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I am an Australian artist, arts writer and cultural producer; resident in Portugal since 2015, with 25 years professional cultural experience in Asia.

My practice highlights ecologies of concern: global ecological and societal health; those micro and macro decisions by individuals, governments and commerce that drive degenerative behaviour or positive action towards a reparative future. Through a hybrid language of text, object, photographic and moving image installations, I posit scenarios of change that navigate between perception and action, rupture and reparation.

Blindspot, Galeria Salut au Monde! Porto, PT [2023] appraises the influence of surveillance and social media.

Climate change and resultant ecosystem vulnerability drives the projects Fishing with Explosives [Avalanche Art Space, Massachusetts, US 2020], This Savage Garden [Adaptation and Transition, Bienal ’19 Fotografia do Porto, PT 2019], A Perfect Day [Breaking Point, Triennial of Photography, Hamburg, DE 2018], Last Things [Bury Art Museum, UK 2016], Its closing time for gardens of the west [in conjunction with All the World’s Futures, 56^th Venice Biennale, IT 2015], The protest that never ends [ARTISTERIUM 5, Tbilisi, GE 2012], and MEMORYspace – READINGroom [Taipei City Urban Redevelopment initiative, TW 2011].

Historic and contemporary landmark buildings and a soaring plywood skyscraper in Built to Last [postEDEN, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN 2010] and City of Dreams [ArtHK12, 2012] critique the ecological impact of the late 20^th-21^stC building boom.

Letters [Love Thy Neighbour, Asia Triennial Manchester, UK 2021], Tell me Something [Conceiving Space, Colombo Art Biennale, LK 2016] and I Wish [various venues Asia and Australia 2008-2022] document aspirations of youth in Manchester, 40 youths in post-civil war Sri Lanka and 700+ voices in Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. Spill [Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, TW 2011], The Book Project –Korea [Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair 2009], The Reading Room and The Library of I am co-Artistic director with Virgilio Ferreira Forgetting [Spare Room, Elizabeth Bay House Museum, AU 2007] remaindered books become the opus for what is lost, what is no longer valued.

Projects are supported by international arts agencies, including an Australian Federal Government inaugural award for arts achievements in Asia [2013], a Commonwealth of Australia Public Service Medal for contributions to arts and education [2005], an Australia Council for the Arts established artist grant [2008]. Numerous funding and residencies in Asia and Europe include Australia-Asialink TW; Lingnan University, HK; Taipei Culture Foundation TW; Fubon Art Foundation TW; Kuandu Museum of Fine Art TW; Taipei City Urban Redevelopment Office, TW; and Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris sponsored by AGNSW and NAS, Australia.

As the Co-Artistic Directors the 2027 edition of Bienal de Fotografia do Porto, Virgilio Ferreira, the Portuguese Founder of Ci.CLO Plataforma de Fotografia and the Bienal de Fotografia do Porto, and I celebrate holistic ecological practice in the field of photo media. This edition expands on our Co-Artistic Direction of Bienal’25 titled Tomorrow Today and Bienal’23 titled Acts of Empathy. 

As an ongoing consultant for Ci.CLO Plataforma de Fotografia in Porto, my writing positions the arts within a socio-political framework. In 2019 I contributed to the Asia-Europe Foundation Green Guide mapping cultural initiatives for environmental and social sustainability in Portugal.

I established Atelier Bonfim, Porto in 2020 and Atelier Campanha, Porto in 2022, and Atelier Anjos, Lisboa in 2025; all visual arts labs for regenerative, culturally driven action.