“My creative process is fluid and organic. If I am carving stone, it starts with the choice of the raw stone and from there I simplify and if it’s too ‘simple’ I complicate. It’s a very hard thing to articulate as my carving process is more like an inner conversation, between me and the stone where we both speak to each other, listen, and adjust as required…”

“I haven’t studied sculpture, I had studied Graphic Design at Randwick TAFE, my sculpting has come from being self-taught, making lots of mistakes and learning by them, observation is the best skill any hyperrealist sculptor can have…”

“Restrictions and fears provided a fertile soil for me to meditate on our fragile existence and I have created several sculptures and painting to express that. But for the same reason I couldn’t travel to my students and they couldn’t come to my studio especially during the last two European winters…”

“I see clay as a social media with its long history in human culture and its universal familiarity. It provides me with infinite possibilities of form and a surface on which to scratch, write and paint…”

“I work across assemblage, installation, collage, printmaking and photography. Most of my sculptures are assemblages, 3D and 2D pieces created from discarded and unwanted toys…”

“I like to believe that the cultural and artistic atmosphere in my family had a big effect on me and on how my life later evolved…”

“I make sculptures by means of crocheting and knitting. When I made my first crocheted artwork, I didn't have any earlier background in yarn-based handcrafts…”

“During lockdown I made a very tongue-in-cheek sculpture about the different ways my husband and I were dealing with being stuck in the house…”

I have been very grateful live where I do over the last 4 months, there has been plenty to do on the land and in my studio…

“I feel very grateful to have been given the opportunity to turn this strange period of isolation into an inspirational little art residency…”