Story

Welcome to Exploring Light. I’m based beneath Tasmania’s Great Western Tiers. Working across photography and writing, my practice moves between figurative and abstract expression, tracing relationships between light, shape and tone.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, UWS, 2007.

Master of Applied Science (Distinction), UWS, 2002.

Graduate Certificate in Arts (Archaeology), UNE, 2013.

Bachelor of Social Science, CSU, 1997.

Diploma of Fine Arts, UTAS, current.

Projects

Places Within: Informed by Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, this project considers how images of place dwell within us, shaping perception, memory and belonging.

Seeing Anew: An exploration of nature in a renewed way, inspired by Viktor Shklovsky who believed art should make familiar things feel strange so we notice them again, and Josef Albers who used colour and geometry to explore perception through concentric squares.

Boundlessness: An exploration of the inexpressible, liminality, numinosity, stillness, and silence.

Edge of Perception: Abstracts of sky, water, land and flora.

Altered Landscapes: An exploration of modernity’s impact on the natural environment.

Contemplation: A collection of reflections, and haiku inspired by Matsuo Basho.

Curatorial

Co-curator: Familiar Places of Stillness and Contemplation – Blue Mountains, Tasmania and Beyond. Exhibition by Dorothy Knox, watercolourist. Poatina Tree Art Gallery, 13 February – 29 March 2026.

Curator: The Green and Gold, and A Wildlife Park. Exhibition by John Snedden, ceramicist. Poatina Tree Art Gallery, 6 June – 13 July 2025.

Co-curator: BUILT – A Handmade Tale of Our Environment. Exhibition by Lez Palfreyman, Jude Maslin and Di Targett. Poatina Tree Art Gallery, 26 April – 1 June 2025.

Selected Exhibitions

Places Within. Exhibited in New Directions. Poatina Tree Art Gallery, 4 September – 11 October 2026.

Seeing Anew: Withness. Photographic exhibition. UTAS, 5–30 June 2026.

Witness Marks. Mixed media exhibition. UTAS, 29 May – 4 June 2026.

Space for Stillness. Photographic exhibition. UTAS, 30 October – 7 November 2025.

Into the Silence. Photographic exhibition. UTAS, 6–12 June 2025.

Altered Landscapes. Photographic exhibition. UTAS, 25–30 October 2024.

The Creation, Into The Mystical, and The Lake Beneath The Lake. Exhibited in Wordplay. Poatina Tree Art Gallery, 7 June – 14 July 2025.

Atmospheric. Photographic exhibition. Poatina Tree Art Gallery, 15 March – 21 April 2024.

The Journey of an Artist. Exhibited in Art-i-san Workshop. Fusion Western Sydney, 20–21 July 2013.

Selected Publications

Places Within. Author, 2026.

Aurora Power. In Frames Magazine, 10 January 2026.

Black Square: Absence and Presence. Author, 2025.

Art in Stone. Author, 2025.

Atmospheric: Greater Blue Mountains. Author, 2024.

Atmospheric: An Exhibition. Author, 2024.

Creation. In Len’s Journal, Volume Four, Issue One (2024), 50–59.

Receding. In AddOn 2022. Head On Foundation.

Flow Through the Darkness. In Len’s Journal, 20 April 2021.

Embracing the Sacred Mountains. In W. Emilsen and E. Stockton (eds) Sacred Ways and Places in the Blue Mountains. BMERT, 2021.

Deep Time and Hydraulics Site. OZ ARTS Magazine (Summer 2019), 53–54.

Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains: Recent Research and Reflections. K. Knox and E. Stockton (eds). BMERT, 2019.

Aboriginal Habitation in the Blue Mountains. In Ibid, 2019.

Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains. In Ibid, 2019.

Epilogue: An Aboriginal Place. In Ibid, 2019.

Walking the Overland Track. Author, 2017.

Walking the Larapinta Trail. Author, 2017.

Seascapes. Author, 2016.

Playing at the Edge of Perception. In The Edges of Perception, workshop facilitated by F. Patterson and S. Mason, 11–18 February 2016, New Zealand.

Landscapes and Aboriginal material culture photographs. In B. Cameron A History of the Blue Labyrinth. Author, 2014.

Sacred Ground. In E. Stockton (ed) This Tortuous Ridge. BMERT, 2014.

Acknowledgement

I acknowledge the Aboriginal people of the lands where I walk and create art. I also recognise the more recent arrivals who now share these places, adding their stories and art to the life of Country.