2021 Master of Fine Arts, First Class Honours, Visual Arts (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, MADA, Monash University, Melbourne
Selected Exhibitions + Commissions
2023 Aeolus: Wind Harp Jam, Memories of Place, MPavilion, VIC (forthcoming November)
2023 Artist as Animal, Benalla Art Gallery Projection Façade, VIC
2023 Sediment, Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, VIC
2023 Denying Eye, Art at the Bank with Mars Gallery, City of Stonnington, VIC
2023 Always + Altered, Benalla Art Gallery with the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA), VIC
2023 US&U Stray Voltage, KINGS Artist-Run Gallery, North Melbourne, VIC
2023 Artist as Animal, International Symposium of Electronic Art 2023 Symbiosis, Forum des images, Paris, France
2023 Sediment, ACMIX Screening, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, VIC
2023 Fieldwork, Seventh Gallery with Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank, Collingwood Yards Arts Precinct, VIC
2023 Danger confined space, Gladstone Spring Studio Moving Image Commission, South Melbourne, VIC
2023 Under soil & skin, The Mission to Seafarers with the Centre for Projection Art & City of Melbourne, VIC
2022 Under soil & skin, Mixed Methodologies, Picture Berlin, WIRWIR Gallery Berlin-Neukölln, Germany
2022 Is that all?, The General Public, 99% Gallery, Nicholas Building, VIC
2022 Broken chord, Multi-Arts Pavilion MAP mima Cube, Lake Macquarie, NSW
2022 Broken chord print series, The Museum of Art and Culture, MAC yapang, Lake Macquarie, NSW
2022 Bowing the studio, Bilpin International Creative Initiatives Residency, Blue Mountains, NSW
2022 Played as they lay, Environmental Art Prize, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW
2022 Sensing the other in whatever form it comes, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, City of Yarra, VIC
2022 Minor python, a-field, Heide Museum of Modern Art with the Centre for Projection Art, VIC
2022 Of alkaline, Metro Tunnel Art, Franklin St Acoustic Shed, City of Melbourne, VIC
2022 Something is sinking in, 8.0 Dark Horse Experiment, with Flinders Street Ballroom Personnel, West Melbourne, VIC
2022 The ocean wants you back, Spier Light Art Festival, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, Cape West, South Africa
2021 Played as they lay, Wrong Biennale No.5, Essence/Absence Pavilion, Wonderland Festival, Paris, France
2021 The ocean wants you back, PAST, PRESENTs, FUTUREs, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, City of Yarra, VIC
2021 Played as they lay, Wrong Biennale No.5, Essence/Absence Pavilion, cable television, Portugal
2021 Silenced strings, Birds & Language Conference Pop-up Digital Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts
2021 Carving Cape Woolamai, Projection-performance, developed for Testing Nights, Testing Grounds, VIC
2021 Distilled dissonance: the species known & other beings, Island Island Digital Archive, Bus Projects
2021 Golden passage, official opening of Collingwood Yards Arts Precinct, with the Centre for Projection Art, VIC
2021 Played as they lay, Spier Light Art Festival, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, Cape West, South Africa
2020 Clean unclean, 3D scanned into reality, with Fringe 34 Digital, Melbourne Fringe Festival, VIC
2020 Blackout clean, Zero O’Clock Digital, curated by Sophia Cai, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA), VIC
2020 The Objet a and why you should want the heart of Himalayan monkeys et al, George Paton Gallery Virtual
2020 Light Windows, HoloCenter, New York, with Centre for Projection Art, Zaneth Manor & Collingwood Yards, VIC
2020 Tank, Next Wave Art Prize, New Student Precinct Project, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC
2019 Hold your tongue, Sir., Miegunyah Project Award, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Dulux Gallery Melbourne, VIC
2019 This is nice, with FiX Performance Group, KINGS (ARI), City of Melbourne, VIC
2019 Embryo, Circular, Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick, Moreland City, VIC
2019 Shyness is nice (SIN), Performing Textiles, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Familial feet, Fringe 33, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Abbotsford Convent, VIC
2019 Balancing act, Dirty Dozen Creative Spaces, Campbell Arcade, City of Melbourne, VIC
2019 Built-Bridges-Burnt, Satellite Anthem curated by Kate Just, Assembly Point Vitrines, City of Melbourne, VIC
2018 Before the light leaves us, From Nature Festival, Gasworks Arts Park, City of Port Phillip, VIC
2018 Bear ear, Small Works, fortyfivedownstairs gallery, City of Melbourne, VIC
2018 Fem*, Build/ReBuild, The Artists Guild, The District Docklands, City of Melbourne, VIC
2018 Fluoro Nightmare and the Restrained One, Intermission Gallery, MADA, VIC
Awards + Grants
2023 Wyndham Art Prize (finalist)
2023 City of Melbourne, Arts Grant
2022 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant
2022 Manly Art Gallery & Museum Art Prize (finalist)
2022 Regional Arts, Creative Victoria Grant
