He exhibits regularly in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and is best known for his suburban landscapes made from laminex. His work is included in major public and private collections in Australia and abroad and has been awarded the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Flanagan Art Prize, the Agendo Prize, the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (Civic Choice Award) and the Box Hill Biennial Art Prize.
Lux Populi
The idea for Lux Populi (light of the people) was piloted in my studio with ten modified motion sensor lights on a table. Although the pilot was encouraging, there was no way of knowing whether or not the actual test would work. Specifically I was unsure how a much larger bank of 176 lights in the public realm would work, and if it did, how people would interact with it.
In Union Lane, Melbourne, installation of Lux Populi took several hours and generated a lot of interest from people passing by, even before it was turned on. At dusk I activated the work and stood back. Almost immediately a crowd of people gathered and spontaneously took turns interacting with the work in different ways. I didn’t expect that the work would generate so much interest and engage people for such prolonged periods; some people hung around for 30 minutes or more and came back later in the evening to experience the work again.