About

I am a Victorian based artist and puppet fabricator who has worked in theatre, film and television for the past 9 years in a wide range of jobs. These include set design and construction, props, puppet design and construction, costuming, research and general art department. Highlights include being a fabricator on Spike Jonze’s Where

the Wild Things Are, building monster puppets for the Pixar exhibition at ACMI, being the designer for The International Puppet Carnival at Federation Square, working in both the props and set decoration for HBO’s The Pacific and as the costume designer for the Chookas festival at The Arts Centre.

In theatre I has worked with such companies as theatre in decay, Peepshow Inc., Red Cabbage and Three To A Room and has toured to the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Wellington Fringe Festival, New Zealand and Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. I also co-run the puppet company Terrible COMFORT which produces visual theatre around Melbourne.

I have exhibited artwork in places such as Federation Square, The State Library, the Centre of Contemporary Photography, Abbotsford Convent, and the Linden Gallery as well as At The Vanishing Point in Sydney and The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York. My work is held in collections around the world including MOMA in New York and Monash Heart Art in Melbourne.

My work and I have appeared in a number of magazines and books around the world including 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson and Vicky Howell‘s book Craft Corps.