Illustrator based in Kyoto and Byron Bay.
Lived and worked in France, UK, US.
I began as a printmaker,
a graphic approach that informs the images.
Recognised by American Illustration
+ Australian/New Zealand Illustration Awards
Shortlisted 2019, 2021 Comic Arts Awards of Australia
Recent commissions include
graphic non-fiction narrative and editorial.
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publications:
When the World was Soft: Yindjibarndi Creation Stories (Allen & Unwin 2024)
Griffith Review 74 – Escape Routes: Tyranny of Distance
Griffith Review 67 – Matters of Trust: Ministry of Truth 20/20
Windows: Flood – Drawing the Times (EU)
Until We Are All Free (in collaboration with Behrouz Boochani & positivenegatives.org) 2018
Home Free – Australian and migrant women’s experiences of domestic violence 2017
So That’s How I Began! (New Holland January 2019)
So That’s What’s Happening! (New Holland, January 2018)
Wee Charles & The Strawberry Fairy – picture book 2015
Wee Charles & the Flim-Flam Spitty Witty – picture book 2016
Wee Charles and the Flying Monkey Bird – picture book 2019
His Dream of the Skyland (glossary illustrations) – (2011) Top Shelf 2018
current projects
The Liminal – 7 speculative fiction graphic novellas
Dog Days – animal idioms
Art of the Afterlife graphic column Byron Arts Magazine 2018-present
exhibitions
International Mokuhanga Conference, 5-8 April 2024 Echizen
Birds 3-17 June 2022 Gallery 3, Byron Bay
The Widening Gyre, June-Aug 2020 NRCG
Grow 9 x 5 exhibition 6-15 December 2019 Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne
Shout: 9 x 5 exhibition. 13-26 July 2018 Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne
Paper + Pixel: works on paper. 5-19 May 2017 Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne
artUnprimed print exhibition, Jan-March 2017, Sag Harbor, NY
Zine East, Aug 2016 Ille Arts, Amangansett, NY
press
Matters of Trust review 2019
Until We Are All Free – Behrouz Boochani in conversation 2018
Byron Arts Magazine – The Art of Illustration 2017
Illustrators Australia interview November 2017
Pigeonhole Books interview 2015