Roadside Poles, 2025

At a eucalyptus plantation just south of Harvey Bay, I was struck by the beauty of the pale monoculture of tall slender trunks from the roadside. They existed initially as a fairly iconic representation of an Australian landscape scene but as their actual use became apparent to me the scene shifted. A tension between ecological diversity and human intervention revealed itself. I wanted to unsettle the conventional expectations of a landscape scene by abstracting the familiar forms of the eucalypt. Intentional camera movement and the act of inversion now situate the work within broader conversations on how a place is remembered and the entanglement of soft lines reflect the interconnection of all living things, including us.

I am an emerging artist currently studying Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania. I endeavour to explore themes of interconnection, resilience and memory to place and time within my own lived experience as a previous forensics officer but also within the experiences of others. My practice came about through the use of my camera in the daily exercise of photographic crime scene documentation and evolved away from my day job into a means of visual translation for what I was feeling.

I have previously had the honour of being a finalist in the Percivals Photographic Portrait Prize in 2022 and 2024, receiving Highly Commended in 2024. I was also nominated as finalist in the Photographer of the Year Awards 2024.