I am an artist and work from my studio in Waikato, Aotearoa. I work to think about ideas. My practice looks at the hijacking of the natural world and the human built world by the modern market system. I use an expanded methodology of drawing, studio mahi in different media, symposia talks, writing, the occasional residency, and Collective Invention workshops.

I focus on three main projects: Water Systems, It Started With A Kiss and A Black Comedy in Pastels.

o  I am currently making a sculpture Bird and Insect Bath for Sculpture On The Gulf 2022 on Waiheke Island as part of Water Systems, which looks at getting water to animals in times of drought.

o  It Started With a Kiss looks at information space and the expanding influence of form over content in the human built world. It Started With a Kiss is an ongoing project and has been supported by Creative New Zealand, the Blumhardt Foundation and The Arts Foundation Boosted community.

o  A Black Comedy in Pastels plays with the human shift of mind and environment from Culture/ Nature to Culture/ Culture, it jumps around between the other two projects.

I also work at Māpura Studios in Auckland; Māpura is an outsider art studio for artists living with diversity, adversity and disability. I have tutored at universities, polytechnics, prisons and private and community art schools across Aotearoa. I have a Bachelor of Arts, Art History Major, from Victoria University, Wellington and a Master of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne.

I have been in over 40 group shows and have had 18 solo shows, including

o  It Started With A Kiss: a low resolution show about high technology, Waiheke Community Art Gallery- Te Whare Taonga o Waiheke, Waiheke Island, 2018

o  The Showroom: a black comedy in pastels, an installation at Te Uru, Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2014

o  Storage Systems, an installation at the Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, 2011

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