I was so happy to conduct cyanotype workshops for the general public at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne in March. Encouraged to capture the beauty of nature – participants collected fallen leaves, flowers and seeds from the Gardens and created their own compositions on coated watercolour paper – to process outside, wash and take home. Photo: Kit Edwards
Glen Eira City Council Gallery / presented by The Contemporary Collective.
In keeping with the theme of PHOTO 2024, 'The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It', curator Diane Soumilas interweaves the perspectives of eleven established photographers into a nuanced conversation around how changing societal and environmental concerns impact us now and in the future…
A garden of grasses, an exhibition of photograms and cyanotypes, is a time-based photographic exploration of how, through the seasons, native grassland plants have been cultivated and forced to grow in a small backyard amongst introduced exotic species – moving around in pots, enduring extreme heat and shade and going to seed…
I currently have an artwork in the exhibition ‘Making the Metro Tunnel: reflections by contemporary Australian artists’ which captures the process of building this massive city-shaping rail project through artworks that respond to the project’s construction, as well as a creative partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Presented by the Metro Tunnel Creative Program …
Walking within a grassy woodland has just been installed along St Kilda Road, right next to the new Anzac Station in Melbourne. The artwork is a collage of photographs and lumen prints I have created, simulating a grassy woodland. It includes groups of different plant communities including native grasses, trees and Australian shrubs found prior to settlement and observed on my daily walks …
Revealing Stories, a collaborative project I undertook with Janine Barrand – a Melbourne based cultural historian and senior curator specialising in the performing arts and popular culture – was presented on Friday at Brunswick Design District’s Making Space and Creative Residency Program…
It was perfect weather on Saturday for walking and talking about photography and landscape, with locals interested in photography at Point Nepean National Park on the Mornington Peninsula…
My work, Seed Capital, is currently on view at the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize in Sydney.
If you happen to be walking in Chinatown, Melbourne, take a look at the shopfront at 229 Russell Street. You will see a detail of my artwork ‘Looking Closer’, a Public Art Commission for the City of Melbourne’s ‘Picture Windows’ project…
Photographic works from my series On Edge, have been included in the exhibition Suburban Realism - Scale Ability at RMIT Design Hub Gallery in Melbourne.
Honoured to win the 4th Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, for my artwork, Looking Closer which is being exhibited in the Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Virtual Gallery.
An exhibition of my photographic works will be exhibited at May Space in July. Geomorphology explores the immense forces of nature that shape the ancient rock formations of the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, reflecting on questions regarding endless time and the role of water in the creation of these landscapes.
I have a new exhibition installed at Bargoonga Nganjin, the new stunningly designed North Fitzroy Library in the City of Yarra. Coastal collection continues my exploration of ‘the new wild’ by examining coastal areas in and around Melbourne where introduced species grow wild.
Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library
182 St Georges Road, North Fitzroy, VIC
I’d like to share news about my forthcoming exhibition at Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Finding Wild is an exhibition of hand-printed black-and-white photographs and lumen prints. The works engage with landscape, botany and 19th-century photography to explore the notion of ‘the new wild’ – where introduced plant species grow wild…
Victoria Marles, CEO of Trust for Nature, will open the exhibition on Wednesday 28 March 6–8 pm
Fluvial landscape, 2016, is a handprinted photograph currently being exhibited in the exhibition Ebb and flow, 2017 Banyule Award for Works on Paper.
2017 Banyule Award for Works on Paper
Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, 14 Ivanhoe Parade, Ivanhoe
An exhibition in Barcelona has just opened at the Gallery Vivid Foto with photographic works from the 10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award. It is really exciting to be exhibiting Melbourne from The Falls.
Brighton Dune a photograph I have taken as part of my current investigation into invasive species in bushland environments has been selected for The City of Kingstons’ Lens Mist Award. The Dendy Beach dune is a precious environment in Brighton, Melbourne where natural bushland co-exists with benign invasive species, sustaining biodiversity and providing habitat for birds, reptiles, insects and other animals.
Over the last three months I have been working on a collaborative project called Boundaries with the writer Sophie Cunningham. We have walked, cycled, ferried and driven around thirty-five kilometres of the City of Melbourne’s boundary line, producing a 32 page publication with an essay and a series of photographs.
Thrilled to be exhibiting in the Incinerator Art Award again. My handprinted photograph Dagger Plant, explores the aesthetic and moral complexities of introduced plants and seeds growing wild in Australian National Parks and bushland environments.
