My creative practice is very varied. Perhaps this stemmed from my childhood - watching my dad take beautiful photos, fashion little figures out of clay, and build things. Or seeing my mum draw, craft, sew, garden and cook with a creative flair. 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 it up, between creating work that can be enjoyed simply for being beautiful and decorative, or making work that has a more considered, deeper significance.
Fueled by a curiosity for natural history, literature, psychology, philosophy, mythology, religion, popular culture, music, cinema, esoterica, beauty, and the imagination.
Brought up on a dusty farm somewhere in the sticks of Western Australia.
Currently living and working in Melbourne.