I’m a sound-based artist from Australia, working across notated and graphic composition, free improvisation, sound-art, and interdisciplinary art.
Composing
My work grows out of an interest in how different ways of making can speak to one another, and in finding creative approaches that feel genuinely collaborative, exploratory, and grounded in the people and places around me. For my compositions, this takes the form of colourful, texturally driven works of hybrid notation that embrace vivid visuals, semantic play, and performer improvisation.
Performing
Improvisation is at the heart of my practice. Through it, I work with electroacoustics, collaborations with nature, extended techniques on wind instruments, realising found objects, and engaging with other instruments, genres, and disciplines as a way to deepen and broaden my approach to my primary practice.
Australian art holds an important place for me, and my performance practice is especially shaped by my studies in First Nations cultures and projects with mentors from Ballardong Noongar, Whadjuk Noongar, Djab Wurrung/Gunditj Mara, Ngarrindjeri, and Wägilak Yolŋu heritages. My primary instrument is the trombone, with which I’ve been working on an intercultural practice informed by my studies in the Didgeridoo/Yidaki.
Background
I studied composition at the University of Western Australia under James Ledger, and completed my Honours at the University of Melbourne under Elliott Gyger.
I’ve also trained through creative development programs with the Australian Youth Orchestra, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and Australian Art Orchestra. Other composition mentors I’ve studied with include Lachlan Skipworth, Melody Eötvös, Miriama Young, Stuart Greenbaum, and Olivia Davies.
Some awards I’ve received include a Schenberg Music Fellowship (2025), the MRC Marshall McGuire Emerging Composer Commission (2025), a WASO Bendat Scholarship (2021), and the Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize (2021).
Interdisciplinary Practice
I’ve been an artist in residence with Saruya (Japan), the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, and Bundanon, and exhibited work with Curtin Gallery (WA), FORM Gallery (WA), The Blue Room Theatre (WA), The WA Maritime Museum, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (WA), and Sarah Scouts Presents Gallery (VIC). My projects span installation works, film scores, and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, projection artists, and architects.
Alongside my creative work, I contribute as an amateur arts coordinator. I’ve curated concerts and events with a variety of community and emerging arts programs across WA. Most notably, I established the ensemble Resonant Fields with Victor Arul.
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