Hi, I’m an author living in Sydney, on Gadigal lands. I grew up in Melbourne and spent most holidays on a farm in Deniliquin, so I’m a little bit country and a fair bit city. When I was seven my Mum took me overseas for the better part of a year. I started my first journal, and during that time became obsessed with streetlights in all their international forms:

I did an honours degree at the Victorian College of the Arts, then got caught up in the world of large-scale street theatre, working with 5 Angry Men for four years. An example of this was the finale of the 2001 tour to Russia, Ship of Fools, where we rode bikes suspended from a structure built by Simon Barley’s Bambuco on a barge that glided down the Moskva River through fireworks and a Carabosse installation that set the riverbanks alight:

Tomek Koman suspended from the Ship of Fools, Moscow, 2001.

I then started to write with intent amongst other adventures, which included three weeks in the Arctic in 2008, staying on Devon Island at the Haughton-Mars Project, when my father was sailing through the Northwest passage (because due to warming temperatures, it’s now possible); filming the development of the Snuff Puppets work Wedhus Gembel in Java; and in 2013 staying in the Sahara for a month-long artist residency at Cafe Tissardmine.

There’s a Flickr Collection and some videos on my YouTube Channel documenting these activities.

And…

I have also worked extensively with the museums, galleries, libraries and archives sector, helping to tell stories drawn from collection materials and increasing digital access to collections.

I spent four years studying martial arts at the Philippine Institute of Martial Arts, which changed my understanding of the body and movement.

I live with my husband, our child and dog.