I can best describe my work as a hybrid of Contemporary Aboriginal art and Abstract Expressionism. That is a catergorisation for historians to create. I merely suggest that I am an Australian artist with Aboriginal descent and identify myself with the Jerringa land council and community. When simplified vertical lines exist in and on textural surfaces, yet each image has a journey and a story to tell.
Barnett Newman an influential artist said “he favored the title abstract expression over abstract expressionism. Expression was something was what an artist accomplished, whereas expressionism implied the existence of a prescribed way to do it, a theory of expression”.
There is a myriad of issues relating to hybrid indigenous people like myself. My work is an act of expression; I express myself through a visual fragmentation of colour and forms of gestured mark-making. Past experience, individual hybridity and culture fuel this expression. The fragmented verticals are a visual language. They are my Verticle Aesthetic Creations.
Vertical Grounding 2
Oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 145cm
2004
Vertical Transition 1
Oil and Synthetic Polymer on Board
76 x 52cm
2005
Fragmented Hybrid Vertical 5
Mixed Media on Board
120 x 80cm
2003
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