BIO
I am a photographer, visual artist and creative practitioner living on Larrakia Country in Garramilla / Darwin.
My art practice combines photography, motion, sound and text, and my projects tread the line between conceptual and documentary. I am often exploring themes of time, record keeping, community, connection in my work and have experimented with performance, publishing installation, and online platforms as a way of sharing my projects. I have exhibited in Australia and overseas, and some of my work held in private and public collections, including the Merri Bek Art Collection and State Library of Victoria.
In my freelance work, I have been commissioned by major media organisations including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Liberation.fr and The Guardian for portraits and features. Since relocating from Melbourne to Darwin in 2022, I have primarily worked with remote art centres across the NT and Torres Strait to photograph Aboriginal artists and their artistic practices, usually to support upcoming exhibitions in galleries and museums across Australia.
Alongside my art practice, I run private and tailored workshops in storytelling, filmmaking and photography for individuals, art centres, schools and other institutions, and work as a creative director and producer across various exhibition and storytelling projects.
AWARDS, TALKS & NOMINATIONS
Winner, Australian Photobook of the Year, 2022
Belonging, Panel Talk at ACMI, part of Photo 2022 International Festival of Photography, 2022
Nominee, World Press Joop Swart Masterclass, 2020
Winner, National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, 2019
Nominee, World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent, 2019
Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, 2017
Highly Commended, Maggie Diaz Photography Prize, 2017
Finalist & Exhibitor, Organ Vida International Photography Festival, 2017
Finalist, National Photography Portrait Prize, 2017
Recipient, The Pool Grant, 2016
Speaker, TedxManly, 2014
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & COMMISSIONS
Theory of Change, Qubit Gallery, Darwin, 2026 [upcoming]
Porch Diaries, book exhibited in Manifesto, group show at Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, 2023
Porch Diaries, book exhibited at Specular Horizons, Kuwait, 2023
Idle Hours, Photo 2022 x Parliament Victoria Commission, Photo 2022 International Festival of Photography
We Look Poor, part of ACTS I-VII by Oculi, group show at Benalla Art Gallery, part of regional programming for Photo 2022 International Festival of Photography 2022
Porch Diaries, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, 2021
Porch Diaries part of This Changes Everything (group show), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, 2021
Porch Diaries & Letterboxes (live performance), Tempo Rubato Performance Space, Brunswick, 2021
This Time It’s Personal, group show at Sun Studios, Sydney, 2019
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, finalist touring exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2019
A Change In The Weather, single-channel video commission part of Common Good, group show at Museum of Art and Sciences (MAAS), Sydney, 2018
Resist Laughter, solo show at The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat, 2018
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017, finalist touring exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2017
Bowness Contemporary Prize for Photography, finalist group show, Monash Gallery of Art, 2017.
Resist Laughter, Screenings Program at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Organ Vida Photography Festival, 2017
Resist Laughter, solo show at Special Group Studios, Feature Exhibition at HeadOn Photography Festival, Sydney, 2017
And Holland Had Tulipes, live performance with James Milsom, Unless You Will Symposium, 2017.
Crossover Web Documentary Festival, Denmark, 2016
Family.Life, Syracuse University and Alexia Foundation Project, USA, 2015
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
Arts Project Grant, Grants NT, 2026
Flourish Arts Recovery Grant, Moreland Arts, 2021
Sequana Partners & LUMAS Gallery Grant, 2020
MatchLAB, Creative Partnerships Australia, 2020/2021
Residency for RMIT Photography Alumni, 2018
The Pool Grant, The Pool Collective, 2017
EDUCATION
I am alumni of RMIT University, Melbourne (2014) and Danish School of Media and Journalism, Aarhus, Denmark (2015). I lectured in visual storytelling at Photography Studies College (2017-2019) and continue to guest lecture in schools and universities on a casual basis. I’ve explored photobook making, multimedia storytelling and the use of photographic archives in private workshops and masterclasses.