It seems to be that during times of great planetary change, if you’ve lived a while and done a lot, you find yourself looking back and taking stock to try to better understand the present. Artists,..we tend to keep a lot of diaries and notes too. Here are some visual and audio diary entries from between 2009 and 2010 right in the middle of painting my series The Assassination of Judy Garland, which was a processing of the 2008-09 Gaza War, the election of Barack Obama, the start of drone use in wars, and of course the so-called ‘war on terror’ years.

In 2022 I was invited to provide an oral history for the State Library of Western Australia’s LGBTIQ+ history project. We kept having to put it off, so it was really good to finally film that in June 2023 this year. I was interviewed by Helena Cohen-Robertson of Know Your Nation inside the auditorium of the State Library and the final video and transcript can be accessed through the Library’s online catalogue along with other individuals also interviewed for their Community and Connections: LGBTQIA+ stories in Western Australia.