I am a visual artist and activist with a focus on the environment and how people engage with it. I am concerned about humankind’s devastating impact on planet Earth, our home. Through my art I hope to instigate social change that benefits humanity and the environment. My wish is that my art will inspire hope despite the massive challenges we face.

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I believe art has the power to shift consciousness. I try to make art that gently facilitates thought, starts a conversation and initiates change. Art can present new ideas in an engaging way and as the world is facing so many challenges right now, I am playing my part to make the world a better place for us all. I aim to raise awareness about the unprecedented environmental problems we are facing – climate change, mass extinctions of species, plastic pollution – we are in a climate emergency and I feel an urgency to convey that message in my art.

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​Background

I worked as an art teacher, then graphic designer, and am now a full time artist, living and working on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung, on the Surfcoast in Victoria, Australia. I have a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) and in 2016 I travelled to Florence to study traditional oil painting techniques.

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In 2019 I was a semi-finalist in the Lester Art Prize with my self-portrait Our Addiction to Convenience and was a finalist in the Blacktown City Art Prize with a still life painting of single use plastic items, Artefacts of the Anthropocene.

 

For the last three years I have been involved in various socially-engaged art projects which focus on the environment including Sunrise Postcards, The Plastic Catch Project, The Black Finch Project, Climate Badges and Frontlines.

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''We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; ​
we borrow it from our children."

 

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Awards

 

Semifinalist in The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019

Finalist in Blacktown City Art Prize 2019

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In the Media

 

'Hope rises in postcard art', Geelong Advertiser,
17 July 2020, pg 4

 

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'Adani opponents mail bird art to politicians in silent protest'

ABC News Online, 18 July 2019

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'Creative Cause', Geelong Advertiser, GT Magazine feature

3 August 2019

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