I’m excited to announce my next solo show, Morphology, 4-16 March 2025 at SOL Gallery in Fitzroy! The exhibition will feature a collection of large scale, hyper detailed photographic manipulation work, centred on wildlife and conservation issues - developed from images I've shot of various habitats and other source material, representing thousands of hours of work. Complimentary drinks supplied by Bloodmoon Wines, who are generously supporting my work.  I’ve been plotting this show for about 12 months now, almost to the day. Originally I had intended it to be exclusively marine themed - after diving into the idea, I hit a wall, discovering that people just don’t engage with marine subjects in a way that they do with terrestrial animals. The physical distance between us and marine life creates an emotional distance that isn’t there in birds and terrestrial animals. We don’t witness the plight in the same way, and so corporations can get up to all kinds of ugly behaviour. I've found that people tend to care about these issues when they can connect with the animal. Projecting themselves onto, or into, the life of the animal. Morphology is the study of form - the size, shape and structure of an organism - and the relationships between forms - how one organism’s constituent parts interact with one another, or how an organism interacts with its surroundings. And so, morphological characteristics play a significant role in how we perceive, identify or classify an organism. I’ve been thinking a lot about how, in the middle of a global extinction event, do you get people invested in and engaging with wildlife and ecological issues in other ways? In the past I’ve made work that more unabashedly took aim at the audience’s heartstrings - wildlife on fire or disintegrating, as an expression of my own alarm and exasperation. These days though, when I watch people respond to the work and talk with them, I feel a recurring a sense of fatigue and resignation. There’s so much going on in the world now that many people are simply resigned or just don’t have the bandwidth to care. So I’ve been exploring other pathways to get the audience’s emotional investment, adding humor and character. Making the creature engage with the viewer, and hopefully allow the audience to find our own human characteristics in these animals.  Morphology will feature a body of work centered around this theme, thousands of hours of work created over the last 12 months around this theme and new work currently being developed especially for this show. Come say hi! Drinks provided on the opening night, I will also be at the gallery over the two weekends that the show is running.

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