multi-disciplinary artist

Human lives fascinate me. In a review of a friend's autobiography, I once wrote: "Our lives are our greatest and most puzzling individual...

Well, I've done it . . . or have I? Anyone who's written anything will know those feelings of doubt: should I check it one more time? Did...

I'm investigating a set of puzzles - what are Plato's Dialogues? How were they written? By whom? What is it about them that has...

The scholarly consensus over Plato's Dialogues " I think, we think, a lot of people think, that Socrates is a sort of a spokesman for...

Even my closest friends don't know my secret passion: I love ancient Greece. Recently, this passion has led me to embark on an unusual...

An artist I know said to me recently that 'an artist’s challenge is to record one’s reality.' This prompted me to think about the...

'The Lost Photographs of Socrates Smith', Mildura Arts Centre, 2019 It's been on my mind to explain the origins of my stage character,...

Modern art began with Picasso, and we know this because before Picasso, art was old fashioned. For example, before Pablo, people...

Marks on stone - or ivory, or wood - may be the earliest form of art. When I arrived in Cyprus in 2013, I was lucky enough to stay down...

This striking image is by the very talented Trent Parker, in 2007 the only Australian to become a member of the Magnum photo agency....

I want to explain my obsession with photographing leaves during 2022. It's not that I am fascinated by leaves particularly (although they...