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Education
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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