I am a multidisciplinary artist who trained as a painter at the ANU School of Art on the unceded lands of the Ngnunnawal and Ngambri peoples, also known as Canberra, where I still live.

My practice encompasses drawings, textiles, video and sometimes performance and is nonetheless grounded in painting. I am fundamentally interested in language and its relationship to colour and art.

Having a type of synaesthesia where I experience language through colour has led to deep engagement with colour as a vehicle for meaning and experience. But it’s not why, and not even the main reason anymore, but it did wake me up  when I realised that not everyone sees the world this way.

If I had to say why, it would be that for me, making art is the most puzzling yet satisfying way I’ve found of actively engaging with the world. The art I make is often a residue of a process of enquiry of particular questions that emerge for me, and it’s good to share with my community and others who might be interested, and to see what other artists make.

Like most humans, I find lots of things distracting and I am trying to give up wanting to neatly describe what I do as an artist in a paragraph. I am a little embarrassed and amused at myself when I think about how long it has taken me to write this intro to my practice. Some things I like, which don’t seem consistent even to myself but I enjoy their unrelatedness, weirdly, and they crop up in here and there my work:

Works of art that are imagined in words only, especially those that appear in novels. The human search for meaning as it manifests as fiction, oracles and storytelling. I also harbour an abiding love of non-objective art and abstraction. Plastic things especially plastic bags. Transparency. Japanese literature and translation. Words for colour. Quilts. Knitting. Lists.

Please do get in touch if you would like to have some of my work in your life, or if you are interested in collaborating in an exhibition or would like to see my studio.