Selected portrait works for cultural & community settings
Robin
2024 | Acrylic | 94cm square | Float-framed in oak (black)
This portrait explores the tension between public joy and private depth.
Robin Williams is remembered for humour that crossed generations, alongside a rare emotional openness. The vivid palette and downward drips suggest both energy and weight beneath the performance.
The work invites reflection on creativity, mental health, and the complexity of joy, and is well suited to spaces that value empathy, conversation, and cultural memory.
Kurt
2024 | Acrylic | 94cm square | Float-framed in oak (black)
This portrait presents Kurt Cobain as a cultural disruptor rather than a mythologised icon. The upward gaze and softened posture reference introspection rather than spectacle.
Layered paintwork and a restrained palette echo themes of authenticity, resistance to conformity, and the cost of creative intensity.
The work suits environments engaged with music history, counterculture, and the quieter influence of artists who reshaped culture without seeking permanence.
Dame Edna
2024 | Mixed Media | 94cm square | Float-framed in oak (black)
A celebratory portrait that plays with performance, satire, and cultural iconography.
Dame Edna is rendered not simply as a character, but as a reflection on the construction of public persona and the uniquely Australian use of humour as both shield and mirror. The exaggerated expression, bold colour fields, and patterned surfaces reference theatricality, self-awareness, and the deliberate artifice of performance.
The work invites consideration of how identity is shaped, performed, and received in public life, and how satire can operate as a form of social commentary. It is particularly well suited to cultural institutions, community spaces, and environments that engage with Australian identity, humour, and collective memory.