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Often when someone asks more about the deeper meaning behind my work or if there’s a connection between the art and the music, I hesitate because I haven’t fully grasped the meaning yet myself. The feeling is there, the spirit, a story told with colours and textures yet I’m still figuring out how to express it through English words.

The paintings are displayed Ships -> Boarded -> The Fields. Although it isn’t a linear story and the paintings have been displayed in different orders in different galleries. Some People got recycled in the plantation labour registers, many were lost, died, and some found their way home but were changed.

Dark Glitter Verse 2:
“I tell myself there’s more to this
So I’m not absorbed by the cause of this
Trauma bond with my work that’s what haunting is”

You can also hear the sound of ocean waves lapping against the shore in this verse, like the waves in the Ship painting.

Some parts of the paintings have washes of glitter that can only be seen from certain angles. The red holographic glitter in the ship is like a warning, like a direct contrast to the blue landscape.

When making the visual for Dark Glitter, I smothered blue holographic glitter on my neck, face and arms.

The body remembers and it’s hard to breathe when telling these stories. The only way to keep going is to remember this is part of something far bigger. Every truth spoken, is a sparkle in the dark. I wonder what will happen when all the collective sparkles punch through the darkness.

“They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer

1-5 Exhibited in Paradise* at Canberra Contemporary , curated by Dan Toua
Photo by Brenton McGeachie
7-8 stills from dark glitter visual, cinematographer

Australia welcomes a war criminal, Police brutality from NSW police on peaceful protestors, The QLD government is the first state to ban ‘from the river to the sea’ as hate speech. 🇵🇸

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

Love when artists develop a signature style and stick to it. I’ve been using blue a lot throughout the years but not intentionally including it as a continuation of style throughout my works. Might try being more intentional and see what happens 🤔🦪💙

🐙 acrylic on paper

A Maaru & Bolxuaam
Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 91.5 cm
Exhibited in Paradise* at Canberra Contemporary , curated by Dan Toua
Photographed by Brenton McGeachie

Where I want to be, 2025
Oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm (oval)

Exhibited in Paradise* at Canberra Contemporary , curated by Dan Toua
Photo by Brenton McGeachie

Apinun!, 2025
Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 91.5 cm

Exhibited in Paradise* at Canberra Contemporary , curated by Dan Toua
Photo by Brenton McGeachie

Apinun!, 2025
Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 91.5 cm

I’m surprised officeworks didn’t raise any eyebrows when I printed off this money 🥭

Exhibited in Paradise* at Canberra Contemporary , curated by Dan Toua
Photo by Brenton McGeachie