Projects
School of a Spinning Planet is a four part exploration of place based community philosophy anchored in the seasonal equinoxes and solstices.
An interactive workshop exploring the teapot as a site of gathering and story telling for the 23rd Sydney Biennale’s School of Water.
A two day field school engaging in swampy ways of knowing Gurmabai/ Rapid Creek and it’s catchment through creative and place based research.
A collaborative workshop exploring legacies of nourishment and pollution in the Gurambai/Rapid Creek.
A video poem created by ethnobotanist Fiona Walsh, using an extract from my poem ‘The Claypans Diaries’, alongside Arrernte language reflections written by Veronica Perurrle and spoken by Kumalie Kngwarreye.
Gathering Ground was a generative walkshop series, using embodied reading, walking and making to expose and transform relationships between people and places.
Testing Ground was a ritual of recovery responding to the damage to the ‘Ilparpa Claypans’, caused by dumping and invasive weeds.
Love, Resistance and Other Survival Strategies was a community pedagogical response to the Black Summer of 2019.
Here We Are was an experiment in mapping and storytelling, using mail art and cyanotypes to memorialise people’s experience of social distancing under COVID19.
Postcards to the Future was a mail art project supporting communities to reflect on the disruptive experiences of COVID19.
Local Knowledge shared a patch work of stories from Mparntwe/Alice Springs through mapping and walking tours.
The Museum of Intimate Memories was a tiny pop up museum exploring memory and connection through ritualised archiving and story telling.
What becomes of the by products of our past; painful memories, niggling regrets and other detritus from times long past?
Eye of the Storm brought together 40 of the nations most interesting writers and thinkers including Benjamin Law, Anna Krien and Ali Cobby Eckermann.
In 2012 I had the honour of being invited to collaborate with textile artist Nicky Shonkala as part of her common threads project exploring the intersections between art and craft.