2021 Judges Choice Award, Gertrude Street Projection Festival
2021 Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2021 Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Scholarship, VCA, University of Melbourne
2021 Fine Arts & Music Graduate Researcher Fund, University of Melbourne
2020 Experimental Collaborations Grant, University of Melbourne
2020 Next Wave New Student Precinct Art Prize
2019 Ian Potter Museum of Art Miegunyah Research Award
2018 Bearbrass Prize for Bronze, MADA, Monash University
Conferences + Guest Talks
2023 Artist & Animal, panel convenor and presenter, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference, QLD (forthcoming, December)
2023 Birds & Language, panel convenor and presenter, Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Conference, NSW (forthcoming, November)
2023 Art + Ecology artist talk with Dr Suzie Fraser, Benalla Art Gallery, VIC
2023 Artist as Animal, artist talk, International Symposium of Electronic Art 2023 Symbiosis, Forum des images, Paris
2023 Projection Practice, artist talk & teaching assistant, Centre for Projection Art Masterclass, Mission to Seafarers, VIC
2022 Misdirected Unrealism, panel convenor and presenter, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference
2022 Bilpin International Creative Initiatives Residency, artist talk-performance and screening, Wollemi National Park, Blue Mountains, NSW
2022 A Soft Pulse, artist talk, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank, Collingwood Yards, VIC
2022 Minor python, artist talk, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
2022 Projection Practice, artist talk & teaching assistant, Centre for Projection Art Masterclass, Meatmarket, VIC
2021 Performing Cross-dissonant Problems in the Projected Image, lecture-performance, Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN)
2021 Conscience Centred Methodology, lecture-performance, Mattering, Significance & Value Research Symposium, University South Queensland
2021 Deaf Pixels, lecture-performance, Memory Conference, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA), University of Melbourne
2021 Silenced Strings, lecture-performance, Birds and Language Conference, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2021 Distilled Dissonance, lecture-performance, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music Graduate Research Symposium, University of Melbourne
2019 Miegunyah Research Project Strategies & Findings, artist talk, Ian Potter Museum Award, Dulux Gallery, Melbourne
Residencies + Intensives
2023 IMMA International Summer School, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IE
2023 ACCA Data Relations Summer School, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, AU
2022 Art + Ecology, CoVA Residency in partnership with Shepparton Art Museum, AU
2022 MAP mima Artist Residency, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie, AU
2022 Posthuman Summer School & Art labs, Universiteit Utrecht with Pro. Rosi Braidotti, NL
2022 Bilpin International Creative Initiatives Residency, Wollemi National Park, Blue Mountains, AU
2022 Picture Berlin, Mixed Methodologies, Digital Artist Residency, WIRWIR Gallery, Berlin-Neukölln, DE
2021 Intrusive Thoughts: the internal monologue with Sam Lieblich, Free Association Writing Group, AU
2020 George Paton Gallery Mentorship with Dr David Attwood, AU
2020 The Institutional Collapse Masterclass, Artists for Artists (AfA) New York : International, US
2020 Centre for Projection Art, Summer/Autumn Artist in Residence, Collingwood Yards, AU
2019 Studio XL>XS Summer residency, The District Docklands, AU
2019 Sonic Interdependence Masterclass with Julian Day: working materially with sound, AU
Selected Published Writing
2023 ‘Casting of Nets,’ Radicle Notes, Art + Australia (forthcoming)
2023 ‘Performing Cross-dissonant Problems in the Projected Image,’ Findings Annual: Creative Arts Research in Australia (forthcoming)
2022 ‘Birds and Language,’ Issue 8, Guest Editor + Researcher, Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts
2021 ‘The Link, The Limits Between,’ Interview with Gabriella Hirst, Currents Interdisciplinary Journal
2021 ‘The Species Known & Other Beings,’ Lecture Performance Essay, Bus Projects, Island Island
2020 ‘Conversation as Praxis,’ Editor + Researcher, Volumes of Mutual Aid Art Journal
2019 ‘Hold Your Tongue,’ Miegunyah Project Research Strategies and Findings, Ian Potter Museum of Art
2017 ‘Matthew Bird: Dormitorium,’ McClelland Sculpture Gallery, Art Almanac
2017 ‘Trapping the Island Tide,’ The Sculpture of Jon Eiseman, Trouble Magazine
2013 ‘Conversations with the Black Square,’ Gill Gatfield: Sculpture, Trouble Magazine
Memberships
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
Australian Academy of Cinema, Television and Arts
National Association of Visual Art
Australian Animal Studies Association
The Women's Art Register
Image: detail from Broken chord, 2022, print series, Museum of Art and Culture, MAC yapang, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
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