I am an artist living and working in Brunswick Heads on Bundjalung Country. I am currently researching a DVA at Queensland College of Art, Griffith university in Brisbane, Meanjin on Turrbal and Jagera Country.
Operating with an intent to reveal meaning through process, the focus of my research has been to find ways to provoke a sense of (re)connection with each other and the more-than-human, through participatory acts of empathy and inclusion. Using processes of active listening, chance, and creative response, I set up water-centred site and time specific art projects - experiential environments, to stimulate opportunities for new relationships and understandings to occur. There is an emphasis on valuing "partnership with" over "control of" each other and our extraordinary environment, as a co-creative and regenerative way forward. We talk, listen, touch, smell, hear, and feel our materials together. We slow down. These all-encompassing, and site-specific processes of relating to place and water, engender an internalised gathering of knowledge, becoming a very personal, and at the same time, shared experience. Having lived near or on water all my life, my practice has more recently been influenced by my personal experience of the High Arctic during a 2017 residency in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.