My art practice is absorbed by the fluidity of how things come into being. This has developed from my particularly complex familial history in Australia which has led me to an inexplicable incomprehension of how it is I am here; with a nagging question of what constitutes “here”. My research centres around personal narratives, natural phenomena and reconsidered histories, within themes of survival, memory and evolutionary processes. The resulting compositions play out in opposing dualities of intuition and logic. There is the biomorphic element with a range of oblique references – mainly light, shadow, rocks and water. In contrast, there is the structural element, appearing as zigzags, folds, rhythms and segmentation.

My abstract paintings seek to unpack and expose the layered process of image-making by revealing the parts that make up a whole. Similar to imaging software, this splays the visual into a material making process over time; where windows of raw canvas point to ground or source material, while geometric overlays become perceptual portholes, barriers and holding patterns. It’s a way of exploring how paintings – like people and their stories – begin, develop and finally appear in the world.

I use a range of water based paints – gouache, liquid acrylics, watercolour, and raw pigments – in an effort to keep image making as fluid as possible. Unlike oil painting, there is no possibility of subtraction; only addition. Every move becomes an account of making that cannot be undone, unless the paint is sanded back, which then exposes a visible record of removal rather than a hidden process. The final work both evokes and depicts a sense of perpetual flux and the impossibility of precise clarification. At times, pockets of practice spill into one another and the work extends to sound, physical sculpture, flash fiction, producing Art Fictions Podcast and creative essay writing.

Recent Highlights:

A P P E A R artist participant, works on paper platform by Lena Brazen and Alice Browne, September 2025 ongoing

Stephen Swindells Residency, France, Aug-Sep 2025

Logical Extracts and Other Fantasies, as curator and artist participant, group exhibition with Rebecca Byrne, Luke Burton, Alice Browne, Laura Wormell, Studio 8 SPACE Hoxton, June 2025

The Curatorial and Painting Symposium presentation, Journal of Contemporary Painting, March 2025

Rhythmic Dreaming at the Edge of a Storyline, solo exhibition, ASC Gallery, November 2024

Spectrum, White Noise Projects and Artist Support Pledge Collaboration, One Paved Court Gallery, September 2024

The Waves Beside Them Danced, ARC Studios, June 2024

It Rose and It Fell, Terrace Gallery, May 2024

Emerging Artists, Dodomu Gallery New York, May 2024

Outside/In, SET Ealing, February – March 2024

STABLE, Bobinska Brownlee, December 2023 – January 2024