Exile on James Street



Reliquaries, 1999 14x60x6"

Eridanus I & II, 1998  36x36"

installation view at Exile on James St.

Here are a few more images of old work.  I was invited to participate in an exciting show in Hamilton called 'Exile on James St.' which took place in the gutted bank on top of Jackson Square at King and James.  It is still one of my favourite alternative exhibition spaces.  The work included in the show was outstanding and I was honoured to be included.  I'll always remember Simon Frank's enormous tree of sawdust on the floor and my first glimpse of Jane Adeney's evocative clay boxes full of mysterious items...



Prima Materia II, 2004
mixed media  10x16x3"



Art-boxes became a whole new way of working, and finally my collections of oddities made sense.  I learned about the 'wunderkammer' and cabinets of curiosities that were the first museums.  I was hooked!

Romantic ideas about the order of the universe, micro/macro-cosm relationships and alchemy have always been very interesting, despite their scientific inaccuracies.