2025-2026 Research & Master of Fine Art (National Art School)

My Master of Fine Art at the National Art School (NAS) combines intensive studio practice with individual research and a major body of work. My research question is: How can feminised ritual labour and everyday materiality enact healing, resistance, and posthuman feminist not‑forgetting?
I work through four interconnected ideas:

• Un‑homing — recognising and rupturing inherited domestic scripts.
• Homing — reclaiming agency through ritualised making and the everyday.
• Re‑homing — expanding memory into ecological and material entanglements.
• Un-homely / Unheimlich — is the psychic/emotional experience of being not‑at‑home in one’s environment, body, memory, or identity. and is based on Freud's concept of the "uncanny" (strange yet familiar, unsettling because it feels known but not fully recognised, or a return of something once hidden or repressed). This is my 2026 research.

My research-by-practice focuses on the following methodology:

• Durational ritual labour: stitching, binding, unravelling, sorting.
• Everyday materials: tissue paper, thread, leaves, wood, electrical detritus, found objects.
• Autobiographical writing: dreams, stream‑of‑consciousness, narrative fragments.
• Material collaboration: allowing the more-than-human (fragile, organic and industrial materials) to guide meaning.

NAS supports this research through dedicated postgraduate studios, intensive practice-led mentorship, and integration of theory with studio development. Additionally, I have been awarded the NAS East Sydney Doctors Scholarship in support of my 2026 MFA study.