“I make art to help people remember who they are. Not as consumers or producers — but as whole, creative, powerful beings deeply connected to each other, to place, and to something far greater.”
My work includes participatory installations, public rituals, and socially engaged projects — like pop-up weaving on street corners, collaborations with artists in prisons and detention centres, and popular weaving workshops with natural materials.
Each of my projects is an invitation to slow down, make with our hands, and remember that we are not separate, but part of a living web of meaning, connection, and care.
We are living in a time shaped by the machinery of capitalism and control: systems designed for speed, extraction, and disconnection. While these systems have brought material gain for some, they have also caused deep harm. We have strayed too far from what makes us truly well.
I believe that art has a vital role to play in restoring balance, by creating experiences that reawaken truth, joy, and connection. My practice is grounded in the conviction that when people remember their own creative power they begin to live and act differently.
My own life is testament to this healing power, having lived through cancer and left behind a successful career to become a maker — of art and creative connections — not just as expression, but as my own medicine.
Now I create spaces for others to experience that same transformation — to reconnect, and to remake the world through the simple, radical act of creating together.
My work is regularly selected for exhibitions and commissions for festivals and events. In 2024 my graduating work Sextillion Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground was chosen for the prestigious Emerging Contemporaries exhibition in Canberra, and as a finalist in the Alice Prize. In 2023 I won two Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards from Craft & Design Canberra and Canberra Spinners and Weavers. My woven piece Invocation was Highly Commended in the Hornsby Art Prize Emerging Artist Awards in 2022.
While completing my Bachelor of Design my two photographic series Still Life on Newstart and Healing Homo-Economicus earned an ANU Chancellor’s Commendation in 2018.
In 2020 I won an ANU Vice Chancellor’s Award for The Two Way Project, a collaboration with First Nations women in Canberra which built their skills in traditional and contemporary creative practices including possum skin cloak making, basketry, screen printing and mural art.