Term: February 2020 – March 2020
“The impetus for my practice is always a fixation on the language and images in use around me, be it an advertisement or an aphorism scrawled on a toilet wall. I borrow details from what I see and hear every day and remake or reconfigure them, at times rendering familiar ingredients strange and new.
I have produced sculptures of objects observed in the news, paintings inspired by illustrations found in a hardware store catalogues and social media vernacular, a film combining song lyrics with footage of a Japanese robot made for the purpose of training dentists… I recognise pictures and words as carriers of meaning as well as tools for persuasion. Isolating, repeating, or juxtaposing them, and even altering their scale, proportion, materiality, and so on, is, for me, a way to playfully deconstruct (and better understand) the elements that shape our perceptions of the world around us, of one another, and of ourselves.”
CV
Education
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne Selected Exhibitions
2020 Breaking the habit of beinf yourself, Discordia Gallery, Melbourne (solo) 2019 Shit that I like, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne
2019 Soft Limit, DAVID, Melbourne (solo)
2019 Pictures and Words part I, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2019 Dogs are playful, Neospace, Melbourne
2018 The Mule a Thousand Miles From Home, Jacombe ARI, Myrniong
2018 A hush fell, 1-35 Wellington, Melbourne
2018 I like anything, Tans Martial Arts, Melbourne
2016 A Billion Bucks, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne
2015 MacArthur Park, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 Material Image Solutions, Fort Delta, Melbourne (solo)
2015 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2015 Habitat, CalArts Student Gallery, Los Angeles
2015 Proud, Margret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Majlis Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Margret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2015 Conflict of Interest, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Proud, VCA Margret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Compromise, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Reciprocal Failure, Goodtime Studios, Melbourne
Curatorial Projects
2018 – 2019 Co-director of artist run space, DAVID, Melbourne
2019 Dogs are playful, Neospace, Melbourne (with Matt Arbuckle)
2018 A hush fell, 1-35 Wellington, Melbourne (with Hugo Atkins)
2018 I like anything, Tans Martial Arts, Melbourne (with Matt Arbuckle) 2014 Reciprocal Failure, Goodtime Studios, Melbourne (with Andrew Long)
Residencies
2020 Leipzig International Art Programme (forthcoming) Grants and Awards
2015 Majlis Travelling Scholarship (shortlisted) 2013 RMIT Link Arts & Culture Grant
Grants and Awards
2015 Majlis Travelling Scholarship (shortlisted)
2013 RMIT Link Arts & Culture Grant
