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My art practice involves drawing, digital and mixed media painting and photography. One of my interests is creating figurative and/or semi-abstract images that are often ambiguous and can be interpreted in multiple ways. The digital works sometimes contain fragments of photographed reality including landscape, fauna, flora, built environment and found printed ephemera.In 2003, with 'Arcadia del Sud' (a series based on seven photographs from my adolescence), I won the overall prize in the Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award.In 1987 I was a co-founder of the Ephemera Society of Australia, a not-for-profit community organization dedicated to the preservation, study and display of cultural items of a transient nature.In 'Symbols of Australia' (Penguin Books,1980 pb; CIS Educational, 1990 hb), a book on the history of Australian commercial iconography, I investigated the connection between trademarks and Australian national identity.In 1977, together with the illustration co-operative All Australian Graffiti, I was co-creator of 'The Kevin Pappas Tear Out Postcard Book' (Penguin Books, 1977). The book prodded irreverently at Australian cultural practices using the medium of the postcard.A number of my artworks, photographs, designs and posters are held in the collections of the State Library of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the Powerhouse Museum, RMIT Design Archive and private collections.