Projects
School of a Spinning Planet is a four part exploration of place based community philosophy anchored in the seasonal equinoxes and solstices.
Fighting for Breath was a collaborative spoken word soundscape produced with James Mangohig for the 2024 Red Dirt Poetry Festival.
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.
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.
What stories of trade and travel are hidden in our everyday items? A teaspoon, a phone, a pair of shoes – these objects have shadow lives filled with other people and other places.
Small. Slow. Humble was an invitation to consider radical alternatives to the current models of creative success. This interactive forum blended community conversation, reading group and ritual to create space for reflection, discussion and visioning about how we, as artists, might nurture small, local and inclusive practices within our individual and collective practices, in the places where we live, work and love.
Postcards to the Future was a mail art project supporting communities to reflect on the disruptive experiences of COVID19.
In conjunction with Lock the Gate and the Arid Lands Environment Center, I designed and co-facilitated a four part workshop series on creative activism in Mparntwe/Alice Springs with local artists and activists, culminating in an artist led action against fracking and climate change.
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.
Local Knowledge shared a patch work of stories from Mparntwe/Alice Springs through mapping and walking tours.
We learn stories from our parents, our siblings, our friends. Stories about how to be a partner, a parent, a man or a woman.
Together, italk Studios and Holyoake created six innovative animations for the Young People’s Program.
The Museum of Intimate Memories was a tiny pop up museum exploring memory and connection through ritualised archiving and story telling.
In 2018 I worked with Lock the Gate to design and produce ‘Adapting the Arts’, a project building the capacity of artists in mining affected communities through developmental commissions and workshops.
In late 2015 and early 2016 I worked with 8CCC Community Radio as creative producer on the second series of Many Voices One Place.
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.
Whilst working with Alice Springs Women’s Shelter, I developed the Stitch in Time project. Over two years we collected and shared over 100 women’s stories of resistance to domestic violence through the creation of 10 story quilts.
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.