EVERYTHING AT ONCE - Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour - 23 April to 24 May, 2026

 'Everything at Once' is an exhibition of painting and sculpture held at the Yarrila Arts and Museum in Coffs Harbour on the NSW north coast.

It included 23 works from my 'Nothing To Say Here' series, as well as 5 gouaches, 12 small cube sculptures and a large cube work called ZigZag.

The name for the exhibition came from my wanting to show all of my remaining 'Nothing To Say Here' paintings all at once.  These works had been exhibited previously, sometimes as single works or small groups, as well as in major exhibitions in Sydney (Between Boredom and Confusion) and Melbourne (Nothing To Say Here).  I wanted to present all of the paintings as one work, everything at once. I had done a similar hanging in 2005 with crocheted works (Cohesion:Construction) and wanted to see how it would work with paintings.

Everything At Once, oil on canvas on board, 23 pieces, dimensions variable, 2018-2024

The arrangement of the paintings were determined solely by their size. The larger paintings in the centre with the smaller ones arranged so that there were no gaps. When putting together the catalogue, I needed a system to be able to identify the separate paintings. I drew up a plan and numbered the paintings from left to right and top to bottom. The title of each work is the quote that the painting is created from. When I started sorting the titles I noticed that they were creating a piece of writing. Without having to rearrange anything, the list of titles created an introduction, body and conclusion of an "Accidental Essay".

 

Three new gouache paintings were also in the exhibition. These new works are again based on text, but in this series I created shapes for each letter, with each word consisting of the layering of the letter shapes within one square. Each painting is an 8 x 8 grid with the text coming from song lyrics.

Amen, gouache on paper, 55cm x 50cm, 2025

Mad World, gouache on paper, 55cm x 50cm, 2025

Not Dark Yet, gouache on paper, 55cm x 50cm, 2026

The exhibition also included two framed 'Nothing To Say Here' gouaches (Art Is Everything You Don't Have To Do-Brian Eno, 2016 and The Art Of Simplicity Is A Puzzle Of Complexity-Douglas Norton, 2017)

ZIGZAG was a cube sculpture created for the exhibition.

(Acrylic and yarn with cardboard)

 

Finally, there were 12 small cube sculptures on 2 shelves. 

Cube Sculpture #1 - #12, timber, paper, PVA glue, various dimensions, 2025 - 2-26

BEYOND / Au-dela, 8TH BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE D-ART NON-OBJECTIVE - Istanbul Satellite Event, Sanat Enstitusu, Istanbul, Turkiye - October 16 to 31, 2025

'BEYOND', gouache on paper, 10cm x 15cm, 2025

Installation photo by Selin Yagmur Sonmez

 

ABORA 4, 4th AUSTRALIAN BIENNALE OF REDUCTIVE ARTS - Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - September 8 to 28, 2025

'Not Dark Yet', oil on canvas on board, 54cm x 54cm, 2025

installation

2 MINUS 1 - 80:20 Artists Agency, 377 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, Sydney -September 6 to 21, 2025

EightZeroTwoZero 9 artistes australiens - Galerie ABSTRACT PROJECT, 5 rue des Immeubles Industriels, 75011, Paris, France - 25 February to 8 March 2025

Nine artists from 80:20 Artist Agency participated in a group exhibition in Abstract Project in Paris. I exhibited 16 small oil on timber paintings and 2 paper and timber cube sculptures. The paintings were constructed from random arrangements of stencil shapes onto random colours and the scuptures were constructed from timber cubes wrapped with multi-coloured papers.

Thank you to William Seeto of 80:20 for his facilitation and assistance with funding, and Bogumila Strojna and team from Abstract Project for their work hanging and maintaining the exhibition.

All photographs courtesy of Galerie Abstract Project.

ARTICULATE TURNS 14 - Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - November 30 to December 15, 2024

Articulate turns 14 was the final show for 2024 celebrating the 14th year of Articulate project space. The show included work by Angharad Evans, Anke Stäcker, Antonio Khouri, Anya Pesce, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Brenton Schwab, Carla Danelutti, Dell Walker, Eleanor Er and Barbara Aroney, Elisabeth Bodey, Gary Warner, Glenn Locklee, Isobel Johnston, Jamie Jude Smith, Jan Handel, Jerry Doherty, Joshua Copland-Nielsen, Juliet Fowler Smith, Karen Benton, Kate Mackay, Kendal Heyes, Lesley Giovanelli, Lhaleska Urdanivia, Linden Braye, Louise Owen, Luna Gui, Margaret Roberts, Natasha Leona Allen, Nicole Ellis, Noelene Lucas, Philip Senior, Pia Larsen, Ro Murray, Sarah Fitzgerald, Sarah Keighery, Shelley O’Keefe, Steven Fasan, Steven Tonkin, Sue Callanan, Sue Murray, Sujata Khadka, Susan Andrews, Szilvia Gyorgy and Vilma Bader.

My work was 16 small gouache on paper called "Everything at Once". They are the shapes that are created when the letter stencils are laid randomly on top of each other.

"Articulate is turning fourteen! This year we celebrate our birthday with 45 artists making a wondrous array collection of artworks that delight across mediums and genres"

"Everything at Once", gouache on primed paper, 16 pieces, 21cm x 21cm each, 2024

GROUP EXHIBITION - 80:20 Artists Agency, 377 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, Sydney - October 5 to November 17, 2024

80:20 artist agency held a Group Exhibition in October - New concept: New space: New work including works by Vilma Bader, Lionel Doolan, Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter, Kate Mackay, Adam Sebire, Kevin Sheehan, Liz Shreeve and Elke Wohlfahrt.

My work was a gouache on paper called "Because My Work Is Naturally Non-Meaningful, The Meaning Found In It Will Remain Doubtful And Inconsistent - Claes Oldenburg". This work was the first in which the circles that represented letters in the "Nothing To Say Series' was replaced by other geometric shapes.

Gouache on paper (4 panels), 84cm x 84cm overall, 2024