(un)Natural Selection - 2007
Feral
Cats
1. Feral cat and wren 1 - Oil on canvas 105 x 145cm
2. Feral cat and wren 2 - Oil on canvas 145 x 105cm
3. Feral cat and crested pigeon - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
4. Feral cat disemboweling blue dove - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
5. Feral cats fucking - Oil on canvas 102 x 85cm
6. Feral cat in rosebush (ladder of thorns) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
7. Feral cat stalking - Oil on canvas 145 x130cm
8. Feral cat weeping/trapped - Oil on canvas 145 x130cm
9. Feral cats paired - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
10. Feral cat in cage with friend - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
11. Feral cat (Monster) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
12. Feral cat in snow (Snowtown) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
13. Feral cats in rosebush (Because we can)- Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
14. Feral cat depressed - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
15. Feral cat at sisters grave (Ghost)- Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
16. 5 cats rose and worm (Atrophia) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
17. Feral cat & prey - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
18. Feral cat licking (Lady Macbeth) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
19. Feral cat licking - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
20. Feral cat playing (Butterflies) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
Foxes
1. Vixen with prey - Oil on canvas 145 x130cm
2. Vixen hunting with skulk/Olgas landscape - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
3. Last light Vixen hunting - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
4. Fox in snow (Judas) - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
5. Carcass - Oil on canvas 145 x 130cm
Dreams
1. Lust - Woman with blind lion and book - Oil on canvas 120 x 145 cm
2. Revenge - Smoking woman with skinned lion and burning bridge - Oil on canvas 120 x 145cm
3. Futility - Caged lion in wilderness - Oil on canvas 129 x 104cm
4. War - Lion and bird with cage - Oil on canvas 109 x 109cm
5. Love - Woman with lion - Oil on canvas 120 x 145cm
6. Protection - Prone woman with lion - Oil on canvas 129 x 104cm
7. Ambivalence - Lion, monkey, wren and nude - Oil on canvas 120 x 145cm
8. Rejection - Nude with cat in cage - Oil on canvas 120 x 145cm
9. Attraction - Woman with cat and wren - Oil on canvas 130 x 104cm
10. Resolution - Masturbating woman with wren and lion - Oil on canvas 130x 145cm
11. Indifference - Woman with cat attacking wren - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
12. Obsession - Woman with lion biting leg - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
13. 3 grapes - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
14. Transformed - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
Leda and the swan
1. Black love - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
2. Skinny woman with black swans - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
3. Woman holding black swan - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
4. Woman diving/falling and black swans - Oil on canvas 130 x 145cm
5. Woman fucking swan 1 - Oil on canvas 145 x 130
6. Woman fucking swan 2 - Oil on canvas 145 x 130
Feral
The singular drama portrayed in the painting - (un)Natural Selection - Feral Cat and Wren - is that of the destruction of Australia’s indigenous fauna by an introduced species. This mirrors the broader impacts of European settlement on Australia's fragile environment.
Dreams
Dream paintings focusing on a threatening and desperate land, populated by a disparate group - woman, lion, cat, and bird. Here animals and humans play games of cruelty, indifference, love, war and death. Their actions hopeless and futile under the glare of a burning sun.
Leda and the swan
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
by William Butler Yeats