About
I am a sculptor and conceptual artist who grew up in the unique landscape of the Victorian Mallee - a land of heat, large skies, squawking birds and seemingly endless plains. I studied European cultural History in both Australia and UK, and completed my Master of Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts in 2017. I will complete my Master of Arts Management in Melbourne in 2023
My practice seeks to explore how we as humans live and function together - including issues that can often test social coherence such as migration, offensive language, gender violence, and even child sexual abuse. I am interested also in the politics and poetics of spaces; especially in urban places with the rise in both populist politics and individual social isolation experienced in many societies.
My recent practice looks at the relationship between experience of the environment and the formation and maintenance of core elements of identity. I am interested in how that identity may be reshaped particularly by those Anthropocene issues of migration and displacement, excessive demand, climate change, and the toxic effects of micro- and nanoplastics and sorbed chemicals on the environment (with their potential to disrupt normal human health, human growth and reproduction).
My practice seeks to explore how we as humans live and function together - including issues that can often test social coherence such as migration, offensive language, gender violence, and even child sexual abuse. I am interested also in the politics and poetics of spaces; especially in urban places with the rise in both populist politics and individual social isolation experienced in many societies.
My recent practice looks at the relationship between experience of the environment and the formation and maintenance of core elements of identity. I am interested in how that identity may be reshaped particularly by those Anthropocene issues of migration and displacement, excessive demand, climate change, and the toxic effects of micro- and nanoplastics and sorbed chemicals on the environment (with their potential to disrupt normal human health, human growth and reproduction).
Practice sample
2018: Invitation to ZK/U, Berlin 12-month residency program on the phenomenon of 'the city' (juried)
2017: Fountain'17, UK touring exhibition celebrating centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain: Gallery Eleven, Hull;
The Bathroom, Clerkenwell; Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, UK (juried)
2017: Sculpture finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, group exhibition Arsenale Venice, Italy (juried)
2017: #Tribe17 International group exhibition, OXO Bargehouse, London, UK (juried)
2017: Schauerman Digital Art Prize, shortlisted, group exhibition The Cello Factory, London, UK (juried)
2017: Outpost Members’ Show, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (selected by Andy Holden), UK
2017: Shortlisted Sidney Nolan Trust Studentship, UK (juried)
2017: Bishop's Art Prize Glimpses of Glory, shortlisted, The Hostry Gallery, Norwich, UK (juried)
2017: Invitation to exhibit at Florence Biennale, Italy
2017: Shortlisted, Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary, UK (juried)
2017: MA Degree Show, group exhibition, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
2016: Catalogue entry for Fountain'17
2016: Interim group exhibition, Norwich University of the Arts, UK
2016: Encountering relocation, solo show, St Mary's Works, Norwich, UK
2016: Exhibition review for Frieze of Jeppe Hein's, This Way, at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Feb-Mar 2016
2016: Oppression group show, St James Place, Norwich, UK
2016: Gallery 13a residency, Norwich, UK
2016: St Mary's Works residency, Norwich, UK
2015: Kaleidoscope group exhibition, Stew Gallery, Norwich, UK