I'm an artist working across still and moving images and text, at times including found materials, painting and collage.
Situated at the intersection of the personal and the political, my practice centres themes of relation, intimacy and connection, often positing imaginaries with a greater-than-human world. I use fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces, communities and lived experiences that are allied, fluid and multiplicit ~ a river that flows.
I live, work and create on the sovereign lands and waters of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation and honour their ongoing care and custodianship of Country. I acknowledge that this land was never ceded, and that the structural violence of, and the resistance against, the colonial State is ongoing.
I pay my respects to Ancestors and Elders, and all First Nations people. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
2025
Mirrors, Manningham Art Gallery [solo]
between the skin and sea (snippet), The Corner Shop [solo]
La Nuu Festival [solo]
if only we could take the time: contemporary Australian photography,
National Portrait Gallery [group]
All Stars, RMIT School of Art
Melbourne, AUS
Sydney, AUS
Rubí, ESP
Canberra, AUS
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Melbourne, AUS
2024
Diffraction, Syrup Contemporary [group]
In a restless world like this is, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre [group]
Double Take: Photographs from the Artbank Collection [group]
Future Tense, Quad/Format Gallery, Market Place [group]
OK Charlton Festival [group]
Persona, Dogwood Crossing, Western Downs Regional Art Gallery [group]
Sydney, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Derby, GBR
Charlton, AUS
Miles, AUS
2023
New Photographic image, Society of Modern Photography and Video [group]
Postcards for Palestine, Claire de Rouen Books [group]
Postcards for Palestine, Berlínskej Model [group]
Melbourne Now, Slippery Pictures, National Gallery of Victoria [group]
Of Embers, Maroondah City Council [group]
Daegu, KOR
London, GBR
Prague, CZE
Melbourne, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
2022
Like Yesterday, Redcliffe Art Gallery [group]
Maps of Disquiet, Chennai Photo Festival [group]
Return to Nature, Monash Gallery of Art [group]
Collection Focus: Up to Us, Rockhampton Museum of Art [group]
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award, HOTA [group]
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre [group]
Persona, QCA Galleries [group]
Centre for Contemporary Photography Fundraiser [group]
Animalis, Perth Centre for Photography [group]
Redcliffe, AUS
Chennai, IND
Melbourne, AUS
Rockhampton, AUS
Gold Coast, QLD
Muswellbrook, AUS
Brisbane, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Perth, AUS
2021
Static in the Air curated by Sohrab Hura, Ishara Art Foundation [group]
Growing Like A Tree curated by Sohrab Hura, Ishara Art Foundation [group]
Photobooks - Art Page by Page, Grassi Museum of Applied Arts [group]
Échappées belles, Saint Gilles [group]
Clouded, A Few Isolated Showers, Castlemaine Art Museum [group]
Her Beauty And Her Terror, Caboolture Regional Gallery [group]
Bowness Prize Celebrates 15 Years, Smith & Singer [group]
Pott + Indefinitely, Influences Festival [group]
Dubai, UAE
Dubai, UAE
Leipzig, GER
Brussels, BEL
Castlemaine, AUS
Caboolture, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Angers, FRA
2020
Swell, Breda Photo Festival [group]
Informal Gallery at Stone House [group]
From All Points of the Southern Sky, Southeast Museum of Photography [group]
what’s outside the window, ReadingRoom Online [group]
Breda, NED
London, GBR
Daytona, USA
Virtual / AUS
2019
the kids are in trouble, Reading Room [solo]
The Crossing, Myanmar Deitta [solo]
Swell, Monash Gallery of Art [solo]
Undercurrents, Transformer Station [group]
The Portrait, Home Gallery [group]
Noorderlicht 30 Years, Martini Plaza [group]
Peckham24 [group]
The Crossing, Bienal Fotografio do Porto,
Portugese Centre of Photography [group]
