This is not about me, it is about us. I feel the art world does not need another middle class white male pretending he's had a hard life. I'm interested in society, particularly in relation to masculinity. I'm also interested in culture, and finding out the norms and underlying assumptions that create how we think. Related to this is the idea of 'ownership' of place, whether that be Gallipoli (and more recently in the public conscience, Kokoda Track) or Angkor Wat for the Cambodians or the trauma that was Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, these are places that help form culture and can help outsiders understand.



We are at the end of the film as the dominant form of image making. this is my love song to film. This show will see all the out of date film in my fridge used. I'm never really sure what the results will be.The subject of these photographs are people who have migrated to this country, but not 'the innocent women and children,' just men. Six years of obsession, five adventures into the back blocks of Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. I suspect there are more than 4000 images shot on infra-red film of all sizes of the 150+ sites I've been too. Selected work has been exhibited three times and a fourth show is being sorted.


re-Pat is the first in a style i intend to pursue in the coming years. it is a commmission from the Esplanade, Singapore. With so many Singaporeans living in Sydney and so much talk about the creative brain drainI wanted to engage with locals as to their attitudes to ex-pats. Oliver was here is about trauma, terrorism, history and heritage. Oliver Crowell rode the tide of public outrage and in the name of god and country was barbaric. These are still photographs of the places that Oliver was, or his troops were now with a sadness and detachment.


Every now and then an artist has too much, too much adoration and worship of sports people on the six o'clock news, and needs to react. What is the perfect male body? Sculpture and photography meet to ask questions around male body politics and the rise of neo-eugenics.

Paris... Cartier-Bresson, Brassai... the streets... the history of photography... the stupidity of trying to be yet another tourist trying to walk in their foot steps... falling over the other tourists doing the same...
or how I learnt that I was a tourist too, dispite all the other titles we like to giive ourselves.



Australian's say they want migraants to 'assimilate' but still seem to reserve the right to remind to treat them as different. This work is examines how migrants try to 'assimilate' and the expectations expressed. Banal places that one walks past often, but hidden in timethey were once notorious! This is an exhibition designed for an art space that turned into a bar at night. So the work was designed to help people meet and discuss as well as thought about.

We all know what women want, they tell us in a thousand women's magazines, but what do men want in a relationship? This project asked 44 men to write what they wanted and their photographs and what they want in a partner were put on the net and responses collected. This exhibition has not been staged yet. It was intended to be presented with the Caligraphy of Dawo Zhang. One wall of beautiful drawn works - one wall of photography; one tourist/visitor - one of local cultural relevance.


Edges was commissioned by Liverpool Regional Museum for an exhibition on gay and lesbian lives in western Sydney.I did the men - Amanda James did the women. Each chose where they were photographed and whether they wished to reveal their faces.

Occupation was exhibited as part of Fractured Fairly Tales, with Tala, Peter Lin and Keith Yeo. It examines power and submission and how signifiers such as race, physical size and age change perceptions. All acts are taken out of context and become more disturbing.


In the early 1980's I studied modern history and found colonialism and more recent Australian imigration policy somewhat upsetting. Out in the real world I noticed how issues around race played out. I noticed that in the mid 1990'sblack americans had more media representation than men from Asia. This series started life as a redress to that issue but has grown much bigger. Sometimes people die before a sitting can be arranged. All that is left is a memory and a place where their body was put as well as few words. Here are portraits of people i never could take portraits of. This show is not to be exhibited until I can take no more photographs.