“ I invite you to come walk with me, from the Kosciuszko and Namadgi National Parks to remote sections of the NSW central coast. A shared journey, discovering how to walk light in our increasingly fragile environment.”

The exhibition is both a geographical journey and a personal memoir as I seek to understand what motivates and binds us to places within the landscape. How real are these connections, what are its ramifications and how can I tread lightly in an increasingly fragile environment. By exploring our tenuous relationship with the environment and how important it is to both respect and appreciate the land that we live in, I seek to highlight the precious and unique life that lies around us and at our feet. What can be seen as detritus contains a lifecycle both ancient and immeasurable, a fragile beauty to be revered and protected.

The work in this exhibition is the culmination of three recent artists residencies. The first taking place in 2023 at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT and Gudgenby ready-cut cottage in the Namadgi National Park, where I researched concepts of self-portraiture and portrait of a place. The second in 2024 at S12 Workshop and Gallery, Bergen, Norway exploring how the landscape can influence our sense of identity and belonging to a place.  Then finally and most recently at the Canberra Glassworks, Kingston, ACT, bringing together these experiences and newly sourced information creating new bodies of work some that are on show here in the gallery.

Cottesloe Gallery
13 November - 1 December 2025