Interior series

Here is work from the VCA Graduate exhibition 2008
There are more images and plenty of text on the MVA seminars page of the VCA web site.

These images are from my most recent body of work. I was interested in notions of abundance and preservation. They're a kind of still life or vanitas art, as digital prints of scanned flowers I had collected throughout the year.

I feel the flowers have been preserved by the scanner, capturing the minutest of detail and intensity of colour. Designs are based on Victorian ornate domestic fittings that cover many of the terrace houses throughout the city suburbs of Melbourne. I was interested in the cultivation of nature and how it is represented in architecture and gardens. There are also many associations to colonialism here for me.