Platinum, Ink and Pink
Platinum, Ink and Pink brings together selected works from five series made over the past five years: Found, Pink, Poppy, Peony, and Fossil. The photographs were captured on film and printed using both pigment-based and platinum palladium processes. The show reflects an ongoing interest in the relationship between time, perception, and meaning—how we interpret and assign significance to what we see and remember.
Each series approaches this from a different angle. Found is built around the act of noticing—recognising moments in daily life that are often overlooked. These images explore how perception shifts over time and how memory alters what we think we know.
Pink looks at the colour as a cultural and emotional signifier. Depending on context, pink can suggest softness, seduction, disruption, or calm. In this series, it acts as a lens to examine how colour influences our reading of space and form, and how personal or collective associations shape what we see.
Poppy and Peony examine the way meaning is projected onto nature. Poppy reflects on the way this flower has been tied to both conflict and commemoration, and how that history sits beside its visual delicacy. Peony looks at how mythology and symbolic meaning become entangled with form—how a flower can carry stories of healing, envy, and transformation, depending on who is looking.
Fossil considers deep time—how humans struggle to comprehend scales of time beyond our own lives. The plants in this series existed before bees and remain largely unchanged. They raise questions about survival, change, and the limits of human understanding in the face of geological time.
Across all five series, the work considers how we create meaning through images—how memory, culture, and context inform what we see and how we interpret it.
Poppy: Poppies have been used to represent peace and death throughout human history. Used for opium during war times or as offerings to the dead for the Ancient Greeks and Romans. They have a powerful meaning in modern Australian culture as well as showing an incredible beauty of strength and fragility.
Poppy No. 15
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5 +2AP
Medium 80x80cm
Print Only $9.000
Framed $10,000
Fossil - A series of images that explores the human mind's struggle to grasp the vastness of time and our fragility within it. The collection features prehistoric plants that evolved before the existence of bees, serving as tangible reminders of our temporal limitations. Unlike stone fossils, which often feel distant and abstract, these living fossils offer a tactile immediacy. They highlight the dual nature of life - its persistent drive to survive alongside its inherent fragility.
Magnolia
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5 + 2AP
Medium 80x80cm
Print Only $9.000
Framed $10,000
Ginkgo
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5 + 2AP
Medium 80x80cm
Print Only $9.000
Framed $10,000
Pink: a series of work focused on the complex nature of pink. Pink is a persuasive colour and within different contexts can symbolize the sensual, exotic, threatening, calming, and many more.
Pink No. 4
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5 + 2AP
Small 50x50cm
Print Only $4,500
Framed $5,150
Pink No. 5
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5 + 2AP
Medium 80x80cm
Print Only $9.000
Framed $10,000
Pink No. 7
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5 + 2AP
Small 50x50cm
Print Only $4,500
Framed $5,150
Found: Part of an ongoing series focused on the fleeting qualities of time, memory, and perception, inviting viewers to reflect on the transient beauty found in everyday moments.
Wallaringa Ave
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 8
Medium 80x80cm
Print Only $9.000
Framed $10,000
Bridge Stairs
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag
Edition 5
Large 100x100cm
Print Only $16,000
Framed $17,600
Peony: Peony is named after Paeon, who was the student of Asclepius, the Greek God of medicine and healing. Paeon was the physician of the gods and Asclepius became jealous of him, which Zeus saved him of his wrath by changing him into a Peony flower.
The symbol of these flowers and cultural significance is what interests me in these images, how their forms influence the viewer and interpretation from their personal experience.
Peony No. 15
Platinum Palladium Print
Edition 3 + 2AP
Large 28x28cm
Print Only $9,500
Framed $10,000
Inquiries regarding images not currently on display are welcome. Editions may vary depending on series.
Pigment Prints
Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Rag.
S: 50x50cm
Edition 5 +2AP
$4,500 | AP on request
M: 80x80cm
Edition 5 +2AP
$9,000 | AP on request
L: 100x100cm
Edition 3 +2AP
$16,000 | AP on request
Some prints are available in an extra large size.
XL: 140x140cm
Edition 1 + 2AP
1/1 $24,000 | AP on request
Dimensions do not include a 5cm boarder.
Each print is numbered, signed, serialised, and presented with a certificate of authenticity.
The artwork is unmounted, unframed, and tube-shipped complimentary.
Framed options are available, contact for details and shipping options.
Unmade works take around 2-3 weeks to be made and shipped, framed works 3-4 weeks.
Platinum Palladium Prints
Platinum Palladium Print on Archival Cotton Rag.
S: 12x12cm
Paper size 25.4x30.5cm
Edition 3 +2AP
$5,000 | AP on request
L: 28x28cm
Paper size 40.6x50.8cm
Edition 3 +2AP
$9,500 | AP on request
Each print is numbered, signed, serialised, and presented with a certificate of authenticity.
The artwork is unmounted, unframed, and shipped flat complimentary.
Framed options are available, contact for details and shipping options.
Unmade works take around 4 weeks to be made and shipped, framed works 4-6 weeks.
FAQ - Purchased artwork may be collected at the Gallery at the end of the show. If not able to collect from the Gallery a studio pickup may be arranged or a local Sydney Metro drop-off may be arranged. If artwork needs to be shipped outside of Sydney Metro please contact for shipping fees/ methods. International shipping possible, tube shipping is complimentary, framed is quote only.
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