EDUCATION
2021 - 2026 Doctor of Philosophy, QUT | Art-Science Collaborations: Challenging Anthropomorphic Bias in Installation Art Through Ecocentric Practice
2018 - 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art), QUT
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2026 Ian Potter Emerging Artist Travel Grant Award | $10,785
2021- 2025 Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend
Queensland University of Technology | $33,637 (indexed annually)
2024 Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize (for postgraduate multidisciplinary practice) Queensland University of Technology | $1000
2022 CIESJ HDR Research Showcase Creative Work Prize
2021 Hilde Chenhall Memorial Scholarship in Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology | $10,000
2020 Milani Family Art Prize, Queensland University of Technology | $500
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 (upcoming) Presenter | International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Auckland, New Zealand
2022-Ongoing Sessional Academic | QUT | Teaching: BFA VisArts.
2025-Ongoing Gallery Technician/Collections Administration | HOTA (Home of the Arts), Gold Coast.
2023-Ongoing Nextdoor ARI Co-director.
2025 Presenter | ACUADS Conference.
2025 Participant | TBA21 OCEAN / UNI Activations: On Filmmaking: co-creating narratives.
2025 Guest Lecture, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
2025 Presenter | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference 2025, Townsville.
2021-2024 Collaboration with marine ecologists from SUSMB, University of Queensland.
2024 Artist Talk, Beneath Our Watery Bodies, QUT.
2024 Doctoral Colloquium Presentation | ISEA2024 Conference | QUT.
2023 Scores for Future Living | Workshop Co-facilitated with Rae Haynes, Metro Arts, QLD.
2023 Creature Collage | Children’s Workshop, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery.
2022 Artist Talk, Swelter Opening Event, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery.
2022 The Clam’s Kiss | Sogi a le Faisua Summer Workshop, UQ Art Museum.
SELECTED VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2024 Beneath Our Watery Bodies, Z9-110 QUT Creative Industries, Brisbane.
2023 Sea Symbionts, AIRspace Projects Inc., Sydney, Australia.
2022 Entangled Others, Old Government House (with QUT Art Museum), Brisbane.
2021 829.8 Metres, Frank Moran Memorial Gallery, QUT Creative Industries.
2020 Organism, The Walls, Gold Coast.
Commissions
2022 Swelter, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture.
Group
2025-2026 Firstdraft Screening Program, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2025 Absent Figures, Scena Natura Festival, Crexida Anima Fluò, Bologna, Italy.
2024 The Lure of Memory, Trocadero Projects, Melbourne, Australia.
2024 Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial, HOTA, Gold Coast, Australia.
2024 Fragile, Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, Fiskars Village, Finland.
2023 Tumbling Between Being, Kupru Gallery, Fiskars Village, Finland.
2023 SWELL Sculpture Festival, Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast.
2022 Swelter, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture.
2022 Smart Urban Governance for More-than-human Futures, Webb Gallery, QCA, Brisbane.
2022 SUPERCUT Project 3: Climate, Outer Space (online), Brisbane.
2022 Smart Urban Governance for More-than-human Futures, QUT Creative Industries.
2022 Catching a Whiff: Olfactory Ecologies, with IN ARI, The Old Lock Up, Sunshine Coast.
2022 Lotion, Metro Arts, Brisbane.
2021 Location, Location, Location - Judith Wright Centre Façade, Outer Space, Brisbane.
2021 Young Artist Forum, Metro Arts, Brisbane.
RESIDENCIES
2026 (upcoming) Art-science collaboration | Professor Simon Davy, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
2025 Crexida Anima Fluò, Bologna, Italy.
2022 The Clam’s Kiss | Sogi a le Faisua Summer Workshop, UQ Art Museum.
2023 Fiskars AIR Residency, Fiskars Village, Finland.
Being a Human is Weird, Amy-Jean Mitchell, Exhibition Essay - Next-door ARI, 2020 (link)
The Walls Reopens With Next-door ARI to Bring Us Bella Deary, Blank Gold Coast, News Article, 2020 (link)