Agapanthaceae

The Cape Floral Kingdom in Cape Town, South Africa is the smallest and most diverse of the six floral kingdoms in the world, covering the region with over 9,000 indigenous plant species. This exhibition follows a recent trip to Cape Town where I embarked on a detailed study of the Fynbos - a specified area of natural shrubland - on Table Mountain which encompasses over 1,500 species alone, more than the entire United Kingdom. Fynbos, which is Dutch for “fine leaved plants”, is a unique kind of vegetation that makes up 80 percent of the Cape Floral Kingdom - two-thirds of which are not found anywhere else in the world, making the Western Cape more botanically diverse than the Amazon in South America. 1,700 of those species are currently threatened with extinction.

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I am a practicing visual artist trained in printmaking in both Australia and the United States, currently residing in Brisbane, Australia. I completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with the Queensland College of Art in 2012, and attended the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, USA to complete a summer workshop in aluminium plate lithography. My work has been exhibited in Australia and America; and I currently have work in collections at the State Library of Queensland, Griffith Artworks, QCA Printmaking Department, Northern Prints Gallery (Duluth, USA), The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts (Greece), and private collections in the UK, USA, South Africa and Australia. I am also co-director of Grey Hand Press, a publishing studio based in Brisbane. My work is currently featured on Clovely Estate Wines' labels and website.