INTRO Hi there, As you may already be aware, I currently have the luxury of a beautiful (and spacious) studio space at Westward Cottage courtesy of the City of Ryde. One of my goals during this residency period (Oct 2025 – Oct 2026) is to take advantage of this space by hosting a variety of … More House Moves EOI
Hi everyone, As part of my residency with the City of Ryde, I’ll be delivering a series of free workshops for people of all ages and skill levels. How It Feels is a hands-on creative workshop series that invites the community to explore emotion through making. Guided by artist Tom Isaacs, resident artist for the City … More New Workshop Series: How it feels
Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well! I have been busily working away at a number of different things recently. Today I’d like to share a few of the things that I’ve been doing. How it feels Each Monday and Tueday afternoon, during my open hours at Westward Cottage, I’ve been giving myself two hours … More Westward Cottagecore
Please join us for an evening of poetry celebrating grief and love. With feature poets, and an open mic for you to share your own stories, this will be a forum for yarning and laughing and crying together. Bring your fondest memories and your sharpest hurts. This evening is hosted by City of Ryde Artist-in-Residence, … More Grief + Love
Hi everyone! This is just a short blog post to highlight the success of my new ‘Thursday admin policy’. The admin goblin (me) has successfully uploaded two new pages today: Our Glorious Dead (2025) and ‘In the Flat Field’ (2024), my collaboration with Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa. If the admin goblin keeps going like this, … More Thursday Admin
Hi friends, I’m very pleased to announce that the City of Ryde have invited me to facilitate two workshops in March as part of “Common Threads”, a unique community art initiative celebrating cultural diversity and connection. Participation in the workshop is free, but spaces are limited so register now to secure your spot. Head to … More Common Threads Workshop
As part of our collaborative exhibition ‘In the Flat Field‘, Nuno and I are offering two hour workshops exploring multi-dimensional art-making. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to creatively engage with science, maths, and geometry through art forms such as drawing, textiles, and sculpture. The workshops will take place at Chrissie Cotter Gallery from 11am-1pm, … More Multi-dimensional Artmaking Workshop
I am proud to announce my upcoming solo exhibition ‘Ad/dressing the Wound’ (21 June – 8 July) at Ellipsis Gallery. I am particularly honoured to have Victoria Spence launching the exhibition, and its accompanying catalogue, at the opening event on Wednesday 21 June, 6-9pm. I look forward to seeing you there! ‘Ad/dressing the Wound’ is … More Ad/dressing the Wound (21 June – 8 July)
A few days ago, a friend of mine shared this article on the current exhibition ‘Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter’ at the Jewish Museum in New York. I’ve admired Bourgeois’s work for some time and I’m particularly interested in the connection between her artistic practice and her personal history (so much so that I wrote about … More Freud’s Daughter and The Destruction of the Father
When I was in my first year of undergrad studies at Sydney College of the Arts one of my favourite classes was Studio Concepts. Studio Concepts was not a studio theory class where students learn about the conceptual history of their discipline, and it was not a studio practical class where students learn the specific … More Conceptual Limitations
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