In Short
A series of oil paintings reflecting on memory shaped by Australian landscape, heat, and human proximity. Rather than documenting geography, these works approach place as atmosphere — something felt through bodies, air, and shared presence.
On Heat and Recognition
In this series, place does not appear as map or monument. It arrives as temperature and colour saturation.
The Australian landscape is approached not as spectacle, but as atmosphere — smoke-thick skies, saturated light, warmth that presses against the body. The air itself becomes a surface where memory settles.
Figures emerge in groups, in pairs, in closeness. Faces blur. Recognition precedes naming. The land remains present but secondary — a backdrop to encounters, to the small moments of shared orientation that make distance bearable.
Skies glow in yellow and ember-red. Forms dissolve into heat. Flowers and smoke intertwine. What remains is not a location, but a condition.
These paintings reflect on how travel alters perception. Not through landmarks, but through shifts in colour, air, and proximity. The landscape enters the body before it becomes narrative.
If the body remembers colour, the land remembers heat.
Each canvas becomes an afterimage — not of where something happened, but of how it felt to stand there.
