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 award
2019
Performing Textiles, Ian Potter Museum of Art
New, Wyndham Art Gallery
Trail of Lights, Projection Festival, Featured Artist
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize
Finalist, Footscray Art Prize
Finalist, Pro hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2018
Finalist, Pro Hart Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Enlighten Festival of Projection Bendigo
White Night Bendigo
Extravagant Ground: A Remix of the Local, Group Show, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Latrobe University
Mostly Tears, Group Show, Punctum White Space, Castlemaine
Co.Lab Art Exhibition, Writers Festival, Bendigo
Emerge, Group Show, Brunswick Street 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
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
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 2-week art study tour of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
July 2017 4-week art study tour of New York City
Bloom 2.2018. Inkjet Print. 110x110cm.
Edition of 3.
Metamorphosis, 2017. Inkjet Print. 110x110cm. Edition of 3.