Artist Statement

My work concerns the characteristics and processes of memory and its relationship to the autobiographical self. Memory helps to create us. Memories can maintain clarity but many change over time- fading, distorting, telescoping and disappearing. Sensory experiences, often involving objects, odours, language etc. are powerful memory triggers. Therefore among the imagery in my work are domestic objects, textiles, clothing and text. I choose to work with tissue paper as a drawing support and medium for paper cutting because its attributes echo those of memory. It is fragile, malleable, is successfully layered and interwoven, can be fragmented and distorted.

Awards

• 2011 - Masters by Coursework Prize/Commended
• 2004 - Camden Art show/Commended
• 2003 - Blacktown Art Show/Mixed Media Award
• 2001 - TAFE NSW, Art & Design Prize/Finalist

Qualifications

• 2008 - 2011 : COFA, MArt
• 2006 : UWS, Bachelor or Fine Arts
• 2003 : TAFE, Diploma of Fine Arts

Skills

• Drawing
  Pencil, coloured pencil, silverpoint.
• Installation
  Paper cuts.
• Paper cutting
  Acid free tissue paper, cardboard.
• Textiles
  Hand/machine stitching, fabric & paper