I’m a mixed media artist living and creating on Wonnarua land in Morpeth, in the Hunter Valley. My work is created from connection — to people, place, memory, the natural world, and the strange, beautiful, messy ways we leave our mark on each other and the environments we move through.

Since moving to the Hunter, I’ve found myself drawn more deeply into questions of belonging, social connection, and our human relationship with the land. What do we carry? What do we leave behind? What are we responsible for? What keeps calling us back?

I explore these stories through drawing, printmaking, textiles, collage and whatever else the work demands. I’m not particularly interested in staying inside one neat little box.

Give me charcoal, ink, thread, paper, fabric, found objects or a surface with a bit of history, and I’ll follow the feeling.

My work is instinctive, tactile and emotionally led. Sometimes soft. Sometimes raw. Often layered. I love the physicality of making — the smudges, the scratches, the stitched lines, the accidental marks, the beautiful chaos of materials speaking back.

I returned to my creative practice in my mid-forties, and since then I’ve participated in numerous group exhibitions. In 2017, I held my solo exhibition, Aliferous: Having Wings, in Sydney. I have also been a finalist in the Hunter Emerging Art Prize in 2023, and the Ewart Art Prize in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020.

I’m a member of the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, where I continue to explore printmaking as part of my broader mixed media practice.

At the heart of it, my work is about story.

The ones we inherit.
The ones we bury.
The ones we stitch, smudge, tear, print, draw and piece back together.

BECAUSE MESS CAN BE MEDICINE.

And art, if you let it, can tell the truth before we’re ready to say it out loud.