PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Selected writing published in print and online

COMMISSIONED AND CATALOGUE WRITING

Edition 766 of The Big Issue Australia — “The Big Picture”, a feature on photographer Chris Linder

July 2026

Commissioned by The Big Issue Australia for its “The Big Picture” feature, this article explores American conservation photographer Chris Linder’s photographs of southern rockhopper penguins in the Falkland Islands. Drawing on a conversation about wildlife photography, observation and conservation, the piece considers the patience and technical challenges behind capturing these remarkable birds, and the role of photography in making scientific stories accessible to a wider audience.

Catalogue Essay for Bonnie-Jean Whitlock's "Apophenie Junk Pile" at Red Gallery

May 2026

Commissioned by Bonnie-Jean Whitlock, this exhibition catalogue essay examines the artist’s material-led painting practice through embodiment, process, and sensation. Drawing on a studio visit and conversation with Whitlock, the essay explores her collaborative relationship with materials, the role of body mapping, and how pigment, wax, salt, and linen become sites for memory, touch, and transformation.

Edition 762 of The Big Issue Australia — “New Romantics", Interview with Angourie Rice, p.30-31.

May 2026

Edition 759 of The Big Issue Australia — “Goddess Only Knows”, Interview with Nikita Gill, p.30-31.

April 2026

Commissioned by The Big Issue Australia, this feature interview with poet Nikita Gill explores myth, girlhood and storytelling as sites of reclamation. The writing considers how Gill reimagines silenced figures through verse, tracing intersections between voice, memory and power across both ancient narrative and contemporary experience.

CAVES Gallery – Melbourne Art Fair 2026 Catalogue Descriptions

February 2026

Commissioned by CAVES Gallery for Melbourne Art Fair 2026, this catalogue text examines the practices of Aaron C. Carter, Noriko Nakamura and Mira Gojak. The writing considers how each artist engages material as a site of memory, transformation and embodiment, tracing intersections between body, landscape and gesture across ceramics, bronze and drawing.

The Big Issue Australia — "The Big Picture" Interview with Chris Linder

On Writing The Big Picture: Photographing Penguins, 60,000 Images and the Art of Looking

There is something about writing about photography that makes you look at photographs differently. My latest feature for The Big Issue, for the publication’s ‘The Big Picture’ series, began with a collection of photographs by American conservation photographer Chris Linder. The subject was southern rockhopper penguins: tiny, fearless birds that spend their summers scaling almost vertical cliffs in the Falkland Islands to reach their nests. They are also extremely cute. And, a

Aug 133 min read

Commissioned Catalogue Essay: Bonnie-Jean Whitlock’s "Apophenie Junk Pile"

Bonnie’s paintings do not begin from representation so much as sensation. Their surfaces register movement through material: pigment absorbed into linen, wax resisting ink, and salt redistributing colour into unpredictable formations. In conversation, Bonnie described her process as collaborative with materials — an ongoing negotiation between intention and response in which materials redirect gestures and introduce moments of resistance, delay, and transformation. Linen rema

Jul 14 min read

Edition 762 of The Big Issue Australia — “New Romantics", Interview with Angourie Rice, p.30-31.

On Interviewing Angourie Rice for The Big Issue

A few months ago, I published my first feature with The Big Issue — a conversation with poet Nikita Gill about mythology, girlhood and storytelling. Last month, I had the opportunity to publish a second feature with the magazine, this time interviewing Australian actor and writer Angourie Rice. The piece centred around Finding Emily, a romantic comedy set in Manchester, but our conversation moved far beyond the film itself. We spoke about character building, psychology, writi

Jun 32 min read

On Publishing My First Feature with The Big Issue

There is something strangely disorienting about seeing your work in print for the first time. Not on a screen, not in a draft folder, not in a Google Doc you can endlessly adjust — but fixed. Held. Circulating in the world without you. My recent feature on Nikita Gill, published in The Big Issue (Edition 759), began as a conversation about myth and girlhood. But somewhere in the process, it became something else — a reflection on voice, on who gets to speak, and what it means

Apr 172 min read

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

The Big Issue Australia - Contributor

The Big Issue Australia is an independent print publication focused on social justice, arts, culture, and storytelling, providing a platform for diverse voices and supporting vendors experiencing disadvantage.

