Hand Dance (Physiotherapy) 2020 is currently showing as part of the Adaptation exhibition at Casula Powerhouse. Click here for catalogue with more info.
Water Doesn’t Tell Me To Lose Weight showed at Verge Gallery in 2019, c3 Contemporary in 2019 and is currently exhibited as part of the Hatched 2020 exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Exhibition at c3 Contemporary, Abbotsford Convent. Photographs by Aaron Christopher Rees.
Queer Life Drawing installation, exhibition and classes at AIRspace Projects.
All bodies are in a state of flux. Due to surgery related to my physical disability, my body went through dramatic changes that disrupted my understanding or knowing of my own body. In this work I invited 100 people to visit me and with the assistance of my nurses, mark my body with a single use disposable tattoo needle and ink while I was in a state of sense deprivation. This highly medicalized endurance performance explored themes of consensual non-consent, intimacy and states of bodily im/permanence.
This year I have been involved in an ongoing research project on collaborative healing practices. I have joined with people to look at the many ways that we can heal outside institutional and capitalistic understandings of healing. For this project I recieved a four color gradient SWIM GOOD tattoo designed by me and executed skillfully by Megan Oliver.
This work explores physical disability, maladaptive coping mechanisms and the compartmentalizing of pain. As most disabilities are invisible it becomes stressful for me when people don't know that I have a disability and what I am potentially managing at any given time. For me I am engaging with so many mundane day to day activities while always considering my body, my disability and my pain. Disassociating from my body has allowed me to be able to function in many everyday circumstances but also the negative connotations of this are that I now have a high pain tolerance and often feel a dislocation in relating to my body. I have referenced the Simple Minds song as a kind of in joke with myself about the tumultuous relationship I have with my body. Most people will forget that I have a disability but unfortunately I cannot.
Thank you to Sunday Away for her expertise & assistance.
Symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast grown in a hand blown glass sphere exploring concepts of synthetic landscapes.
Exploring intergenerational trauma and memory.
