My interest is in the complex relationship between industrialisation and nature, with a particular focus on the earth sciences and the ways manufacturing often mimics planetary forces. This research investigates the term ‘Terraforming’ focusing attention upon the ways that humans are re-engineering the earth and our current geologic epoch the Anthropocene. My practice is one that is expressed through material science and experimentation, this ranges from developing manufacturing processes for lava, to using explosives to form metals and building machines to make/erode sedimentary rock. In all these instances the aim is to reveal latent narratives and metaphors that are held in materials and the ways in which we/they interact. My projects are site specific drawing on place and history to contextualize the processes and materials used in the installations.
solo exhibitions
2024
(upcoming) Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Built Geologies, Canberra Glassworks
2023
Stone Tools, Stockroom Kyneton
2022
Explosive Forming, Incinerator Gallery
Anthropic Rocks, Seventh Gallery
2021
Terraforming, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West
an expanding practice, Stockroom Kyneton
2019
Sitting at the Edge of Eternity, Trocadero
selected group exhibitions
2023
The Turning, Schmick Contemporary
2022
Wordlessness of the Stone, TCB
Glass Chysalis, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Art Park, Testing Grounds
2021
NotFair 2021, NotFair art fair foundation
2019
Jacks Reloaded: material as memory, Melbourne Design Week exhibition
Emerging Cultural Leaders showcase, The Footscray Community Arts Centre
2016
Fine Art Graduate Show, Monash University
artist in residence
2023
Canberra Glassworks, Artist in Residence
Quarry Pedagogies, Artist in Residence
2020 – 2021
Living Museum of the West, Artist in Residence
2019
Jacks Magazine, Studio Residency
art awards
2022
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (highly commended), South Australian Museum
Fuse Glass Prize, Jam Factory
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery
Art Award for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery
2021
Footscray Art Prize, Footscray Community Art Centre
Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead
Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2020
Award for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery
2017
Frankston Art Prize, Frankston Art Centre
publications
2022
Ejecta by Ari Henri, In Cookie Jar 1: Home is a Foreign Place, Andy Wahol Foundation
The Chrysalis Effect: Thinking through new practices in glass by Julie Ewinton, Art Monthly Australasia Summer 2022/23
2021
Through the Looking Glass by Christy Tan, Runway Journal
art festivals
2019
’19th of September 1890′ at West Projections in collaboration with Eugene Perepletchikov
education
2019
Emerging Cultural Leaders Program
2013 – 2016
Bachelor of Fine Art at Monash University