Keeping Score explores the intersection of the female form in art and sport. Women in art and sport are rarely united in feminist dialogue, yet they share parallel historical narratives that reveal an undaunted tenacity fuelled by drive and determination.

In homage to the women’s game, Keeping Score celebrates the female form as an active subject of strength, stamina, endurance and physicality as a counterpoint to the historically conventional objectified feminine form as a passive, soft receptacle of desire.

To this end, tin score plates ‘keep score’ and account for key dates and numbers of the women’s game in Australia along with paintings that draw upon the emotional intensity of the colour field and process-driven action painting of the abstract expressionists. The small tin score plates once used to score regional matches represent the players as ghosts inside the numbers; once lost to AFL history. 

Outside the numbers however, their bodies are united in monochromatic colour – no longer passive observers, but now active participants to be seen and counted.