INTRODUCED SPECIES

2024, Oil on Italian Linen, 112x197cm

This fusion of industrial and natural landscape is a visual metaphor, hinting at the ecological disruption such Introduced Species have caused to the Australian landscape, which over the millennia prior to colonisation had evolved to a natural equilibrium - an equilibrium now out of balance.

 More profoundly, the merger of functional metal and the naturalistic suggests a deeper parallel: humanity itself, imposing its own vast, unnatural geometries upon the natural world. The structure looms as more than just as a carrier of power, but as a monument to our own power and status as the ultimate 'introduced species,' reshaping environments with often unintended consequences.

 The majestic form underscores the imposing, yet ultimately disruptive, nature of both presences