Leaky Negotiations is a current ongoing research project investigating porous relationships between the body, local ecology/landscapes, language, and materiality though painting, sculpture and assemblage
This page documents my research process
November 2025 - ongoing
Water like Writing
08.08.26
08.08.26
Spills and Grounds
30.07.26
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30.07.26
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Flows and Marks
22.07.26
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22.07.26
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Taxonomy of rescued and repaired sculptures
30.06.26
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30.06.26
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Expanded Bodies
30.05.26
30.05.26
Spills and Grounds
22.06.26
- surface, stain, bloom, flow, mud
recent studio experiments with paint, water and paper
22.06.26
- surface, stain, bloom, flow, mud
recent studio experiments with paint, water and paper
Water, like writing
25.04.25
- Field research from the Merri Creek, speaking and learning with the river
25.04.25
- Field research from the Merri Creek, speaking and learning with the river
Expanded Bodies
17.05.26
- Recently making these body-like fragments, like vessels, dishes, masks and skins, from slabs of clay using drape moulds. Seeking to make more complex forms via attaching components. There is a nice process of collaging with the clay, cutting into and then re-joining, gives them a sense of repair that is important to this work.
17.05.26
- Recently making these body-like fragments, like vessels, dishes, masks and skins, from slabs of clay using drape moulds. Seeking to make more complex forms via attaching components. There is a nice process of collaging with the clay, cutting into and then re-joining, gives them a sense of repair that is important to this work.
Expanded Bodies - Process
15.05.26
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15.05.26
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Spills and Grounds
15.05.26
- Experiments with ink, water, plaster, canvas
15.05.26
- Experiments with ink, water, plaster, canvas
Studio Wall
30.05.26
- Collection of field research documents and studio experimentation
30.05.26
- Collection of field research documents and studio experimentation
Bodies / Flow - Drawing Works
30.05.26
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30.05.26
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Visual Diary Test Install
11.05.26
- Test arrangements, re-negotiations and experiments with old and new sculptural components. Some images from my recent mini res in the Visual Diary space last month. Returning to moving material components in shifting iterations. I’m always captivated by how slight moves in arrangement and proximity alter meaning. Some things that surfaced - leaky negotiations; dinner/banquet; taxonomy; repair; archaeological fragments; games; body becoming symbol/script/language; vessel, body, water, absence of water/husk, skin; porosity of meaning; apples & oranges; also ‘pulpy fictions’
11.05.26
- Test arrangements, re-negotiations and experiments with old and new sculptural components. Some images from my recent mini res in the Visual Diary space last month. Returning to moving material components in shifting iterations. I’m always captivated by how slight moves in arrangement and proximity alter meaning. Some things that surfaced - leaky negotiations; dinner/banquet; taxonomy; repair; archaeological fragments; games; body becoming symbol/script/language; vessel, body, water, absence of water/husk, skin; porosity of meaning; apples & oranges; also ‘pulpy fictions’
