About
I am an artist, games designer and playful engagement creative based in Melbourne, Victoria.
Games & Playful Experiences
I am a co-founder of the Melbourne pervasive gaming company Pop Up Playground and a member of the international playful company Agency of Coney. I am also on the Program Advisory Committee for Freeplay, Melbourne’s Independent Games Festival, for 2012. In 2011 I participated in Freeplay’s residency at the National Gallery of Victoria’s NGV Studio including running two ‘Playdays’ for the general public.
Theatre
In theatre I have worked with such companies as theatre in decay, Peepshow Inc., Red Cabbage, Three To A Room and Barking Spider Visual Theatre and I have toured to Fringe Festivals in Adelaide, Wellington, New Zealand and Edinburgh, Scotland. I also co-run the puppet company Terrible COMFORT which produces visual theatre around Melbourne.
Art
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, New York, the National Gallery of Victoria archives, Monash Heart Art in Melbourne and my street art project, Gilding the City, can be seen in cities all around the world.
My work and I have appeared in a number of magazines and books including 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson and Vicky Howell‘s book Craft Corps.
Film and TV
I have worked in theatre, film and television for over 10 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.
Education
I hold a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in photography and a Graduate Diploma in Primary Teaching from La Trobe University.
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