I am a New Zealand–born artist based in Brisbane, Australia. For over the past decade, my practice has explored the spatial and temporal poetics of remote, networked cameras, primarily through photomedia and live-streaming video installations. My artwork reflects upon these outdoor cameras’ transportive capabilities, not only in regards to vicarious travel but also in the manner that the spaces of the imagination and the virtual can overlap and interweave. I am particularly interested in the aesthetics of these pixelated scenes in relation to the ‘sublime’, both as a multi-faceted, evolving, philosophical concept and as a visual, codified, art-historical trope.
I have lectured in photomedia at Massey University and Victoria University in New Zealand, and worked as a sessional photography lecturer and tutor at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Education
2016
PhD Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2003
Master of Fine Art, Massey University, New Zealand
1992
BA (Hons) Photography, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2023
Travelling Light, Photospace Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2016
The Proliferation of Nows, Pop Gallery, Brisbane
2012
Wandering in the Webcam’s Wilderness, Art Factory, Brisbane
2010
From Afar, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2008
7.5 degrees and back, The Loading Bay, NZ National Film Archive, Wellington (in collaboration with Austrain artist Miguel Gonzalez)
2008
From Afar, Toi Pôneke Gallery, Wellington Arts Centre, NZ
2001
Viscus Circle, Photospace, Wellington, NZ
1999
Bound, Photospace, Wellington, NZ
1999
Bound, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Group
2020
Photospace 21st Birthday Exhibition, Photospace, Wellington, NZ
2018
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award Finalists, HOTA, Gold Coast
2017
Books by Artists, Queensland College of Art, Webb Gallery, Brisbane
2015
Pablos Annual Art Auction, NZ Portrait Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2015
Books by Artists, Queensland College of Art, Webb Gallery, Brisbane
2009
Photospace 10th Birthday Exhibition, Photospace, Wellington, NZ
2007
Collecting Photographers, NZ Centre of Photography, Wellington
2003
Theatre, Massey University, Wellington, NZ
Conference Papers and Presentations
2015
The Spatial and Temporal Poetics of Webcam Viewing
CreateWorld Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane
2013
Remotely Framed: an exploration into the aesthetics of the live pixelated experience
Re-new Digital Arts Festival & Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Remotely Framed
Fourth International Conference on The Image, Chicago, USA
2011
Travelling beyond our bodies: the remote experience of the sublime landscape
Bodies and Belongings: Transitions, Citizenship & Participation, Griffith University, Gold Coast
2006
From Afar
Expanding Documentary Conference, Massey University, New Zealand
Academic Experience
2017-2021
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Sessional Lecturer and Tutor, Photography Department
2005-2008
School of Design, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Tenured Faculty Lecturer
2002-2005
School of Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Sessional Lecturer
2004-2005
School of Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Research Assistant to Professor Anne Noble
2003
School of Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Graduate Assistant