Biography

I graduated with a Fine Art degree from the Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University, in 2003. Following this, I headed back to Cape Town, South Africa, where I had been brought up until my early teens. There, I did an Honours and a Master of Arts in Art Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. The South African contemporary art scene was an eye-opener for me, and I was drawn to the rich and diverse layers of commentary embedded in the work of artists responding to many social and political issues. Returning to Australia in 2007, I was similarly inspired by artists making work addressing the social and political issues affecting us nationally and globally.

Soon after enrolling in a Master of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland, I was fortunate enough to secure a part-time editing role at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA). Through the IMA, I met many academics and curators working in Brisbane, and copyedited publications ranging from Vernon Ah Kee’s Born in This Skin for the Venice Biennale to Philip Brophy’s Hyper Material for Our Very Brain. I was also editorial assistant for five issues of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. Through a connection at the IMA, I soon began working as a part-time editor for QCA, and worked with postgraduate students on their dissertations as well as on official QCA publications. I copyedited five issues of the Studio Research journal, a passion project of Professor Ross Woodrow that was inspired by the international Journal of Artistic Research.

In 2014, I transitioned to working on a purely freelance basis, and have gone on to work for a cohort of regular clients spread out across the east coast of Australia. Publications have ranged from anthologies of academic essays in response to a given topic (e.g., public art, Australian video art, the climate crisis) to richly illustrated monographs on established artists (e.g., Mikala Dwyer, Jemima Wyman, Gordon Bennett), as well as countless catalogues to accompany inspiring, innovative shows. These exhibitions frequently address the urgent social and political issues that I am so passionate about, and I have been privileged to work with many of Australia’s leading curators, academics and artists.