about

Living and working on Gadigal Country in inner-city Sydney, my drawing practice is an exploration of forms of thinking, feeling and knowing. I draw while walking as a distinctive strategy that brings perception and visualisation to the forefront. What do I know of my surroundings in the moment of encounter and how is this shaped by memory? My drawings, therefore, are not about things or places or myself but about the relational space between them and the energy created in the interstitial.

Drawing is an economical process well suited to transferring one reality into another, the transference is immediate. Walking mostly at night without a prescribed route, I am a human seismograph, a proprioceptive device moving in space while responding to my surroundings. I walk and draw with both hands while wearing a harness to hold my drawing board and carrying drawing materials in my pockets. The marks I make are unmediated and unexpected, a direct reflection of my sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.

Occasionally I capture my walks using a backward-facing camera that records where I have been. These videos are drawings and are posted to YouTube.

About DRAW Space

Since graduation, I founded DRAW Space, an ARI located on Enmore Road in Newtown in Sydney’s Inner West together with ten other artists. DRAW Space provides a platform to make, see, and experience contemporary drawing. We work with a broad definition of what drawing is and encourage continued research and exploration of what it can be. As a new centre for contemporary drawing, we aim, through exhibitions, performances, workshops, artist talks and residencies, to engage more closely with the broader community, expand understanding of what drawing is and enhance the standing of drawing in an Australian and international art context. You can find out more on the DRAW Space website.

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Exhibitions

2024: Greenway Art Prize, Highly Commended. A notable event on Sydney arts and culture calendar, the GreenWay Art Prize celebrates the qualities of the Cooks River to Iron Cove GreenWay – a precious 5.8km urban environmental and sustainable transport corridor in Sydney’s Inner West.

2024: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Finalist. Featuring drawing from around the world, the opening event and exhibition will be held at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 3-16 October and then on tour around the UK until July 2025.

2024: WALKING IN ART, Montsoreau, France. Part of the Cultural Olympiad, a group show that examines the practices and processes of artists who utilise walking. 21 April to 16 June and 15 September to 17 November. L'Atelier Des Empreintes, Loire Valley, France.

2024: PROCESS(ED) A group show that examines the conceptual and aesthetic decision-making that is the process of making art: determined by many things including choice and sometimes by accident. Articulate Project Space, 11 May - 2 June. Leichhardt.

2023: M16 Drawing Prize, 2023, finalist. The M16 Artspace Drawing Prize includes both traditional drawing media and techniques, as well as innovative non-traditional works that extend the understanding of what drawing may be within contemporary art practice. 25 November - 10 December. Canberra.

2023: DRAW A group show that explores an idea of drawing as a process, situated within the expanded field of experimental and spatial practices. 19 July-13 August. Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.

2023: Reunion: Exhibition of selected National Art School graduates. A group show at Australian Galleries, Tuesday 24 January – Sunday 12 February. Opening night Tuesday 24 January, 6-8pm. Paddington.

2021: The Postgraduate Show, 2021 A group show from MFA and DFA students at the National Art School, Main Gallery, Hoff Space and Drawing Gallery, National Art School

2021: Chronolinea: Line as time A group show from BFA and MFA students at the National Art School, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School

2020: Contingence: Experimental drawing by Masters students from the National Art School, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville

2020: Decameron: Drawings from Home, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School

2020: The Other Art Fair, Sydney (part of the small cohort of students exhibiting on behalf of the National Art School) - cancelled due to COVID

2019: Graduation Show, Gallery, National Art School, Sydney

2019: Square Pants, Spare Pants, Third Year Printmaker’s Group Show, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney

2018: Print Matters, Second Year Printmaker’s Group Show, Beehive Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney

Collections

Private collections in Australia

2017 and 2021: Archive, National Art School

Awards

2019: Anne Pata Memorial Award for Drawing, National Art School, Sydney

Residencies

2022: Sydney Fringe Festival/World Square Artist in Residence, July-August

Education

2020-2021: Master of Fine Art majoring in Drawing, National Art School, Sydney

2017-2019: Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Print Making, National Art School, Sydney

1992: Certificate in Painting, National Art School, Sydney

Professional experience

1995-present: Director, Pro Bono Publico Design, Uncommon Design for the Common Good
www.probono.com.au

2023-present: Director and founder, DRAW Space, 31A Enmore Road, Newtown www.drawspace.org