For over thirty years, my practice has been grounded in the female grotesque and the Australian gothic, not as themes to illustrate, but as ways of thinking, making, and being. These ideas aren’t theoretical; they are lived. I move with the unruly, the unpredictable, the unresolved; drawn to materials and gestures that embrace error, noise, and improvisation. These aren’t just formal strategies. They are how I navigate systems that shape bodies, belonging, and the stories that try to pin them down.
I currently work with cameraless proto-photography and expanded cinema, using alternative analogue processes that welcome mess, chance, and change. Over the years, I’ve explored materials that collapse, rot, or cling: things that resist stability and invite surprise. I soak, scratch, stain, and let things sit. The body is always present, sometimes as memory, sometimes as residue. Disciplines of control and endurance linger beneath the surface, slowly giving way to gestures of loosening and decay. I let images emerge through sweat, light, and time; through the slow alchemy of bodily and environmental entanglement. These processes aren’t about mastery or perfection, they’re about letting something unfold through care, fragility, sweetness, and absurdity.
My explorations often begin with the domestic, the maternal, the suburban ... the quietly monstrous. But they always creep outwards into larger systems, structures, and ecologies. Sitting at the edges of grief and absurdity, claustrophobia and care, whether in the studio or in collaborative learning spaces like prisons or bush classrooms, I hold space for what is not easily resolved. My creative research moves across art, science, education, and ethics, not as translation, but as transdisciplinary conversations grounded in material inquiry and shared transformation. I teach, write, and collaborate as part of the same material, relational practice. With a PhD in fine art and cultural studies, I work at the edges of lived experience, speculative thinking, and the many systems in need of care.
This is not just what I make. It’s how I live. And it’s how I’ve learned to see.
I am a settler living and working on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. I do not tell stories that are not mine to tell. My creative life is guided by material attention, care, and a commitment to place-based collaboration shaped by consent, relationship, and time.
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