Studied electronic music at Melbourne University with Peter Touhordin, along with electronic music studies with Felix Werder at the City Adult education classes. Creative incursions began with a music score for the ABC in a Maths program, a music score for a small theatrical production, keyboards in a loungeroom band or two, some Sunday performances for the ABC’s Sunday Experimental music shows on its National Radio, amongst other public exposures kept the music happening.

Took a Foundation Year at Prahran College in Art followed by Film and TV studies at Melbourne Teachers College then went looking for work which never came through due to a downturn in the industry. My experimental films were very much experiments in moving film, shot on poor quality Super-8 for effect and budget. A scratch film on 16mm emulsion brought animation into light and a stop-motion picture of a single sheet of paper with charcoal drawing and erasure about the condition of war was brought back to life for me years later when I came across William Kentridge’s incredible charcoal animations. Where I had stopped, he had exploded.

Began as a cartoonist for the City Extra, and went freelance for the advertising industry, filling in with part-time jobs and whatever I could muster to get through the college years but finally fell over a cliff and into the arms of the Public Service. Here I ran a copying/duplication service for the Federal government in our town. This was remarkably a great place to experiment with the new technologies of Xerox machines, old Gestaetners and whatever made a copy at the time. Computers were precious locked rooms in those days, a PC had not yet been conceived.

Unfulfilled, I left the comfort of the Public Service, I found a job at the latest thing to hit town, as computer graphic artist with Genigraphics Corporation machines producing colour 35mm slides for the presentation industry. Here was the forerunner before Apples and IBMs and when it began to dull me, I went freelance creating adverts, corporate identity and pamphlet layouts. Work as a freelancer just never took off, it left me living off a banana and a roll for lunch each day. So i went back to working for the man until I became a competitor in the 35mm field, an industry that gave me a chance to build a home and raise a family. Graphics for the other prople never left enough time to explore my own heart until eventually Covid shut it down for good and freed me to create.

Why do we create? The Devil knows…

“Hell is where you watch re-runs of the Bad Bits of your life – forever,

Heaven? Well that’s where you do what ever you damn like.”

Sketch of logo for “Heaven and Hell”

“Art for Need’s sake”