You are warmly invited to my solo exhibition of new works on paper presented at Fox Galleries Naarm Melbourne. Opening Friday the 8th of May 2026 5-7pm. Artist–Curator Talk
 Saturday 9 May, 2:00 pm

Opening
Friday 8 May, 5:00–7:00 pm
To be opened by Dr Lyndall Adams, Honorary Associate Professor and former Director, ECU Galleries, Edith Cowan University

Artist–Curator Talk
Saturday 9 May, 2:00 pm
Dr Lyndall Adams, Fox’s Gallery Manager Daragh Geraghty-Singleton and Artist Jo Darvall

Changing States builds on ideas developed during my 2024 Edith Cowan University and Western Australian Parliament Artist in Residence program, as well as my recent group exhibition Paper Thin, Skin Deep at Mundaring Arts Centre 2026 curated by Annette Peterson. The work explores what it means to inhabit a body-through material, metaphorical, and cultural layers of skin.

With over thirty years of experience across Australasia, including a decade working in Singapore, my practice examines my relationship to place within the Western Australian landscape. Originally from Melbourne, where I studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and majored in Printmaking, this exhibition marks a full-circle return-bringing together the journeys and experiences that have shaped my work internationally.

Maali (the black swan) and the meeting of two rivers at Derbarl Yerrigan 2026

Install Mundaring Arts Center; Paper Thin, Skin Deep 2026

This body of work contributes to the development of new work for a recent commission from Curtin University. I draw on the symbol of Maali (the black swan) and the meeting of two rivers at Derbarl Yerrigan, where salt water meets fresh-reflecting the convergence and tension between colonial, immigrant, and Aboriginal cultures. Etchings of Maali layered over watercolour monoprints explore pressure, resilience, and cultural compression, where histories overlap, merge, and leave lasting traces.

Material is integral to the work. Japanese Kozo paper offers both delicacy and strength, echoing the healing qualities of skin and the lavered fabric of culture. Printmaking becomes a metaphor for imprinting-marks made under pressure, fragile yet enduring.