LUME


2022

Conté on paper

23 x 32cm


These drawings are direct artefacts of light moving in space — and of time passing. They were made by tracing the afternoon sun’s flickering movement across the paper with a pencil. What appears as shifting light is not derived from the sun’s motion but rather the earth’s rotation. The drawings, thus, track the turning of the earth, connecting the celestial to the everyday.


GHOSTS


2022

Watercolour and metallics on paper

18 x 23cm


These paintings were painted after staring at a single star until I felt the urge to blink. They are expressions of measured awe, defined by my body’s brief ability to stare at a shining spot in the sky before its limitations override and require me to blink.


THE MOTHERS


2022

Residency

Kerfuffle Collective,
South Fremantle, Australia



THE MOTHERS unfolded over a month-long residency at my neighbourhood cafe. I spent each morning there, often with my one-year-old son, meeting and drawing the faces of the mothers that frequented the cafe. The walls of the cafe were slowly populated with images of the mothers as they were drawn, amassing to nearly 100 portraits at the end of the month.

The cafe was an environment that interested me as a new mother and an artist — an environment that has been historically lively for artists, but also an important space for mothers — often the only contact they may have in a day with other adults. The cafe provides a casual setting in which incidental yet significant interactions with the community take place.
The motivation for the project was simply to let mothers feel seen and heard, to give them my presence (sitting to draw them), and a presence in the space (quietly populating the walls). It was also a way of seeing myself — reconciling some of my own challenges as an artist and a mother — mirrored in the framework of the project and the community of mothers around me.

The work grew to become a subtle, evolving social portrait; an offering to our collective consciousness of who a mother is, the stories she holds, and the ideals we hold her to.

The drawings are what remains of the more intangible process of connection, healing and exchange that occured during the month.



BLACK POOLS


2021-22

Watercolour and metallics on paper

14 x 15cm


Stemming from an encounter with volcanic waters inside an Icelandic cave, a series of later meditations gave rise to the image of the black pool in my subconscious. Visions of shimmering dark pools began to appear in my dreams with increasing frequency as I prepared to give birth in 2021. The black pools were apparitions of a life force both cosmic and primal; painting them became a reservoir for my subconscious.



INCOMING

Fremantle Biennale 2021


2021

Role: co-producer (with Katherine Wilkinson)

A ten-week programme of mentoring, process and discussion delivered as part of the Fremantle Biennale 2021 festival. Seven young West Australian artists participated in the program, and were led by myself and Katherine in a series of weekly workshops / creative labs. In collaboration with Kat and I, the labs were facilitated by local, interstate and international artists, both in-person, on-site, or over Zoom. The INCOMING project centred on themes of collaboration, caretaking and place-responsive practice. The program intentionally leaned away from outcomes/output and instead focused on laying the foundations for a longer-term vision of creative community in the future generation of artists.










LAB LEADERS

A Published Event (TAS)
Kynan Tan (NSW)
Setare Arashloo (Iran)
Mike Bianco (WA)
Fernando do Campo (NSW)
Jonatan Spejborg-Juelsbo & Lasse Høgenhof / LungA School (Iceland)









(Above) Images from Derbal Yerrigan ritual (week 10)

(Below) Images from York field trip with Mike Bianco (week 5)