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Lucy’s Creek
How can contemporary painting, grounded in experiences of Country, foreground intergenerational Aboriginal memory and lived experience to critically reflect on the silences and biases within colonial records? The project focuses on reimagining the life of my third great-grandmother and Cabrogal woman, Lucy Leane, by weaving…
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Djagats (The Newly Arrived / Native Dignity)
Djagats is a large-scale oil painting series that reinterprets Samuel Thomas Gill’s colonial watercolours The Newly Arrived (1840-1872) and Native Dignity (1840-1872). These original works depicted First Nations people from a Eurocentric perspective that reinforced the colonial narrative. Djagats reimagines these portrayals to create a more empowering representation, addressing the history…
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Be Wary Guyung
In this series, I explore my journey through past, present, and imagined futures of negotiating my mixed identity.
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Traffic Offence
A phone on a horse juxtaposes two powerful symbols of cutting-edge technology from different eras. Historically, the horse was a vital force for human progress, enhancing livelihoods through its strength and speed. Today, technology plays a similar role, shaping our lives in profound ways, though…
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Urchins
This series emerged from an observation of gender behaviours and they have evolved similarly to behaviours in the animal kingdom. Seagulls are brash and predatory toward urchins, which have developed brittle, defensive traits, while lyrebirds listen to the cries of the seagulls and imitate their…
