Beeswax, blackboard paint and gold pigment on 300gsm paper. 75 x 53 cm
These drawings were made at sunrise on a clear, cold morning on Sunday 21 June, the shortest day of the year. I made the first drawing while walking along Bondi Beach, near the water’s edge; then another while walking through Archer Park, the site of the terrorist attack at the Chanukah by the Sea event on Sunday 14 December. The final drawing was made while walking around the Northern headland while waves swirled around the rock platform and whales and a seal played in the water below.
Beeswax, blackboard paint and silver pigment on 300gsm paper. 75 x 50 cm
As we move through time and space we perceive through the body, through the activity of the senses. Whether consciously or unconsciously, what we sense also influences how we feel. In the daily flow of actions and reactions, our lived experiences are individual and unique, however, the boundaries at which the inner and outer worlds meet are the same.
I chose beeswax as a proxy for the body’s membranes, the surfaces on which impressions are made and perceived. I made these drawings into beeswax while walking at night around Sydney’s VIVID festival. I don’t look at the drawing while walking, I wait until the walk has ended to see what has been captured.
FINALIST, SWAN HILL PRINT AND DRAWING PRIZE 2026
Blackboard paint, graphite, charcoal and pencil on 300gsm Saunders Watercolour paper, 165 x 28 cm
Pride Square celebrates Newtown’s diverse, vibrant community; it’s also a popular place to meet, to protest, to solicit donations for a good cause, or to pass through on the way to somewhere else. I made these small drawings in the Square late at night, responding to the sounds, the energy and the atmosphere.
Beeswax, blackboard paint and gold pigment on 300gsm paper, 106 x 103 cm
FINALIST MANDORLA ART AWARD 2026 - ‘WHAT IS TRUTH’
Graphite, carbon, pencil, pastel and blackboard paint on drafting film, 153 × 50 cm
I’m a walking artist. I walk and draw to explore forms of thinking, feeling and knowing. Every week I visit Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in inner city Sydney as a voluntary Pastoral Care worker. These drawings are maps of my encounters while taking the crowded lifts to different floors and walking through the wards. I listen to people who are confronting truths, often unforeseen and unwelcome; I am changed by these exchanges. I made these drawings to honour the mixture of honesty, courage and acceptance needed to face life’s unexpected turns.
FINALIST, ADELAIDE PERRY PRIZE FOR DRAWING 2026
Carbon, pastel, ink and metallic silver pigment on 250gsm Stonehenge, 76 x 56 cm
The title of this drawing is a line from a poem by Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot in Minneapolis recently. The poem, On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs, expresses Good’s predicament as she studied for a degree, torn between faith and the reality of the world of science. I want to honour Good’s life by drawing attention to her poem.
I made this work after walking at night through crowded city streets, part of a flowing stream of humanity swept along the footpath, together but apart. My drawing imagines that a soul within us all is visible. While darker forces work to divide us, we need to work harder to cling to our shared humanity.
Acrylic, metallic silver pigment, ink, charcoal, graphite and pencil on 300gsm BFK Rives. 128 × 182 cm
An imperfect survey is a series of 23 drawings that document encounters with the natural world while walking on Gadigal Country in Sydney’s Inner West in Spring, 2025. I draw while walking as a distinctive strategy that brings perception and visualisation to the fore. I am a human seismograph, a proprioceptive device moving in space while responding to my surroundings.
Among my encounters with the thriving biodiversity that surrounds me, the 23 drawings include the sounds of a storm at night, the flightpaths of birds at dawn, city lights through trees, the paths chosen by insects, the strength of the wind, clouds on the horizon at sunrise, the size of trees and plants, the movement of an ibis pulling food from a bin and the swaying head of a dandelion in the breeze.
Acrylic, ink, charcoal, graphite on paper. 123 × 154 cm
19 Walking Drawings are part of a larger collection made while travelling in Europe earlier this year, through Southern Spain, Switzerland and Northern Greece. I walk and draw without a prescribed route, open to chance and random encounters. I am a human seismograph, a proprioceptive device moving in space while responding to my what I perceive. The marks I make are unmediated and unexpected, an affirmation of my sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.
Acrylic, carbon paper, graphite and pastel on 300gsm BFK Rives, glued together. 100 × 20 cm
Blackboard paint, acrylic, gouache, charcoal, pastel on canvas. 200 x 100cm
Finalist, M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, 2023, Canberra
Blackboard paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite, pastel on 300gsm watercolour paper. 56 x 76cm.
Acrylic, graphite, pastel on 300gsm watercolour paper. 56 x 76cm.
Blackboard paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite, pastel on 300gsm watercolour paper. 56 x 76cm.
Acrylic, gouache, charcoal, graphite and pastel on canvas. 100 x 100 cm.
Blackboard paint, gouache, graphite, charcoal and pastel on canvas. 100 x 100 cm.
Acrylic, graphite, charcoal, pastel and coloured pencil on canvas. 100 x 100 cm.
Gold pigment, graphite, ink and carbon on 270gsm watercolour paper. 30 x 42 cm
Ink, acrylic, graphite and pastel on 270gsm paper. 30 x 42 cm.
Ink, graphite, pencil and charcoal on paper. 30 x 42 cm.
Ink, metallic pigments, graphite on paper. 30 x 42 cm.
Ink and graphite on paper. 30 x 42 cm.
Ink, graphite and gouache on paper. 30 x 42 cm.
Charcoal, graphite and gold pigment on paper. 30 x 42 cm