FLG 1999

In May 2019 I have a solo exhibition 'Line and Weight' at Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne. Reflecting here on my second solo exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery in 1999 with founding director Sonia Heitlinger.




Infrastructure 1999, oil and pencil on canvas, 153 x 91 cm. Private collection.

Infrastructure 1999, was a meditation on movement through the city.


Isolation, 1999, oil and pencil on canvas, 153 x 122 cm. Private collection.


Isolation, 1999, oil and pencil on canvas, 153 x 122 cm was influenced by the 1980 Joy Division song of the same name. “A blindness that touches perfection..But hurts just like anything else.” 


Pan, 1999, oil and pencil on canvas, 153 x 122 cm. Private collection.


Pan, 1999, oil and pencil on canvas, 153 x 122 cm. The palette of Pan and the open space was based on dry lake beds outback Australia. 


Flinders Lane Opening 1999.

I stayed in occasional contact with Sonia Heitlinger as recently as 2015. Sonia, a painter herself, attended some painting classes I taught at Fitzroy Painting in between her global lifestyle.


Flinders Lane Gallery installation shot 1999.

Above and Below, 1999  (left), was purchased by the Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney.