I am a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Blackheath on Dharug and Gundungurra Country. My work moves between abstraction and figuration, driven by instinct, memory and the physical pleasure of making. I follow gesture and material, allowing humour, vulnerability, belief, music, family and bodily experience to enter the work. I leave the seams visible. Revision, accident and uncertainty are not hidden but become part of the painting’s evidence. I began my career as a photographer and have exhibited since the late 1990s at institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Australian Centre for Photography, Penrith Regional Gallery, Carriageworks and museums in Japan. My portrait of Bob Hawke won the People’s Choice Award at the National Photographic Portrait Prize. After decades in photography, I turned seriously to painting in 2018, finding a language that could hold more mess, contradiction and feeling. My paintings have been shown with Day Gallery, Fox Galleries, Becker Minty and AK Bellinger Gallery. I have been a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award and the Paddington Art Prize, and my work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally. I am a husband, a father of twin sons, and an artist. These are not separate identities. The life and the work are the same.