Boy, Girl

Boy, GirlOriginal Acrylic on Canvas 50cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 3. 5cm (D) Acrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang. Signed on the front. Boy, Girl presents a study of early conformity and the subtle ways in which identity is shaped before were even aware of it. By obscuring their faces and focusing on the uppermost parts of their heads, the painting highlights how societal expectations around gender and presentation are embedded from childhood. The pink and blue

' — Lou Reed

the black cockatoos reveal unexpected warmth in their feathers — a reminder that even in endings

the head chatter that can be so overwhelming and all-consuming

The Waratah has long been admired for its strength

A yellow-tailed black cockatoo in hyperreal detail — deep blue-black plumage catching the light against a warm peach ground scattered with bronze enamel banksia silhouettes

Matthew Flinders Art Prize 2018 — Viewers' Choice Award

Prints are produced to order

and completely unapologetic

complexity

2cm (W) x 76

An altar to nature's power of regeneration — a sulphur-crested cockatoo

professionally photographed from the original