Real Fiji : group exhibition

“The Real Fiji” features eleven individual artists and twelve young women from the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement Young Women in Leadership project.

A book about death : group exhibition : Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW

Group exhibition curated by Heather Matthew and Julie Barratt and held at The Boyd Gallery, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW.

Casella art prize (finalist exhibition)

Pre-selected finalist in national art award (group exhibition)

Flows and catchments : stone soup

Installation of the makings of three types of soup: stone soup, axe soup and heirloom soup in accordance with the folk stories. Formed part of group exhibition of photographs, films, installations and drawings, and sound in response to the artist-researchers involvement with the Lake Bolac landscape and community and research being conducted on Charles Dawson an 18th century businessman who engaged and advocated for the cultural rights of the Indigenous peoples of SW Victoria. The aim of the research is to suggest that creative research constitutes a important way to understand and engage local communities for the purpose of exchange and cultural development. My work in particular suggest a way that artist induce community collaboration by creatively producing collaborative platforms that require cooperation and benefits everyone.

In the morning

Oil painting exhibited as part of a group exhibition. Exhibition was titled 'From Realism to Nihilism' and was of works by the Shakespeare Grove Artists. It was curated by Kirsten Rann.

Make believe it's nothing

 A group exhibition featuring Lamb of God - A 3 screen video installation work

13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival: Episodes Australian Photography Now

Curated group exhibition entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now, part of the Dong Gang International Photo Festival

13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival 2014

Curated group exhibition entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now, part of the Dong Gang International Photo Festival.
An exhibition book produced by the Dong Gang Museum of Photography for the Dong Gang International Photo Festival. Special Exhibition curated by Natalie King and Olivia Poloni entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now featuring the following artists: Patrick Pound, Christian Thompson, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Martin Smith, Michael Cook, Paul Knight, Polixeni Papapetrou, Polly Borland,Tracey Moffatt, Trent Parke, William Yang.

Op Shop Series

This series of works by the Melbourne collaborative group, Bozo Ink, in undermines the art gallery’s system of exchange and representation. They make the observation that as a site that supposedly reflects and critiques contemporary cultures, histories and practices, the gallery is merely a space of exhibition. Like many contemporary artists, and the critics and academics who assess their work, they are aware of the inherent paradox of exhibiting a work critical of commodity culture since we enter into a process of consumption that actually magnifies commodity culture when we place work in a gallery context. Bozo Ink’s project, The Op-Shop Series, offers a critique of consumptive practices in the art gallery and looks to entwine art, everyday practices and resistance strategies. They do this to test the potential of the gallery as a site for resistance, and to reconsider its function in the age of “consumption and spectacular exhibition” (Agamben 2007, 82). In linking the counter-practices of profanation (Agamben 2007) with the Situationist strategy of détournement (Debord 1994; Wark 2013) they hope to recast the art object as one without currency in the gallery. They propose that it is possible for the art object to unsettle both the image and the system of exchange within which it operates.

There will be no more night

Exploring how the body and light are connected in interdisciplinary practice, in this work I make sound design and moving image re inscribing physical yet out of body experiences of light in near death – recorded from youtube. The image of fading light is in real time and constitutes a symbolic interpretation of eternity mirroring the audio. This work has been curated into a group exhibition at ‘Strange Neighbour’ alongside internationally recognised artists such as Peter Booth and Sam Shmith. The work has also been curated in my solo exhibition by Conny Dietzschold and is the subject of the essay in the catalogue by Sean Redmond and was presented in my paper ‘Motion and stillness: a bodily approach to photography.’ and is mentioned in the journal article to be published titled ‘Technology as Collaborator in Somatic Photographic Practice.’ Intellect Books