About
Concerned with built and natural spaces my practice considers human impact on our environment and vice versa.
I create immersive multi-disciplinary experiences which guide audiences through real and imaginary worlds.
Originally trained in the performing arts I have built a repertoire that encompasses installation, film, sound and participatory elements to strengthen the scope for innovative audience engagement. Inspired by experimental performance art practices that came to prominence in the 1960s, more recently I have been influenced by the immersive performances of companies such as Punchdrunk and Marshmallow Laser Feast. Similarly I am motivated by artists such as Olafur Eliasson who constructs built environments that cross over between performance and the visual arts through active audience participation.
Post Dining
Between the years of 2012-2014 I lived in Edinburgh, UK, participating in independent arts curation and was introduced to the concept of Food and Eating design. On returning home to Kaurna Country in 2015 I co-founded creative production company Post Dining with Dietitian and Illustrator Hannah Rohrlach.
Post Dining uses food as a tool to interact and playfully disrupt the status quo, exploring the innate connection between people food and the environment through immersive theatre, experimental dining and tailored design. We have since gone on to produce multiple award-winning and sell-out productions collaborating with the Australian String Quartet, MOD., Ernst & Young, Open State Festival, the History Festival of South Australia, Bunjil Place, and the Migration Museum among others.
Freelance
I also work as a freelancer across film and live performance, as Producer, Director, Editor, Videographer, Audio Recordist, and Art Director.
I am currently directing a play for kids about the magic of compost, co-creating a VR experience of kids theatre show Herding Caterpillars, and producing/directing The Fish Bowl - an award-winning immersive theatre production about the lived experience of Dementia in aged care. Alongside this I also accept freelance commissions for corporate and creative filmmaking.
Education.
Current Doctor of Philosophy
Creative People Products and Places Research Centre (CP3), University of South Australia
2019 Diploma, Screen and Media
MAPS Film School, Adelaide
2016-2017 Bachelor of Arts, Drama, Honours
Flinders University, Adelaide
2010-2012 Bachelor of Arts, English & Drama
Flinders University, Adelaide
Incl International exchange to Royal Holloway University of London(Autumn term 2012)
Professional Development.
2021 MatchLab, Creative Partnerships Australia
2020 Screenmakers Conference, Delegate
2020 Australian International Documentary Conference, Leading Lights Recipient
2020 Electric Dream Festival, Delegate
2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Industry, Delegate
2017 Venture Dorm, Innovation training 12 week program, New Venture Institute
Awards.
2023 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award Best Music, Woolgatherer
2022 BankSA Best Theatre and Physical Theatre, The Fish Bowl
2022 Holden Street Theatre Award, The Fish Bowl
2021 Adelaide Fringe Sustainability Award, Eating Tomorrow
2021 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Interactive, Film or Digital, Eating Tomorrow
2019 Nominated: Adelaide Critics Circle Award, Independent Arts Foundation Award for Innovation, PitchFork
2019 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Interactive, Film or Digital, PitchFork
2017 New Venture Institute, Venture Dorm Finalists
2017 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, John Chattaway Award for Innovation, Future Conversations
2016 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Emerging Artist Award, Post Dining
2016 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, High Commendation for Interactive Category, Post Dining
Residencies/Commissions.
2023 Frank Ford Commission, Brag Drunch
2022 Adhocracy Vitalstatistix, Brag Drunch
2022 Assemblage, The Void, Flinders Uni, Assistant Artist to Rosina Possingham, Herding Caterpillars
2021 Cinematic Experiments, The Mill x Mercury CX, Adelaide
2020 Breakout Residency - Freerange, The Mill, Adelaide
Productions.
2023 The Fish Bowl, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Summerhall, Anatomy Lecture Theatre
2023 Brag Drunch, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Space Theatre
2023 The Fish Bowl, SALT Festival, Nautilus Theatre
2023 Woolgatherer, Adelaide Fringe, My Lover Cindi
2023 The Fish Bowl, Adelaide Fringe, Holden Street Theatres
2023 Herding Caterpillars VR Experience, Nature Festival, State Library of South Australia
2022 Eating Tomorrow, Art Is… Festival, Horsham
2022 The Fish Bowl, Adelaide Fringe, The Mill
2021 Eating Tomorrow, WEA Adult Learning Centre, Adelaide Fringe
2020 The Compost Play, Touring Production, Kids Theatre
2020 Future Feast, MOD., Adelaide Food Fringe (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 Pitchfork: ASQ + Post Dining, Masonic Lodge, Adelaide Fringe
2018 Post Dining Bite-Sized, Raj House, Adelaide Fringe
2017 Future Conversations, Victoria Square, Open State
2017 Future Conversations, Central Market Kitchen, Adelaide Fringe
2017 Winter Solstice, Producers Bar
2016 Post Dining, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe
Installations.
2021 Visions, Film Installation, Jam Factory Gallery 2
2020 Hunt & Gather: Online, Multi-Media Installation, SALA Online
2019 Hunt & Gather, Multi-Media Installation, Drill Hall Torrens Parade Ground
2014 Vault 5, Sound and Writing Installation, Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh
Short Films
2021 Racy, Documentary, In Development (Director)
2021 Furbulous, Web Series, Directed by Leela Varghese, (Art Director)
2019 Crush, Short Film, Tropfest Finalist, Directed by Leela Varghese, (First AD)
2018 Women In Film, Documentary, MAPS Film School (Director, Editor, Sound)
2018 Submerged, Experimental, MAPS Film School (Director)
Grants.
2023 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund (The Fish Bowl Edinburgh tour), $5000
2023 Arts South Australia (Brag Drunch), $18,300
2023 Arts South Australia (The Fish Bowl), $17,500
2023 City of Charles Sturt (The Fish Bowl), $4,800
2021 Suzanne Eliot Trust (The Fish Bowl documentation), $4,800
2021 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund (The Fish Bowl), $5,500
2021 MATCH Lab, $5,000
2021 Ripple Effect, $1,500
2021 Arts SA, COVID Relief Fund (Eating Tomorrow), $41,700
2020 Arts SA, Independent Makers and Presenters (Eating Tomorrow), $32,300
2020 Adelaide Fringe Covid Support (Eating Tomorrow), $5,000
2020 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund (Eating Tomorrow), $5,000
2020 Australia Council for the Arts, Adapt (Post Dining), $18,962
2020 Arts SA, Independent Makers and Presenters (Eating Tomorrow) $17,500
2020 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund, Quick Response Grant $2,000
2020 Adelaide City Council, Quick Response Grant (Hunt & Gather) $2,000
2019 Arts SA, Made in Adelaide, Producers and Presenters (PitchFork) $4,000
2019 City of Adelaide, Community Programs and Events (Hunt & Gather) $8,000
2017 City of Adelaide, Quick Response Grant (Winter Solstice) $2,000
2016 Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund (Post Dining) $5,000
Writing.
2017 Cast no Shadow / Rose Tinted / The Violet Hour, FELTspace, READ
2017 Bodies in Space, Fine Print Magazine, READ