Catmosphere 2023 Single channel video 6 min.

Hoard 2023 Stop animation 50 sec.

Amber 2023 Single channel film installation

Amber is based on the amber light of a glass ashtray and here represents a shadow side of family life. Amber glass is iconically 1970s and can also denote poisons, and it alludes to the amber cycle of traffic lights, a warning. I have utilised these signifiers to reflect family life from a 1970s child's point of view. For children, cupboards are full of shadows, and unless you are hiding inside one, they are better off closed.

Anti[Flag] 2023 Documentation of a performance work.

I live in a bush haven bordered on one side by Brushy Creek. Under Australian law, I am said to own this land, yet it was violently stolen from the Muwinina people. My performative work acts as an anti‑flag for my home. I used water drawn from the creek, which will one day reach the ocean and that may once have been fog over Newfoundland or rain in Quy Nhon. The circular form of the work evokes this unending water cycle and speaks to the unownable nature of land. It also deliberately subverts the traditional shape of a flag, a rejection reinforced by its lack of colour. Flags represent a worldview I refuse; stripped back, they are ephemera of militarism and perceived ownership of territory. Five layers of Brushy Creek water, frozen into an ice disk, mirror the layers of the place itself: its first people, its invaders, its later farmers, and finally me. I returned the ice disk to the creek, allowing it to melt.