Sun Path 2026
An exhibition of paintings and textile works held at Five Walls Projects, Melbourne 2026.
A sun path traces the journey of the sun as it moves across the sky. As seasons pass, this arc shifts, and intersections between light and material objects change. This path marks cycles of time and light; mapping and informing our orientation to ourselves and our lives.
The works in Sun Path explore recurring concepts and themes of practice; the interplay of geometric pattern and colour, and how a process of fragmentation, layering and interweaving can allow forms to merge and emerge.
Within this, there has been a new shift towards the materiality of the surface, and an investigation into the varying densities and luminosities of colour that can be generated by paint, thread and textiles.
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Sun Path, Arrow/cycle/light, Aurora 2, Filtered light (komorebi)
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Sun Path, Arrow/cycle/light
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Aurora 2, Filtered light (komorebi), Shadow map, Stay gold
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Nightfall 3, Crossing Paths 1 & 2
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Nightfall 3, Crossing Paths 1 & 2
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Sun Path, Arrow/cycle/light, Aurora 2, Filtered light (komorebi), Shadow map, Stay gold
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path - Five Walls Projects 2026
Sun Path, Arrow/cycle/light, Aurora 2, Filtered light (komorebi)
Image credit: Christo Crocker
Sun Path
Acrylic on birch wood panel
90 x 100 cm
Arrow/cycle/light
Acrylic on birch wood panel
60 x 70 cm
Aurora 2
Embroidery thread, fabric dye, acrylic ink on cotton canvas
41 x 49.5 cm
SOLD
Filtered light (komorebi)
Embroidery thread, fabric dye, acrylic ink on cotton canvas
41 x 49.5 cm
Shadow map
Acrylic on birch wood panel
40 x 50 cm
Stay Gold
Acrylic on birch wood panel
40 x 50 cm
SOLD
Nightfall 3
Thread and acrylic ink on cotton canvas
25 x 29.5 cm
Crossing paths 1
embroidery thread, fabric dye, acrylic ink on cotton canvas
10.5 x 16 cm
SOLD
Crossing paths 2
embroidery thread, fabric dye, acrylic ink on cotton canvas
10.5 x 16 cm
SOLD
Sun Path 2026
In these works hard-edge sensibilities are retained, yet an amplified textural and optical language is embraced in the layered mark-making of brushstrokes and stitches. Colours and forms can reveal more of their histories and the traces of their making, and sequences of decisions remain visible, both dissolving and defining form. Through this insistent physicality, colour as an embodiment of light is felt as much as it is seen.
The colours in these works started from personal experiences of sun and light; an extraordinary journey travelling north, inhabiting a different place and seeing in a different way; to the more prosaic routine of cycling to work in the early mornings, riding head on into the sunrise, face stunned by gold light.
Together, these artworks begin to explore visual and conceptual resonances between the material practices of painting and textiles, and reflect a renewed, embodied awareness of space, time, colour and light in nature.