22.04.2013

seabastion toast

painting

I completed my Visual Arts degree in 2000 at Southern Cross University, which included a very influential 6 month exchange to Pratt Institute, New York. While I majored in painting I became ore interested in experimental music and composed a number of sound art works with the help of an Australia Council Grant, and later archived in the vaults of Australia Screen and Sound.

The last 4 years I have returned to painting and committed to a full time art practice on the Gold Coast.This concentrated period has particularly productive as I have been consistently exhibiting in solo and group shows as well finalist awards including winning the $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Prize on the Gold Coast.

I feel incredibly privileged to be able to indulge my three current passions, art, surfing and running pretty much on a daily basis. I don't see sport and art as opposites but rather as complementary expressions of the same ideas of form, energy and space. I seek to imbue my paintings with some of those exhilarated and meditative moments I experience in the long solitary hours of training and performance.

My recent paintings involve an exploration into animal archetypes and the relationships humans have with animals and their environments. Much of my source imagery included animals in flight or fight in which a contrasting beauty can be excavated from an originally terrifying or violent image.

www.theartoftoast.com

22.04.2013

seabastion toast

painting

I completed my Visual Arts degree in 2000 at Southern Cross University, which included a very influential 6 month exchange to Pratt Institute, New York. While I majored in painting I became ore interested in experimental music and composed a number of sound art works with the help of an Australia Council Grant, and later archived in the vaults of Australia Screen and Sound.

The last 4 years I have returned to painting and committed to a full time art practice on the Gold Coast.This concentrated period has particularly productive as I have been consistently exhibiting in solo and group shows as well finalist awards including winning the $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Prize on the Gold Coast.

I feel incredibly privileged to be able to indulge my three current passions, art, surfing and running pretty much on a daily basis. I don't see sport and art as opposites but rather as complementary expressions of the same ideas of form, energy and space. I seek to imbue my paintings with some of those exhilarated and meditative moments I experience in the long solitary hours of training and performance.

My recent paintings involve an exploration into animal archetypes and the relationships humans have with animals and their environments. Much of my source imagery included animals in flight or fight in which a contrasting beauty can be excavated from an originally terrifying or violent image.

www.theartoftoast.com

22.04.2013

seabastion toast

painting

I completed my Visual Arts degree in 2000 at Southern Cross University, which included a very influential 6 month exchange to Pratt Institute, New York. While I majored in painting I became ore interested in experimental music and composed a number of sound art works with the help of an Australia Council Grant, and later archived in the vaults of Australia Screen and Sound.

The last 4 years I have returned to painting and committed to a full time art practice on the Gold Coast.This concentrated period has particularly productive as I have been consistently exhibiting in solo and group shows as well finalist awards including winning the $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Prize on the Gold Coast.

I feel incredibly privileged to be able to indulge my three current passions, art, surfing and running pretty much on a daily basis. I don't see sport and art as opposites but rather as complementary expressions of the same ideas of form, energy and space. I seek to imbue my paintings with some of those exhilarated and meditative moments I experience in the long solitary hours of training and performance.

My recent paintings involve an exploration into animal archetypes and the relationships humans have with animals and their environments. Much of my source imagery included animals in flight or fight in which a contrasting beauty can be excavated from an originally terrifying or violent image.

www.theartoftoast.com

22.04.2013

seabastion toast

painting

I completed my Visual Arts degree in 2000 at Southern Cross University, which included a very influential 6 month exchange to Pratt Institute, New York. While I majored in painting I became ore interested in experimental music and composed a number of sound art works with the help of an Australia Council Grant, and later archived in the vaults of Australia Screen and Sound.

The last 4 years I have returned to painting and committed to a full time art practice on the Gold Coast.This concentrated period has particularly productive as I have been consistently exhibiting in solo and group shows as well finalist awards including winning the $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Prize on the Gold Coast.

I feel incredibly privileged to be able to indulge my three current passions, art, surfing and running pretty much on a daily basis. I don't see sport and art as opposites but rather as complementary expressions of the same ideas of form, energy and space. I seek to imbue my paintings with some of those exhilarated and meditative moments I experience in the long solitary hours of training and performance.

My recent paintings involve an exploration into animal archetypes and the relationships humans have with animals and their environments. Much of my source imagery included animals in flight or fight in which a contrasting beauty can be excavated from an originally terrifying or violent image.

www.theartoftoast.com

22.04.2013

seabastion toast

painting

I completed my Visual Arts degree in 2000 at Southern Cross University, which included a very influential 6 month exchange to Pratt Institute, New York. While I majored in painting I became ore interested in experimental music and composed a number of sound art works with the help of an Australia Council Grant, and later archived in the vaults of Australia Screen and Sound.

The last 4 years I have returned to painting and committed to a full time art practice on the Gold Coast.This concentrated period has particularly productive as I have been consistently exhibiting in solo and group shows as well finalist awards including winning the $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Prize on the Gold Coast.

I feel incredibly privileged to be able to indulge my three current passions, art, surfing and running pretty much on a daily basis. I don't see sport and art as opposites but rather as complementary expressions of the same ideas of form, energy and space. I seek to imbue my paintings with some of those exhilarated and meditative moments I experience in the long solitary hours of training and performance.

My recent paintings involve an exploration into animal archetypes and the relationships humans have with animals and their environments. Much of my source imagery included animals in flight or fight in which a contrasting beauty can be excavated from an originally terrifying or violent image.

www.theartoftoast.com

22.04.2013

seabastion toast

painting

I completed my Visual Arts degree in 2000 at Southern Cross University, which included a very influential 6 month exchange to Pratt Institute, New York. While I majored in painting I became ore interested in experimental music and composed a number of sound art works with the help of an Australia Council Grant, and later archived in the vaults of Australia Screen and Sound.

The last 4 years I have returned to painting and committed to a full time art practice on the Gold Coast.This concentrated period has particularly productive as I have been consistently exhibiting in solo and group shows as well finalist awards including winning the $10,000 Gainsborough Greens Art Prize on the Gold Coast.

I feel incredibly privileged to be able to indulge my three current passions, art, surfing and running pretty much on a daily basis. I don't see sport and art as opposites but rather as complementary expressions of the same ideas of form, energy and space. I seek to imbue my paintings with some of those exhilarated and meditative moments I experience in the long solitary hours of training and performance.

My recent paintings involve an exploration into animal archetypes and the relationships humans have with animals and their environments. Much of my source imagery included animals in flight or fight in which a contrasting beauty can be excavated from an originally terrifying or violent image.

www.theartoftoast.com