Growing up with Italian migrant parents, living in Moonee Ponds, photos taken early 1980s, in the kitchen.
After attending Canberra School of Art, in 1984 I moved to Sydney and lived in a warehouse in Haymarket. I had a live-in studio space with other artists. I started to paint, mostly self-portraits, initially on paper but then on aluminium printing plates, which I could easily access in the off-set printing business I worked for at the time. So I started painting on the aluminium. Then I started to scratch and emboss the surface.
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“Torso as target, from the exhibition Metal Works, 1992, Legge Gallery, Redfern, Sydney. Oil on metal, 65 x 55cm. ”
“Paul, from the exhibition All Meat, No Veg 1995, Legge Gallery, Redfern, Sydney. Oil on metal, 103 x 77cm. ”
