Acrylic on linen 48” x 36” April 2023 Currently, our focus in Australia is on trying to address the errors of imperial invasion and settlement; we are attempting reconciliation with Australia’s original peoples after such cruel subjugation. As such, I am aware that it is not “in vogue” to be fascinated by our colonial history. Is it distasteful then that I would choose to focus on David Syme, who is one of the world’s first media tycoons and the original owner of The Age news

Acrylic on linen 48” x 36” April 2023 David Syme is intimately connected to the establishment of Melbourne and the rise of Victoria as one of great significance to our nation. He owned The Age newspaper. This diptych of paintings is of his monumental heritage-listed tomb in Kew Cemetery. I am bedazzled by what I consider to be one of the coolest mausoleums ever, and I guess that’s not a surprise considering I have now painted it across 5 works. A sixth (and likely final) is p

Acrylic on linen 72” x 48” June 2022 Painting is framed The god Djehuti afforded me great blessings in 2021 and this painting tells the tale. The Pullman Hotel featured here is not the one on Kings Way in Melbourne but in fact, the Adelaide branch where I spent 2 weeks of mandatory quarantine. I was one of the very few that got permission to leave the never-ending lockdowns of Melbourne to cross the South Australian border. A series of misdemeanors occurred at the hotel that

Acrylic on linen, 48” x 24” October 2022 I have written the narrative and am designing the gameplay of a computer game that shares the same name as this painting. I commenced studying Computer Game Design at TAFE last year and am completing the Cert IV. I want to explore the options that have emerged over recent years for showing/displaying paintings that exist alongside of the usual gallery setting. The landing page of a computer game is called a splash page, and this is wha

Acrylic on linen 36" x 60" December 2021 This painting is a celebration of the god Sutekh and all the mysteries and wonders that He is. It is also a celebration of statues of the gods and the wonders that god statues bring. This concept and that of idolatry in particular is the theme of this exhibition. The painting features a statue created by Russian sculptor Vladimir Kolesyankin based on my 2012 painting Winged Set (seen earlier in this exhibition). It is a symphony of wo

Acrylic on linen 72” x 48” July 2017 Heru (classically Horus) is a falcon god often confused with other falcon deities. There are actually two Heru’s: the elder (Heru Ur) and the younger (Heru Sa Auset – son of Isis). This painting is of Heru The Elder, brother of Set, and is the other one of the two previously mentioned paintings that was featured in my 2018 exhibition. Again, the text was written by me and transliterated by Dr. Tamara Siuda . It reads: Hail Lord Heru Golden

Acrylic on linen 72” x 48” September 2022 The artist completing the black lining on the painting photo by Kitten This painting of the goddess was a long time coming. The study for the work (below) was completed in 2020. Study for Winged Sekhmet, June 2020 The hieroglyphic text for this piece was transliterated by my friend Matt Whealton who sadly passed away in 2021. I met Matt at Pantheacon in San Jose, 2015 and we kept in touch ever since. I am saddened by his passing but k

Acrylic on canvas 72” x 48” January 2013 This painting of the god Set (also called Sutekh, Setesh, Suti and Seth) is the earliest work featured in this exhibition and only one of two that were in my debut exhibition 5 years ago. Before The Blake Prize For Spiritual And Religious Art changed administrative hands, this and one other of my paintings made their way into The Director’s Cut portion of that year's competition. (There was a third that made it once too, but that is an

Cabinet: 40" x 33.5" Foamed PVC panels, perspex Mixed media on 9 canvases 5" x 7" (acrylic, copper leaf, genuine platinum leaf, 23 carat gold leaf, molding paste, plastic, acetate film, semen, pigment, glass, silicone) May 2023 I have addressed my fascination with Ancient Egyptian soul anatomy across many paintings, Material Immortality notably so. This new work of 9 smaller mixed-media paintings has its own setting designed to house them. The panel and perspex cartouche de

Acrylic on linen 72” x 36” February 2020 Artwork is framed On completion of this painting, my friend and musical collaborator Christian Bernardi of Spacetone Productions invited me to preview it on his innovative web streaming show The Love Stream. Christian went to Brighton General Cemetery – upon which this work is based – and filmed the 4 buildings that characterize the work (and the cemetery itself, really). I have included this clip below.

Mixed media on linen (acrylic, genuine platinum leaf) 60" x 40" February 2022 Some in academic Egyptology debate the praying mantis god Abyt as a deity, let alone a significant one. My personal understanding is that because He was connected to the alchemy of being in a way that affects the evolutionary imprint one leaves on the species during life, He may have been too sacred for the ancients to mention too frequently. He is mentioned though. Thus far, we see Him referred to

Acrylic on wood panel 27.5” x 39.5” June 2019 Artwork is framed The sacred text in this work comes from an earlier time in pharaonic history than the previous painting, and was again supplied to me by my friend and iconographer Ptahmassu Nofra Uaa . It is an adapted version of Pyramid Text 570 of King MerenRa (Dynasty 6) from his upcoming book “The Book Of Utterances”: I have escaped my day of death, just as Setesh has escaped His day of death I have escaped my half months o

Mixed media on linen (acrylic, 23-carat gold leaf, genuine platinum leaf) 72” x 48” August 2021 This painting marked a return to iconography techniques that I learned under my iconography tutor Rob Gallagher in 2015 - 2017. Gold and platinum leaf can be found where the larger images of deities are present. It was conceived and completed over Melbourne’s long 2 year lockdown. Dominating this work is an image in gold of the goddess Neith, who appeared to me early in 2020 and

Acrylic on linen 48” x 36” April 2023 The painting is the poster advertising the exhibition and shares its title*. The first work encountered when approaching the exhibition space, its position on the wall in the stairwell allows it to be partially seen from the shop below, and can also be viewed from inside the showroom itself. The exhibition title, Adventures In Zoomorphic Idolatry came in meditation, along with most of the paintings that were to be featured. The arrangeme