I’m a painter and printmaker from Aotearoa New Zealand, now living and working on Gayamaygal Country near Manly, NSW.
I make paintings and drawings of the native and introduced flora of the local area as sustained meditations on place, growth, time and impermanence. My works imagine lush environments through intricate, densely layered compositions, stretching botanical forms and flattening pictorial space to draw detail forward into the viewer’s plane.
A second line of enquiry into time and impermanence is through portraiture, capturing the fearlessness and direct presence of children, and the ever changing experience of motherhood.
Trained as a printmaker, drawing and composition are central to my approach. My current bodies of work engage with the visual and spatial language of Japanese printmaking and painting and 1990s–2000s Neopop aesthetics.
Before returning to studio practice, I held professional and leadership roles in libraries and cultural institutions, information policy, and product management, informing a creative practice shaped by scholarly research and systems thinking.
I studied printmaking and art history at the Elam School of Fine Arts and University of Auckland, and art history at the University of Edinburgh. I graduated with a BFA in Printmaking and a BA in Art History, and the Printmaking Prize. I also hold a Master of Information Studies with Distinction from Victoria University of Wellington, supported by a Victoria Graduate Scholarship and I was awarded the Rosemary Smith-Horton Prize for Digital Technologies.
