I am an Australian artist, living on the far south coast of NSW. I work in digital and alternative photo media, making digital collage and cyanotype prints. I also make video and projection works that are non-narrative, immersive and visceral experiences, which generate a meditative and contemplative space.
I have an Advanced Diploma in Dramatic Art - Directing from the Victorian College of the Arts and worked as a freelance director and dramaturg for over 10 years before moving into video and photo media in 2009. The ephemeral and temporal nature of theatre continues to influence my visual arts practice.
I am interested in how our relationship with the natural world shapes our search for meaning through science, religion, and the spiritual. I connect with these ideas by engaging with the local and particular. All my work is created with imagery captured within walking distance of where I live. This process of observation and engagement with my local surroundings is an important part of my practice.
A fascination with repetition is also central to my work. I lived in Morocco from 2014 - 2017, while there I began training in Islamic geometric design, studying how to draw patterns by hand as well the classical and spiritual underpinnings of this tradition.
Mirroring and repeating an image changes the brain's perception so that the subject is seen both as itself and as a pattern, both figurative and abstract. In this way, an object that we overlook because of its mundanity and familiarity can be seen anew.
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