Home Sweet Home, 2012
Recovered objects, dimensions variable
(installation shot taken at ‘For we are young and free’ exhibition, toyota spirit gallery, 2012)

“I grew up with my two brothers in the classic suburban Australian house and it was the marks, holes and dents left on the walls over time that reinforced our connection to home. At 21 I suffered a Spinal injury and we had to sell that house, as it wasn’t suitable for a wheelchair, it was bought by a developer who intended to knock it down and put up townhouses. Before that happen I broke in and removed the hall way closet door frame where my parents marked our heights every year as we grew up. By transplanting that door frame into the gallery and inviting visitors to mark the gallery wall   this work comments on the trend to knock down and rebuild that seems, simultaneously, to be a result of the ‘Australian dream’ as much as its destroying the memory of dreams past,  and how something as simply as a mark on a wall, or a person, can carry so much weight and significance. ”