Late last year, (now, late the year before last) negatives that had lingered on overseas shelves for half a decade came home.

As I unpacked and reconsidered these older images, I found parallels and connections between my earliest work and my current output, between tentative steps and mature expression. These older images inspired projects I was working on in that very moment, and deepened my belief that visual expression is a continuum, a place where the beginning and the end connect and harmonise.

Still, inspiration is one thing, exhibition another. These older images, now sprawled over walls and tables in Sydney, needed a place of their own.

What I've arrived at is BLAST.

It’s an idea seeking an ideal form. Sometimes I’ll focus on a single project, while at others I’ll collect seemingly unrelated images, suggesting resonances and connections from shot to shot. Perhaps, at times, it will be a work in progress.

I want this to feel like a different method of sharing work, something intimate and unhurried. What I hope for is something created and received with an eye to permanence, something downloaded, retained, printed off, further curated. Something that in time inspires or becomes part of another artist's work, another key which unlocks their process.

Sharing my work is essential to me. Like anyone I’ll take plaudits and praise, but I want a conversation that goes beyond that. When I find work that resonates with me, I feel richer for it. I want to open up my work and continue that give and take between audience and artist.

BLAST is the past and the now. I hope you find it inspiring.

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