Fallow 2024
Fallow is comprised of photographic 16 diptychs on marine plywood, 29 x 84 cm
Breathing Rain (stills) 2023
Breathing Rain, 2023, archival digital photograph on 100% rag paper 100 x 68 cm. Limited edition of one print per image.
Dark Air (stills) 2021
Dark Air, 2021, 100 x 67 cm, photo rag prints. Limited edition of one print per image.
Mountain 2019
Mountain is influenced by living in Japan and the Blue Mountains; by the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and Gerhard Richter, and early Chinese poets such as Po Chui.
Mountain, each archival pigment print is 100 x 67 cm, printed onto canvas, stretched and coated with a UV safe matte finish.
Limited edition of one print per image.
Limited edition of one print per image.
Double Vision 2018
Double Vision , 40 x 60 cm photo rag paper. Limited edition of 1.
“A ‘landscape’ cultivated or wild, is already artifice before it has become the subject of a work of art…Whether or not we are artists, we have been making this kind of mental conversion for centuries.”[1]
The Blue Mountains west of Sydney have been photographed and painted by millions of people for over 200 years. The background images for Double Vision come from here. Each is overlaid with a photographic layer made from small landscape oils I painted. The process was intuitive, but again has its origin in my interest in doubling and blending, in this case the blending of painting and photography.
We value landscape as a view, photograph or painting, while at the same time destroying the actual landscape through pollution, overdevelopment, arson and anthropogenic climate change.
[1] M. Andrews, Landscape and Western Art, 1999, Oxford University Press, p1.
The Blue Mountains west of Sydney have been photographed and painted by millions of people for over 200 years. The background images for Double Vision come from here. Each is overlaid with a photographic layer made from small landscape oils I painted. The process was intuitive, but again has its origin in my interest in doubling and blending, in this case the blending of painting and photography.
We value landscape as a view, photograph or painting, while at the same time destroying the actual landscape through pollution, overdevelopment, arson and anthropogenic climate change.
[1] M. Andrews, Landscape and Western Art, 1999, Oxford University Press, p1.
Spare Time 2013
[Spare Time]...recall[s] a lost time, the myth of Menzies’ post-war white Australia. There is also a strong sense of family....the original slides were taken by Mifsud’s late father-in-law,
Doug Shearston who became a keen amateur photographer when he returned from World War Two. This family connection also creates a bridge through generations to the multicultural present as we can’t help reading the images of an imaged perfect past through a contemporary lens.
Adding it all up, by Mark Roberts, ‘Eight + One’ at The Shop Gallery, Rochford Street Review, 5 March 2015
Spare Time is dedicated to the memory of my late father in law, George Douglas Shearston (1914-2007)
Each image is printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, faced-mounted to clear acrylic and framed in an hand-painted, off-white retro styles wooden frame, and signed on the back.
List of Works
Title Print Size Limited Edition h x w cm
1 Beach Pair 1 of 1 21.5 x 42
2 Beach Family 1 1 of 1 27.7 x 42
3 Sun Bathers on Fuji 1 of 1 21.5 x 42
4 Beach Family 2 1 of 1 31 x 42
5 Sand Hill Kids 1 of 1 28.5 x 42
6 Two Men 2 of 2 42.8 x 80
7 By the Seaside 1 of 1 54 x 80
8 Water Skier 1 of 1 53 x 80
9 Boys and Boat 1 of 1 32 x 42
10 Afternoon Fishing 1 of 1 28 x 42
11 Evening Boats numbered 1 of 1 55 x 80
12 Dune Grass 1 of 1 53 x 80
13 Holiday House 1 1 of 1 22 x 42
14 Seaside Camp 3 of 3 36 x 80
15 Lake 1 of 1 25.5 x 42
16 Lakeside Picnic 1 of 1 26.7 x 42
17 Bridge 2 of 2 51 x 80
18 Picnic Child 1 of 1 33 x 42
19 Two women 1 1 of 1 51.5 x 80
20 Two women 2 1 of 1 51.5 x 80
21 Memorial 1 of 1 42 x 42
22 Observatory 1 of 1 50.5 x 80
23 Cemetery 1 of 1 49 x 80
24 Three Women 1 of 1 30 x 42
25 Snow Holiday 1 of 1 26.7 x 42
26 Boats 1 of 1 33 x 42
27 Holiday House 2 1 of 1 28.7 x 42
28 Holiday House 3 1 of 1 42 x 47
29 House Garden 1 of 1 26 x 42
30 Wedding 1 of 1 26.7 x 42
31 Formal Couple 1 of 1 34.5 x 42
32 Waiting Women 1 of 1 23.6 x 42
33 Bowls 1 of 1 52 x 80
34 Backyard 1 of 1 27.7 x 42
List of Works
Title Print Size Limited Edition h x w cm
1 Beach Pair 1 of 1 21.5 x 42
2 Beach Family 1 1 of 1 27.7 x 42
3 Sun Bathers on Fuji 1 of 1 21.5 x 42
4 Beach Family 2 1 of 1 31 x 42
5 Sand Hill Kids 1 of 1 28.5 x 42
6 Two Men 2 of 2 42.8 x 80
7 By the Seaside 1 of 1 54 x 80
8 Water Skier 1 of 1 53 x 80
9 Boys and Boat 1 of 1 32 x 42
10 Afternoon Fishing 1 of 1 28 x 42
11 Evening Boats numbered 1 of 1 55 x 80
12 Dune Grass 1 of 1 53 x 80
13 Holiday House 1 1 of 1 22 x 42
14 Seaside Camp 3 of 3 36 x 80
15 Lake 1 of 1 25.5 x 42
16 Lakeside Picnic 1 of 1 26.7 x 42
17 Bridge 2 of 2 51 x 80
18 Picnic Child 1 of 1 33 x 42
19 Two women 1 1 of 1 51.5 x 80
20 Two women 2 1 of 1 51.5 x 80
21 Memorial 1 of 1 42 x 42
22 Observatory 1 of 1 50.5 x 80
23 Cemetery 1 of 1 49 x 80
24 Three Women 1 of 1 30 x 42
25 Snow Holiday 1 of 1 26.7 x 42
26 Boats 1 of 1 33 x 42
27 Holiday House 2 1 of 1 28.7 x 42
28 Holiday House 3 1 of 1 42 x 47
29 House Garden 1 of 1 26 x 42
30 Wedding 1 of 1 26.7 x 42
31 Formal Couple 1 of 1 34.5 x 42
32 Waiting Women 1 of 1 23.6 x 42
33 Bowls 1 of 1 52 x 80
34 Backyard 1 of 1 27.7 x 42
Site Unseen 2013
Site Unseen print series, each is 40 x 60 cm, on photo rag. Each image is unique.
