Artist Statement

What happens when painting becomes more than a surface? When there is no scene to enter, no illusion of depth or vanishing point, when paint is allowed to occupy space? In my practice, I create sculptural objects built entirely from paint, exploring the ways paint can assert its own presence and how repetition and materiality shape a rhythm that is both physical and perceptual.

Painting for me is a methodology rather than a technique. It is a way of thinking through material over time, of staying with paint long enough to understand how it moves, holds, and resists. Through disciplined restraint, I allow it to define its own logic. While the grid provides an initial framework, the paint never fully submits, and that tension is where the work begins.

I want to offer something slower and tactile, not a declaration or an argument, but a presence that occupies space. Paint insists on its own way of being. Using it as both substance and material has taught me to let go of expectations, and in that I find freedom. It reminds me that meaning can emerge from material itself, and that attentiveness to process can shape experience as much as intention.

Biography

I am an Adelaide-based Australian abstract artist. I hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Art and a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering from the University of South Australia. My final-year body of work, A Delicate Balance between Intention and Intuition, was selected for Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition 2024 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. I was a 2024 Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Studio resident and received the Major Prize at the 2024 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition. Other awards include the UniSA Creative Graduate Exhibition Prize (2023), the John Christie Wright Memorial Prize for Painting (2023), and the Friends of the South Australian School of Art Prize (2020).

Selected Exhibitions

2026 Unsettled, Adelaide Fringe Festival (Upcoming), The Gallery, St Peters, SA

2026 Artists At Work, Mrs Harris’ Shop (Upcoming), Torrensville, SA

2025 Motion, every*where: Adelaide Design Week, SA

2025 Punctuation, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC

2025 No Place Like..., Household, SA

2025 In Essence, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Gallery 1855, SA

2024 ACE Studios: 2024, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, SA

2024 Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA

2024 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, SASA Gallery, SA

2024 Short Notice #2, SASA Gallery, SA

2023 Coalesce, Graduate Exhibition, University of South Australia, SA

2022 Off The Grid, Adelaide City Libraries, SALA Festival, SA

2021 May: revisions, interventions, extensions, SASA Gallery, SA

2021 Remade, Gallery 1855, SA

Close-up of a pile of cast paint remnant pieces.
White textured sculpture of a cube made from cast paint, on a white pedestal, set against a white wall.
Group of red, spiky, geometric sculptures made entirely from acrylic paint, on a white surface, with one sculpture prominently in the foreground and others blurred in the background.

Photography by Sam Roberts