About

My work is propelled by a curiosity about the chapters of our lives we write and the ones we don’t.

This curiosity has its origins in a formative episode that took place during my early adulthood. In the 1990s, I had the experience of living in New York for a short time. It begged to become a longer experience, but for reasons which felt compelling at the time, it didn’t. I left with an acute sense of an avenue having been laid out before me that I had not gone down.

In the years that followed, I left my native Australia for good and lived and worked in London, and after that Berlin. I practised in the profession in which I had trained; and left that too. Throughout this time, I became aware that the experience I’d had of leaving New York years earlier wasn’t that unique. All our lives are surrounded by avenues we didn’t go down; shaped by chapters of our lives we didn’t write.

I became interested in exploring this in sustained way. In 2019 I came to Paris in order to do so, finding in it both one of those unwritten chapters per se, whose qualities might be worth trying to capture, but also a representation of the idea of the unwritten chapters in our lives itself. My work continues in the city guided by these interests today.