kiss the sea
nomadic encounters with tidal stories
As part of Australia's Celtic and European diaspora, I find myself caught in the Settler's dilemma. My flesh and bone hold ancient stories of distant ancestors, their lands and languages long forgotten. Yet here I am, born on land I don't belong to, whose own stories are shaped by different tongue and different ways. And so, I remain a coastal nomad. I trace my fingers along tidal lines and feel my toes sink into shifting sand. As I kiss the sea, I briefly capture momentary aesthetic impressions before high tide sends them on their way again.
Push Pull, 2021, mixed media on linen, 1220x510mm, $2200.00
Salt Marsh, 2021, raw pigments on canvas, 910x460mm, $1000.00
you can catch it in the palm of your hand feather light it lifts and drifts and settles. fingers fold in too quick the rush unsettles its tenuous hold up into the breeze it wafts and floats and now wary shifts and searches for that current that escape too late. you can catch it in the palm of your hand light as a feather it lifts and drifts and settles. hand softens open hearted like a nest like a cloud like a womb. you can catch it fledgling heart featherless breathless wavering wondering. hand softens open hearted like a nest like a cloud like a womb. it settles.
Coastal Riverbed; 2021, mixed media on canvas, 1530x510mm, $2700.00
Kelp Sway (deep sea), 2022, mixed media on canvas, 1530x510mm, $2600.00
Spirit Line, 2022, raw pigments on canvas, 1220x510mm, $2000.00
Seaweed meets Banksia, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 760x610mm, $1000.00
Shore Bone, watercolour, bone, stone on canvas, 305x405mm, NFS
Tidal Forage, 2022, ceramic, raw pigments, hand dyed twine, seaweed on canvas, 300x400mm
Sea Weed, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 200x200mm, SOLD
Rockpools and Periwinkles, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 600x300mm, SOLD
Coastal Tea Tree, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 600x300mm, SOLD
Just below (the surface); 2021, raw pigments, watercolour on canvas, diptych, 400x200mm, SOLD
Shoreline (monolith); 2021, supported timber, raw pigments, stone, 350x350mm NFS
Coastal Drift, 2022, raw pigments, ceramic, natural forms on canvas, 405mmx510mm, $550.00
Lovers (earth); 2021, ceramic, wood, stone, 170x370mm, $340.00
Sunset, 2022, raw pigments and stone on canvas, 405x305mm, SOLD
Sand Dune, 2022, ceramic, stone, shells, 400x400mm, SOLD
Nested: 2021, ceramic, found bird's nest, 140x270mm, SOLD
Homage (to the sea); 2021, ceramic, stone, seaweed, shell, 160x250mm, SOLD
Mother (earth); 2021, ceramic, wood, stone, 100x200mm, SOLD
Kiss (the sea); 2021, ceramic, stone, seaweed, shell, rose, 160x240mm, SOLD
The development of this body of work has been supported by Creative Arts Victoria through the Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative.
I gratefully acknowledge I live and work on the unceded countries of the Bunurong and Gunaikurnai People and pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
