If you look closely enough you can sense eternity in its unassuming streets and forgotten buildings. Where ghostly monoliths silently overlook dreamlike avenues.

It seems apt that Brisbane was named after an astronomer. Exploring this city is akin to a journey of discovery. The city, at once familiar, can also feel like an alien landscape. Some of my earliest recollections are of the places depicted in this exhibition and yet they are still able to surprise me.

This collection of works examines the unique characteristics of Brisbane, its urban landscapes observed like detached memories of a vivid dream. They document encounters with the city below the 27^th Parallel: a place where the imaginary and real meet.

“Life below the 27^th Parallel,” an exhibition of my new paintings will be showing at Lethbridge Gallery, 136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington from 26 August-6 September 2017.