Correspondence 2009
Correspondence print series. Each is a unique archival print on paper, 40 x 80 cm.
Lookout 2006
Each of the Lookout series is an archival print framed in a white wooden frame.
1. Lookout (Echo Point, Katoomba) 100 x 150 cm, artist proof, FRAMED in a white wooden frame
2. Lookout (Echo Point, Katoomba) 75.5 x 108 cm
3. Lookout (Echo Point, Katoomba) 75.5 x 108 cm
1. Lookout (Echo Point, Katoomba) 100 x 150 cm, artist proof, FRAMED in a white wooden frame
2. Lookout (Echo Point, Katoomba) 75.5 x 108 cm
3. Lookout (Echo Point, Katoomba) 75.5 x 108 cm
Place 2006
Each of the Place series is an archival print on paper.
1. View from Train Window, 85 x 60 cm
2. Here, Once, 85 x 53 cm
3. Winter in the Blue Mountains, 85 x 60 cm
4. Memory (old house), 53 x 85 cm
1. View from Train Window, 85 x 60 cm
2. Here, Once, 85 x 53 cm
3. Winter in the Blue Mountains, 85 x 60 cm
4. Memory (old house), 53 x 85 cm
The Living Room 2001
Each of these works is a Type C photograph mounted on polycarbonate. Edition: Each is a unique print.
Title cms Edition
1. Installation view at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2. Untitled (house on hill, Carcour NSW) 124 x 104 1 of 1
3. Untitled (four trees on hill near Bredbo, NSW) 54 x 224 1 of 1
4. Untitled (tree lines near Canberra) 41 x 224 1 of 1
5. Untitled (serrated tussock grass near Oberon, NSW) 52 x 124 1 of 1
6. Untitled (dam near Nowra, NSW) 59 x 124 1 of 1
7. Untitled (Coal Mine, Gloucester, NSW) 66 x 224 1 of 1
8. Untitled (nettle field near Cooma, NSW) 134 x 124 1 of 1
9. Untitled (single tree, Braidwood, NSW) 79 x 224 cm 1 of 1
1. Installation view at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2. Untitled (house on hill, Carcour NSW) 124 x 104 1 of 1
3. Untitled (four trees on hill near Bredbo, NSW) 54 x 224 1 of 1
4. Untitled (tree lines near Canberra) 41 x 224 1 of 1
5. Untitled (serrated tussock grass near Oberon, NSW) 52 x 124 1 of 1
6. Untitled (dam near Nowra, NSW) 59 x 124 1 of 1
7. Untitled (Coal Mine, Gloucester, NSW) 66 x 224 1 of 1
8. Untitled (nettle field near Cooma, NSW) 134 x 124 1 of 1
9. Untitled (single tree, Braidwood, NSW) 79 x 224 cm 1 of 1
After Life 1996
Each work from the After Life series, Cibachrome photographs, edition of one per photograph, framed in a colour power coated aluminium frames with an acrylic windows.
Title cm
Chair and Pipe 1 94 x 124
Chair and Pipe 2 64 x 84
Chair and Pipe 3 44 x 64
Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints (after Jacopo di Cione) 94 x 124
Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints (after Jacopo di Cione) 64 x 84
Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints (after Jacopo di Cione) 44 x 64
Autumn Rhythm 1 (after Jackson Pollock) 94 x 124
Autumn Rhythm 2 (after Jackson Pollock) 44 x 64
Flag 1 (after Jasper Johns) 94 x 124
Flag 2 (after Jasper Johns) 64 x 84
Flag 2 (after Jasper Johns) 44 x 64
Chair and Pipe 1 94 x 124
Chair and Pipe 2 64 x 84
Chair and Pipe 3 44 x 64
Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints (after Jacopo di Cione) 94 x 124
Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints (after Jacopo di Cione) 64 x 84
Coronation of the Virgin and Adoring Saints (after Jacopo di Cione) 44 x 64
Autumn Rhythm 1 (after Jackson Pollock) 94 x 124
Autumn Rhythm 2 (after Jackson Pollock) 44 x 64
Flag 1 (after Jasper Johns) 94 x 124
Flag 2 (after Jasper Johns) 64 x 84
Flag 2 (after Jasper Johns) 44 x 64