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My multidisciplinary practice addresses communication through voice, language and the interplay between hearing/listening, seeing/reading. Using field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word I explore an expanded approach to language within and across species through a framework of everyday experience. The artworks are social in nature and frequently involve collaboration and participation with other artists and with audiences. They take several forms including texts/scores, soundworks, installations, external public artworks, radio, live performance, readings and artists’ books.

Brought up in London UK I arrived in Naarm/Melbourne Australia, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, as visiting artist through Gertrude Contemporary in the 1990s. My work has been exhibited and performed regularly both within Australia and internationally since the 90s, within gallery spaces (university galleries, museums and artist-run initiatives), externally at public sites including public art commissions with local councils, as well as international conferences, media festivals, public radio. I teach in Narrm/Melbourne at Swinburne University (MA Writing), RMIT University (MA Public Art) and hold a practice led PhD (Fine Art) through RMIT University.

     
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PhD (Fine Art) 2008-2015 RMIT University, Melbourne Australia
A practise-led research project through the School of Art, entitled Tell Me Something: unlearning common noisy wild urban birds through listening, voice and language
Supervisors Lexley Duxbury and Philip Samartzis

Link to PhD exhibition Shooting the Breeze

Link to PhD thesis at RMIT Researchbank

     
     
   
   

Associate Member of AEGIS Research Network RMIT University Melbourne
Arts, Ecology, Globalization and the Interpretation of Science (AEGIS) is an interdisciplinary research network focusing on how practices of art and cultural critique respond to global ecologies. With a strong grounding in urban human ecologies research and with an emphasis on social processes of globalisation, AEGIS focuses on projects that prioritise the role of art in interpretations of natural history, science and technology.

    Associate member of CAST Research Group RMIT University Melbourne
The Centre for Art, Society and Transformation (CAST) researches how art transforms human communities within an age of rapid urbanisation and globalisation. CAST builds on practice-led research in art and public space, using practical, curatorial and theoretical methodologies. Its researchers examine art’s capacity for social engagement and power to foster local, regional and international creative partnerships and networks.