This work was created on the stolen lands of the Boon wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to them and to other First Nations people living across this continent and its surrounding waters and countries, and to all elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

We are wild and natural beings. We are also, however, entrapped and complicit in systems of civilisation, capitalism and consumerism.

We have created the category of 'unnatural' or 'man-made'; we exist as the dividing line between the false dichotomy of the organic and the inorganic. I am considering my place in the landscape that surrounds me: Country that is both natural and built. Country consisting of rubbish that we have created from living matter, that is then used and discarded, left to be re-woven into the fabric of the environment.

I consider the impact of my body on its environment – with a soft gaze and with playfulness, tenderness and intuition. Certain actions feel ancient and innately written into our bodies: making, collecting and nesting, holding, noise-making. Through this lens, my body can act as a way to view a mass of bodies and actions – humankind and the Anthropocene – and our collective human impact over time on the greater world surrounding us.

I look around at the endless crap we have accumulated, the things we have created and surrounded ourselves with, the fuck-up we’ve made of the planet in a very short time – it’s absurd. Ridiculous. But deadly serious. You have to laugh – or you'll cry.

I’m asking you to pay attention to the destruction of consumerism, capitalism, selfishness, but also to the beautiful world that we live in. 


There is so much to wonder at and so much to pay attention to.

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i look for peace, i find rubbish, 2021  

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i look for peace, i find rubbish, 2021  

site-specific installation  

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i look for peace, i find rubbish, 2021  

site-specific installation  

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i look for peace, i find rubbish (detail), 2021  

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i look for peace, i find rubbish (detail), 2021  

site-specific installation

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bone-crush (2 kg of bacteria), 2021  

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