Current & Recent Projects

Beyond the Platypus Man (2025-26)

Beyond the Platypus Man is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary project exploring how creative practices can re-frame and re-value the Burrell collection - a large series of zoological artefacts associated with Harry Burrell, an early 20th century Australian natural historian who became known as the ‘Platypus Man’.

Through experiments in photography, sculpture, collage, drawing and writing, this project considers how museum collections imbued with troubling colonial and extractive processes might be re-imagined in more relational ways, re-connecting objects with each other and with places, kin, lost stories and audiences to better honour and enable their agency in a time of contemporary ecological unravelling.

Beyond the Platypus Man is a University of Technology Sydney funded initiative. The research team includes Zoe Sadokierski (Chief Investigator), myself (Partner Investigator), Delia Falconer, Meg Foster, Monica Monin and Cameron Muir.

M16 Artspace/Concept Six Environmental Artist Residency & Exhibition (2024-5)

During this nine-month artist residency, I used walking, drawing and sculptural experimentation to explore life along Weston Creek, a little known waterway in suburban Canberra, ACT. Asking what it might mean to understand ‘sustainability’ as a process of caring better for this disordered place, my residency included learning from Ngunawal Elders about water Country, documenting the work of local Landcare groups rehabilitating native habitat, and seeking for ways to hear the creek’s own telling of its stories through rain, sap, silt and softening concrete.

My residency culminated in Creek, an M16 Artspace solo exhibition, held from 23 January - 16 February, 2025.

This residency was generously supported by M16 Artspace and ConceptSix through their Environmental Artist in Residence Program, which supports the arts in the ACT.

Borders (2022-24)

Borders was a multi-year creative inquiry aimed at re-visioning the Murray River as a meeting place; not a delineated border between NSW and Victoria but a fluid social/ecological community. Over the past two years, I’ve joined leading Body Weather practitioners and a diverse range of visual and performance artists for a series of labs exploring techniques for bodily accessing layered contexts of places. Produced by Rhae Kendrigan, Borders culminated in Mildura in April 24 with a mini-festival including exhibition, performances, workshops and artist talks.

River Country (2023- 25)

River Country was a substantial art and engagement project building community capacity to explore, articulate and share cultural values of Murray-Darling system waterways. As a Senior Fellow at the National Museum of Australia, I co-led the project with partners from the Sydney Environment Institute (University of Sydney), the Cad Factory, Petaurus Education Group and multiple communities.

Canberra artist S. A. Adair and I collaborated to create a substantial installation, Wetland, evoking the shapes, flows and species of a Murray-Darling waterscape and incorporating works by over 90 community artists and students. Supported by a wider production team, this work became the environment for a multi-year series of conversations, school workshops, film screenings, walks on Country and other activities.

River Country launched at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, and through a NSW Government Regional Arts Touring Fund Grant toured to the NSW Riverina (Narrandera, Leeton and Balranald), Far West (Broken Hill, Menindee, Pooncarie and Wilcannia) and North West (Moree, Walgett, Collarenebri). The project was further developed into a Learning Resource for primary students.

Finding Weston, Considering Country (2023-4)

Finding Weston, Considering Country brought together Ngunawal Elders and a multi-disciplinary collective to walk along, listen to, learn about and reflect on Weston Creek as Country. Co-developed with my Catchment Studio co-director, Nicola Lambert, this program included four ‘walkshops’ and a series of online discussions on colonialism and positionality.

Finding Weston, Considering Country was made possible through a generous ACT Government Environmental Grant 2022-3.

Body Forms (2025-6)

Responding to my ongoing engagements with Body Weather and other embodied research and performance methods, I’m investigating over 18 months methods for ‘whole of body’ drawing. Experiments focus on representing bodies (human and otherwise) in movement, mark making that captures experiences of moving and drawing encounters between multi-species bodies. This work will feed into a series of sculptures reflecting on the cross-species fluidity of bodies/identities.

Wetlands (2024 - 28)

Wetlands is an extended program of independent creative research into the lives and stories of Australia’s Murray-Darling wetlands. Framed around questions of ephemerality, disintegration and re-enchantment, this project explores a number of seasonal wetlands, using processes of embodied engagement, drawing and installation to investigate contemporary efforts to re-build these damaged places.

Research to date has centred along the Murray River in the Murray-Wakool inland delta and at Hattah Lakes. First outcomes were exhibited at the Swan Hill Library in April-May 2025.

Edge Land (2024-26)

Edge Land is an intermittent collaboration with artist Mia Thurgate investigating the West Jerrabomberra Grasslands, with a focus on the lively zone where woodland meets grassland. During visits to this landscape, we are creating 100 ‘objects’ that record how place intersects with memory, exploring the idea of more-than-human memory and how remembering happens bodily as well as the mind’s eye.

University of Canberra/Belconnen Arts Centre Mid-Career/Established Artist Residency for Cross-Sector Engagement (2022)

During this four-months part-time residency, I developed a series of walk diaries documenting my investigations of Weston Creek as a place of beauty, critiquing the discourse of deficit habitually applied to such urban waterways. This practice developed into Printing Weston, a one-day community workshop inviting local residents to learn more about the creek and create nature prints recording their encounters with the environment. Following the workshop, I worked further with participants’ outcomes to create a single work, On Beauty, exhibited as part of the Upending: Mending exhibition at Belconnen Arts Centre, 20 May - 3 July, 22.