the brass house has been a long and rewarding project undertaken with Mark & Dana, Anthrosite Architects, and I’m very happy that it has been awarded the Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Award at the 2018 Newcastle Architecture Awards.  Shot over several days the house sits on a ridge backing onto bushland in Whitebridge NSW and features a large open garden room as well as floor to ceiling glass in the ensuite.

Another project working with Ben Griffin at Maitland City Council was on the completed refurbishment of the heritage-listed auditorium of the Maitland Town Hall, which was commended in the heritage category at the recent 2018 Newcastle Architecture Awards.

View from the production console.

View from the stage to the retractable seating

With seating retracted, the full auditorium.

I recently worked with Aaron Cook and his team at Maitland City Council on the rebuilt No 1 Sportground grandstand which has just been awarded the Public Architecture Award at the 2018 Newcastle Architecture Awards.

My portrait of Australian contemporary artist Dale Frank in issue 81 of Art Collector magazine. He’s pictured in his house in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales with one of his two wolfhounds (I think this one is Douglas). There’s a story about me and the house that Dale lives in. Buy me a beer one day and I’ll tell it to you.

Originally titled ‘Lucinda with stung eye, 2016’ I was honoured that my portrait was a finalist in this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.  Intended as an homage to Sally Mann’s ’Damaged Child, 1984’  I didn’t want to make the connection between the two works too obvious. Only later did I read Mann’s memoir Hold Still and learn that her work was in itself an homage to Dorothea Lange’s Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma 1936. If exhibited again I shall show it with the title Damaged Child 2016.

The exhibition runs from 1 April 2017 to 17 June 2017 at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

Lucinda with stung eye, 2016