These are some of the working drawings that I am using to develop the new series 
New work out of the fire and ready to deliver to Anthea Polson Art at Southport Marina tomorrow. It is about a four hour round trip but absolutely worth the drive – the gallery is beautiful and full to the brim of stunning art work.
I am working on new series which includes some of the sirens but includes satyrs, sinners and the occasional saint! back in vintage machine drawers and other boxes. The first images are guile
the latter image is transgression both are mixed media assemblage , ceramic sculpture, engobe, stain, underglaze in vintage sewing machine drawers

Sometimes documenting work before they go into the fire can be a useful practice. This piece had a little explosion
and has suffered some facial damage and a missing shoulder/back section – but all is not lost and I have replaced the shoulder with a meccano structure and the damage echoes traces of life experience.
This is a big heavy piece 80 x 40 x 30 cm – a mixture of terracotta and white clay. underglaze, stains – burnished.
I will post the finished piece as soon as I can get it photographed.
Spent the day installing new exhibition at Rosebed St. Gallery – here are some gallery shots – apologies for the reflections on the glass. My sculptures and David’s drawings work well together in this space.
11th Oct – 24th Nov
the myth writ large magic spots…
these images are imbued with the vibrancy of personal discovery; textural studies of line and structural form, light and shadow casting doubt on what we think we know. How an artist interprets their observations of the world may include verisimilitude but this realistic interpretation is often only a small part of the story. In ‘Song of the Siren’ myth, memory, legend and half forgotten truths act as a vehicle for our journey.
Miles Hall in his artist statement for the 2012 Jacaranda Drawing Prize (JADA) describes the act of drawing as ‘an intimate, sensual relationship between form, gesture and surface’. This statement embodies the link between the 2 dimensional surface and the 3 dimensional space – crossing boundaries into unchartered waters – a central proponent of our arts practice. For us the ‘heart of drawing’ is a universal language…
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