about

My practice brings together long-standing interests in natural forms, language, and the construction of meaning. Early curiosities about shells, fossils, and material structures developed alongside a growing attention to words and linguistic systems, shaping an enduring interest in pattern, organisation, and inference.

My professional background in education — particularly in literacy and language — further shaped this focus. Work across spoken, written, and signed languages sharpened my awareness of how meaning is actively assembled from incomplete information, and how understanding often emerges through inference rather than direct transmission.

Training in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), a visual language that operates without spoken or written words, deepened this awareness. Its spatial structure and visual grammar broadened my thinking about how meaning can be organised and communicated through visual and spatial forms rather than speech or text. As with all languages, meaning depends on the competence of its users and the signals available to them, reinforcing my interest in how interpretation and repair occur when information is partial or disrupted.

Working initially through drawing and painting, my practice has expanded to include text-based works and object-based installations. Across these forms I explore cognition and inner landscapes, often using landscape as a way of thinking rather than depiction. Over time the work has evolved from intuitive abstraction toward more deliberately structured systems, engaging with ideas related to Bayesian inference — the understanding that perception and meaning emerge through prediction, revision, and the interpretation of partial information.

Through abstract paintings, text-based works, and curated natural objects, my practice examines how patterns are recognised, gaps are filled, and inferences are drawn from what is present and what is withheld. I am particularly interested in cognition and metacognition — thinking, and thinking about thinking — and in creating conditions that heighten viewers’ awareness of their own perceptual and interpretive processes.

I hold a Master’s degree in Education and qualifications in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), and I am an ambassador for the CADE Clinic (Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation). My practice has developed alongside ongoing engagement with clinical and research contexts. I am the author of Art From Adversity: A Life With Bipolar, and my work has appeared in academic, clinical, and public-facing settings.