“Design is about synthesis rather than the reductive processes of science. It is about associations and connections, of understanding relationships. It is more of an intuitive experience than a predictive one.”
- Dr Rodney Hayward

Forms never materialize out of the air, they are extrapolated from the familiar (but ‘unseen’) elements of the known: similes and metaphors act as bridges to link the unknown back to the known.

I start from the inside, where structure and material are married: in the detail one can see the lawful meetings, the articulate relationship that holds the whole together – the material, the structure, and the forces running through it.

I completed a BDA with Honours at ANU. It was there, in the furniture/wood workshop, that I began to investigate the interrelationship between theory and practice, hand and machine, and society and self.