Latest Architectural Commission Thursday, 4 September, 2008 The Wolper Jewish Hospital in Woollahra, Sydney has commissioned a fused glass 'donor' wall comprising 84 individual panels. In time, each will be inscribed with the name of a donor to the hospital. The project is over ten square metres in area and will be situated in the entrance foyer. It will replace a previous commission, the Tao of Medicine  Genesis in Chicago Friday, 18 July, 2008 EB Smith, founder and patron of the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows on Chicago's Navy Pier, has commissioned a panel of fused glass for the collection. It is the first piece from an Australian glass artist to join the contemporary collection. I am most honoured to have been asked to make a piece to hang alongside those of my mentors, such as Poensgen, Shaffrath, Shreiter, Klos, Buschulte and the other post war modernist pioneers of contemporary stained glass with whom I studied in the 1980s. The piece specifically requested is an interpretation of my Genesis: The First Dreaming design. It is currently on exhibition at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry under the title: "Genesis: The First Discovery".   The Chapel of St Francis at Garangula Friday, 11 July, 2008 Ten years ago I completed all the windows for a Chapel in rural NSW. It has finally been blessed. In conjunction with World Youth Day, H.E. Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster officiated. During the service he made an interesting observation regarding my windows, of which I had not been cognizant. He said there is only one other Chapel in which the whole Christian story is told, from Creation through the Old Testament to the story of Christ and the final Judgment and that is the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. That's as close to Michelangelo as I am likely to get.   Remembering Rain Thursday, 17 April, 2008 The National Glass Collection in Wagga Wagga is hosting an exhibition of my work in conjunction with that of Leon Sadubin and Daniela Turrin. Leon and I collaborated on several pieces, building on our successful partnership which produced the Temple Emanuel Commission. An old friend of mine Robert Forbes, with whom I went to University, has a musical group creating progressive rock. He has specially produced an album titled 'Rain' which was released at the same time as the exhibition and which will play in the space displaying the work. Images of my glass appear on the CD. The show was opened by Robert Bell, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the National Gallery of Australia.   Recent Architectural Commission Thursday, 17 April, 2008 This residential commission consists of a suspended fused glass curtain wall drawing on a nearby foreshore reserve for inspiration. This is now complete and called "Ball's Head." It also comprises a "Tiffany style" clear glass entrance composition based on local flora. This is made of varieties of mouth-blown clear glass and is quite unusual, if not unique. I think it is one of my best efforts.   Angry Art Friday, 24 August, 2007 I recently came across a two page glossy advertisement for a plasma television which claimed that if you bought one you would never need 'another' work of art. This really made me angry, but if it is only art when it's on television I figured I might as well go with the trend. This is my offering.   A new font Tuesday, 28 February, 2006 I recently supplied a new Giant Kiln formed Glass Bowl to function as a Baptismal font for a Church in Brisbane. This is now the third such piece I have made and according to some research done through the Vatican, my glass fonts are the only ones of their type in the world.   Medical glass Tuesday, 19 July, 2005 Nemaline myopathy is an unusual genetically transmitted muscle wasting condition. This unfortunate condition has been the inspiration for an artwork commissioned for the Children's Cancer Institute at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. The design is based on microscopy of muscle fibrils and the DNA anomaly which causes the condition. This has been an opportunity to apply my knowledge of matters medical to my art and make something of beauty from an unpleasant reality. Have a look at more medical glass here   Career Change Monday, 13 December, 2004 An article has been published in the Medical Journal of Australia about my transition from medico to glass artist. Feel free to look into my soul.   Larapinta Series Monday, 24 February, 2003 Imagine a Mountain Range worn down by the elements over an incredibly long time. The dust settles and in turn becomes rock which is lifted by massive Geological forces to make a new Range. This is twisted and folded, eroded and worn and is what we now call the West McDonnell Ranges, near Alice Springs. Here runs an ancient river, possibly the world's oldest which the indigenous people call Larapinta. This series is inspired by that landscape.

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