ABOUT ME

I am a multidisciplinary artist, environmentalist, teacher, and poet living and working on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation in Naarm, Melbourne. As a Buddhist practitioner for over four decades, my creative process draws deeply on Buddhist teachings, with each work being a meditation on impermanence, interconnectedness, and transformation, inviting viewers to reflect on the preciousness of life and their place within the intricate weave of existence.

Embracing uncertainty and spontaneity, I open pathways for reflection and transformation in my work. Through the interplay of abstraction and natural forms, I seek to evoke wonder for the unseen, overlooked, or discarded. Colours, shapes, and textures become metaphors for time, memory, and attachments, while processes of layering and repetition echo cycles of growth, decay, and renewal.

The Whipstick Forest, north of Bendigo, is my most recent muse, collaborator, and teacher. This living mandala of relationships constantly surprises me with its stories of resilience, fragility, and the enduring impact of the human condition, told through elements as small as a quartz fragment, or as enduring as a towering box-ironbark tree. Lately, I have been gathering and repurposing discarded materials from the forest. It is a small act of care for the forest reflecting my belief in the transformative power of intentional gestures to foster renewal and healing—in both nature and humanity.

EXHIBITIONS

Painting: Group Exhibition: VCA Campus, 2017.

Contemporary Painting: Group Exhibition: VCA Campus, 2018.

Camouflage: Wundergym (ARI) Group Exhibition: School House Studios Gallery, Collingwood, Mentor: Troy Emery, 2019.

Linear Time Fools: Wundergym (ARI) Group Exhibition: School House Studios Gallery, Collingwood, Mentor: Hannah Mathews (MUMA), 2019.

Small Works: Group Exhibition: Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick, 2019.

Create: Group Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick, 2019.

Impromptu: Create Group Exhibition, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne, 2019.

Intuition: Wundergym (ARI) Group Exhibition: School House Studios Gallery, Collingwood, Mentor: Ilona Nelson, 2020.

Big Anxiety Project: Archives of Feeling: Nurse Midwife Exchange Group Project, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, 2022.

Merri Creek: Group Exhibition: The Art of Visual Politics, Place Lab RMIT, Brunswick, RMIT, 2022.

Alternate Photography:Group Exhibition: RMIT Photography Lab, Melbourne,2022.

Decade: Create Alumni Group Exhibition, Preston, 2024.

Graduate Exhibition: RMIT, 2024.

AWARDS

Garland Award: Innovative Storied Object: RMIT Graduate Exhibition (2024).

Highly Commended Award: Chapman and Bailey: RMIT Graduate Exhibition (2024).

Finalist Melbourne Spoken Word Prize (2019).

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne (to be completed 2025).

Create, Certificate Three in Visual Arts, Northern College of Arts and Technology, Preston (2019).

Contemporary Painting, Victoria College of the Arts (2018).

Painting Techniques, Victoria College of the Arts (2017).

Bachelor of Primary and Special Education, QUT, Brisbane (1987).

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Brisbane (2012).

‘Melt”

Garland Award forInnovative Storied Object (2024)