You and me [4]
Engrave acrylic sheet. 80 x 20 x 1 cm
Created for ‘Debra Porch and Friends’, an exhibition bringing together work by artists connected with Debra Porch from Queensland College of Art and Western Sydney University.

In this work, I am thinking about how intimacy is formed with and within institutional spaces.

On a personal level, when I think about this work in relation to Debra, I don’t so much think about anything specifically about art, I think about her person and the way she brought people together, I think about being her student and talking with other students about what she said to us. In that way, Debra brought my attention to what I think is the most important thing to consider not just as an artist, but as a person, and that is how we are with the people around us, and how powerful that can be. I reflect on when art is manifested around, through and with people, and how this might resist institutional values.