The Illusion of Knowledge

By definition an abstract painting does not represent anything in the physical world,
ie, an object or a person or a place. And even though it was not my intention,
a lot of people see this painting as a landscape.

The dynamic black shape layered over the ochre,
sienna and chrome oxide background suggest a figure,
or some kind of 'presence' moving through the landscape.

I mixed fine marble dust with the paint, to achieve a textured effect,
and I used knives, trowels, and paint soaked rags to apply the colour.

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EXHIBITIONS IN AUSTRALIA

1994 Provenance Fine Art, Paddington, Sydney.
1995

North Shore Fine Art Sydney.
1994 Provenance Fine Art, Paddingto
Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney.
Qantas Club Sydney.
1998 Greenhills Gallery, Perth, Western Australia.
Norton Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1999 Norton Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2000 Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
The Norton Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Masterworks. Melbourne, Australia
2003 Hart Gallery, Queensland, Australia.
Masterworks. Melbourne, Australia.
Phillips Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 Hart Gallery, Queensland, Australia.
Phillips Fine Art Gallery, Sydney.
2008 The Wentworth Gallery, Sydney.
2010 Gallery 2120, Brisbane, Australia.
2012 Greenhills Gallery, Adelaide Australia.
2013 Traffic Jam Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
2015 The Center for Creative Non-Conformity
Crows Nest, Sydney, Australia.
2017 Gallery 2120, Brisbane, Australia.
2020 Wentworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2022 Audrey Fine Art, Sydney, Australia.
2023 Wentworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

1983 Exhibition of Visual Art Limerick. Ireland.
1984 ‘Young Contemporaries’. Dublin. Ireland.
1986 Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya.
1987 ‘Land of Tooth and Claw’,
Davis Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1989 Sterling Gallery, La Jolla, California
Annex Gallery,SanDiego,CA.
Huygen-Jaeger Gallery, London, England.
Gustav Mantel Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany.
1990 Zola Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
The Fidelity Collection, Los Angeles CA.
Barbara Devorzon, Los Angeles, California.
1991 Tiempo Art Space, San Francisco, CA.
Croce’s Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Sterling Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1992 Barbara Devorzon, Los Angeles, Ca.
Zola Gallery, Los Angeles CA.
Sterling Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Pantheon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.
2005 The Blue Dot Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Project Art Space, Temple Bar, Dublin.