Business is Booming
2021
porcelain, gold lustre, gold dust, epoxy

A Looney Tunes inspired landscape depicts a weary icon, splayed across a searing bed of sand, conceding defeat to the taunting sun. Reminiscent of a Wile E. Coyote scheme gone awry, a battered pink kangaroo embodies the futile pursuit of the perfect “Australian” 

I’ve always felt as though the label of Australian never really fit me. Like it was almost foreign in its implied meaning. Not everyone is archetypically protected under the romantic stereotypes of the venerated bloke and sheila. This leaves many to forge new and alternative ways of being in the land of plenty. I’m Feeling a Little Down Under pokes fun at the frustrations, hypocrisies and ironies of national identity, and the impact they have on the individual psyche.