I am a multi-disciplinary artist currently living and working from Melbourne/Naarm.
What’s central to my creative practice is being able to explore and combine any creative medium. Perhaps this stemmed from my childhood - watching my dad take beautiful photos, fashion little figures out of clay, and build things. Seeing my mum draw, craft, sew and garden with a creative flair. And watching my gran put together a beautiful table full of food to feed a gathering of relatives.
My later childhood was filled with school vacations and summers spent in all manner of artistic workshops, my sister and I, trying out printmaking, etching glass, felt-making, crafting bush baskets, drawing portraits, learning how to use watercolour paint or oils, graffiti spray painting, pottery. Thus it is that I like to try new techniques, play with conventions, create in a variety of mediums and cross disciplines.
Having said that, my first artistic love, and natural instinct, is to draw. The evocative, lyrical quality of line, and its energy, its ability to suggest movement and time, always captivates me. Plus it's just the perfect medium for exploring ideas, documenting observations, and expressing one's curiosity.
I like to mix up the intention behind what I make. Sometimes I feel the need to just work intuitively, creating work that can be enjoyed simply for being beautiful and decorative. Other times I feel the need to make something with more sustenance - making work with a more considered, deeper significance.
I’m fueled by a curiosity for natural history, literature, psychology, philosophy, mythology, religion, popular culture, music, cinema, esoterica, beauty, and the imagination.