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| One Door Closes, Another Opens 2010 |
This image is based on a photograph I took of one of the colleges at Sydney University. I love the massive sandstone architecture of some of the buildings, quite unlike the older buildings in Melbourne where bluestone (basalt) predominates.
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| Trophies 2010 |
One of my favourite haunts is Werribee Mansion, south-west of Melbourne and this is a corridor littered with paintings and stags. The idea here was to experiment with the different lighting effects; that is, the natural light at the end of the passage contrasting with the artificial light closer to the viewer.
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| Honey, I'm Home 2010 |
This is one of the entrances to the former Aradale Psychiatric Hospital in Ararat where I took reams of photos some years ago. Again the emphasis is on lighting effects - light being an important component in my work.
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| Caretaker 2006 |
The task I set myself here was to make the lioness look as though it belonged there, rather than a transfer that's stuck on.
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| Moonlight Serenade 2006 |
An upstairs window at Werribee Mansion, but the view out the window is loosely based on another photo. I this instance I had some fun with photoshop during the sketch stage, combining the two images and playing around with lighting effects. The darker I made the sky in photoshop, the more it looked like a moonlit night scene.
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| Laundry 2005 |
A laundry inside Aradale. During my second visit to this facility , there was a force nine gale blowing, and it was an eerie experience roaming around this vast empty building listening to the howls and whistles.
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| The Sentry 2005 |
Werribee Mansion again This painting is based on a photograph I took in one of the stairwells, but the scene through the window is imaginary.
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| Washrooms 2000 |
Sometimes the smallest rooms in house can be the most fascinating, especially with the correct use of light.
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