I am a contemporary jewellery artist and design educator at the University of New South Wales, School of Art & Design on Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia.
I have a background in classical ballet and design, graduating with a Diploma of Dance from the Australian Ballet School in Naarm (Melbourne), followed by a Bachelor of Design, Master of Design (Research) and Doctorate of Philosophy from UNSW.
My practice focuses on aesthetics of time and interests in movement, materiality and place through intricately detailed surfaces and forms in paper or metal. These interests are fundamentally shaped by my desire to explore the inherent beauty and complexity of materials and their transformative potential through ongoing refinement of making skills and haptic knowledge. Notions of time conveyed through making processes involving repetitive and labour-intensive methods of paper folding, laminating metal and enamel processes are inspired by many years of travelling through the South Coast landscape between my home studio on Yuin Country and UNSW. The idea of the repeated, looped journey through a landscape that is familiar and yet constantly in flux infuses my work.
I have produced ten solo exhibitions including Still Point at Funaki Gallery (2024), The Stream of Time at Woollahra Gallery (2022), New Terrain in an Old World at Craft + Design Canberra (2017), Infinite Fold at JamFactory (2009), and Mathematical Beauty at the Australian Design Centre (2006).
I was artist-in-residence at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland in 2006 and at Bundanon on Dharawal Country, NSW, Australia in 2010. My work has been selected for exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, England, Scotland, Germany, and the USA, and is held in collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Griffith Regional Art Gallery and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.
I have been working at UNSW Art & Design since 2018. I developed the Object Design disciplinary studio in the Bachelor of Design from 2018-2020. I was Director of Education from 2020-2022, and currently I am Deputy Head of School (Design) and Director of the Bachelor of Design and Master of Design programs.
I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, the Jerrinja people of the Yuin nation and the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. I recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present. Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded.