Lines and spaces, boundaries and expanses, physical objects and abstract concepts, all this can be found in the positives and negatives of Honey's intriguing work. As the artist contemplates the structure from inside the shed, his images have us thinking outside the square.

Large horizontal works examine the roof rafters of the artist's shed as seen from eight different compass points. The Shed has a mythology all its own in Australia but is in danger of extinction as the suburban sprawl encourages smaller blocks with bigger pools. Here the humble subject, drawn in charcoal on MDF then coated in polyurethane, has the appearance of having been preserved in amber. These richly presented images of strong straight lines seem to weave a pattern, a web that captures a sense of both the day dreaming and do-it-yourself activity that takes place in the backyard shed.

To make a shed  we need the framework, neatly provided by the artist in After the Illustration and Instruction 1, a collection of timber wall and roof frames. These are the three dimensional lines that, when placed in correct alignment, will produce the skeleton of a shed, as seen in the image Illustration. These are the promises, but dreams are not simple to assemble and we haven't the tools to bring them to fruition. Then too, looking hard at the unrealized dream we wonder if we'll fit in it should it become reality?

The line between reality and dream is eluded to in the series Stringline, four square surfaces marked repeatedly with a brickie's chalk line. When a brickie's line is stretched taught across a surface, pulled out then released so it snaps back to hit the surface, it leaves a strong straight line with an irregular dusting of chalk on both sides. Here the blue chalk reminds us of rigid social constructs that are surrounded by those unpredictable dreams that make it all bearable. I found these seemingly simple blue fields quite mystical.

Mystery abounds in Split 1 & Split 11. Each finely articulated Artline drawing illustrates one side of a tree that is mirrored back on itself to create a whole. Like a Rorschach test, there is anything and everything to be found in the spaces between the lines.

Honey takes everyday objects and asks us to think beyond the ordinary, to question our domestic environment and how we construct our own mental and physical spaces. Don't you just love it when well executed works of art make you think!