Earth

Treading lightly on this earth

Collaborating with the earth to create marks with sand, mud and people’s feet

MUD & SANDMARKS

Film, book & presentation | Pottsville 2024

Wetland markmaking

Mud drawings

Cudgera Creek mark making where the paper tore and water pooled with tree reflections

Sand marks

Immersing paper in the Pottsville wetlands lagoon where the sand drips to form marks

CLAY

Occupy exhibitions | Murwillumbah 2022 & Ballina 2019

Northern Territory desert grass and clay

Time(less) 2019

Handmade paper embedded with desert clay. Stitched collage with found objects

Waterholes 2022 & Bore Run 2019

Artist books using handmade papers from desert grasses embedded with salt pan clay

WALK THE EARTH

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) exhibitions | Bulgaria 2018 & Beaudesert, QLD 2017

Handmade banana paper

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) 2018

Installation for Responsive Paper, IAPMA congress - Paper: Conscience and Consciousness, Sofia, Bulgaria. May 2018.

Kiss the Earth (with your feet) 2017

Installation at Caring for Country exhibition, The Centre, Beaudesert, QLD. August 2017.

FLOOD MUD

Deluge exhibitions | Murwillumbah & Lismore, 2019

After the 2017 Flood

Blues

In 2017 my art studio was flooded after Cyclone Debbie ripped through northern NSW. My paper survived with mud marks of incredible beauty.

Blues celebrates nature’s mud palette where ink and silt bled together to create new stains and waterlines.

Blueprint for Change 2018

Blueprint for Change sums up the climatic change we are all undergoing as a planet. Nature will always have the upper hand. We have to change, adapt and find kind ways to nurture this earth, to work with it.

Acquired by the National Centre for Flood Research, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW.