My artistic journey started in high school in Busselton and the ATAR art program allowed me to think about how images could have meaning and experiment with different techniques at a larger scale. This led me from drawing caricatures and watercolour paintings to using mediums like screen printing, airbrush, and oil paints.
After experimenting with the graffiti style and animation, I created a punk-inspired piece called “Animals”, which focused on the innate animalistic nature of humans and how we are all still animals. This piece was selected to be included in the WA Pulse Perspectives Exhibition at the West Australian Art Gallery; this ultimately inspired me to pursue art.
Since then, studying Fine Arts at UWA introduced me to printmaking, which is now central to my practice. I use the printing press to layer and connect images, combining ink prints and drawings with solvent transfer and colour. I’m drawn to the process of building an image over time and arriving at something I hadn’t originally planned.
My current work explores a kind of nostalgia that isn’t my own, much like music from another era that still feels familiar. I often imagine Yallingup in the 1970s and translating that atmosphere into my prints. Growing up in Quedjinup has shaped the way I think about images and the feeling I want my prints to hold.
I create this through mixing faded and more polished marks, creating scenes that are in between the past and present. A lot of these scenes are based around Australian life, using recognisable settings or tropes that feel familiar but slightly out of place.
The images themselves come from a mix of sources. Some works are built from collections, like HOLIDAY”72 (Aunty Sheila), which uses a series of holiday postcards from the 1970s. Others come from my drawings, found images from op shops, or my own photography. I collect, edit, draw on and rework these, bringing them together to form new compositions.
my art is inspired by finding perfection in imperfection - I’m drawn to art that is clean but still clearly irregular or imperfect, torn edges with slight imperfections. Imbalance is important: where things are slightly misaligned or on edge, but still holds together … I’m interested in finding the point where images can feel resolved without becoming controlled.
I try to create images that people can connect to within their own space or time. I see art like a live music performance, which is not flawless but engaging and exhilarating.