THE SOUTHERLY BUSTER 2025-26
Southerly Winds is an evolving, multidisciplinary project that explores the intersection of climate, class, and geography through the metaphor of the “southerly buster”—a dramatic coastal wind change that affects Sydney and the east coast of New South Wales. This phenomenon, described in Henry Lawson’s 1908 poem The Southerly Buster, provides both the conceptual and visual anchor for my work, highlighting the unequal distribution of environmental relief between the privileged coastal elite and the working-class communities inland.
My practice is iterative and process-driven, following a methodology I refer to as Random Thought—an intuitive, non-linear system of marking making that embraces peoples shared stories, narrative, expansion, and material transformation. Through large-scale oil painting with additive and iterative multi panels, I can explore this topic with a dynamic and intuitive art making process.
