Designed and facilitated a series of community art workshops for Swansea Chamber of Commerce as part of their Town Entry Features Project — an initiative to raise the town’s profile through celebratory infrastructure highlighting its unique character.

Workshops engaged primary school students (Years 2–6) and a local adult art group at the Swansea Courthouse, using creative storytelling and visual arts to generate ideas rooted in community pride. Children created illustrated ‘treasure maps’, stencil art, and banners featuring coastline, fishing heritage, and wildlife. Adults sculpted Swansea icons from air clay using driftwood, shells, and found materials.

Organised Tasmania’s contribution to the inaugural Creative Bureaucracy Festival Hub for Australia and New Zealand – a grassroots movement empowering public sector innovation and creative problem-solving. This entirely voluntary, unfunded initiative brought together 14 events across 9 cities.

Coordinated simultaneous evening gatherings in Launceston and Hobart at local craft breweries, creating accessible, informal spaces for public servants and collaborators to share survival strategies and explore innovative approaches to systemic challenges.

Designed and facilitated digital storytelling workshops for Live Well Tasmania, using storytelling as a tool for personal growth, community connection, and collective action – building capacity designed to outlast the grant funding.

Developed a ‘train the trainer’ model empowering community members to continue digital storytelling practice independently. Workshops combined online preparation with intensive in-person sessions across Northwest Tasmania.

An independent research project exploring how permaculture principles and socially-engaged artmaking can combine as a restorative practice for ecological grief and climate anxiety. Originally conceived as an Honours project at the University of Tasmania, this five-year investigation was completed independently following COVID disruptions and the death of my mother.

Fieldwork methods included diagramming, storytelling, gardening, photography, video, audio recording, and site-specific installations using natural, found, and recycled materials.

When my father needed to plan succession for the Wallaby Rocks property in Far East Gippsland, I created a series of digital land stories transforming nearly five decades of embodied knowledge into living legacy documents.

Walking the land together, I recorded his insights about soil management, water systems, fruit tree cultivation, and the adapted Keyline methods he had developed since moving to Victoria in 1972.

A pioneering regional arts project weaving together art practice, local food systems, and community conversations across remote East Gippsland. As one of the founding collaborators, I helped shape (f)route from initial conversations in 2010 into a flourishing movement.

Key contributions included the PASSIONfruit Pop-up Community Museum at Taste of Tubbut, a residency journey collecting oral histories, digital storytelling workshops, and The Locavore Travel Agency bee-box installation for the 2013 (f)routeville festival.