Joseph Beuys and the 'Energy Plan' exhibition catalogue
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition Joseph Beuys and the 'Energy Plan' at the University of Sydney, University Art Gallery 7 April-29 June 2012 curated by Donna West Brett.
Download (.pdf) History, Homeopathy and the Spiritual Impulse in the Post-war Reception of Satie: Cage, Higgins, Beuys
In "Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature", ed. Caroline Potter (Ashgate: Aldershot). Forthcoming.
Homecoming and the Half-Remembered: Environmental Amnesia, the Uncanny and the Path Home
In Uncanny Homecomings: Becoming Unsettled in Religion, Narrative and the Arts. Edited by Daniel Boscaljon. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming.
From Artwork to Place: Finding the Voices of Moreelse, Bacon and Beuys at the Hermeneutical Intersection of Culture and Nature
Published in Environmental Philosophy 8, no. 1 (2011): 1-24.
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This essay investigates the correlation between theological investigations of culture and those of the natural world.... more This essay investigates the correlation between theological investigations of culture and those of the natural world. A fruitful question emerges when reflecting on how theological thinking resides between these subjects: how does our theological reflection on art meaningfully inform our consideration of nature? The path to exploring this question takes the form of questioning three different works of art: Willem Moreelse’s A Portrait of a Scholar, Francis Bacon’s Landscape, and Joseph Beuys’ Lightning with Stag in Its Glare. Exploring the interconnection between these works, a hermeneutical mediation between art, place, and the spiritual is suggested.