My work casts, repeats, fractures, reuses, accumulates and insists on paint because the category of painting for me remains unsettled. I strip paint from its surface and rebuild it as an object. It is not just a material. It is a living, shifting thing. It flows, cracks, stretches and settles in ways that are both unpredictable and revealing. I stack, build and sometimes struggle with it, but I also let it find its own form. Repetition is key, insisting on the substance and testing its limits. Opaque colour, clear medium, fragments and remnants all matter. Sometimes it cracks, falls or shifts. I don’t hide this. I want paint to take up space, to be felt and understood through presence rather than image.

At the heart of my work is the grid. It is more than just horizontal and vertical lines. It is a human invention, a form we take from the shelf and adapt to whatever purpose we need. I treat the grid not only as a structure but as a material in itself. It becomes surface, volume and a framework for repetition, holding and guiding the paint while simultaneously asserting its own presence. It is both container and participant and its potential is endless, only becoming defined when limits are imposed. In my practice, this system holds both order and openness, reminding me that even the most rigid structures are capable of shifting.

What drives me is process and how paint moves, builds and holds itself within and against this structure. The grid gives me a way to repeat, stack and assemble, while the paint resists, leaks, and shifts beyond it. Their relationship is reciprocal. Each work takes weeks, sometimes months to make. There is always a balance between control and surrender, between my interventions and the paint’s own behaviour. I need to see what paint can do, how far it can go and how much it can take. Painting is the question. Painting is what I do to find the answer.

I am an Adelaide based Australian abstract artist with a background in material science. I hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Art and a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering from the University of South Australia. My final-year body of work, A Delicate Balance between Intention and Intuition, was selected for Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition 2024 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. I was a 2024 Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Studio resident and received the Major Prize at the 2024 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition. Other awards include the UniSA Creative Graduate Exhibition Prize (2023), the John Christie Wright Memorial Prize for Painting (2023), and the Friends of the South Australian School of Art Prize (2020).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 Motion, every*where: Adelaide Design Week, SA

2025 Punctuation, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC

2025 No Place Like..., Household, SA

2025 In Essence, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Gallery 1855, SA

2024 ACE Studios: 2024, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, SA

2024 Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA

2024 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, SASA Gallery, SA

2024 Short Notice #2, SASA Gallery, SA

2023 Coalesce, Graduate Exhibition, University of South Australia, SA

2022 Off The Grid, Adelaide City Libraries, SALA Festival, SA

2021 May: revisions, interventions, extensions, SASA Gallery, SA

2021 Remade, Gallery 1855, SA