Restless Acts as part of Jack's Reloaded, Jack's Magazine [group]
The Crossing, Re-thinking environment, DL Gallery [group]
Successions + Collisions, Zephyr Mannheim [group]
Melbourne, AUS
Yangon, MYA
Melbourne, AUS
Cleveland, USA
Sydney, AUS
Groningen, NED
London, GBR
Porto, POR
Melbourne, AUS
Athens, GRE
Mannheim, GER
2018
The Crossing, Le Cloître Ouvert, DI MEZZO [solo]
New Works Commission for Lowlight Festival, SALT Contemporary [solo]
The Crossing, Hamburg Triennial of Photography [solo]
Entity of Spatial Existence, SIPF, Gillman Barracks [group]
Idiot Pack Noise, Brightspace Gallery [group]
Indefinitely, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie [group]
We Feed the World Project, Bargehouse Gallery [group]
Look Up At The Sky, Sala Muncunill [group]
Paris, FRA
Queenscliff, AUS
Hamburg, GER
Singapore, SIN
Melbourne, AUS
Darmstadt, GER
London, GBR
Terrassa, ESP
2017
Astres Noirs, Paris Photo Festival, East Wing Gallery [solo]
Indefinitely, Organ Vida Festival, Galerija Kranjčar [solo]
Dear Chris, Chobi Mela Festival [solo]
The Real and Other Places, CCP & Photo Shanghai [group]
Turtles all the way down, Collisions, Channels Fesitval [group]
An Unorthodox Flow of Images, CCP [group]
The Crossing, Franque [group]
Pott, f2 Fotofestival, Kuenstlerhaus [group]
The Crossing, FORMAT Festival [group]
Golden Record, Fotogalleriet [group]
Aperture Photobook Awards [group]
Paris, FRA
Zagreb, CRO
Dhaka, BAN
Shanghai, CHN
Melbourne, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Dortmund, GER
Derby, GBR
Oslo, NOR
ESP, SUI, GER,
RUS, SWE
2016
Indefinitely, Daylight Project Space [solo]
Indefinitely, The Lost Ones Gallery [solo]
30th Anniversary, Centre for Contemporary Photography [group]
Geografies (Look Up At The Sky), EspaiDos [group]
Das Licht der Nacht, Kommunale Gallerie [group]
International Young Photographers, Daegu Photo Biennale [group]
Indefinitely, BELONGING, Obscura Photo Festival [group]
The Crossing, ARENA, Noorderlicht Festival, Museum Bellevedere [group]
The Crossing, CCP Declares: On the Social Contract, CCP [group]
The Crossing, Transfer, Australian Centre for Photography [group]
Dear Chris, The Leftovers, Verge Gallery [group]
Documentum, Poem 88 Gallery [group]
Victorian Women Working in Photography, Gaffa [group]
Hillsborough, USA
Ballarat, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Terrassa, ESP
Berlin, GER
Daegu, KOR
Penang, MAL
Groningen, NED
Melbourne, AUS
Sydney, AUS
Sydney, AUS
Atlanta, USA
Sydney, AUS
2015
Indefinitely, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery [solo]
Fieber, PhotoIreland [solo]
Indefinitely, Athens Photo Festival [solo]
Terra Australis, Galerie Pavlova [group]
Pulse, Nooderlicht Festival [group]
Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection,
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery [group]
Transduction #18, Pause Festival, ACMI [group]
Mildura, AUS
Dublin, IRE
Athens, GRE
Berlin, GER
Groningen, NED
Caboolture, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
2014
Dear Chris, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery [solo]
Dear Chris, Queensland Centre for Photography [solo]
15 Artists, Redcliffe City Art Gallery [group]
This Is Not Detroit, Musisches Zentrum [group]
Genesis, HeadOn Photo Festival, M Contemporary Gallery [group]
Formality, Trocadero ARI [group]
Mildura, AUS
Brisbane, AUS
Redcliffe, AUS
Bochum, GER
Sydney, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
2013
Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, Colour Factory [solo]
Dear Chris, Edmund Pearce Gallery [solo]
Melbourne, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
2012
Near, Brisbane Powerhouse [solo]
Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, Forward Thinking Museum [solo]
From a Changed North, HeadOn Photo Festival, MiCK Gallery [solo]
Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, New York Photo Festival [group]
Hijacked III: AUS/UK, Photofusion Gallery [group]
