‘An artist is a person with talent and the skills to conceptualize and make creative works, often sought out for their skills and original ideas.’
The desire to relate authentically with other humans is why I continue to engage in reflexive praxis as a professional artist. My repertoire is diverse, subject matter contentious, as I challenge taboos, breaking things in collaboration with colleagues, employing interdisciplinary skillsets, a range of mediums and formats. I am my harshest critic.
What Do You Want For Your Eggs?
A short experimental film clip featuring ants and actress Katrina Dunn; produced by Alexander Hayes; audio plunderphonics by artists Rob Muir and Doikno Pasilan; camera, videography, and editing by Andrew Barnett, made in the year 2000 as part of the 'Body (Of) Works 1' series. This work was presented in the completion of the Major Studio 392 unit 'The Negotiated Proposal' at the Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia.
Elves Eyes
A short experimental film clip featuring actor ants and actress Katrina Dunn; produced by Alexander Hayes; audio plunderphonics by artists Rob Muir and Doikno Pasilan; camera, videography, and editing by Andrew Barnett, made in the year 2000 as part of the 'Body (Of) Works 1' series.
Grid Forms
The built environment, especially that in urban commercial precincts often lacks any real aesthetic appeal except perhaps that considered in the duality of the pure and the sublime as an entropic state.
Body Of Works 1
In the year 2000, when we were told the end of humanity was near and that the Internet would collapse, Perth artist Rob Muir and I began experimenting with audio plunderphonics and creating digital works mixed with performance.
Unknown Spaces
Unknown Spaces was my first foray into digital printmaking using a humble domestic inkjet printer. Whilst the results were marginal at best, it did catalyze further investigations into the ‘analog-meets-digital’ realm
Father Daughter
The depravities of what I encountered through seven (7) years of interaction with the Department of Family & Children Services, the Child Support Agency and any number of different legal fraternities in between is a book in itself.
Screen Awards
In early 1999 I was commissioned by the CEO of the Fremantle Television Institute, Simon Ambrose in Fremantle, Western Australia to present a concept to the Board for approval for the design of the 13th Annual Screen awards.
Fine Field Forms
Over many balmy evenings, champagne or sparkling shiraz in hand I was afforded the company of artist David Gregson, my late Father-in-Law, and friend.
Light And Grace
I dedicate this chapter to three men in my life. Senior figures whose contribution forever changed my life's prospects. Whose unwavering belief in me most certainly propelled me into who I am now.
Boyagarra Pool
The wheatbelt of Western Australia, despite its rampant farming induced salt issues and horrific legacy of genocide against the Aboriginal peoples of this immense nations of nations has the occasional natural wonder.
Meekatharra Midnight
The sheer desperation of the human condition is no more evident to me than my reflections on experiences engaging with Aboriginal communities in the rural and remote regions of Australia.
Werna Djooloor
All across the Western Australian wheat belt, there are stories of the occupation, alienation, and slaughter of the Aboriginal people of Australia.
Wellman Street
The Wellman Street Studios group including artist Doikao Pasilan, paper clay expert Graham Hay, Sofia Scorano, and Wendy McArthur all presented creative work in a joint exhibition held at the Blue Room Gallery in Perth, Western Australia.
City Snippets
Carrying a visual diary around with me over the years has provided what was essentially an analogue camera, a substrate upon which to pitch ideas and jog visual notes around in my minds eye.
Quicksilver
In collaboration with author and poet Daniel Oxenburgh, the ‘Quicksilver’ exhibition and book brings illustrations and poetry together in a compelling union.
Inner Mind Fish
Inspired by the lucid works of artists and theorist Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, as well as the contemporary figurative works of artist John Paul, I set about interpreting the writings of Western Australian author Daniel Oxenburgh in late 1997.
