An important aspect of my arts practice is interdisciplinary work, in which my art becomes involved in other creative endeavours such as music, community development and independent research. Sparkling Isolation documents a major new addition to my creative life - ambient music production - whilst PaintUp with Kamamma presents an ongoing development project in South Africa, in which I travel to the community of Melkhoutfontein, Western Cape to paint murals on houses. Liminal Contact presents a series of experimental artworks to illustrate a monograph on painting which can be found via my Xibalba Books Publishing Imprint. Other artistic researches have included the creation of a complete and working fictional language, called Fernalese, and my series on Eleusis, a quest to uncover the secret behind the Elusinian Mysteries.
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The Ecstasy In Me - A radical triptych of sexual self-portraits, graphic but visionary in tone, evoking the transcendental ecstasies of gay sex, towards a queer iconicity... |
Sparkling Isolation - In 2020 I returned to making ambient music, creating a 13-panel UV painted frieze to accompany the album. A short film of the frieze is also visible here... |
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Drawings & Illustrations - A small gallery of monochrome drawings created to illustrate chapters from the book publications arising from my various independent research projects... |
PaintUp with Kamamma - An ongoing initiative in the town of Melkhoutfontein, Western Cape, South Africa, creating a brighter future by exploring the community's deep cultural history... |
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Liminal Contact - An experimental series exploring multi-dimensionality in painting, and referencing complex art histories, produced to illustrate my 2016 book of the same name... |
Ferxao -
An artistic constructed language created to adorn The Encyclopaedia of Fernal Affairs. An egalitarian and paradisical language that delights in playful expressions of colour... |
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Eleusis -
A visionary and experiential quest to lift the veil from the Eleusinian Mysteries and reveal the world-healing secrets the initiates learned beyond the threshold of the Propylaia... |
Day, Night & Hidden Light - The first 'Dual Image' works from 2010-13. One image is seen by daylight and another, different image is seen under ultraviolet illumination... |
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Salviaspace - Work selected from a 2004-08 & 2013-14 project exploring the visionary spaces and consciousness-transforming experiences of the Mexican entheogenic herb salvia divinorum... |
Minoan Honey - A 2009-11 series exploring the visionary beauty and womanhood of the Minoan Civilisation of Bronze Age Crete, drawing upon rituals, archaeology and mythology... |
