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June 3rd 2025
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LAND publication
Alongside 13 other participants, I took part in a gently transformative process—one grounded in listening and learning more deeply about the undeniable reality of life and LAND’s intrinsic link.
Hosted by LungA School in Seyðisfjörðu, Iceland, More on that later I guess.
But for now I would like to share this first look at the deeply communal process of making this publication.
This collection of beautiful offerings is the fruits of 3 months and 16 peoples co-design of what publishing as a vessel looked like to us the LAND program of 25’. While I facilitated the compilation and printing of this publication which on any other day would have been an undertaking it felt light and exciting, because we did it all together. We would have casual and impromptu meetings as we discussed how to “make a keepsake” of thoughts, songs and collected flowers while stirring away from obligation, traditional academia and over-handling.
We truly focused on joy and organic growth, which honestly I found impossible when I thought about the publication as an individual, a finished product or a duty. This making process was purely led by de-escalation and communal thinking about our own positionality to this work._____ we knew that at any time the project wasn’t feeling good we could just let it go, it didn’t mean the project and our intention was any less important or urgent.
We ended up outside in the system of book making and headed straight towards the hills of gestural gathering. Void of registrant, hesitation and deadlines, this stream started to flow out of us as we shared humour, vulnerability and half-thought ideas that we knew deserved to go somewhere.
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JUNE 3rd 2025
MUSWELLBROOK FINALIST
https://artgallery.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/
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I’m thrilled to announce that my work CARBODY has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Muswellbrook Regional Prize. This painting is based on a ‘land-man-scape’ I encountered during my time in the Central Desert, Alice Springs, in 2023. Deteriorating car bodies have been a point of interest in my practice for over a decade. These vessels of safety, certainty, and security—when placed within the vast, larger-than-life reality of the Australian desert—become deeply symbolic. This scene punctures the illusion of the colonial Western world, revealing the complex layers of history embedded in the site of so-called Australia.
Exhibtion was on display in the summer of 2025
June 3rd 2025
LAND publication
https://www.lungaschool.is/en/land
LAND publication
Alongside 13 other participants, I took part in a gently transformative process—one grounded in listening and learning more deeply about the undeniable reality of life and LAND’s intrinsic link.
Hosted by LungA School in Seyðisfjörðu, Iceland, More on that later I guess.
But for now I would like to share this first look at the deeply communal process of making this publication.
This collection of beautiful offerings is the fruits of 3 months and 16 peoples co-design of what publishing as a vessel looked like to us the LAND program of 25’. While I facilitated the compilation and printing of this publication which on any other day would have been an undertaking it felt light and exciting, because we did it all together. We would have casual and impromptu meetings as we discussed how to “make a keepsake” of thoughts, songs and collected flowers while stirring away from obligation, traditional academia and over-handling.
We truly focused on joy and organic growth, which honestly I found impossible when I thought about the publication as an individual, a finished product or a duty. This making process was purely led by de-escalation and communal thinking about our own positionality to this work._____ we knew that at any time the project wasn’t feeling good we could just let it go, it didn’t mean the project and our intention was any less important or urgent.
We ended up outside in the system of book making and headed straight towards the hills of gestural gathering. Void of registrant, hesitation and deadlines, this stream started to flow out of us as we shared humour, vulnerability and half-thought ideas that we knew deserved to go somewhere.
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JUNE 3rd 2025
MUSWELLBROOK FINALIST
https://artgallery.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/[left] CARBODY exhibted as a part of BODYACHE at Wester Gallery 2025
Image by Ben Adams
Image by Ben Adams
I’m thrilled to announce that my work CARBODY has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Muswellbrook Regional Prize. This painting is based on a ‘land-man-scape’ I encountered during my time in the Central Desert, Alice Springs, in 2023. Deteriorating car bodies have been a point of interest in my practice for over a decade. These vessels of safety, certainty, and security—when placed within the vast, larger-than-life reality of the Australian desert—become deeply symbolic. This scene punctures the illusion of the colonial Western world, revealing the complex layers of history embedded in the site of so-called Australia.
Exhibtion was on display in the summer of 2025