____on this site, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery [group]
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Edmund Pearce Gallery [group]
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Carbon Black Gallery [group]
Near, Hijacked III: AUS/UK, QUAD Gallery [group]
Brisbane, AUS
Virtual/USA
Sydney, AUS
New York, USA
London, GBR
Mildura, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Melbourne, AUS
Derby, GBR
2011
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Noorderlicht Festival [group]
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna at FORMAT Festival [group]
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Nofound Photo Fair [group]
Near, Delhi International Photography Festival [group]
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Museum of Architecture [group]
Groningen, NED
Derby, GBR
Paris, FRA
Delhi, IND
Talinn, EST
2010
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Troika Editions, Front Room Gallery [solo]
London, GBR
2008
Ten Days in August, Museum of Brisbane [group]
Daryl Hewson Collection, QUT Art Gallery & Queensland State Library [group]
Brisbane, AUS
Brisbane, AUS
2007
April, Flipbook Media [solo]
Polaroid Transfers, Queensland Centre for Photography [solo]
Brisbane, AUS
Brisbane, AUS
2025
Tutor
Lecturer
Workshop
Speaker
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Artist Lectures
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Podcasts
Angkor Photo Workshops
RMIT University, MA Photography
Intensive, Photo Kathmandu
Art, Environment & Storytelling, Environmental Film Festival Australia
Museum of Australian Photography Bowness Anniversary Celebration
The Nearest Truth Workshops
Memorycult
A Small Voice – Conversations with Photographers by Ben Smith
Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography with Pia Johnson
2024
In Conversation
Tutor
Mentor
Lecturer
between the skin and sea book launch, Chose Commune
Angkor Photo Workshops
PH Museum
RMIT University, BA Photography
2023
Tutor
Milingimbi Art & Culture
Angkor Photo Workshops
Palmtree Workshops
2022
Artist Lecture
Lecturer
In Conversation
Artist Lecture
Speaker
NCAT
Nearest Truth Workshops
with Tim Dechent
Photocircle Nepal + Pathshala South Asian Media Institute
Considered Environment, Centre for Contemporary Photography
2021
Artist Lectures
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Teacher
Guest Judge
Plymouth College of Art
MA Photo, Photography Studies College
BA Photography, RMIT University
TOPSHOTS, Monash Gallery of Art
2020
Artist Lectures
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Judge
Lecturer
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Teacher
Photohouse UK, The University of The West of England
Lyceum Club Photography Circle
Pathshala South Asian Media Institute
University of Applied Arts
University of Tasmania
UTAS & Lumina Conversations
Photobook Kassel Awards
Photography Studies College BA
RMIT Photography BA
Angkor Photo Festival
Photographic Museum of Humanity
Emerging Women Photographers Initiative
2019
In Conversation
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Teacher
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Speaker
with Gareth Syvret, Monash Gallery of Art
with D Chappell, J Ridler and A Phizacklea, Monash Gallery of Art
Sotheby's
Contemporary Documentary, Myanmar Deitta
PH Museum Online Educational Program
Visual Thinking Masterclass, Monash Gallery of Art
Angkor Photo Workshops
Smart as Photography Symposium, Zephyr
2018
Teacher
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Speaker
Judge
Artist Residency
Teacher
Judge
Teacher
PH Museum Online Educational Program
Workshop Intensive, Photo Kathmandu
On Narrative and Place, Masterclass, Centre for Contemporary Photography
Angkor Photo Workshops
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
HeadOn Portrait Awards
The Lighthouse
Lighthouse Professional Workshops
Photobook New Zealand Awards
Masterclass, Photobook New Zealand
2013 — 2017
Lecturer, Photography Studies College
