2025 Ravenswood Australian Art Prize Finalist
My work ‘The Tor’ made during my residency at The Corridor Project in Central West NSW has been selected for the Ravenswood! Check out all the finalist on their website here
April 2025 - Artist Residency at The Squatters Cottage, Portland NSW
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a deep dive into the Phytogram process, experimenting with plant matter, handmade chemistry, and working directly onto 120mm and 4x5 film. It's slow and instinctive, like coaxing an image out of the earth itself. I've been using my own non-toxic, plant-based developer. It's been giving the work this beautiful, unpredictable tonal range, subtle shifts in colour and form that echo the rhythms of the land here.
Alongside that, I’ve been continuing my ongoing project using gumoil prints, making a new series of hand-stitched armour photo objects that will sit within acrylic cases. Each piece feels like a kind of talisman or protective skin, infused with gesture, time, and raw, physical energy. They hold like relics: part garment, part document
During my stay at the The Squatters Cottage I have been running a number of chemigram workshops with Scots All Saints College year 9 and 10 photography classes. Organised by Arts Out West in partnership with The Foundations, Portland.
New Gumoil Prints at Devfto in Ubud 2025
This ongoing work continues from my 2024 artist residency where I spent 5 weeks in Ubud learning to use the non-toxic Gumoil process with master printer Devy
2024/2025 Residency Focus
This year I’ve been continuing my focus on developing new non-toxic techniques inside and outside of the Darkroom in Australia and working with the team at Devfto Printmaking Institute in Ubud, Bali
Gold Circle Featured Artist 2024
Click on the link to read about all things cameraless, techniques, methods and connection to the landscape
The Muse and the Contact Sheet - Repetition and Performance
Talking about the work that informs my new ongoing project The Jesters Muse. Take-over feature on IG @womeninphotography_nz_au
December 2024
During my artist residency at The Corridor Project in Central West NSW I’ll be running a one day chemigram workshop in the shearing shed
July 2024 - Artist Residency at Q Bank Gallery in Queenstown Tasmania
Spending winter in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Its cold!
2023 Gosford Art Prize Finalist
For the second year in a row I’ve been selected in the Gosford Art Prize with my Galaxy installation of unique photograms
MULLINS CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Muswellbrook Arts Centre from 9 July, 2022. Selected Work - River, Mud & Silver Studded Boots 2022. Archival Inkjet Print 150 x 120 cm ( original chemigram 50 x 40 cm). This worked has been acquired into the Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre photography collection
My work - Leather Back Seat Shag has been selected in the 2022 Gosford Art Prize 2022
Push Pull Series 2022, Shaddocks Architects Gallery, Newcastle. Unique Silver Gelatin Collage. 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Group Exhibition: Light Objects, Photography in the Expanded Field. Perth Centre for Photography 2018
Simone Darcy, Isobel Markus-Dunworth and Bernadette Smith
Light Objects – Photography in the Expanded Field is an exhibition of three photo-media artists stretching the medium of photography through explorations of light and objects in real space. Each artist challenges the idea of the conventional photograph allowing the photographic medium to expand beyond the flatness of the frame into three dimensions.
Reykjavik Museum of Photography Exhibition - Point North 2017. A collection of images based on the story of motherhood. This work was produced in Skagaströnd, a village in the Northwestern Region of Iceland. I travelled here with my two boys and spend a month at Nes Artist Residency
I’m one of 260 photographers from 35 countries selected to be part of »A Process 2.0« during the opening weekend of Krakow Photomonth
Gaffa Photo Fest Group Show 2016. Finalists: Amanda Williams, Asami Wantanabe, Eloise Crossman, Harry Culy, Hayley Rose Hill, Heath McCalmont Parkinson, Hiroo Shinozuka, Kate Robertson, Kieran Butler, Matthew James, Michael Waite, Ngoc Nguyen, Nick de Lorenzo, Ruth Clifford and Simone Darcy
’TRACES’
4 FEBRUARY – 27 FEBRUARY, 2016
PARASKEVY BEGETIS, CIARAN BEGLEY, SIMONE DARCY, CLARE HOOPER, NICOLE EASTERBROOK, AKIRA LASKER, NATHAN LASKER, TOM MALEK & YIRGO YIANNOPOULOS
Traces examines the various relationships to artistic practice, as documentation or residue of an performance or action, the image or object reimaged through appropriation, the familiar made uncanny and the blurring of the definition between image and object
Maitland Regional Art Gallery exhibition: The Bus Stop Project
