My practice is of varying disciplines including painting, sculpture and printmaking. I tend to work in series until I exhaust a theme, then move to a different discipline i.e. from 3D to 2D.

This series of sculptures I present, plays on the notion of the words man, woman, human. By appropriating the Modernists’ view of so-called primitive art and the practical descriptive names given to characters by the Indigenous Australians, red ochre man, tall man, goanna man, I re-present this notion and expose it in a contemporary play-on-words to confront ourselves with ourselves.

The sculptures are about ideas of communication between the artist and the viewer. A sometimes humorous look using simply carved, painted, naked wooden figures with, in most cases, but not all, a man-made found object which is integral to the meaning behind the piece.

We wear the detritus of being human.