ABOUT

I am a Brisbane(Meajin)/Logan based artist. I live and work on the lands of the Yuggera people in Logan. 

My ZOONOSES Solo Exhibition is currently touring on a 12 venue 3 year National tour which concludes in 2025. It is supported in partnership with Visions Australia, MAGS Qld and Logan Art Gallery, Logan City Council. Other recent accomplishments include The Logan City Council’s Kingston Butter Refurbishment, public art project titled Factory Stories. 2021 saw the creation of Curiocity Brisbane project James the Rat King Experience, a collaboration with Dr Zeynep Akcay. 2020 saw the publishing by SLQ of my illustrated children’s book The Cow that Swam out to Sea, written by Pamela Rushby and being awarded The Iain Turnbull Memorial Award in 2020 for printmaking.

My studio practice utilises the traditional storytelling method of lithography. It explores Zoonoses and the resulting relationships between humans and animals, particularly focusing on our contradictory perceptions of animals in the context of fear of disease. I narrate anecdotal news stories both visually and verbally through a fairy tale and historical rhyme context.

With a background in design and illustration, my drawing and lithography skills became integral to my studio practice whilst completing a MAVA and MAVA hons (1st class) at QCA Brisbane a number of years ago. I was awarded a GU Postgraduate Research Scholarship to undertake a Doctor of Visual Arts which I completed in 2019. My studio based research is titled Zoonoses – A Visual Narrative.

I am an Impress Printmakers and Print Council of Australia member and have facilitated many lithography workshops over the past few years, teaching both children and adults. Recent accomplishments include:  2024 Finalist Hadley’s Art Prize, 2023 Finalist Burnie Print Prize, 2024 & 2023 Finalist Brisbane Portrait Prize, 2023 Elaine Bermingham Watercolour Prize, Winner 2019 & 2017 Rio Tinto Hanson Memorial Prize Digital, 2019 Finalist Megalo International Print Prize, Finalist 2017 Hazelhurst Works on Paper, Finalist 2016 Libris Awards: Australian Artists Book Prize, 2nd Prize 2016 50/50 Impressions Print Prize, Winner 2015 Qld Regional Arts Awards, Annie Tan Memorial. Watercolor prize, Finalist: 2014 Fremantle Print Award. Finalist 2013 Marie Ellis Drawing Prize Brisbane. GU Academic Excellence Award: 2014, 2011, 2009.

I have received a number of grants, with my most recent 2024 RADF Logan grant to support the creation of new work for A Bestiary of Reverie Solo Exhibition at Logan Art Gallery, March 2025. I have also been the recipient  of an Arts Qld grant used to support Tale of Toxoplasmosis & Lady Wilde’s Cats project at Black Church Print Studio, Dublin in Jan 2019. I also undertook a residency in 2014 at the Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, under the watchful eye of master printer, Theo Tremblay. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in public and private collections.