Insights & Studio Writing
Insight 11: When is the Audience Right?
I have heard everything from “that’s amazing” to “my kids could do that.” After decades of markets, exhibitions and galleries, I have learned that audience comments only become useful once...
Insight 11: When is the Audience Right?
I have heard everything from “that’s amazing” to “my kids could do that.” After decades of markets, exhibitions and galleries, I have learned that audience comments only become useful once...
Insight 10: Why Eco-Awareness Wasn’t Enough for Me
For years I could look at ecological art, understand the waste or environmental problem being shown, and still leave with the same question: what changed for me? This Insight traces...
Insight 10: Why Eco-Awareness Wasn’t Enough for Me
For years I could look at ecological art, understand the waste or environmental problem being shown, and still leave with the same question: what changed for me? This Insight traces...
Why Am I Writing Insights?
I began documenting Fragile Futures because I realised the exhibition was becoming a much larger inquiry into materials, audience, environmental art and how artworks communicate intent. That documentation has since...
Why Am I Writing Insights?
I began documenting Fragile Futures because I realised the exhibition was becoming a much larger inquiry into materials, audience, environmental art and how artworks communicate intent. That documentation has since...
Insight 09: When Beauty and Discomfort Need Eac...
Totem 01 began from something I liked: smooth resin, embedded waste, organic curves and a quiet kelp reference. The harder part was making myself disrupt it. This Insight looks at...
Insight 09: When Beauty and Discomfort Need Eac...
Totem 01 began from something I liked: smooth resin, embedded waste, organic curves and a quiet kelp reference. The harder part was making myself disrupt it. This Insight looks at...
Insight 08: When the Quiet Work Gets Lost
I thought the Brittle Stars were being lost. Sitting with the work across two exhibitions made me question whether quiet attention was actually absence, and whether a calmer work needs...
Insight 08: When the Quiet Work Gets Lost
I thought the Brittle Stars were being lost. Sitting with the work across two exhibitions made me question whether quiet attention was actually absence, and whether a calmer work needs...
Insight 07: When an Artwork Explains Too Much
Self-Made Relics is easy to read, and that is both its strength and its problem. This Insight looks at what happens when emotional legibility creates immediate audience access while also...
Insight 07: When an Artwork Explains Too Much
Self-Made Relics is easy to read, and that is both its strength and its problem. This Insight looks at what happens when emotional legibility creates immediate audience access while also...