I am a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. I work broadly across many mediums including sculpture, photography, printmaking video and sound. My art practice materialises as immersive installations, interventions and site activations exploring feeling and place, landscape and human connection. I am passionate about being immersed in the landscape, whether that be rural or urban. My practice involves attuning to energy present in these places – to me the landscape is about something deeper than just a visual cue. I am also facinated by boundaries and this translates from spaces around me into culture, subcultures and socially isolated peoples and their blurring of boundaries though creative outputs. For many years I ran experimental arts and music collectives and explored rave culture as a form of cultural and social resistance, performing under the name Xian. I am half of artist duo EXOGAMY.
Clay, Experimental, Installation, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Sculpture
Music (instrument)
Audio/Sound, Video
Experience
Performance, Public art projects, Exhibitions, Curating, Concert/performance/reading, Audio or video recording, Arts for social change/creative activism
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Adults, Businesses, Families, General public, Men, People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, School children, Seniors, Women, Young people
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Silence Awareness Existence, Arteles Creative Centre. Finland 2020
Volunteer Placement Program, Grizedale Arts. UK 2020
CURATORIAL
2010-13 Racket - sound art experiments
2004-09 Black Lotus
RMIT Honours Achievement Award 2014
Finalist Fremantle Print Award 2012
RMIT University, BA(Hons) Bachelor of Fine Arts (with HD) 2015
RMIT University BA Bachelor of Fine Arts 2010-2013
RMIT University T.A.F.E. Certificate in Art and Design 1992