The Journal is a space for reflection, insight, and the stories that live behind the collections that shape ART1.
Here, fine art photography meets process, memory, and creative practice, shaped by decades of creative exploration across movement, image-making, and visual storytelling.
Through light studies, monochrome atmospheres, POP abstraction, still life, and narrative works, each entry offers a deeper understanding of the ideas, influences, and lived experience that inform the work, its intention, and its place within the wider ART1 practice.
ART1 Journal
Digital Presence
Gathering the Pieces and Putting It Together When I began building ART1, I thought I was creating a website. I soon realised I was doing something quite different. I was...
Digital Presence
Gathering the Pieces and Putting It Together When I began building ART1, I thought I was creating a website. I soon realised I was doing something quite different. I was...
Artwork Finds a New Home
A Brisbane Collector Story One of the greatest privileges as an artist is rarely the sale itself. It is seeing where the work eventually comes to reside. Several months after...
Artwork Finds a New Home
A Brisbane Collector Story One of the greatest privileges as an artist is rarely the sale itself. It is seeing where the work eventually comes to reside. Several months after...
The Percivals 2026
The journey to Townsville carried its own atmosphere long before the gallery doors even opened. The very warm and humid 28-degree weather was, unexpectedly, a welcome relief from the heavy...
The Percivals 2026
The journey to Townsville carried its own atmosphere long before the gallery doors even opened. The very warm and humid 28-degree weather was, unexpectedly, a welcome relief from the heavy...
Lost in the Bush
an excursion beyond the cliché "The series Lost in the Bush emerged playfully from the original collection titled Cliche Life. The series was shot on location in Mullumbimby and reconnected...
Lost in the Bush
an excursion beyond the cliché "The series Lost in the Bush emerged playfully from the original collection titled Cliche Life. The series was shot on location in Mullumbimby and reconnected...
The Daily Drive - MAT19
Origins in the Tweed Valley Murwillumbah Arts Trail 2019 (MAT19) There are moments in an artist’s life where the work quietly changes direction before the artist fully understands it themselves....
The Daily Drive - MAT19
Origins in the Tweed Valley Murwillumbah Arts Trail 2019 (MAT19) There are moments in an artist’s life where the work quietly changes direction before the artist fully understands it themselves....
Art Prizes and Competitions
Creative Development Through Practice, Experimentation, and Recognition Art prizes and competitions entered my photographic life almost accidentally, yet over time they became an important framework within the development of my...
Art Prizes and Competitions
Creative Development Through Practice, Experimentation, and Recognition Art prizes and competitions entered my photographic life almost accidentally, yet over time they became an important framework within the development of my...
ART1 Journal is where fine art photography meets reflection, a living archive of light, colour, and emotion in motion. Each story opens a window into the creative rhythm that shapes ART1, where vision becomes memory, and art meets life.