I am an artist from Northern N.S.W Australia.
My work is characterised by an enduring interest in the mapping of place, the fugitive nature of memory and the documentation of my emotional and historical connection to land. My work favours intuitive mark-making, abstraction and the automatism of line. Largely self-taught, my work is an intensely personal, cathartic process in which visual elements are simultaneously lost and found through the physicality of scratching, sanding, puncturing, concealing and disclosing. Heavily concerned with process, these works ultimately produce a palimpsest, a recording of time. My current practice includes mixed media works on paper and timber, drawing, painting, mark making, printmaking and the crafting of artist tools.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art History & Cinema Studies), University of Melbourne 1995-1998
Dean’s Honours List for Academic Excellence, Melbourne University 1995
Studied Post-Modernism in New York. Unit exchange program with Columbia University/Melbourne University. 1997
Graduate Diploma of Education (Visual Arts- Printmaking), Southern Cross University 2003-4
EXHIBITIONS
Up-Coming: Cargo, M-Arts Precinct, Murwillumbah 2018
If Not For Shadows, Byron School Of Art, Mullumbimby 2018
The Stockroom Exhibition, Darling Mills Studio Gallery, Mittagong 2018.
In. Still. M-Arts Precinct, Murwillumbah 2018
Border Art Prize, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah 2018
Linden Postcard Show, Domain House, Melbourne 2017-18
30 x 30 Art Prize, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby 2017
The Tam & Jo Art Show, Cenzo's Cafe Murwillumbah, 2017
Manly Library Artist Book Awards, Sydney (selected) 2015
MCA Zine Fair Sydney 2013
A Book About Death, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah 2013
CAREER
Co-Owner, Designer & Letterpress Printer at Olive Letterpress 2011-2018
Co-Owner Sugar Mill Studio, Retail Space & Gallery Murwillumbah 2016
Casual Visual Arts Teacher, Mt St Patricks Secondary School 2011-2013
Co-Founder of Hey Maker Art Collective 2012-2013
Workshop Host in Printmaking, Lettepress, Bookmaking & Creative Business 2010-18
Owner & Designer for Olive & The Volcano Paper Goods 2008-2011
Owner & Designer for Inflorescence Paper Goods 2005-2008
Visual Arts Teacher, Wade High School 2004