Artist Statement

My formative and profoundly influential initiation to creativity was through the humble matriarchal traditions handed down to me as a girl- dressmaking, furnishing, cooking, dressing and applying make-up. These rites of passage and art making itself are both meaningful acts of love necessitating thoughtful analysis, ingenuity, resourcefulness and the imparting of knowledge. This explains the love-affair in my work with craft, Pattern and Decoration, domesticity and the evocative quality and neglected beauty of second-hand kitsch. Reinterpreting traditions and nostalgic childhood recollection enables me to examine and assert my own identity and development as a woman in a more fulfilling way.

Awards

• 2007 - Artwork chosen to promote Artstart 2007
• 2001 - Selected for Artexpress 2001

Qualifications

• 2008 - 2011 : COFA, BFA
• 2007 : Campbelltown TAFE, Diploma of Fine Arts