Wee bit of wild walking over the weekend on Yuggera/ Githabul Country through ancient Gondwana Rainforest, to meet the 'Steamers' ft a hell of a lot of Gympie Gympie and incredible bird sounds echoing across the range.
#protectnativeforests #gondwanarainforest #bushbashing #thesteamers #gympiegympie
I'm getting ready and excited to head down to @qbankgallery in lutruwita next week! Some recent photos of copper acetate (crystals viewed through a loupe), cyanotype and wool experiments in the studio, taken whilst procrastinating from packing.
#ecologicalgrief/intimacy #extractiveindustries #psychogeography #ecofeminism #moonscape/dead river
Wallum walking on Kabi Kabi Country, sound on for spooky forest creatures this eve
#biosphere #treeear #forestbeings #ecologicalintimacy
Love yer ginger guts Benny @bendraper32 - happy birthday beautiful human 🧡 (last pic by the gorgeous @stephanie_leo)
It's a peculiar thing to meet the tangible tree beings scribbled about in sketchbooks many moons before. Are you listening, listen listen. Words and scribbles from a time when my body decided to tap out and I couldn't hear properly for months, other than deep vibrational watery sounds, it's on the verge of doing the same at the moment so I am trying to listen this time. Photos taken kayaking with my love up the Noosa everglade system a few months back, Kabi Kabi Country.
#treehollow #waterbody #biosphere #treeear #beings
Le studio ft copper experiments
#waterbody #skins #ecologicalintimacy #grief #theprocessofrepair
Yul-yan-man track, Kabi Kabi Country ft beautiful tree hollows, rain and a wee echidna.
#protectnativeforestsnow #walkslowly
Star guts (continued)
Only a few days left to go and see this year's @40under40exhibition show if ye can folks...
Artwork info: Falling through space (holding on) | Cyanotype, Bloodwood Tree Sap, Copper Oxide Ink, Salt, Watercolour and Graphite on Tracing Paper | 42 cm x 29.7 cm | 2024.
#ecologicalintimacy #fallingthroughspace #threshold
I had the wonderful opportunity to teach the home-school kids at @wildlings_forestschool how to create Cyanotypes (Light Magic Drawings) yesterday, so many gorgeous artworks were made in collaboration with the forest. What a special experience.
Thanks for the snaps of me nerding out about art @alyciak & @ashleyed.7
Also shout out to @wiesmier who taught me this process many moons ago in her wee dark room studio on the Isle of Lewis supported by the brilliant and so so essential for the arts in the Hebrides @anlanntair and @studioalexboyd - legends 💙
#cyanotype #alternativephotography #lightmagicdrawings #blueprints #artandecology
Well fuck, totally did not anticipate becoming the 'overall winner' of the @40under40exhibition last night, thank you to all involved for your hard work and dedication to the arts here on the Sunshine Coast and for supporting people like myself.
This body of work comes from a darker period of my life, a time of unwellness, loss, grief, strangeness, the beginning stages of healing and the consistent desire and need to turn it all into art. It's about living with c-ptsd and the metamorphosis of deep familial trauma. I've found it hard to conceptualise what it all means without being too obvious but I think it's come to a point where ambiguity doesn't really matter anymore because honesty is needed more than ever in these weird times we find ourselves in. It is about time, internal weather systems (with thanks to @karlapringle, whose practice, friendship and writing has influenced me), fractured memory, place(s), the body; reclaiming my body and its memories, it is grotesque (to some), sexual, uncomfortable and magic to others. Moss mother's milk is transformed by the space/ site she finds herself in, the heat, the humidity, the rain, and the duration the work is able to unfold.
With the prize money I am now able to fund my residency at Q Bank Gallery, in Lutruwita this May. Which I am so excited about. A whole month taken out of the chaos of life to honour my art is such a wonderful gift. Here's to more of that this year and going forward.
#yeow #fallingthroughspace #mossmothersmilk
Thank you @ketakiijewsonbrown for this cute snap of me and Ben at Woodford 💗 ft our matchy matchy outfits ha!
#utilitykilt
More things that you will see at the @40under40exhibition -
Falling through space (holding on) | Cyanotype, Bloodwood Tree Sap, Copper Oxide Ink, Salt, Watercolour and Graphite on Tracing Paper | 42 cm x 29.7 cm | 2024.
Now framed by the fabulous folkies at the @cagalleryau - thank you legends 🪐
#ecologicalintimacy #fallingthroughspace #threshold
Moss mother's milk is flowing, install complete for the @40under40exhibition
#mossmothersmilk #fallingthroughspace #ecologicalintimacy
#memoryvessels
Falling through space (moss mother's tongue/ memory vessel) | Clay, Cyanotype, Bloodwood Tree Sap and Resin | 2024.
#fallingthroughspace #ecologicalintimacy #sculpture #vessel
Things you will see at this year's @40under40exhibition -
Moss mother’s milk (memory vessel activation) | Copper Oxide Ink, Clay, Cyanotype, Bloodwood Tree Sap and Resin | 2024.
Thank you to @barbora.tomikova and Ben for the videos x
#mossmothersmilk #fallingthroughspace #ecologicalintimacy
#memoryvessels
