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I'm a visual artist and researcher working and creating on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra, Australia). I completed my Visual Arts (Honours) degree at the ANU School of Art & Design and was recently awarded a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Canberra, where I'm currently the 2025 Donald Horne Fellow in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research.

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My practice is motivated by the logic of a reparative aesthetic: an approach to art making designed to gently hold the viewer's attention on the often difficult subjects I explore. I like to call it beauty with a bite.

 

My initial training was in photography but I'm now working primarily with textile techniques...an approach that allows me to focus on manual methods and the slow, repetitive process of hand making. 

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For the last seven years I've been making work as a response to commissions of inquiry, and my PhD examined how art can act as a platform to continue conversations around issues of social injustice. These projects include: the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (2018- 2021), the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017) - the subject of my PhD - and I'm currently making work responding to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (2021-2024).

 

I am interested in how beauty, text, the repetition of mark making and the multiplicity of display can be a powerful form of bearing witness.

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I also have a random selection of my life and art on Instagram

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