BVAA (Brisbane Visual Arts Advocacy)

Founding member of the ARI currently known as BVAA in 2020, reviving again in 2022 with Noam O'Reilly and Amelia McLeish. BVAA is a working group intended to support and advocate for an artist-led, artist-centered and artist-first industry.

Website can be found here.

against perfection (2021)

against perfection (2021)

Solo Exhibition

Ingredients:

silk cement banners

audio contemplation

scent of wet cement

Curated by STABLE Artspace for Metro Arts' Window Gallery (Brisbane).

Voice & Contemplation: Mary McIntyre

Sound Design: Sonny O’Brien

Scent: Cat Jones

working with concrete as an element to shake free the possibilities of systems, environments, identities and bodies that are hardening, cracking and viscous... what can emerge from the fissures and dust?

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Images courtesy of STABLE

Attention Inner Tension (2020)

Online Performance Video​

Commissioned by Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane.

Sharing the process of reclaiming and rehabilitating my attention from an intense, long-term interface with systems that have perpetuated a cycle of extraction, distraction, hyperactivity and disconnection from the body. I consider my individual attention as the building block for paying consistent, expanded, collective attention to the larger, systemic issues at hand, both within myself and external to myself. Post-burnout, in Covid context, I’m beginning again.