Born in Bedgerabong on Wiradjuri land.
I am an Australian photo-based artist exploring the interplay between performance, repetition, and the materiality of image-making. My work incorporates both straight and hybrid photographic forms, often shaped by eco-friendly techniques and a commitment to sustainability in the arts. Through processes such as chemigrams, experimental darkroom methods, and more recently, eco-gumoil and phytogram techniques, I investigate how photography can evolve beyond traditional methods while reducing environmental impact.
My work explores themes of transformation, impermanence, embodiment, and our shifting relationship with nature. I’m interested in how gestures, traces, and materials can hold memory and meaning, often revealing what lies beneath the surface. It is often deeply informed by my lived experience as a woman, artist, and mother. Through layered imagery and experimental mark-making, I examine the physical and psychological effects of the body, engaging with themes of embodiment, ritual, and the passage of time. Performance is also central to my practice, not as a direct documentation but as a means of constructing still images that evoke transformation and the unseen forces shaping identity.
At the core of my practice is an ongoing commitment to research. I focus on the critical intersections between art, photography, conservation, and sustainability asking how image-making can act as both poetic gesture and ecological response. By working with non-toxic chemistry, fibre papers, and plant-based materials, I position the natural world not just as subject, but as collaborator and co-creator.
Through process-led experimentation and a deep care for ecological practices, I invite new ways of thinking about photography, not just as a means of seeing, but as a way of tending to the world around us.
My work has been shown in Australia and Internationally, this has included Point North at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography in Iceland; Verge Gallery Sydney; Arts System Wickham and selected as part of the Gaffa Experimental Photo Festival Award Sydney; Other notable exhibitions include Embody at Cement Fondu Sydney; Light Objects – Photography in the Expanded Field at Perth Centre of Photography and The Bus Stop Project at Maitland Regional Art Gallery
I have been selected in the Gosford Art Prize; Mullins Conceptual Photo Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre; The National Photographic Portrait Prize, The Portrait Gallery Canberra; Head On Portrait Prize, Australian Centre of Photography; The Portrait Prize, Queensland Centre of Photography; The New York Photo Prize; The Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize; MAMA National Photography Prize; Melbourne Photobook Image Award and the recipient of the Ilford Salon Portrait Award at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
I continue to seek out new places through artist in residence experiences. This includes The Squatters Cottage @ The Foundations Portland; All That We Are, Rosny Farm Arts Centre and AIRspace Oatlands (Tasmania); Studio Kura (Japan); NES Artists (Iceland); Devfto Printmaking Institute, (Ubud Bali) and QBank Gallery, Queenstown (Tasmania) and The Corridor Project in Central West NSW