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.
I capture my walks using a backwards-facing camera that records where I have been. These videos are drawings posted to YouTube.
Walking and drawing, Newtown, 2024.
About DRAW Space
In June 2023 I co-founded DRAW Space, an ARI located on Enmore Road in Newtown in Sydney’s Inner West 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. Find out more on the DRAW Space website.
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Select exhibitions
2024 Group Show / WALK WITH ME, DRAW Space, Newtown, Sydney.
An exhibition by nine artist-researchers who use walking as a deliberate strategy to reveal and disseminate new knowledge.
2024 Group Show / IN PARALLEL, DRAW Space, Sydney.
An exhibition of experimental drawing by founders and volunteers.
2024 GreenWay Art Prize, Highly Commended. White Bay Power Station, Sydney.
GreenWay Art Prize celebrates the qualities of the Cooks River to Iron Cove GreenWay – a 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 in October and then on tour around the UK.
2024 WALK/CREATE, L'Atelier Des Empreintes, Loire Valley, France.
Part of the 2024 Cultural Olympiad, an exhibition that examines the practices and processes of artists who utilise walking.
2024 PROCESS(ED), Articulate Project Space, Sydney.
A group show that examines the conceptual and aesthetic decision-making that is the process of making art.
2023 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, finalist, Canberra.
The 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.
2023 DRAW, Articulate Project Space, Sydney.
A group show that explores drawing as a process, situated within the expanded field of experimental and spatial practices.
2023 Reunion: Selected National Art School graduates, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
2021 The Postgraduate Show, National Art School, Sydney.
A group show from MFA and DFA students.
2021 1+2, Drawing Gallery, National Art School, Sydney.
A group show from MFA students.
2021 CHRONOLINEA: LINE AS TIME, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney.
A group show from BFA and MFA students.
2020 Contingence: Experimental drawing by MFA Students, Scratch Art Space, Sydney.
2020 Decameron: Drawings from Home, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney.
2020 The Other Art Fair, Sydney, cancelled due to COVID.
2019 The Graduate Show, National Art School, Sydney.
A group show from BFA students.
2019 Square Pants, Spare Pants, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney.
Third-Year Printmaker’s Group Show.
2018 PRINT MATTERS, Beehive Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney.
Second Year Printmaker’s Group Show.
Collections
Private collections in Australia
2017 and 2021 Archive, National Art School, Sydney.
Awards
2024 Highly Commended, GreenWay Art Prize, Sydney.
2024 Finalist, Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize, United Kingdom.
2023 Finalist, M16 Drawing Prize, Canberra.
2019 Winner, Anne Pata Memorial Award for Drawing, National Art School, Sydney.
Residencies
2022 AIR, Sydney Fringe Festival World Square, Sydney
Arts Organisations
2024 ongoing Secretary, Australian Walking Artists Inc
2023 ongoing Co-founder and Director, DRAW Space, Sydney www.drawspace.org
2023 ongoing Member, Railway Street Studios, Petersham, Sydney.
1995 ongoing Director, Pro Bono Publico, Sydney www.probono.com.au
Interviews
2024 Interview on Sympoiesis, Eastside FM 89.7 with Ira Ferris.
2023 Art Wank - interview with Fiona Verity and Julie Nicholson.
2023 Dither_ interview with Thomas Kursturin.
2023 Interview on Sympoiesis, Eastside FM 89.7 with Ira Ferris.
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.
Teaching
2024 DRAWING WALKSHOP, DRAW Space. Five-day event during which participants met, talked, walked and exhibited drawings in the gallery.
2022 ongoing Walking Drawing Workshop, public and private schools, Sydney.
2021 ongoing Life Drawing, National Art School, Sydney.
2021 ongoing Experimental Drawing, National Art School, Sydney.