Tag: 2009

Water or Gold?

August 1, 2014

All around this region of Victoria are the remains of dams, water races and mine shafts. You can see the spoil heaps with new-growth gum trees growing out of them in this painting. Five years ago, hiking through the Victorian bush was hot thirsty business as we were well into a seven-year drought and the … More Water or Gold?

Broken Ground

May 17, 2014

A selection of images from the Broken Ground sequence. Most of these works were painted during my stint as Artist in Residence at Ballarat University in 2010. In the post-mining landscape of the Goldfields region surrounding Ballarat little remains of the buildings and mechanism involved in the Victorian gold rush. The evidence for the dramatic upheaval … More Broken Ground