July 2026

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April 2026

Edition 766 of The Big Issue Australia — “The Big Picture”, a feature on Chris Linder, p.20-23.

Edition 762 of The Big Issue Australia — “New Romantics", Interview with Angourie Rice, p.30-31.

Edition 759 of The Big Issue Australia — “Goddess Only Knows”, Interview with Nikita Gill, p.30-31.

On Writing The Big Picture: Photographing Penguins, 60,000 Images and the Art of Looking

There is something about writing about photography that makes you look at photographs differently. My latest feature for The Big Issue, for the publication’s ‘The Big Picture’ series, began with a collection of photographs by American conservation photographer Chris Linder. The subject was southern rockhopper penguins: tiny, fearless birds that spend their summers scaling almost vertical cliffs in the Falkland Islands to reach their nests. They are also extremely cute. And, a

Aug 133 min read

On Interviewing Angourie Rice for The Big Issue

A few months ago, I published my first feature with The Big Issue — a conversation with poet Nikita Gill about mythology, girlhood and storytelling. Last month, I had the opportunity to publish a second feature with the magazine, this time interviewing Australian actor and writer Angourie Rice. The piece centred around Finding Emily, a romantic comedy set in Manchester, but our conversation moved far beyond the film itself. We spoke about character building, psychology, writi

Jun 32 min read

On Publishing My First Feature with The Big Issue

There is something strangely disorienting about seeing your work in print for the first time. Not on a screen, not in a draft folder, not in a Google Doc you can endlessly adjust — but fixed. Held. Circulating in the world without you. My recent feature on Nikita Gill, published in The Big Issue (Edition 759), began as a conversation about myth and girlhood. But somewhere in the process, it became something else — a reflection on voice, on who gets to speak, and what it means

Apr 172 min read

Esperanto Magazine - Contributor

Esperanto Magazine is a student-run quarterly print publication produced at Monash University, focused on youth culture, arts, and critical writing.

August 2026

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October 2025

Barbie Doll Bare: A Piece on Genital Beauty Standards — The Sex Edition, Issue 3, 2026, p.22-23

A Love Letter to Wrinkles — The Permanence Edition, Issue 2, 2026, p.14-5

Through the Expert's Eye — The Candid Edition, Issue 1, 2026 p. 42-44

Cultivating Melbourne’s Art Scene — The Explorer Edition, Issue 4, 2025 p. 26-27

Esperanto Magazine, The Sex Edition, Issue 3, 2026 (print)

Barbie Doll Bare: A Piece on Genital Beauty Standards, Esperanto Magazine

For the third 2026 edition of Esperanto Magazine, The Sex Edition, I wrote Barbie Doll Bare: A Piece on Genital Beauty Standards. The article explores the increasingly narrow expectations placed on vulvas and bodies in an age where pornography is often encountered long before real sexual experience. The piece began with a question that I found both confronting and strangely simple: what happens when pornography becomes our anatomy lesson? With constant access to highly curate

3 days ago2 min read

Esperanto Magazine, The Permanence Edition, Issue 2, 2026 (print)

A Love Letter to Wrinkles, Esperanto Magazine

For Esperanto Magazine’s Permanence Edition, I wrote A Love Letter to Wrinkles, a short essay about ageing, the body, and the ways we are taught to fear the visible evidence of time. The prompt immediately interested me. The Permanence Edition asks what it means to preserve something in a world where everything is constantly changing — our relationships, identities, memories and bodies. I wanted to approach that idea through something we are so often encouraged to erase: wrin

Aug 164 min read

Through the Expert’s Eye, Esperanto Magazine

Originally published in Esperanto Magazine, The Candid Edition, Issue 1, 2026 (print). Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Melbourne-based photographer Abigail Varney for the first 2026 edition of Esperanto, Monash University’s student arts and culture magazine. The issue, themed Candid, explored ideas surrounding authenticity, observation, and what it means to capture people honestly — concepts that immediately made me think of Varney’s photographic practice. Just b

May 165 min read

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

On The House - Volunteer Arts Reviewer

On The House is a Melbourne-based arts platform publishing reviews of film and live performance, alongside access-based ticketing initiatives. My contributions focus on critical responses to contemporary film and performance.

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October 2025