Visuall Photography
Exhibition
2026 North Queensland Ceramic Awards
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Corner Denham and Flinders Streets
Townsville, Queensland
Runs from 19 September 2026 to 17 January 2027.
I am thrilled to have work selected for the 2026 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards. The award dates back over 50 years to 1973. Originally conceived by the North Queensland Potters Association, they've continued to flourish through Townsville City Gallery's partnership with the Potters Association. The North Queensland Ceramic Awards are now widely regarded as one of the most prestigious ceramic awards nationwide.
Image credits - Left to Right. Title: Elements of Place series #1, porcelain, found materials. Title: Elements of Plance series #2. Photographer: Visuall Photography.
View: Finalists
Collection
Fraser Coast Regional Council Civic Collection.
The Elements of Place series was created for ‘Shifting Perspectives – The Self Reconciliation Project’. Two works from the series were acquired for the Fraser Coast Regional Council Civic Collection. They are on display at the Fraser Coast Regional Council Administration Building, Hervey Bay.
As artist-in-resident at Central Craft in Mparntwe/Alice Springs I immersed myself in the landscape to gain a deeper understanding of the profound spiritual connection between place and people. I spent many hours walking through the traditional lands of the Anangu, Luritja, Arrernte, Western Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara peoples. I walked along the rim of Watarrka (Kings Canyon) in the Watarrka National Park. I spent several more hours walking at Kwartatuma (Ormiston Gorge) along ridges, crossing rivers, traversing the vast expanse of the Pound, and through the gorge. I walked around Uluru and through the Valley of the Winds at Kata Tjuta, the Walpa Gorge, and Angkerle Atwatye. Time and again, it felt as if this ancient land were speaking to me, revealing its stories as I moved slowly through it. The connection to the land was palpable.
The ‘Elements of Place series’ was inspired by my time spent walking through these ancient, spiritual lands.
Collection
Title: Taken_detail. Installation of sixty bowls, each bowl individually hand decorated using clay sourced from the landscape. Photographer: Visuall Photography
Taoxichuan Art Museum, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery
Inheritance and Innovation was co-curated by Luke Li Chao and Zhang Jinjing and was presented in association with the 52nd Congress and General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). The exhibition explored the dialogue between tradition and innovation in ceramics and considered its cultural, economic and technological relevance in the modern era. My work 'Taken' explored my heritage and inherited culture through landscape.
Collection
Changnanli Grand Bowl Art Museum
The ‘Bleached and Broken #1' series highlights the impact of climate change on Australia’s coral reefs. This is particularly relevant in Queensland, where widespread coral bleaching continues to occur across the Great Barrier Reef. This completely colourless series aims to highlight the worldwide bleaching of coral reefs. This removal of colour — the expulsion of the colourful marine algae from the coral tissue — highlights our loss of nature and our slow and gradual progression towards a ‘colourless’ world, devoid of diversity and wonder. The work was presented in the IAC Oceania exhibition titled, 'Ontologies of Touch' at the Changnanli Grand Bowl Art Museum in China.
NEWS
December 2024
Collaboration
MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants
MJ, Australian composer and sound artist, and I are collaborating on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project.
Over the course of the project storytelling has become a focus and I’ve been exploring the use of different media to tell the story.
My ambition for the collaboration is for it to be experimental.
November 2023
The Self Reconciliation Project (May and June 2023)
As artist-in-residence at Central Craft in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) I continued to explore the notion of self reconciliation.
The project investigated connection to 'place' through the Australian landscape (an external lens) which aims to bring together these two lines of perspectives - family history and connection to 'place'.
July 2025