Gold Coast, 2015.

Emerald 2014.

Emerald 2014.

Brisbane 2015.

Mt Gravatt, Sauce 2014.

Murwillumbah, 2014.

Kosie, Sauce & Deks Brisbane 2014.

Sauce and Kosie1 2014

Byron Bay 2014.

Emerald, 2014.

Emerald, 2014.

Emerald, 2014.

Emerald, 2014.

Detail of a 48m long wall with Scone, Jugl and Ksino, Murwillumbah 2014.

Cairns 2014.

Upper Mt Gravatt 2014.

I kicked off 2014 by making an installation to create a contrast with the bushland habitat of Northern New South Wales.

Murwillumbah 2014.

Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex.

Byron Bay 2014.

Murwillumbah 2013.

Murwillumbah 2013.

Murwillumbah 2013.

Capalaba, 2013.

Capalaba, 2013.

Stains of Modernity Exhibition, The Sauce Studio, Murwillumbah 2013.

Stains of Modernity Exhibition, The Sauce Studio, Murwillumbah 2013.

Stains of Modernity exhibition, The Sauce Studio 2013.

Tara, Queensland 2013.

Some days in the Northern Rivers you just, can’t understand why there are so many closed minds and cliché groups. As a professional artist, who has moved back to the area I have really struggled to find my voice amongst the naysayers and the pretentious creative types who have taken over. I’ve spent the past decade building my professional mural business and I have nearly twenty years of experience in working with aerosols and and creating public art, but the doors of the gallery are still jammed shut. To find somewhere to create my art, I have to traipse up hills and search over the countryside to find a place to paint, when in reality there are plenty of great public places which would be perfect for a professional mural. And that doesn’t even begin to cover how the Treasures of the Tweed is devaluing my profession. Some days in the Northern Rivers, you just wonder where it all went wrong; it’s a great place to live, but a difficult place to work.

Sauce and Skone, Capalaba 2013.

Julia Creek 2013.

Kosie & Sauce Murwillumbah 2012.

Mr Fires and Sauce.

Green Leaf Cafe Morningside, 2012.

Detail of gallery installation by Sauce, Jugglers Artspace Fortitude Valley 2012.

Detail of gallery installation by Kosie 1 and Sauce, Jugglers Artspace Fortitude Valley 2012.

Jericho State School 2012.

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Barcaldine 2012.

Calvary Christian College, Arts Fest Week, Sauce 2014.

Detail 1, Wynnum.

Detail 2, Wynnum.

Detail 3, Wynnum.

Detail 4, Wynnum.

Bay Central Storage, Wynnum 2012.

Kosie & Sauce, Capalaba 2012.

West End, 2012.

Kosie & Sauce, Murwillumbah 2012.

Whilst bushwalking I discovered an interesting find. The “Bush Sauce” plant or  Saucerusstylus a member of the native gumtreeusmaximus family combines a fern-like foliage with a hardwood bark texture growing to several metres in height. Evolving to suit climatic conditions this specimen displays masses of brightly coloured, bird attracting flowers in early summer and produces tasty berries for a nutritious bush sauce. This genuine species is often imitated by noxious weeds however sap-sucking, aphid infested posers are no match for the original.

Murwillumbah 2013.

Morningside, 2011.

A new species of koala has emerged in Redland City and the surrounding areas. The new species is related toPhascolarctos cinereus, however the “Urban Koala” has evolved unique characteristics which include the ability to adapt to suburban environments and a resistance to the STD chlamydia which is devastating other species of koala. A rapid increase numbers is evident as the urban koala can be sighted almost anywhere, anytime, often appearing in shopping centres, cinemas and schools. Commissioned studies have indicated the urban koala can be linked with developers, often sighted carrying briefcases full of cash. This new breed does not display noticible differences in physique to its gum tree dwelling counterpart but it has learnt a basic grasp of the english language and can be heard, regularly stammering, “sorry, that’s not my department”. The koala also displays an ability to write policy documents as it has infiltrated a range of government jobs. Despite being one of approximately sixteen thousand threatened species, the urban koala has successfully dominated local media ensuring youth, community, indigenous and other relevant issues are rarely mentioned. Now positioned at the top of the food chain, the urban koala dictates a complete control where all things are regulated and creative ideas are excluded guaranteeing conformity.

Humans are now the endangered species.

Murwillumbah 2011

Photography studio backdrop, Gold Coast 2011.

Emerald 2013.

With Inks (Sydney).

MERF, 2013.

Grantham 2010.

Kosie & Sauce, Redlands 2010.

“As seen on CCTV” questions where beauty belongs and challenges the notions of normality. The concept in contention is the aesthetics of the natural environment as juxtaposed with the human made concrete cities and sprawling suburbs. A creative response to the dull urban areas challenges the status quo and begins to create ideas of art within a contextual challenge. An askew horizon which compliments the three dimensional abstract suggests a hyper reality and the theme of challenge within an oppressive hegemony. This piece also questions the concept of self-expression in the suburbs as this is increasingly being threatened by the limitations of privacy as dictated by an authoritarian style of surveillance. Big Brother closes in on progressive free thought and dominates ownership of place to ensure conformity.

Tweed Valley.

Kosie, Phel, Sauce & Smerd.

Longreach 2010.

Adelaide 2012.

Adelaide 2012.

Planet Matterz Morningside 2009.

John Fredericks Park, Capalaba 2008.

Graffic Beat, Wooloongabba.

Birkdale.

Fortitude Valley.

Emerald 2013.

Redlands Underpass by Skone & Sauce 2010.

Burringbar, NSW 2005.

Capalaba, props to Axis for the hook up.

Skon, Sauce & Romz 2012.

Sauce and Hypo, Murwillumbah 2013.

Coalstoun Lakes State School, 2014.

2014.

Colab with Kosie 1 2015.