Field Notes: physical structures, space design and how people move
During my run of museums, I thought a lot about the physical design of exhibition spaces: what makes a better experience? what factors influence the lay-out? what kinds of explicit and implicit cues...
View ArticleField Notes: storytelling with objects and choices of content form
Once, during my brief and uninspired attempt at a science degree at UNSW, we were given an assignment to interview a professional in a scientific field to go on a website for World Day in Science or...
View ArticleOn visual storytelling
My sisters and I decided years ago that storytelling does not run in our family. None of us is the type of person who can regale a crowd with an exaggerated anecdote. My parents never made up stories...
View ArticlePhotography as a negotiation with the everyday
Photography, as far as the realm of fine arts is concerned, is still a relatively new medium, and one that took a long time to be recognised as a ‘serious’ artform. As I’ve been trying to explore this...
View ArticleMatilda and bravery
It’s been a little while since I’ve seen much theatre – travelling and photographing have become a full-time occupation. But when a friend asked if I’d queue up at 7:30am for tickets to Matilda the...
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The relevance of Surrealism, and pondering my own insecurities
In my pictures I show objects in situations in which we never encounter them. This fulfils a real but perhaps unconscious desire… to disrupt the order in which [one] habitually sees objects… to make...
View ArticleLike Butterflies (poem)
Like butterflies Like captured words Killing, in the name of collection. Now in inert beauty Saved carefully In a dark drawer Not entirely lost Not at all what it was But a hint… A victim of ‘I want’....
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On gesture in art
Until I went to see the exhibition of J.M.W. Turner’s late work at the Tate Britain, I hadn’t thought that much about the physical gesture involved in painting. Turner was a name I’d vaguely heard...
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Thank you for 2014
Wow, it’s been a hell of a year. I’m not going to do a huge recap here or anything (I’ve been pondering in my own time just how far I’ve come) but there are a lot of people I would really like to...
View ArticleWhat I learned in my first year of self-taught art school…
Steal everything. EVERYTHING. Build a support network of creative people so you can all help each other through your anxiety. Encourage your friends. If you don’t remind people about things, they’ll...
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