ABOUT
I am a mixed media artist living and working on Bundjalung country, Australia. I first honour drawing in my work while striving to remain contemporary in execution.
Approaches often involve deconstructing and assembling work using collage methods. The multilayering of collage,paintings and drawings often leads to objective chance and accident which takes me in a new and often challenging direction.
I like to connect more than one form of knowledge or experience within the work.
My work is uniquely historical in narrative and often features deceased family members. I look for ways to convey a narrative around absence, presence, transience and the human condition.
The tools of my hands create visual languages which speak to stories of the past.
BIO
EDUCATION
2024 Finding Your Identity workshop – Fibre Arts Take Two
2023 Facilitation - ‘Paint a Portrait” workshop – Dingoos Australia
2022 Retreat – Larapinta Creative Camps, Alice Springs – 8 days
2022 DOMESTIKA: Creative Drawing with Ink and Gouache - Lucia Coz
2021 DOMESTIKA: Exploratory Sketchbook: Find Your Drawing Style - Sarah Van Dongen
2019 Gelatine Print Workshop, Northey St City Farm, Brisbane
2019 Workshop – Referencing the Old Masters, 2 day intensive - The Wallace Collection, London
2017 Bachelor of Fine Art – Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Majors in Drawing and Art Theory)
2016 Drawing in the Expanded Field, 5-day intensive – Slade School of Art, University College London
2014 Mixed Media Workshop – Brisbane Institute of Art
2014 Cubism Workshop – Brisbane Institute of Art
2014 Exploring Drawing workshop – Brisbane Institute of Art
2013 Exploring Painting Intensive – RMIT, Melbourne
2013 Diploma Visual Art and Contemporary Craft – SBIT, South Brisbane
2005 Certificate of Achievement (Visual Arts), McGregor Summer School, 10 day intensive, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
2003 Diploma of Counselling – Campion College, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 8 x 8 to Educate group exhibition, Gold Coast, Australia
2019 Group Exhibition Works on Paper, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2019 7 Explorations Group Exhibition with Boathouse Artist Collective
2017 Graduation Group Show – Queensland College of Art
2016 Group Show - Nundah Community Art Show
2015 Group exhibition – Brisbane Festival - LifeArt Worldwide Expo
2015 Group performance drawings – Jazz Vocal Showcase, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, monthly performances, 2016
2015 Group Performance Drawing - Griffith University, Queensland College of Art Open day
2012 Group Exhibition – “Petrichor”, Southbank Institute of Technology
2009 Group Exhibition – St Hilda’s Art Show, Gold Coast
2005 Group Exhibition – McGregor Summer School, USQ Toowoomba
2011 Royal Queensland Art Society Group Exhibition “Bird on a Wire”