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I am an emerging artist working and living on Wangal Country. My paintings are contemporary watercolour landscapes. These are an exploration of seasonal change and the diversity of Flora and Fawna in bushland found on Gadigal Land.

My practice is centred around spending time in the bushland that remains in and around suburban Sydney. It's really important that I actively visit, explore and research the places I paint. Photographs taken during our walks are used as reference material when composing a landscape. The research I undertake for each painting, helps identify plants, animals and insects observed - most importantly the Traditional Custodians and Traditional names of the land I am inspired by and work from. As a descendant of immigration, my role as an artist, is as an outsider painting stolen Aboriginal land. I seek to make my work aesthetically beautiful, but this land's colonial history is ugly and devastating. Their knowledge and historical understanding of Country is incredibly vast and vital.

Education

  • Sydney College of Arts (University of Sydney), Rozelle NSW
    Bachelor of Visual Arts - Jan 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Southbank Institute of Technology, Southbank QLD
    Diploma Visual Art -
    Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  • Wide Bay Burnett TAFE, Hervey Bay QLD
    Cert IV Visual Art -
    2008 - 2009

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