ARTIST STATEMENT

My sculptural work tends to consider the restless energy of an organic form in contrast with a solid, rectilinear block.
When painting something figurative, it seems to me that the painting is a poem about the subject.
My work has no narrative. I suppose that I hope that the inner stirring in me that compels the creation of a work may connect with some inner part of a person who may look at the piece.

CV

2021 Exhibited bronze pieces in group show at Elysium Gallery.
2017 Exhibited a collection of artlamps at Fundere Gallery.
2014-2021 Living in Melbourne and Wye River. Accepting commissions in materials as diverse as kinetic steel sculpture, bronze casting and decorative plasterwork. Attempting to develop ideas for sculptures and paintings.
2013-2014 Living in Barcelona and creating paintings and illuminated sculpture. Exhibited in Tallers Abiertos at La Nave studios, with Colectivo Freixas at Edifici Freixas, with Colectivo Freixas at Centre Cívic Sant Andreu and at Nauart.
2011-2012 Lived in Paris and created paintings and illuminated sculpture
2009 Co-wrote a chapter titled ‘When words and worldviews decay: thoughts on the art-science nexus, on how a poem can be as beautiful as a scientific theory’ with David Paganin. Accepted for publication in Challenging the Divide. Erica Jolly (ed.) Lythrum Press 2009.
2009 Created a sculptural instrument which was toured to Sydney and Brisbane and was operated, performed and activated by the trio Plump (Marc, Philip Samartzis, Dave Brown) titled ‘Large, Room-sized Instrument. This was performed at the North Melbourne Town Hall as part of the Liquid Architecture festival.
2008 Creation and execution of an exhibition and performance titled ‘Cluster’ with colleagues Dave Brown and Philip Samartzis as part of the ‘Plump’ trio. This was presented at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the VCA. Cluster was an immersive installation which attempted to give an experiential insight into the uncertainty principle by Heisenberg. The Australian Institute of Physics kindly lent their imprimatur to the exhibition.
2007 Foyer piece for Telstra in their head office, 400 George Street Sydney. Stainless steel, stone, neon, fibreglass, plastics, flouros. (Commercial brief).
2006 Foyer piece for Wendouree Performing Arts Centre, Ballarat. Suspended fibreglass, illuminated by ambient sunlight.
2006 Entrance sculpture for Agyle apartments, lt. Cardigan Street, Carlton Concrete render over foam, wood and steel.
2005 Feature lighting for Village Cinema foyers, Fountain Gate and Knox. Vacuum formed plastic, illuminated by neon.
2004 Sculptural lamps for Crown Casino, Southbank. Fibreglass with incandescent globes.
2003 Sculptural lamps for Scorpion night club Flinders street, Melbourne
2002 Sculptural lamps, paint finish and soft sculptures for Velour nightclub. Flinders Street, Melbourne Fibreglass with incandescent globes, finished stainless steel, side-leak acrylic, velour covered polystyrene foam, acrylic paint on plaster walls.
2000 Sculptural lamps and murals. Kanela Flamenco Bar. Johnson street, Fitzroy. Cast resin lamps, slumped acrylic sheet lamps, incandescent illumination, acrylic and oil paint on plastered boards, both abstract and figurative.
1999 Exhibited in a show called Italian Men of Carlton. Jimmy Watson’s wine bar. Lygon Street, Carlton Portraits. Chalk on paper
1998 Exhibited in a show called Paintings from Classical Tragedy. Art Affairs Gallery. University St. Carlton Figure-work Acrylic paint, chalk and shellac on plaster covered boards.
1997 Plastic Fantastic. Exhibition of photographs taken on plastic camera for the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Johnson St. Fitzroy
1992 Rebirth of the City. An exhibition of maquettes as sculptural ideas for public spaces in Melbourne. Both curated and exhibited in the show under the auspices of the Institute of Site Specific Art.
1991 Set up the Institute for Site Specific Art in collaboration with the Melbourne College of Decoration to teach skills in mural commissions. Attained a TAFE accreditation for the course and managed to bring students of the course into the workforce as site specific artists.
1994 At the invitation of the Dutch Consulate, curated an exhibition of Dutch painters working in Australia as a side-project to a Rembrandt exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.
1988 Formed a partnership with Daryl Millard and started Fresco and Co, a mural business. This practice evolved after Daryl migrated to the USA into something more multidisciplinary. Employing painters, sculptors, animatronicists and so on.