on-going series Anything Can Happen and Probably Will were recently published in LFI Magazine - Edition 7/2021
In February 2021, I spent 10 days out on the streets with the BMW 4 Series Coupe for a collaboration with BMW Australia and Leica Australia. The photos were exhibited at the BMW HQ in Melbourne.
I recently teamed up with West Australian visual artist and friend Sam Bloor for a series of collaborative street posters across our home cities of Melbourne and Perth respectively. During the recent Perth Covid-19 lockdown, Sam wrote a number of short poems to accompany my images.
An exhibition of selected images from the Second City series on occasion of the book launch at the Leica Store, Melbourne in March 2021.
The City of Melbourne / Renew Australia Picture Windows program took place in January 2021 and utilised empty shop windows around the Melbourne CBD. The project’s aim was to bring a sense of energy back to the city after the gradual easing of Covid-19 restrictions.
An ongoing guerrilla poster exhibition on the streets of Melbourne which commenced in the early months of 2020 when Covid-19 first took hold of the city.
Two large prints acquired by Iglu for the interior fit out of their South Yarra premises by Bates Smart.
A collection of black and white photographs recently acquired by a Financial Services company in Sydney for their newly designed office fit out by Bates Smart. Accompanying these were some colour images, including a 3.5 metre work printed onto acoustic board, for their boardroom and communal spaces.
Tennant Creek Brio
2020
In 2020, as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale’s Mass Isolation project, I was commissioned to write and direct a six-part program online education program. Over 1450 students from 48 schools from across Australia, forced to work from home as a result of Covid-19, participated.
Three images from the Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them series acquired by Iglu for the games room on the ground floor of their Melbourne premises.
Don't Just Tell Them, Show Them
2004 - 2012
In 2018, photographs from the series Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them and Anything Can Happen and Probably Will were exhibited in the digital exhibition space in the lobby of Architectus’ Sydney office.
In early 2019, I was commissioned by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and Architectus to produce a series of images documenting life on all of their campusesthroughout Australia. The work was published in a book in 2020.
Ongoing work shot for Art Guide Australia shot over the past seven years.
In 2019, I was one of several artists from around Australia commissioned to produce a body of work about BP and the role they play in Australia to celebrate their centennary. I spent three days travelling with a truck driver through the Northern Territory outback as he delivered fuel to remote parts of the country.
Group exhibition Elevating the Everyday at the Town Hall Gallery in Hawthorn, Victoria in 2018.
To coincide with the release of the Leica Q2 in March 2019, I was commissioned to produce a body of work with the camera. The Tokyo Waiting series was shot over a five day period and a short film was produced by Lost Art.
Commissioned by Architectus Australia to produce a series documenting the streets of Melbourne to coincide with the launch of their Urban Planning department in 2018.
Second City
1998 - 2004
Melbourne, Australia
In 2018, I was commissioned by Leica Camera to undertake Illuminated Singapore, one part of their global project showcasing the work of seven photographers shooting in seven different countries for seven days.
Commissioned by Leica Australia to produce a book to coincide with the release of the limited edition Leica Q Australian edition. 30 cameras were produced, each accompanied with a unique book containing 30 photos from my Anything Can Happen and Probably Will series. The book was designed by Elliot Bryce Foulkes.
OAO: One And Only was an exhibition of indigenous graffiti from the Northern Territory, held at Anna Pappas Gallery in Melbourne, 2011.
Chapter House Gallery public art paste ups at St Pauls Cathedral during restoration works in Melbourne, 2015.
In 2016, three works from the Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them series were acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria for their permanent collection. The works were exhibited at the NGV Ian Potter Centre during 2017.
In October 2012, I was commissioned to document the 24 Hour Impossible Orchestra event in Melbourne.
Wounded
2002 - 2004
Two works from OAO: One and Only series for the Centre of Contemporary Photography and the City of Yarra billboard project, Melbourne, 2011.
Centre Bounce: Football from Australia’s Heart
1999 - 2003
A selection of various editorial and advertising work I have undertaken over the past 20 years.
Various publications I have featured in over the past 20 years.
