BY ARRANGEMENT - CBD Gallery, 62 Erskine St Sydney - 17-20 March, 1996

'By Arrangement'  was my solo show at CBD for 1996.  It was a sculptural piece consisting of arranged flower petals on a bed of sand.  This is a very old-fashioned technique that used to happen at country shows - one of the exhibits alongside the vegetables, pickles and decorated cakes - flowers, petals and leaves were arranged in patterns onto a tray of damp sand.  

I used the technique as a representation of the patterning that was happening within my paintings.  I had a stainless steel tray with legs made, and arranged petals and leaves into a repeated grid pattern.  I had to spray it with water every day to keep it alive...

'By Arrangement' flower petals, stainless steel, sand, 70cm x 70cm x 50cm, 1996

I had a postcard made of this work - I have heaps left - send me an email and you can have one....

LOOKING AT SEEING & DREAMING - Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney - 29 February-16 March, 1996

'Looking at Seeing & Dreaming' was an exhibition curated by Richard Dunn involving myself, Christopher Dean, Stephen Little and Nike Savvas.  It was also shown the following year at 'Ist Floor' in Melbourne.

I exhibited 3 of my 'Same Paintings' - Orange, Green and Purple, as well as a set of 12 cast paintings.

The catalogue with essay that Richard wrote is reproduced below. 

We also got a mention in the SMH!

PROP III - an ARTHOTLINE Project, Clovelly Headland, Sydney - 1995

This was my third ARTHOLINE event.  The work was a 7.5m length of semi-transparent fabric onto which I had stencilled the overlapping decorative imagery that I had been using in a number of my works.  The 'banner' was tied onto a white concrete 'geographical marker' that sits on the edge of the Clovelly headland.   This was a spot where I often walked the Zephyr dog...

PROP III, acrylic paint on polyester fabric, 750cm x 35cm, 1995

the Zephyr dog

ARTHOTLINE 0055 29334 at Performance Space - 199 Cleveland St, Redfern - July 5-22, 1995

The ARTHOTLINE group had an exhibition and Book Launch at the Performance Space in July 1995, where the artists that had exhibited in various non-art spaces around Sydney got to show together in one space.  I had called my previous ARTHOTLINE works 'PROP I, II and III', so this was 'PROP IV'.  It was a number of small gouaches on coloured paper - the designs were actually the centre of the stencil designs that I had used for my previous ARTHOTLINE Prop exhibition as well as in a number of other works in various media.  Each of my PROP works had been site specific, so these were made to fit within the archway space of the gallery.

SAME AGAIN - CBD Gallery, 62 Erskine St Sydney - 19 to 22 April 1995

'Same Again' was my second exhibition at CBD Gallery.  It carried on from my show of the previous year called  'Same Paintings'.  It consisted of 3 paintings - 'Red', 'Yellow' and 'Blue' - with each painting being constructed using the same stencils re-configured in different ways.  

Below is the flyer for the month's worth of shows at CBD as well as my individual flyer. 

'Same Painting - Red', oil on canvas, 167cm x 167cm, 1994

'Same Painting - Yellow', oil on canvas, 167cm x 167cm, 1994

'Same Painting - Blue', oil on canvas, 167cm x 167cm, 1995

FUNDRAISERS 1995

I found a couple of flyers for fundraisers that I was involved in at the time - one for CBD Gallery, and one for Pendulum -  great lists of artists!

FORCE OF HABIT - Pendulum, Redfern, November 12 to December 11, 1994

Pendulum was a wonderful space in a warehouse in Redfern run by Mishka Borowski.  I did a work in which I stencilled patterns directly onto the walls in gouache.  I used the 4 patterns that I had used in the 4 'Detail' paintings in 'Memos', using one pattern on each wall and a different colour for each pattern.  The name, 'Force of Habit' referred to the repetitous nature of the process.

It also got me my first mention in the paper - by Felicity Fenner in the SMH!  The review looked at exhibitions by Jackie Redgate, Robert Pulie, Christopher Dean, Helga Groves and myself, in galleries as diverse as Sherman, Selenium, Pendulum and Kunst - imagine anything like that appearing in the Herald today....

The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, November 18, 1994, pge.14