Craig’s studio can be found in a section of his father’s garage where he works in front of a window looking onto a farm field.

The natural light falls on a rugged workshop bench silhouetting a massive vice with ten bolts at its base along with all manner of Craig’s collected objects: a bronze boat propeller, chunks of metal, tins, playing cards, fish hooks, barbed wire, four bone-handled penknives that once belonged to Green’s uncle.

Here Craig makes his fascinating objects according to his own ideas of what beauty can be.

His approach belongs to an important genre of art, one that has no allegiances to any mode, method or theory and is often called “Outsider Art”.

Exponents usually have no fine art training, but all demonstrate an obsession to create their own unique view of the world.

At the moment Craig makes crosses, mainly constructed of dominoes, old and new, and one cannot help but be intrigued; what do they imply, what drives him to make them?

At very least they are beautiful objects, the domino dots conjuring Braille, Morse Code, pianola scrolls, ancient language, Aztecs, lost cultures, pixels, digital readouts, mathematical theorems.

The game of dominos is of ancient Chinese origin but first appeared in Europe in the 17th Century.

The name most likely derives from the Latin “Dominus”, meaning lord or master of the house. This seems appropriate when we consider the Godly associations of the cross, perhaps the most profoundly recognisable symbol of all time and used historically by many cultures.

For some, the symbol implies absolution, atonement or self discovery.

 “For me the cross is about rebirth,” Craig said.

“The restoration of hope.” 

Craig said he sees the symbol’s diagonals as “a place where two paths meet”, the intersection of “the earthly and the divine, the mortal and the immortal”.

The constant them of transformation, even on an aesthetic, is obvious here; the taking of an ancient game, dominos, and turning into something new, art.

Opening event will be held on Thursday, April 6 from 5:30-7:30pm at The Wall, public welcome. Musicial support by TFO (Tribal Funk Orchestra). 

The Dominion exhibition will run during April at The Wall, 113 Princes Highway, Ulladulla.

For more information please call Robert Hollingworth on 0418 124 953.