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Based in Sydney's Northern Beaches, I have an evolving and experimental art practice that explores the language of material to stimulate thought and embody emotion..
My material manipulations reflect a visual language within the broad scope of non-objective art and foreground an interplay between form and process and between painting and sculpture.
It’s impossible to be totally uninfluenced by the space one inhabits. My interests move between the urban architectural space, wellness and fashion rather than purely painting and manipulating materials and shapes or attempting to express the sublime.
I assemble an eclectic mix of materials with choices determined by the materials’ intrinsic properties such as malleability and rawness.
My work while non-objective is not entirely self-referential.
Although the works exist as self contained units, as explorations of colour, shape, texture and form, they also alludes to the emotional highs and lows we experience when moving between spaces of containment and freedom; between control and spontaneity and between the familiar and unknown.
The artworks reflect choreographed events where spontaneity and process overlap with intention and form and intertwine with emotions and feelings.
I am an alumna of both Sydney University College of the Arts; and University of NSW.
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