About the exhibition

After many years of exhibitions and public art commissions my making practice in recent years has been mainly with communities and schools. We have merged art with ecology in citizen science like actions in regional areas as well as in the heart of Melbourne in Federation Square. We have been using sculpture and land art as educational nodes in the landscape to discuss our threatened wildlife and habitat. A range of eco-systems and flora/fauna species have been our subjects, using large murals, ephemera and permanent sculpture. Subjects have ranged from the life size Southern Right Whale sculpture at cape Otway Lighthouse, Platypus geo-glyph at west Barwon dam Forrest, Corangamite Skink in our lake country west of Colac, The Brolga Pathways project at Beeac which we won the Victorian Premiers Award for and many other Land Art sculptures. The Art gallery world is outside my habitat these days but Simon and Anna’s In the Skies gallery has such a community spirit that I felt it was fitting for my recent work/story concerning our oceans.

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