I spent two years in media arts which is time based and so I wasn’t making objects. I then wanted to make objects and changed to painting and drawing. My initial inspiration to change was to pick up the skill of painting and drawing but also with the hope I could sell objects.

Then as I went through the course and learned, I realised that what I wanted to make as an artist was eclectic and not marketable. So when I did my Honours year I did a lot of work that was object based and not object based. It was an eclectic mix of sound, installation, digital images, paintings.

 So in the final exhibition I exhibited digital images and after university made a series of digital images before continuing my aerosol work which I never stopped. My main focus though was documenting aerosol work and making that work more about art than aerosol culture.

I also would do illegal aerosol work that had nothing to do with art but I moved between these two modes for a long time. I was a prolific tagger for almost two decades, and finally when I did stop illegal aerosol work I went more fully into my art aerosol approach.

I made a series of paintings in 2016 and when Covid gained traction I made objects again with more sustainable storage methods. I mainly worked on paper, my aerosol output was always constant and I made various videos and field recordings. Exhibiting was rare at times but normally every two or more years I would exhibit.

I also published some books after many years of publishing articles online, the online writing was conversational. The point of this little round up of decades of work is I made all of my work with no intention of making money or seeking fame. When I left university I went into family life and being creative was a relief from the general monotony of life.

I got some bigger fame for illegal aerosol work in the early 90s but I was always doing something regardless. After stopping illegal aerosol a lot of people didn’t even know I kept doing it year in year out. The only quiet year I had was in 1997 as I was living in an ashram and even that year I still did some aerosol work.

Now my presence is still quite obscure and unknown even after creating a massive back catalogue of work across different media. I kind of like it like that though because I was never built to be in the limelight. I feel like social media was the death knell some time ago for the presence on the streets as most of the traffic on socials was too sweet (virtuoso 8hrs plus), which was the sugar in the algorithm tank.