Fractured Golden Horns

Fractured Golden Horns is an acrylic on wood panel painting part of a series in development for the upcoming Con-fluent exhibition at Pataka Museum & Art Gallery (21 Feb - 12 April 2026). The Con-fluent exhibition is a collaborative project between local visual artists and poets. For this occasion I hooked up with Charmaine Thomson who is a published poet and for our research we delved into the concept of “domesticated Minotaur”, the deeper, symbolic meanings of Labyrinth, and the role of red threads and ropes as a pathway to sexual and spiritual liberation. Fractured Golden Horns is an artistic response to Charmaine’s poem Ariadne Remembers – particularly the verse: From fractured horns, ropes emerge as bounty, undressing on the beach, foam washes away red. The painting heralds my first steps into surrealism, cracks in the golden horn of abundance,  a flow of pain, sorrow and treasured gold, ropes that fail to contain, hold together, attached as an umbilical cord to a whale bird in the vastness of grey.