I’m an Australian musician and artist. My work includes notated and graphic compositions, mixed-media installations, sound art, and improvised music.
Composing
I’m interested in how different ways of making can speak to each other, both by working with diverse people and by experimenting across methods in my own practice. My projects are always deeply grounded in the people and places around me, and I enjoy a process- or materials-led approach that feels very playful and free. A lot of my recent and ongoing work indulges my affection for Australian wildlife, and I’m also interested at the moment with notions of ‘ordinaryness’.
A key part of my work studies notation as a creative medium. My style blends traditional and alternative notations, seeking to embrace new visual, semantic, and ethical dimensions and to enhance the performer experience.
Performing
Improvisation is very important to me, both in my scores and as an independent creative activity. My current improvisatory work experiments with electronic & electroacoustic methods, field recording, multi-instrumental studies, and collaborating with artists from other art mediums.
Australian art has had a large impact on my approach and philosophy towards art-making, and my performance practice is especially shaped by ongoing studies in First Nations art and culture. My past mentors and collaborators include elders from Ballardong Noongar, Whadjuk Noongar, Djab Wurrung/Gunditj Mara, Ngarrindjeri, and Wägilak Yolŋu heritages. My main work in this space has been on developing a sonic language for my primary instrument – trombone – informed by sessions with traditional Yidaki/Didgeridoo players. You can find some of this work here, or feel free to message me, so I can share it with you more genuinely. That goes for any aspect of my practice.
Background
I studied composition at the University of Western Australia under the supervision of James Ledger, and completed my Honours at the University of Melbourne under Elliott Gyger.
I’m also an alumnus of 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).
Other Stuff
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 have included installations, a documentary score, sound collages, photography projects, and an array of collaborations with dancers, visual artists, and architects.
I contribute as an amateur arts coordinator. I’ve curated concerts and events with a variety of community and emerging arts programs, including WWIM, Resonant Fields, and the University of Western Australia.
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