I was born on Dharug country and currently live and work on stolen Dabee Wiradjuri land. I pay my deepest respect to the traditional custodians past, present and future. I recognise that this land is unceded and that the Dabee people continue to cultivate and care for this land and have done for more than 40,000 years.
I am a writer, artist/curator and socially engaged artist based in Kandos, Wiradjuri Land. I have worked with scientists, farmers, as well as local craft, activist and ecological communities. My work engages in the ecology shared between environment, painting, installation, drawing and social practices. An arts advocate, I was a co-founder of Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival, INDEX. Artspace and a member of Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation.
Painting
I am also an abstract painter. Between 2011 and 2019 my paintings recycled old housepaint, pouring it in drips to create a self-supporting fabric. These paintings highlight the gesture and agency of paint, its plasticity.
Painting
My latest paintings include myself in the process. Where the previous paintings sought to minimize my agency, these paintings work with my agency as it is already fractured and dispersed through the culture I was born into. Gesture in these paintings, is the evidence of a relation, or a node, through which voices pass between the material and the cultural.
making, writing, workshops
As a member of Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, I have written blog posts, devised workshops and made artworks for exhibition. Read more about these projects here