Last Retreat of the Focus Group, 2019
cement, shredded administrative documents, wood, paint

 

March of the Foregone Conclusions, 2019
cement, shredded administrative documents, Sintra, acrylic paint

 

The Emerging Artist, 2019
cement, shredded administrative documents, acrylic paint on canvas, crutch, cork stamper

 

The Blind Navigators, 2018
cement, shredded administrative documents, steel, canvas, water

Moving Forward, 2019
sintra, paint, mechanics

No Time for Questions, 2023
exhibition video, 1:05

 

The Clock Tower at 4 am, 2021
mixed media with clock and boxing glove

The Clock Tower at 4 am (details), 2021

Upward Mobility, 2022
wood, polycarbonate, acrylic paint

A Question of Balance, 2021
wood, paint, sintra,  papercrete

 

Against the Image all Weapons are Powerless, 2021
wood, paint, Sintra, steel, papercrete

Deep State, 2021
wood, paint, polycarbonate

Inside the Box, 2021
wood, paint, Sintra

Rift 2021
wood, paint, sintra

Climber’s Wall (Weapons of Mass Distinction), 2021
trophies

Trophies are re-purposed as footholds for upward striving organizational “climbers.”

Climber’s Wall (Weapons of Mass Distinction), 2021
details

Dark Star, (Weapons of Mass Distinction), 2020
trophies, paint, wood, metal, glitter

Dark Star re-imagines a medieval weapon as a tool where trophies become ordnance aimed at the less successful. Dark Star mocks a culture of competition and individual triumphalism.

 

Dark Star (Weapons of Mass Distinction), 2020
details

Advance of the Small-Hoofed Arguments, 2019
cement, shredded administrative documents, mulberry paper, ink, wood, bamboo, acrylic paint

A Higher Vision, 2018
hydrostone, wood, Sintra, acrylic paint, plexiglass

Battle for the Ownership of Silence,
2016
hydrostone, metal, wood, acrylic paint

No Place for Emily
2014

 

This piece represents Charles H. Scott, the first principal of what would eventually become Emily Carr University of Art and Design. In 1926, Scott hired Group of Seven members Frederick Varley and Jock MacDonald to teach painting. Both Varley and MacDonald implored Scott to hire Emily Carr as well, but Scott refused. The student body at the time was entirely female, and the teaching staff entirely male.

Original bust of Charles Scott by Jack Harman

Oral Harvest
rubber, steel, aluminum

Text
As an antidote to the demands of the self to be heard, have you considered amputation? Imagine, one short, sharp slice, and its all over. No more wondering what might have been said, how things could have been different, if you’d found the courage to speak. Instead, the serenity of silence can be your’s to savour, just like the consensus you create by effect. In time you’ll come to appreciate your stump as an old and beloved friend.

 

 

Many Rivers, continually in progress

Many Rivers is a collection of samples from every river I’ve crossed, often gathered with great difficulty as rivers are frequently  barred from public access.
Rivers collected: Thompson, Fraser, Columbia, Red, Assiniboine, Mackenzie, Mississippi, Avon, Little Pic, Kamanistiquia, Similkameen, Los Angeles, Chicago, Arno, Rhine, Kennet, Kicking Horse, East.

 

 

 

 

No More Play, 2021
crutches, hockey stick blades, acrylic paint

This piece was inspired by a visit to El Santuario de Chimayo in New Mexico whose chapel contains an anteroom where hundreds of abandoned crutches line the walls. Aspects of sport can be likened to cults whose fans assume the attributes of true believers.

Soft Sticks, 2022, rubber, felt