I am a Tasmanian born artist working between Central Australia and Northern NSW, holding a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from Southern Cross University and a Master of Arts (Research) from Charles Darwin University. Currently I am a PhD Candidate with CDU (The Good-Bad Mother: Merging Mothering / Caregiving + ASD with Doctoral Studies (Matricentric-led Creative Practice Research). This research is supported through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. 

Via/through creative practice I explore/interrogate subjectivity as it pertains to the ‘Mother-Artist’ context (particularly in relation to academic frameworks) as a mother to a neurodivergent child. In the early stages of a creative practice PhD I am taking the matricentric subject position of ‘severalty and interruption’ as the basis of a theoretical framework - in contrast / opposition and challenge to research frameworks wherein the artist / researcher is posited within patriarchal frameworks of singularity. This research interrogates subject positions, creative inputs and multimodality, marginalised mothering and neurodivergence as well as methodologies in practice. Flexibility enabled via matricentric aesth-ethics and multimodal autoethnography in output/interaction is enabling shifts in my ways of working (alongside my painting practice) that include; creating interactive / care driven events, spatial / live installations and video work.

EDUCATION

  • Current - 2027 PhD Candidate / Creative Practice Charles Darwin University - Northern Territory

  • 2012-15 Master of Arts – Creative Practice (Painting) Charles Darwin University - Northern Territory

  • 2006-11 Bachelor of Visual Arts with Hons - Southern Cross University - New South Wales

 

RESIDENCIES / PRIZES / PUBLICATION

  • 2024 ARIM Residency - Tasmania

  • 2020 AIRIM Studio Residency -New South Wales/Central Australia

  • 2019 ArtEdit (Artist Profile) Spring Issue/September 2019

  • 2017 NT Writers Festival ‘The Territory In-Between’ - Journal (commissioned artwork)

  • 2017 Arts Review ‘The Perception Experiment’ (contribution / writing)

  • 2014 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize (RACT) – Finalist – Tasmania

  • 2008 Kaske Award - Visual Arts (painting) - SCU - NSW

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Upcoming 2025 Side Space Gallery / Sal Arts - Tasmania

  • 2014 Crisis Of The Soul – Nan Giese Gallery - Northern Territory

  • 2010 100% Meat: Consuming Identity - Brunswick St Gallery - Victoria

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2022 Concrete Candy - Peek Gallery NSW

  • 2019 Group Show - Thomgallery - New South Wales 

  • 2014 Squared - WTS Gallery - Northern Territory

  • 2014 Festival Artist 'FBCG Arts Festival' - Northern Territory

  • 2012 Spectacle and Observer - Traffic Jam Galleries - New South Wales

  • 2011 Group Show - Traffic Jam Galleries - NSW

  • 2010 SJ Group Show - SJ Gallery Victoria

  • 2010 Petits Travaux - Retrospect Galleries New South Wales

  • 2010 Revolution of Art - Retrospect Galleries New South Wales

  • 2010 Collage - Waywood Gallery New South Wales

  • 2009 Eve - Waywood Gallery New South Wales

  • 2008 Transit - Southern Cross University Lismore New South Wales