Since the summer bushfires, I’ve been dedicating my practice to the ecological destruction that the event wrought. Having spent most of my time during the fires working in Bairnsdale, time to create was scarce – I think the only projects I worked on all summer were the graphic design for Gippsland Horse and Stock Safe and selling prints of my 2019 artworks to raise money for the CFA and GERF public funds. So, I want to portray the chronic distress and communal frustration that accompanied the fires spilled into my studies at RMIT in Melbourne. Though the studio in Melbourne was tight, with studies moving online, I was able to move to Sale for the time being and expand my practice in Gippsland.

These times are definitely strange. We are nearly half-way through 2020 and yet it feels like substantially, nothing has really happened due to how soon after the fires, we were put into another state of emergency. I think I was in Melbourne for six weeks before lockdown was announced, and I decided to spend lockdown in Sale.