Journey of a Double Childhood.

    The intention of this project is to open the discussion and increase awareness about the trauma of childhood sexual abuse by a close family member. The humiliation and shame of how it would reflect the family’s self-image is the first of many barriers that stop our society from sharing and talking openly about incestral rape.

    My first-hand experience and the consequential obstacles I have faced during childhood and beyond, has made me question the role of the family and its need for self-preservation.
Perhaps we should ignore the family complexities and find a way to honestly recognise the crisis for what it is: Children are being raped in their own home.

    The simple fact that the social secret is kept, allows it to continue for generations, normalising the situation. Silence that protects the perpetrators. Yes, it’s ‘The awkward conversation’ that no one wants to have. Yet the most important conversation we all need to be a part of.

                 Living it as a child in silence was far more awkward.

    Simply talking, will create the foundations of a plan to prevent childhood sexual abuse. A plan that acknowledges the vulnerability of children as equally as their need to be aware of their bodies’ boundaries.
Yet how often do we ask the question, what really happened in our own childhood?

   There are also unseen effects it has on our institutions and economy, such as: the large suicide rate; the physical and mental problems that last a lifetime draining healthcare system; limited education and career options which result in the loss of income and income taxes…

   ‘Journey of a Double Childhood’ is a collection of paintings aimed at opening the dialogue and conversation around the unspoken danger that children worldwide face. The collection includes the original works that are used for a set of philo-psycho conversation cards. These cards are a tool that councellors and psychologists can use to help in the healing of childhood trauma.

Each image conveys a different message to the individual, its meaning, the emotions it provokes and the philosophical reflections, offering topics of conversations. Allowing people to speak the unspeakable. The same card can evoke a different response to the same person depending on their current emotional state.

Sept 2-25th 2022 Max Galleria - Creative Country

Recollections of NEO-UTOPIA

Yamarna, Pacific Portal and Vioritta

The year is 2022.
In this dystopian present, we have the opportunity to upgrade and reboot society. To do things differently.

When Sir Thomas Moore wrote Utopia in 1516 with the restricted knowledge of the time, Moore was obliged to place his ‘Utopia’ in geographical isolation, to avoid the destruction caused by men. Their greed and their wars. Even when he uses fiction to criticize sociality, his imagination was restricted by millennia of patriarchal rule. Where all of history, including our so-called collective knowledge, has been completely one sided. Unable to even acknowledge the value of the female mind.

For Neo-Utopia to exist, its geographical isolation would need to be that of a parallel universe.
A Universe untainted by war, history and patriarchal domination. Beyond our basic understanding of physics and of philosophy.

As I travel through Neo-Utopia via portals, I endeavour to document my fragmented memories of this mysterious place.

NEO-UTOPIAN

Bungonna and Tyon

An entity that inhabits Neo Utopia. Lifeforms that are beyond our comprehension. There are many combinations of animal, plant and with elements that we are yet to know the existence of. Neo Utopians have an evolved intelligence, they communicate through energy/telepathy and live in harmony and peace.

INCANTATION ART
Rhiannon Pineau uses ritual instinct when creating incantation artworks. The process of connecting to the spirit world/the dreaming and the Wyd through the artist’s vibrations casting energy and intention directly into the canvas. A visible magic, she sings her paintings to life.

L’Orage Tranquille

L’Orage Tranquille is a visual interoperation of an unnameable feeling. A place of contrast and connection to the ocean where natures power overwhelms you. A familiar blend of peace, serenity, hope and brooding. The air is ecstatic with prospect of change.

MYCELIUM

Mycelium No10

The interconnectedness of nature, itself, is made possible with mycelium. The brains and nervous system of Gaya (mother nature) communicate through this complex Wyd (web) connected to every living creature.
Sometimes we become detached and float away, drifting through space and time.

Falling Forbidden Fruit of the Uprooted Family Tree, After Millenia of Dicktatorship

75x60cm mixed medium

There is a theory that the biblical tree, forbidden to Adam and Eve, was not only that of the Tree of Knowledge, but also a representation the Family Tree. The forbidden fruit of incest and the ripe temptation that makes men sin.

For a long as the ‘Civilized World’ has existed the patriarchy has controlled the moral compass of the family and society. Holding the puppet strings of the family tree, tradition and law. Blood binds these strings. A patriarchal dicktatorship, for thousands of years, unsatisfied men have been rewriting and translation the moral code to fit their agenda.

The forbidden fruit are leaving this system, uprooting the family tree. Falling, floating, they reach out to be heard. Silently screaming for change, if you listen you will learn.

2022 Brisbane, Australia -as part of BRISSC "Uproar" at Bib 'n' Brace Collective Gallery.

Drowning in dense censorship, the stories of the silenced majority rarely surface in the media. The public spotlight retracts with a cringe from this awkward subject. Because it’s inconceivable that someone you love and trust would violate your child, yet for the majority of cases this is the reality. Not-so-stranger-danger is a viciously kept secret.
Beneath this cement-like censorship are many stories of older siblings and care takers abusing their power in plain sight. Beyond suspicion is everyone that does not fit our limited media produced perpetrator profile. Until we choose courage over comfort and have a conversation.
Even our legal system avoids this subject. For every 10 sexual assault incidents reported to the police, only 1 will result in a conviction*.
Given our natural avoidance to awkward conversations, this subject most likely affects someone you know. By refusing indifference we can start a global conversation that makes a real difference. Can you hear the silenced majority?

Note *Only about 7% to 10% of sexual assault incidents reported to police in Australia result in a final court conviction. 12% of child sexual assault reported will lead to a conviction in NSW. BOCSAR (Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research)

The Silenced Majority

Entry for the Noosa Art Prize 2026 -

Pymble Values Art Prize 2026

Take in the golden Queensland sun as it sets on Woondum National Park. The many swimming holes of the Gubbi Gubbi country have an unmistakable magic glow when the sun shines at just the right angle through the trees and upon the fresh mountain water. It transports all that gather there into a peaceful moment of suspended time.
The rockpools at Mothar Mountain and its cool dark waters is one such place. A sanctuary carefully guarded by the forest spirit. The sun trying its best to linger, reaching out to grasp the magic that resides here.

 Radiant Mothar Mountain Rockpools.

Entry in the Banksia Art Prize 2026