SALON OF CURIOSITIES

Salon of Curiosities was an exhibition of 10 oil paintings I held in the private room of the very chic Kirketon Hotel in Sydney 2000. I had the concept of transforming the space into an exotic salon, with food, flowers and a specific music soundtrack. It was a success with a stellar turnout, and most of the work sold.

The work received coverage in Belle, Sunday Telegraph, Elle, SX and Blue.

The following year I commenced work on a larger show, entitled “Heirs and Disgraces”, in which I was determined to continue this series with another 20 works and vastly improve on all I had learned.
After working on it for quite some time I abandoned it. Although the images were far more determined and complex, I began to see only faults, suddenly it seemed only thin and somehow unfelt. I probably harshly decided that people were seeing it as attempting the fantasy genre, despite all best intentions on my behalf.

So it was never to be, well- not yet anyway, but I may put up a web page of the images at some point, many of which never made it to canvas stage, but they are still lovely to look at.