Hello
I am a visual artist who works out of my studio in Bayside, Victoria. Growing up in the Australian bushland of Lutruwita/Tasmania instilled me with a strong connection to nature, and a fascination for the colours and textures within this environment. I predominately work on paper with analogue mark-making in pencil, watercolour, ink and gouache. Complementing this main methodology, my art also includes photography and sculpture.
In 2019 while on a trip around Tasmania, I learned of the decimation of Aboriginal peoples during Tasmania’s Black war and the ‘Black Line’ – ordered by Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur in 1830. I was appalled that while at school I was not taught about this historical event. However, the truth has caused major and necessary shifts in what I had presumed to be my place within the Australian landscape; consequently, my work often acknowledges the known and unknown layered history of place, represented through the medium, process or visual references within the work.