If you have a skill at all, surely, it must be something for others to recognise.
I only hope that others recognise some level of skill in me. I have made things since the day in could think. As a child, whenever I was bored, I was encouraged to rectify the problem using my own wit. This is something I have only recently begun to appreciate. Hence, my energies have returned to sculpture.
Owing to the pressures of survival in our commercialised community, my art career has had to take a back seat for many years but “the time has come the walrus said”. That’s not to say it was non-existent. For many years I had a studio at Caravan Studios in Richmond where I produced commercial pieces for Village Roadshow and many other private enterprises. I have worked in the art department of the ‘Ned Kelly’ movie. I have worked at Big Fish, when it existed, and also Mothers Art. These were both commercial art studios. We do what we have to do in order to pay the bills.
Of late, I have returned to my own themes. I adhere to, and promote, an ethos. “Add a sense of scale to your scope”. This is the single most liberating thing one can do. It is a mechanism to lead ones thinking outside of the box and it provides a wealth of adventure and realisation.
In my artwork I try to emphasize this. Radiolaria are miniscule creatures that exist as part of the plankton biota. They are indeed quite natural works of art. Unfortunately, we are killing them on mass though ocean acidification. Their plight is our plight. If we destroy the base elements of the food chain, the rest is plain to imagine.
The history of humankind is laid out for all to see but the future is not. We have had an agrarian revolution, and industrial one and a technological one. The time has come for a fourth and final revolution by which we can mature, a “Revolution in Attitude”. A revolution through which we can address the issues of our future survival.