Upcoming exhibition at Australian Galleries, Paddington
17th February - 7th March, 2026
“A carved account of the history of the referendum.”
The Voice 2023 Wynne Prize. Installation AGNSW 2023
What a moment.
The first remark of a newly elected Anthony Albanese was to declare the Uluṟu Statement would be fully implemented.
It came out of the blue, so much sweeter than a mere victory claim. This was visionary leadership, Whitlamesque.
This show charts the joy this moment brought.
It charts the way that doubt changed its shape.
It charts the way a song of joy became a subject of argument, of shrinking thinking.
What’s in it for us, they asked? What will we lose? Why should the Indigenous people be preferred? Australia was about equality, they declared.
Dutton, the doubt drover.
This show charts the way The Voice fell over, was put away.
The show charts how, for all this, The Voice became more ingrained and sits in us more than it ever did before.
This show is an account of these moments.
From having been autonomous Voice and Yes sculptures, I began to make human figures to scale the work, to make the voices large or small, loud or soft.
The figures began to have their own spoken part which we are in the process of interpreting.
The Witness 2025 Wynne Prize AGNSW 2025