I have been an exhibiting artist in formal and alternative artspaces for over 25 years. As well as painting related activities I am also interested in the making of music within a contemporary visual art practice. I have collaborated on over 40 CDs of music under the bands name AND, Bert Alphett and SOSO. I am also interested in the informal aesthetic found in the everyday such as the stacking and piling of objects by non-artists and how that may be related to broader cultural values. I am currently working on non-objective paintings on paper as well as recording and blogging. I am most interested in the arts when they fall inside an area of investigation not immediately absorbed into formal or academic strictures. I am also a lecturer in the School of Art (painting) at RMIT University.