My work reconfigures found and familiar images, objects, signs, phrases and patterns in order to make their inherent contradictions, potentialities, and lost histories visible. Using painting, assemblage, drawing and collage I consider non-human animal lives and imagine our entangled futures. Material and aesthetic practices are imbued with political argumentation and, in a sense, continue my past academic research in interspecies relations, feminism, and the spaces of science. Since leaving academia in 2021 to focus on my art practice, I have had two solo exhibitions: Out of the Blue: Salvage Fictions at NO VACANCY, Melbourne, in 2024; and Bodings at the Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, in 2026.

 

I was trained in drawing and painting at a selective visual arts high school in Western Australia and, again, in my architectural education. ​I hold Bachelor and Master of Architecture qualifications from the University of Western Australia, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Murdoch University, and a doctorate in comparative literature and visual arts from Monash University.

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I am Emeritus Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland where I was Dean and Head of School, before relocating to Upper Coopers Creek in Bundjalong country, at the margins of the Byron Hinterland. I also design buildings and interiors with my partner in the Lismore-based practice Possible Studio.