RESEARCHING POTENTIAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONNECTION THROUGH THE BODY AND SENSES ...
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.
cultivating reciprocity (a message for the arts ecology) (2020) (in collaboration with Mary Mcintyre)
Online Group Exhibition
Audio
Presented by The Walls Artspace, Gold Coast and supported by Outer Space, Brisbane.
Part contemplation, part advocacy, these artist koans are the product of a group therapy session with a collection of Brisbane-based emerging artists and local buddhist somatic psychotherapist and Insight meditation teacher, Mary McIntyre. Together we dove into our doubtings and reckonings with our local arts ecology; its capacity to cultivate artistic health, our capacity to cultivate a healthy ecology, and its relationship to our own practices and wellbeing. They were facilitated and recorded online in our respective homes, together while apart, during the beginning of the Covid-19 social distancing period.
De-Marcating Space for the Pursuit of (...) (2019)
Solo Exhibition
Installation: Silk, gum tree branches, silver paint pen, rope, gum tree shavings, silver electrical tape
Cool Change Contemporary, Perth
A conceptual toolkit for invoking a momentary experience of “Magic” and pause in urban parks and public space.
Images by Paul Sutherland
URBN ASMR (2017)
Solo Exhibition, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne
Video Installation
Exploring states of alienation, disembodiment and fractured sensation in urban space, and conceptualising new ways to atmospherically “relate” to the urban landscape, using tropes and techniques from ASMR media phenomena.
Images by Vikk Shayen
Ceremony to Lost Connections to Nature #1 (2017)
Work-In-Progress Solo Performance/Installation, Civic Park, Newcastle
Mosquito Sounds, Salt, Sandalwood & Citronella Coils, Bricks, Pine, Australian Afternoon Tea, Found Ceramics
Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium/This Is Not Art Festival 2017
A recipe and toolkit for creating everyday ceremonies dedicated to our lost connections to nature.
Sound Design by Josh Wilkinson
Images courtesy Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium
Afternoon Fountain Routine (Live) (2016)
Solo Performance
Hose, Parlour Palm, Water, Black Plastic
Was It A Dream? A Midsummer Night's Dream? Watt Space, Newcastle
Opening event of This Is Not Art festival as part of Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium
Exploring deficiencies in the way we are permitted to connect or “commune” with ‘nature’ in our everyday experience.
Afternoon Fountain Routine (2016)
Group Exhibition
Video Projection, Succulents
Self Imag(in)ing, Queensland College of Art Galleries, Brisbane
'it is a long time since this moment', Unhallowed Arts Festival, Old Customs House, Perth
Embodying a fountain on the back stairs of my home in Brisbane's West End.
Images by Jeremy Eden
Serenity Crawl (2015)
Group Exhibition
Video Projection, Stones, Running Water
SCENE ONE at The Laundry Artspace
An attempt to "commune" with a misty field via fumbly crawling.
Install Images by Naomi O'Reilly.