I create new myths, heroines and fantasy worlds to counter the way they have been used to reinforce a patriarchal system throughout history. My stories come from an eco-feminist perspective that focuses on the importance of myth when trying to understand world issues. While serious, the comical and absurd are always present in my work. Life-sized installations that resemble theatrical scenes composed through a collaging of found objects, soft sculpture, craft and paper culminate in a ‘painting’ that uses photography. All work is done in camera, not through digital manipulation. The resultant image plays with perceptions of the ‘real’ and the ‘fake’ as an echo of the concepts that inform the work.
Metamorphosis 1, From the Series. 2017. Inkjet print. 110x110cm. Edition of 3.
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Exhibitions and awards
2020
Red Centre, Public Art Exhibition, City of Wyndham. Currently on show.
Park Lounge, Midsumma Festival. Community Engagement Photobooth.
International Women's Day Event. Commmunity Engagement Photobooth.
Set design for music video clip Girl by Blisstake.
2019
VCA Grad Show
New, Wyndham Art Gallery
Performing Textiles, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Trail of Lights Projection Festival, Featured Artist, Wyndham City Council
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize
Finalist, Footscray Art Prize (Tertiary)
Finalist, Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2018
LaTrobe University Grad Show Bendigo
Enlighten Festival of Projection Bendigo
White Night Bendigo
Extravagant Ground: A Remix of the Local, Group Show, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Latrobe University
Mid-semester, Group Show, Punctum White Space, Castlemaine
Co.Lab Art Exhibition, Writers Festival, Bendigo
Emerge, Group Show, Brunswick Street Gallery
Finalist, Pro Hart Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2017
Winner, Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Prize
Finalist, Click 17 Photography Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery
2016
Honourable Mention, Brunswick Street Gallery 40 x 40 exhibition
Academic Scholarships and Prizes
2016 Pro-Vice Chancellors award for academic excellence
2017 International Student Exchange Scholarship for academic excellence
2018 Mason Family Trust Bursary for academic excellence
1997 Full Fee Scholarship (two years) for Academic Excellence, Latrobe University
Speaking Engagements
2020
Presenter at the Association for Women and Mythology Biennial Conference New Mexico, USA. Paper submitted for publication in proceedings.
2019
Speaker at the Wyndham Art Prize, Artists in Conversation
Speaker at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Performing Textiles, Artists in Conversation
Education and self-study
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
2016-2018 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Art) Latrobe University
2017 Semester exchange to San Diego State University
2018 two-week art study tour of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
July 2017 four-week art study tour of New York City
June 2014 one-week intensive at the Julian Ashton School of Art, Sydney, Australia
June 2012 five-week art study tour of France and Italy, including 1-week intensive painting course
Additional skills and experience
15 years working as a project and contract manager for Federal and State Government working across health, mental health, aged care and education to design and implement projects to increase access and inclusion for vulnerable, marginalised population groups.
5 years of experience in federal government recruitment.
Bachelor of Health Sciences (majoring in population health and sociology)
Prince2 Practitioner (internationally recognised project management qualification)
Bloom 2.2018. Inkjet Print. 110x110cm.
Edition of 3.
Metamorphosis, 2017. Inkjet Print. 110x110cm. Edition of 3.