My painting, performance and video practices respond to the potential effects and affects of unfurling, slowing down, and deconstructing the process of perception as it enters into the body. These processes include testing theories of body-memory, mirroring and inverting perception, and the transformation of material spaces into ones that hinge on purely conceptual products.
My curatorial and art historical practices borrow methods of spatial theory and phenomenology to articulate and frame practices in contemporary art and exhibition culture.
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I am a Master of Visual Studies candidate in curatorial practice at the University of Toronto. My previous formal education consists of a Master of Philosophy Doctoral Research (A) degree from the University of Birmingham, UK. The thesis is titled, 'Transformation and Defiance in the Art Establishment: Mapping the exhibitions of the BLK Art Group (1981-1983)'. The MPhil was fully funded by the Doctoral scholarship, the Raymond Priestly Award for higher research.
I hold an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree with High Distinction from the University of Toronto in Visual Studies and Fine Art History, and studied at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, specialising in time-based media and contemporary art theory.
My current professional posting is Curatorial Assistant, Collections Manager and Archivist at the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto.