2017
Masterclass
Teacher
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Judge
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Speaker
In Conversation
Speaker
National Gallery of Victoria & Deakin University
Angkor Photo Festival Professional Workshops
On Narrative and Place, Masterclass Centre for Contemporary Photography
Masterclass, Perth Centre for Photography
Iris Awards, Perth Centre for Photography
Organ Vida Festival Open Call
What Makes a Great Photograph, National Gallery of Victoria
with Dan Rule, Perimeter Talks
Unless You Will Conference
Between Realities Symposium
Chobi Mela Festival
Commissioned Theme Essay, New Citizen, Organ Vida Festival
2016
In Conversation
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Teacher
with Fenella Kernebone, Australian Centre for Photography
with Pippa Milne, Centre for Contemporary Photography
Australian Centre for Photography Workshop Intensive
Anjali Children's workshop, Angkor Photo Festival
2014 — 2016
Curatorial Advisor, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery
2015
Arts Lecture
Guest Lecture
University of Newcastle School of Art
FH Bielefeld, Germany
2014
Speaker
Art & Mortality, National Gallery of Australia
2013
Co-curator
Judge
Contemporary Photography from Oceania, OBSCURA festival, Malaysia
Student Photobook Competition, Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive
2010
Magnum Workshop, FotoFreo, Fremantle Australia
2008
Teacher
University of Queensland School of Arts
2007
BA Photography
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2018 — Present
2013 — 2022
2021 — 2022
2009 — 2010
2007 — 2009
Teacher, PHMuseum Education
Lecturer, BA Photography, Photography Studies College Melbourne
Teacher, BA Photography, RMIT University
Editor, Silent Screams: Rights of the Child, Australian PhotoJournalist
Teacher, University of Queensland, Journalism & Visual Communication
Picture Editor, Australian PhotoJournalist Magazine
2024
Polycopies Grant
Foam Paul Huf Award
Winner
Shortlist
2022
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Acquisition
2019
Bowness Photography Prize
Winner
2017
Australian Photobook Of The Year
Winner
2016
CPH Award
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation, First Photobook Award
Winner
Finalist
2015
Daylight Photo Award
Winner
2014
Moreton Bay Region Art Award
Bowness Photography Prize
Merit Prize
People's Choice
2012
JGS Award, Forward Thinking Museum
Winner
2011
Australia's Top Emerging Documentary Photographer
Winner
2010
Troika Editions Format Exposure Prize
Winner
2007
APJ Award for Outstanding Documentary
Winner
Angkor Photo Festival [Siem Reap, KHM], RMIT Photography, PH Museum, Photo Kathmandu [Kathmandu, NPL], The Lighthouse [Kolkata, IND], Myanmar Deitta [Yangon, MYA], Australian Centre for Photography, Perth Centre for Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Museum of Australian Photography, Palmtree Photo Workshops [Santorini, GRE], Photography Studies College, University of Queensland, FH Dortmund, FH Bielefeld, and many others.
National Gallery of Victoria, HOTA Gold Coast, Maroondah City Council Galleries, Art Bank, Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Galleries Collection, Queensland Centre for Photography Collection, Museum of Brisbane, Daryl Hewson Collection, Numerous private collections in India; Germany; France, Austria, The United Kingdom, Switzerland, USA, Italy, Australia + The Netherlands.
The New Yorker Magazine, UNIF, Vogue US, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, LukaRey, Neither, Die Zeit, Financial Times Magazine, Dear Liu Weihang, California Sunday Magazine, British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Yucca Magazine, Thomas Pink, TERRITORY (BASF Magazine), Brynjar Dadson, Matt Davis, Jayne Tuttle, Tom Cooney, JFDR, Carrie Nation, Lowlight Festival, Unless You Will, Amnesty International, SBS Australia, Bloomberg Businessweek, Queenscliff Bookshop, Marie Claire Magazine, Human Rights Defender and others