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Thornton Walker Book Launch
I have admired Thornton Walker’s paintings for years, although had only ever seen one in the flesh. So going to see Thornton’s paintings at Australian Galleries last week was truly inspiring… Packed…
August 14, 2015 -
Elixir and Leunig
Michael Leunig put to music by Katie Noonan, Stephen Magnusson and Zac Hurren – Elixir. I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced such an ethereal, beautiful sound before… The way the music built upon…
June 9, 2015 -
Comfort and Judgement – Gene Bawden
A month or so ago I went to the opening of Gene Bawden’s exhibition Comfort and Judgement. A beautiful and thought-provoking exhibit, I find it still lingering with me… Whilst exploring Australian…
April 20, 2015 -
Rethinking food labels
A lot has been in the news about the labelling of products, recently, and it’s a topic I’ve thought about often in the past…This article about a study by the University of Adelaide,…
March 4, 2015 -
NINE: Honours Exhibition
Currently setting up for our Honours Exhibition, NINE, which brings together all of the hard work I’ve done over the last year. All of the thinking, all of the politics I’ve looked…
November 8, 2014 -
Winter at MADA
I worked for MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture) over the mid-year break designing for our Open Day, Faculty Gallery and end of year show ‘MADA Now’. Here’s a snapshot of what…
August 11, 2014 -
Rooms Full of Roos
I really enjoyed the opening to David Lancashire’s Rooms Full of Roos exhibition last night. His Roo collages are beautiful and suggest the many layers that come together to form Australia’s rich…
June 5, 2014 -
Honours: visual communication and politics
I’ve been looking into how visual communication can be employed to create/increase political engagement. How can it be used to breathe life into something that appears to be so boring?! While there…
May 9, 2014 -
Visual Interest in a fluid layout
Playing around with turning my Composers publication into an Epub, these were a few of the unformatted conversions. I find them to be quite interesting and beautiful in their own right. The…
March 26, 2014 -
MADA NOW – Graduate Show
Our course has sadly come to an end, culminating in a show of all of our work; the MADA Graduate Show. We’ve been setting up the show for the last three days,…
November 20, 2013 -
Textures and Abstraction
Just a few discoveries found while working with the photographs used in Composers: Lives and Legacies. The sense of peace and the slight abstraction that is still read as leaves on a…
October 26, 2013 -
Shortlisted! Create Design Awards
Most excitingly I’ve been shortlisted in the Emerging Talent category for the 2013 Create Design Awards! I’m particularly excited that Desktop Magazine will be publishing my work! Best of luck to everyone,…
August 7, 2013 -
Dogwood Illustration
I drew these dogwood stems while illustrating a few bouquets of flowers. As Dogwoods are one of my trees; I wanted to celebrate their simple beauty by pulling them out from the…
August 5, 2013 -
Spirit of Youth Australia
I’m very excited to say my work has been labelled Highly Commended in the 2013 Spirit of Youth Australia competition in the Visual Communications category! It is quite an honour and I…
June 22, 2013 -
Victorian Architecture Awards
Working on the Victorian Architecture Awards Identity and Catalogue for the 2013 exhibition of entries. The identity is going to consists of 10 patterns, one for each category and all inspired by…
May 20, 2013
Thoughts, Ideas, Inspiration
Just a little collection of moments, experiments, work in progress, explorations and inspiration.