I am a Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary multidisciplinary artist producing documents that occur at the intersection of painting, sculptural objects and installation. My project investigates the dialogue between paintings, the body and the expanded space of the gallery they all occupy. "The spatiality of installation art translates painting from plane to space and wraps the work around the viewer, thereby eliciting the more bodily and performative type of response." (Ring Peterson 2013). Using installation as a method of presentation, I have investigated the theatrical relationship between the viewer and the painting through the act of encounter within the gallery space. My works achieve this by producing stage-like installations that allow the viewer the option to view the work in a traditional manner – standing from afar – or to be an active participant within the scene where, like the works themselves, they become actors on a stage.

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Painting Parallel to Space 1&2, 2021  

painting on canvas, drawing on paper, ceramics, hot glue and wool

dimensions variable

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