Bio
Currently
Founding Editor of SISSY ANARCHY
Director, Managing Editor and Partnerships Lead of Worms World C.I.C, also known as Worms Magazine and Publishing
Co-Founder and Facilitator of The Compost Library
Education
Masters of Curating Contemporary Art (MA, Awarded Distinction), Royal College of Art
Contemporary Museum Education (Diploma), Pratt Institute
Business Advanced Marketing (BA), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Applied and Contemporary Theatre (BA), Griffith University
Photographic Mythologies (Cert IV), TAFE Queensland
Employment
Creative Producer of Three Rivers, Bexley (Creating People and Places, funded by Arts England), 2023 – 2024
Visiting Practitioner (Full Term), The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, March 2023
Freelance Communications Manager of Studio Scilicet, founded by artist Sougwen Chung, currently in collaboration with Studio Wayne McGregor and acquisition collection for Victoria and Albert Museum, 2022
Graduate Ambassador for RCA Curating Contemporary Art: Writing Intensive for November, 2022
Festival Coordinator of Pop Up North Queensland Festival (PUNQ) for Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, 2019–2022
Exhibitions, Website and Marketing Coordinator of Modern Times, 2016–2018
Photography Instructor of Photoh, 2013–2016
Curatorial
The 60th Venice Biennale, exhibiting SISSY ANARCHY
Trap Unfolds Me Greedily, book launch for SISSY ANARCHY (Housmans Bookshop)
Whatever happens, you’re my sister, an exhibition of trans femme work (Feminist Library)
KNOTS, journal launch for SISSY ANARCHY (Housmans Bookshop)
Tusk Chicago, featuring SISSY ANARCHY
Queer Ecologies Poetry Readings and Zine Launch, editor and host (Sutton House)
The Compost Library, special edition event with Cremate (Fieldworks)
SISSY ANARCHY: Be A Sissy Fundraiser (SET Social Peckham)
Dazed x Page Masters Book Fair (Dazed Space)
Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair (Leisham Art House)
Launch of SISSY ANARCHY #2 at (Institute of Contemporary Art, London)
Wellcome Collection, zine takeover featuring SISSY ANARCHY
Anarchist Zine Fair (Freedom Bookshop)
Koppel Curates featuring SISSY ANARCHY
Acquisition of Sougwen Chung’s MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit Generation 2, also known as D.O.U.G.2) (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Circle of Care, installation and performance (Camden Art Centre)
Make Interspecies Relations, online exhibition with Next Door Ari
It Matters What Happens Next, co-curator of public programme with live events, performance and workshop (Camden Art Centre)
Both Ways, Libby Harward, Tony Albert, Bural Bural (Patsy Dallachy), Gail Mabo, Jupiter Mosman, Captive Lives, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
From the Desert to the Sea, First Nations artist Stephen Oliver/Sailor of Waanyi, Kuku Yalanji and Erub Island at Big Eye Arts & Cultural Centre, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Preserve/Conserve — Invocation #3: Openness - Going With the Flow, Jill Chism, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
The Mark, Jenny Mulcahy, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Drop Bear, Jan Hynes, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Untitled (Gloves), Tania Lou Smith, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
World Interior, Dancenorth Australia, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
After, Alison McDonald, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Site #272, David Rowe, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
One Journey: Many Stories, Many People, Many Places, Big Eye Arts and Cultural Centre, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) Festival, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
How Are You (In Isolation)?, Digital Exhibition, Lilli Waters, Andrew Treloar, Dylan Kelleher, Karlo Martinez, Jay Davies, Kate Brouwer, Matthew Woliansky, Brooke Wynn, Helen Adam, Grace Carver, Philippa Gell, Lauren Pietrafesa, Toby Lawrenson, Shay Reeves, Gene Smith, and Grace Cloeman
Joy, Featured Artist in Group Exhibition by Analog Forever Magazine, Online
Relics Today, Sculptural Group Exhibition at Modern Times, Naarm (Melbourne)
Cerberus, Hannah Nowlan, Naarm (Melbourne)
Preservation, Elizabeth Barnett, Naarm (Melbourne)
Outdistance, Derek Swalwell, Naarm (Melbourne)
Light Sensitive, featured artist in group exhibition by Southside Tea Room
Facilitator/Panelist
Symbiocene, panelist and workshop facilitator (OmVed Gardens)
The Birth of a Woman Who Once Was an Elaborate Concoction of Man, a writing workshop for Mutate Co. (Toynbee Studios with Royal Central School London)
Social Anarchism & Queer Utopic Ecologies, a writing workshop for Queer Ecologies
University of Arts London Publishing, panelist for SISSY ANARCHY
Bleet Zine, panelist for SISSY ANARCHY (Artwords Bookshop)
Making Collective, workshop for Antiuniversity Now with El Warcha
Performer
When They Meet, reader at Blind Dates event (Taylor Meade)
Wind Drift, reader at launch exhibition event (FILET Gallery)
Tummy Ache, reader at launch event (The Gallery Cafe)
Anna Burns, reader at closing event (The Old Waiting Room Peckham)
At First Sight No.2, reader for Late Works album on Spotify
Queerstories by Maeve Marsden (Bleach Festival)
150 Aktion, Hermann Nitsch curated by Olivier Varenne, Michel Blancsubé, and Jarrod Rawlings (Museum of Old and New for Dark Mofo)
Dramaturgy
TBC, Developing performance with Ashleigh Musk following residency at AIRIE 2023–2026
Pleasure, artistic project by Merinda Davies
WET HARD LONG, performance by Jenni Large
SUB, Performance by contemporary dance artist Ashleigh Musk, 2021 – 2023
Circle of Care, Performance by Youngsook Choi and Eva Freeman, Camden Art Centre
Residency
Residency Advisor for Ashleigh Musk (MAGMA Australia)
Artist in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE)
Koppel Project, October Artist in Residence (Cell Projects)
Creative Development, SUB with Ashleigh Musk, Tasmania
CODEY22, Nextdoor ARI
Creative Development, GUTS Studio / Araluen Arts Centre
The Makers Program, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance at Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gold Coast
Bath St Residency, Red Hot Arts Central Australia
Activism
Community Visitor – QC LGBTI Seniors Community Visitor Services
Workshop Facilitator – Thorne Harbour, Young and Gay Workshops
Board Membership
Queensland Aids Council (QC), Trans, Gender Diverse and Non-Binary Communities Health Advisory
It’s HOT!, new ‘positive media initiative’ in Townsville
Arcare Parkwood, first facility in Queensland offering aged-care services for LGBTI community members