Past exhibitions
Baaka ngamaka’inana: The River, our Mother
Gallery 76, NSW Embroiderers' guild
August - October 2024
I was one of three artists involved in an exhibition called Baaka Ngamaka’Inana: The River, Our Mother, along with sculptor and printmaker Badger Bates, a Baakantji elder who grew up on the Baaka-Darling River, and Judith Burns, an academic geographer and stitcher.
We all created work that speaks to the ecological devastation inflicted on the Baaka-Darling by neglect and maladministration. I stencil-printed an ideal healthy river and began my ongoing slow-stitching project, The Menindee Memorial Loop, which honours the more than 30 million fish that died in the Menindee fish kills. The first Menindee Memorial Loop is currently on show at the NAS gallery in Sydney's Darlinghurst as a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize.
on repeat, the art of playing with pattern
Sturt gallery, mittagong nsw
may - june, 2024
As a textile designer, I need to work within the formal/ technical constraints for regularity required for manufacturing - to create a design in repeat. As an artist though, I am free to shrug off those constraints - to deliberately challenge strict notions of what counts as Art, or what constitutes Design. With my artist hat on, the task is not to create patterns in repeat, but to riff on repeat.
Inspired by beloved and overlooked places in NSW Southern Highlands, the work I made for this show came from a process and a headspace that allowed me the freedom to play and improvise - like a jazz or blues musician, riffing on a theme, placing stencils intuitively, finding a rhythm. This show featured textiles stencil-printed by hand. Some were shown as fabric lengths hung from the ceiling, artworks in their own right. Others were made into functional pieces, like lampshades, cushions, stools, and some very handsome Mid-Century Modern chairs. My process felt joyful, improvised, and kind of musical, which is why I named each piece for a lyric or song title.
I also invited visitors to the show to get playful with what I called my 'Future Loops', pieces of my On Repeat fabric that I’ve loosely stitched into giant continuous loops for display. As members of the public stitched on my artworks, they became a part of the work and part of its future potential.
POSTCARDS FROM HERE
side gallery, brisbane
February 2023
I’ve been painting and drawing small landscapes in sketch books, on bits of card and found wood for ages now. I love to collect images of places I like, familiar places or places where I’m traveling. I love hand-making postcards and sending them to friends.
Somehow by painting the landscape - always in situ - I’m drawing it into my memory, so that when I see those postcards again, the moment of making them comes back to me, clear and strong. I can remember the light and the atmosphere, the mood I was in, the air temperature. There’s something very intimate about it. Making these small landscapes has always been an important part of my art practice: I’ve always thought of it as being a bit like what happens when a musician practises her scales.
with Indigo JO my friend
modest fancies in the parlour
shoalhaven regional gallery
July - August 2022
It's a show that deliberately challenges notions of what counts as Art, or what constitutes Design. I make my best work in the sweet spot between them, and, the work I've made for this show very much comes from blurring the boundaries and expanding the field.
This show featured textiles stencil-printed by hand. Some were shown as fabric lengths hung from the ceiling, artworks in their own right. Others were made into functional pieces, like lampshades, cushions, stools, and some very handsome Mid-Century Modern chairs.
This work was about the freedom of play, the shrugging off of constraints: my process felt joyful, improvised, and kind of musical, which is why I named each piece for a lyric or song title.
sweetspot, Australian Design Centre residency and show
Australian design centre, Sydney
February 2020 + October 2020 online
It's a show that deliberately challenges notions of what counts as Art, or what constitutes Design. I make my best work in the sweet spot between them, and, the work I've made for this show very much comes from blurring the boundaries and expanding the field.
This show featured textiles stencil-printed by hand. Some were shown as fabric lengths hung from the ceiling, artworks in their own right. Others were made into functional pieces, like lampshades, cushions, stools, and some very handsome Mid-Century Modern chairs.
This work was about the freedom of play, the shrugging off of constraints: my process felt joyful, improvised, and kind of musical, which is why I named each piece for a lyric or song title.
Acknowledgement of Country
I acknowledge the Dharug and the Gundungurra people, the Traditional Owners of the land where I created this work, and the Wangal people of Eora, the Traditional Owners of the land where this exhibition is shown.
I recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community.
I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.