PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Selected writing published in print and online

COMMISSIONED AND CATALOGUE WRITING

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

Commissioned by The Big Issue Australia, this feature interview with actor and writer Angourie Rice explores her role in Finding Emily, a contemporary romantic comedy set in Manchester. Drawing on conversations about character, psychology, costume, place and storytelling, the piece considers the complexities of modern romance and the creative processes that shape both performance and writing.

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.

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

Black lines — a close study of surface and tension in Mira’s studio.

Studio Visit with Mira Gojak: Twilight, Gesture, and the Space Between Worlds

This interview began as a commissioned catalogue text for CAVES Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair 2026. The version published here extends beyond those initial parameters, shaped by a studio visit, a sustained conversation with the artist, and photographs I took within her workspace. When I first spoke with Mira about her new works, she returned to the figure of Demeter — the mythic mother who moves between anguish and recognition, sensing her daughter’s passage between worlds. T

Feb 245 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.

May 2026

April 2026

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 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.

May 2026

October 2025

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

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

Cultivating Melbourne’s Art Scene, Esperanto Magazine

Originally published in Esperanto Magazine, The Explorer Issue, Vol. 4, 2025 (print). The Nicholas Building elevator has a way of making me feel like I’m travelling somewhere secret. The doors close, the world outside blurs and when they open, I’ve arrived in a quieter part of the city. Not higher, exactly — just elsewhere. I think that’s what keeps drawing me back to Melbourne’s smaller galleries — places like Blindside Artist Run Initiative, CAVES, No Vacancy, fortyfivedown

Feb 63 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.

April 2026

February 2026

December 2025

November 2025

October 2025