Wild Big Things

I love working with text and story in wild big ways. In the last couple of years I’ve been invited by Linda Brescia to help her work on a project called Skirts which she developed as part of The Musuem of Contemporary Art’s C3West program. In this project I helped a group of women in Kingswood write a manifesto about their life and community which later become the basis for an installation of artworks which sat in Wainwright Park in Kingswood and then travelled to The Penrith Regional Gallery.

I recently worked with the artists Marian Abboud and the writers Eda Gunaydin and Sheila Ngoc Pham from The Finishing School Collective in order to create a text installation piece composed of fragments of text from essays Eda, Sheila and I wrote about architecture which will be permanently installed in fragments over walls and staircases throughout UTS library as part of their Creative In Residence Program.

I love storytelling in collaborative, complex ways in the most exciting of places which is why I’ve spent many years curating and producing storytelling works along side other writers and artists in many different art forms which have appeard in laneways, garages, historic sites among other places. Many of these works have been created through Studio Stories or The Finishing School.

I couldn’t say no when The Powerhouse approached me last year to curate and edit a collection of work which explores the stories, histories, sights, sounds and joys of the past and present on The Parramatta River. The collection is out now as a book or you can also read the essays online here.