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Exhibted as part of “20:20” at the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA). GROUP EXHIBITION WHICH RAN FROM 30 OCTOBER 2020 TO THE 31 JANUARY 2021:



Didactic Panel/Work Desription:

The work begins in a journey taken, on the train between Melbourne and Sydney, through Albury (the border). At that particular point in time, the fires were raging through the Australian summer (2019-2020), it felt like the world was choking. It was just us. But the world is choking. At a protest rally organised against the aforementioned urgency, I watched what was ostensibly a volunteer firefighter strip down to his hat and red g-string... he waded into Hyde Park fountain... As he was hanging from the horn of the Minotaur I began to ponder the weirdness of classical themes in this context. I was soon to learn Asterion, the Minotaur's creation myth... more importantly, the origin of his mother, Pasiphaë. Pasiphaë was once a Phoenecian sun goddess, but was demoted by the Minoans, and then discredited with this alleged act of bestiality. Thus, tracing the European notion of man's mastery over nature through foundational mythologies (and medieval interpretations that were the foundation of

our nation-state) I mean to explore this antagonistic relationship with our life support system. This is examined through our instinct toward and against "the animal" (as adored on the internet, as more species become extinct). The installation itself will comprise of a feature-length poetic video work as well as a large embroidered banner (riffing on protest banners and medieval standards), depicting men frolicking with snails in (obscure) reference to or changing attitudes towards credit, our unquestioning acceptance of the mechanisms that extract our labour and the "resources" of the earth. 


“Anticolonial Fireman Stripper Communes with (Wronged) Asterion (Anticimactic Protests in the Last Days of Fountains”, 2019. Acrylic (house) paint (mis-tints) on (discarded manchester) poly/cotton. 2100 x 1400 mm. Image courtesy MAMA.



Installation view: “Pasiphae: Sunset on the World”, 2020. Video: duration :1 hr 21 minutes. AND “Slowly / Revolting”, 2020. 



“Slowly / Revolting”, 2020. Lime wash (mis-tints), cotton thread, ink and shell on linen. 1200 x 2300 mm.