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Welcome to Exploring Light. I am a photographic artist based beneath the Great Western Tiers in Tasmania, Australia. My practice is primarily shaped by the natural world and deepened through research, philosophy, and artistic influence. Through writing, reflection, and photography, I explore both figurative and abstract forms, drawing inspiration from nature, humanity, and the built environment.

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.

Current Projects

Nature Reframed: An exploration of Nature in renewed a 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

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

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

Selected Exhibitions

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

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

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

The Creation, Into The Mystical, and The Lake Beneath The Lake. Wordplay, Poatina Writers’ Festival, Community Art Exhibition 7 June – 14 July 2025, Poatina Tree Art Gallery.

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

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

Selected Publications

Black Square, Volume One. Author, Forthcoming.

Art in Stone, Volume One. 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, in C. Skinner (ed) OZ ARTS Magazine, (Summer 2019), 53–54.

Aboriginal Habitation in the Blue Mountains, in K. Knox and E. Stockton (eds) Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains. BMERT, 2019.

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

Epilogue, in Ibid, 2019.

Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains. BMERT, 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. Paterson 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.