I am a visual artist and activist who has a particular focus on the environment and how people engage with it. I am curious about humankind’s devastating impact on planet Earth, our home. Through my art I hope to instigate social change that benefits humanity and the environment.
I like to participate in socially engaged projects to raise issues that we as a society need to address. I believe art has the power to shift consciousness. I try to make art that gently facilitates thought, starts a conversation and initiates change. Art can present new ideas in an engaging way and as the world is facing so many challenges right now, I am just playing my part to try and make the world a better place for us all. I hope that my art can help to raise awareness about the unprecedented environmental problems we are facing – climate change, mass extinctions of species, plastic pollution – we are in a climate emergency and I feel an urgency to convey that message in my art.
Background
I worked as an art teacher, then graphic designer, and am now a full time artist, living and working on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung, on the Surfcoast. I am currently studying a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) at Deakin University in Geelong and in 2016 travelled to Florence to study traditional oil painting techniques.
Last year I was a semi-finalist in the Lester Art Prize with my self-portrait Our Addiction to Convenience and was a finalist in the Blacktown City Art Prize with a still life painting of single use plastic items.
For the last three years I have been involved in various socially-engaged art projects which focus on the environment including Sunrise Postcards, The Plastic Catch Project, The Black Finch Project, Climate Badges and Frontlines.
Acknowledgment:
Surf Coast Shire spans the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung and Eastern Maar people.
We acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners and Protectors of this place.
We acknowledge their ancestors who cared for the land, rivers and sea – and all of its creatures – for thousands of generations.
We pay our respects to elders past, present and future who continue on this path.