Walking within the nocturnal landscape allows an experience of gradually transforming space. A sense of the unknown is on a steady incline as the urban spaces of human and animal habitats overlap. The stark shift from daylight to nightfall brings about rest and wakefulness for different species alike. The lack of light and decreased vision can distort reality; animals become more animated; context blends and obscures; shadows elongate; and the moon invokes a gaze as illumination from the manmade metropolis parallels the temporary shift in habitat.

Within my body of work I explore human-animal relations, specifically focusing on the animals that inhabit Melbourne’s nocturnal coastal environment. Working with mixed media allows me to translate the intermingling of species in a shared environment by capturing the multitude of  textures and qualities that make up this ephemeral space.  

A key element within my practice is the process of journeying by foot which allows physical interaction with the natural world. The footprints and impermanent indentations that are left on the malleable foreshore strengthen this connection to the land and its inhabitants.

Hybrid habitat (installation shot), 2021  

mixed media  

dimensions variable

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Conversations with my younger self, 2021  

coloured pencil on paper  

530.5 x 430.5 x 25 mm

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Woman in a puffer fish suit, 2021  

mixed media  

320 x 210 x 200 mm

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Man in a corn suit, 2021  

mixed media  

320 x 190 x 150.5 mm

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Person in a rat suit, 2021  

mixed media  

310 x 210 x 150.5 mm

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Elwood foreshore full-moon, 2021  

mixed media  

610 x 910 x 35 mm

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Lady in a moth suit, 2021  

mixed media  

710 x 400 x 330 mm

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