Burning Outback Blazes at the Rothko Museum

A little self-promotion never hurt—especially when the news is this exciting. Throughout June 2025 the Rothko Museum is featuring my photograph “Burning Outback” as its monthly highlight.

The honour feels doubly significant because the museum has only just attained full EU museum accreditation, cementing its status as Latvia’s national heritage collection with more than 4,000 works (including original Rothkos). To have an Australian water-reflection image hanging in dialogue with those colour-field masterpieces is, frankly, surreal.

“My fine-art photography captures the unending source of colour variations, shapes, forms, and movements created by light reflecting on water. I work to reveal the joyful engagements—and the quiet sublimity—I feel every time I launch the kayak.”

“Burning Outback” (2019, 109 × 158 cm) was created on Sydney Harbour but channels the scorched hues of inland Australia. The lower register—molten ochres rippling across the water—meets a weather-worn band of teal and rust, crowned by a sun-baked wall of orange. It’s equal parts landscape, abstraction, and silent sonata to fire and flood.

The Rothko Museum team describes the work as “a vivid echo of Rothko’s own explorations of colour and feeling, translated through the lens of contemporary photography.” I’m humbled by the comparison and grateful for the museum’s ongoing support after my 2023 solo show “The Indeterminate Sublime.”

If you find yourself in Daugavpils this month, please drop by the museum and spend a moment with the piece. And watch this space—later in the year I’ll share news about my forthcoming project “Discovering Gold in the Desert,” incubated during recent conversations at Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue.

Thank you, as always, for following the journey. Your interest keeps the work alive long after the shutter clicks.

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