Brisbane-based multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator working across photography, painting, ceramics, music and prose. Practice spans three decades under the evolving banner of HolyGreenCow, exploring themes of Australian Gothic, suburban anxiety and the intersection of the domestic and the mythological. Work held in public collections including ArtBank and regional galleries across Australia.
Education
2011 — Bachelor of Photography (Honours First Class), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2010 — Bachelor of Photography, Photographic Art Practices, Queensland College of Art
2010 — Drawing short courses, Brisbane Institute of Art
2006 — Photography short courses, Brisbane Institute of Photography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 — They Came, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2011 — Interrupting Suburbia, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2009 — Faces, Solo Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 — Cats, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2012 — The Greatest Story Ever Told 2, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2011 — austrALIENation, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2011 — Prometheus Art Award, Finalist, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2010 — Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Biennial Emerging Art Prize (Acquired)
2010 — Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Finalist
2009 — Olive Cotton Portrait Prize, Hanger's Choice Award, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2009 — Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Finalist, Brisbane
2008 — Nundah Art Prize, Winner (Photography), Brisbane
2008 — Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Finalist
Awards, Grants & Recognition
2012 — Janet Holmes A' Court Australian Artists Grant
2011 — Prometheus Art Award, Finalist
2011 — Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
2010 — Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Biennial Emerging Art Prize (Work Acquired)
Major series include They Came (2009–2012), austrALIENation (2011), The Greatest Story Ever Told 2 (2012), Cataclysm, and Dreams of an Ordinary Man. Work characterized by lo-fi iPhone technology, constructed narratives, and exploration of suburban anxiety and environmental collapse.
Painting & Ceramics
Handmade creatures, objects and symbols extending visual mythology into physical form. Work sits between humour and menace, creating artefacts from a slightly altered version of our world.
Music
Released albums under Animal Boy (Walking Stick, 1995; Attack of the Stickmen, 1996) and U-then8 (U-then8, 2000; Liar A, 2002). Full catalogue available on Spotify.
Writing
Currently drafting debut novel HolyGreenCow Chronicles (2025), expanding the visual mythology into prose. Explores territory where the absurd becomes profound and the political intertwines with the domestic and mythic.
Professional Experience
Current — Visual Art Educator, Secondary Level, Brisbane, Queensland
Multidisciplinary practice maintained alongside teaching, with active exhibition schedule and ongoing series development
Artist Statement
HolyGreenCow is an ongoing act of world-building across mediums and decades. The work moves between images, objects and text, circling questions of how the ordinary becomes uncanny, how pressure on landscape and body shifts them out of place. Figures are caught mid-gesture—running, hiding, bracing for what may or may not arrive. The threat sits just outside the frame. Humour is deliberate but not there to cancel anxiety; it's a way of staying with it.