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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. In 2009 I started moving into video and photo media. The ephemeral and temporal nature of theatre continues to influence my visual arts practice.

My work explores our relationship to the natural world and how our capacity for awe and our search for larger truths, through science and religion, are shaped by it. Observing and capturing the familiar and accessible in the environment around me opens up space for the consideration of larger universal ideas.

A fascination with repetition is also central to my practice. I am interested in the way repetition transforms a viewer's experience. To the mind, a spoken phrase repeated, becomes music; a repeated action becomes dance.

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 as the classical and spiritual underpinnings of this tradition. This opened up new possibilities for my exploration of repetition.

Mirroring and repeating images changes the brain's perception so that the subject is seen both as itself and as a pattern, both figurative and abstract. I like the way this can take an object that we overlook because of its familiarity and allow it to be seen anew.

Underpinning all of my work is an interest in art’s ability to reveal the sublime in the mundane. I use repetition and time dilation to transform common objects, creating works that are at once familiar and unexpected.