Hill End Artist Residency
Australia
February 2018
Turns out, you can look at photographs of a house and miss it as keenly as you miss a parent or friend in another country. This house was my everything for four weeks and looking at the way it glowed gold in the evening and reflected soft blue in the morning makes me sad, homesick, full of love.
Hill End, NSW
Australia
February 2018
One Saturday afternoon whilst gazing out my studio window lost in thought, I noticed smoke in the distance, glowing red where it touched the horizon. For the first time in my life I called the fire brigade, knowing this was peak summer, peak fire season in the bush. Turned out the fire was 18 km away, which is little comfort when you live in a town that's at the end of a single lane road through the bush, an hour's drive from anything. But also comforting, because that's still a long way, long enough to be able to have a plan to get out early. So I hiked up to my favourite look out and watched the smoke for a while, and for the rest of the weekend I constantly monitored the NSW Rural Fire Department's Fires Near Me website. Blackened leaves fell down on the town, but nothing worse reached us, and the sunsets were especially beautiful for a few days.
Hill End Artist Residency, NSW
Australia
February 2018
I can almost smell the rain still when I look at these photographs. The rain came suddenly on a very hot day. The kangaroos in my garden were soaked, and the birds disappeared for a little while.
Hill End, NSW
Australia
February 2018
Hill End was a magical place to walk around, with beautiful dusty light, gum trees stretching over dirt paths and goats and kangaroos weaving in and out of the bush,
Cedar Creek Falls
Tambourine Mountain, Queensland
December 2017
Mum drove Nico and I out to Tambourine so she could have lunch with a friend there. We walked down to the falls on Cedar Creek and had an ice cold swim. It was so crowded that there was nowhere for me to discretely change into my swimsuit, so I swam in my tee shirt and undies like a kid.
Border Ranges National Park, New South Wales
December 2017
On the second last night of the year, Nico and I camped at Sheepstation Creek in the Border Ranges. There was some kind of plague of grasshoppers chirruping loudly at the camp site, in a synchronised racket that crescendoed every fifteen seconds into an earsplitting note. I had to wear ear plugs the whole time.
Broadbeach, Queensland
December 2017
This Christmas, I fell in love with my home state, a place I left 12 years earlier.
Melbourne, Australia
December 2017
I love these goons.
Johanna Beach, Victoria
November 2017
Johanna Beach, Victoria
November 2017
No beach I've ever seen looks more like another planet than Johanna.
Johanna Beach, Victoria
November 2017
A few days after I finished my honours degree, Khaleda, Nico and I set off for a weekend of camping by the beach four hours west of Melbourne. I spent most of the weekend lying in the tent reading, watching native birds, talking and being quiet. This is my favourite beach in the whole world.
Car Wash
Preston, Melbourne
October 2017
I sometimes wonder if the kebabs they sell out of a window here are poison or good.
Share house, Thornbury
October 2017
Nico's share house in Thornbury, home to five good people.
Abbotsford, Melbourne
October 2017
Walking around Abbotsford with Nico after visiting c3 artspace.
Flowers in a coffee shop window, Fitzroy North
Melbourne, Australia
September 2018
Preston, Australia
September 2017
The window in the tiny dining room at our place in Preston has beautiful light in the late afternoon. I love the funny textured walls in this house, which look like cream cheese on a bagel.
Rosebud, Victoria
September 2017
Mark drove Nico and I to Rosebud on one of the first properly warm spring days. He wanted to kitesurf but there wasn't enough wind. We walked in the shallows, not hot enough to swim, then lay on beach towels and read books and listened to music. Afterwards we went to the pub for cokes and hot lunches.
Inner North, Melbourne
September 2017
Joy gave me some expired slide film after sorting through some old boxes at her parents' house. I decided to cross process the film, and yes, a lot of the roll is way too green and high contrast, but some of them turned out okay. These are from a photo walk with Nico around Carlton North and Brunswick.
Nico, Bendigo
Australia
August 2017
A serious man.
Conservatory Gardens, Bendigo
Australia
August 2017
Ahhhhh how I love a conservatory.