Art & Creativity

The layered human relationship to the natural world is the starting point for my creative work. I’m drawn to ecology, botany and taxonomy, each a discipline that orders and makes sense of nature. I’m fascinated by diagrams that reveal the intangible as concrete and known and how colonial and indigenous connections to nature are expressed. Responding to a largely transient lifestyle, my works are mostly ephemeral: drawings, printmaking, photograms, self-made artist’s books and journals documenting travels, insights and day-to-day life.

^{Artist’s books and writings brought together to complement an orchestral event in 2023. From top left: Various photographs and drawings from Spain (c.2004), Lockdown book (2020), notes on measurement (artist in residence, Chicago, 2001), assorted rain forest leaves, travel diary Wairarapa (2018).}

Selected Achievements

Understory exhibition and public engagement programme project developer and lead, Waiheke Island
Residencies at Can Serrat (Barcelona), Chicago Centre for Book and Paper Art, Lowick House Print Workshop (UK)
Staff Artist for Raleigh International expeditions to Sabah, Borneo and Mongolia
Flora and Fauna Illustrations for the US National Parks Service and German Development Agency
Individual and group shows in Auckland, Dunedin, Barcelona and Winchester
Bachelor of Visual Art (Auckland Society of Arts, NZ)
Master in European Fine Art (University of Southampton, UK)