Education
2018 MFA Social Practice. First Class Honours. Victorian College of the Arts
Projects
2016-2020 Apmere Angkentye-kenhe | A Place for Language, Mparntwe Alice Springs, NT
2012-2013 Museum of the Long Weekend, Big hART, TAS, ACT
2006-2011 Ngapartji Ngapartji, Big hART, SA, NT, VIC
Employment
2017-2022 Freelance Pitjantjatjara interpreter/translator for numerous projects/institutions/art centres including CLC, ICTV, Iwantja Arts and NPYWC’s Uti Kulintjaku project.
2019-2022 Consultant, Central Land Council, Kungka Kutjara Project, Utju Tjitjiku Project
2021 Consultant, Arrernte Women’s Song Project, Rachel Perkins & Arrernte community.
2021 Youth team, Alice Springs Public Library
2018-2021 Batchelor College, Facilitating creation of online Arrernte language resource.
2016 Content development Kulila! App, NPY Womens' Council.
2015 Communications/marketing strategist/artist liaison/curatorial assistant, Liquid Architecture
2015 Graphic designer - Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, VIC
2012-2013 Creative Producer, Museum of the Long Weekend, Big hART
2012 ONTV Tutor, Capital E, Wellington, NZ
2011 Coordinator - Watch This Space ARI, Alice Springs, NT
2010-11 Creative Producer Nyuntu Ngali, Big hART
2006-2010 Associate creative producer, choir developer, musician, Big hART’s Ngapartji Ngapartji
2006 Manager, Ernabella Arts Inc. Pukatja, SA
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Hi Spirit, Hi Matter, Watch This Space, NT (group)
2022 Clay on Country, Araluen Arts Centre, Ceramics Triennale, NT (group)
2021 Heatwork, Watch This Space, NT (group)
2021 Microbial Tenancies, Blindside, VIC (group)
2020 A Garden Somewhere Else, Study, VIC (with Gabriel Curtin)
2019 Heat Island, Watch This Space, NT (solo)
2017 Magic Hour @ Coles Carpark, Hobiennale, TAS (with Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts and Harry Hayes)
2016 Spy Feel, Watch This Space, NT (solo)
2015 Confidence Pad, Little Woods Gallery, Collingwood, VIC (solo)
2015 Personwatch, Square of Light, Federation Square, VIC (group)
2014 Festival of Uncertainty, Emotional Rollercoasters, Auckland, NZ
2011 Souvenir, Watch This Space NT, Australia (co-curated with Franca Barraclough)
2010 Gold is spun with the Hands and Tongue, Watch This Space, NT (solo)
Performance
2017 Belly, Watch This Space, NT
2015 HUMPY, Love/City 2, Testing Grounds, VIC
2014 Psychic Hairdressers, White Night, Dark MOFO
2013 Blind Sailor, Performance Arcade, Wellington Waterfront, NZ
2013 U are not alone, Home Economics #3, Wellington, NZ
2010 The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, Adelaide Fringe Festival & WOS Festival, NT
2010 Nyuntu Ngali Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf Two & The Space, Adelaide Arts Centre
Publications
2021 Froth, Runway Journal Conversations. Online.
2018 An Act of Showing: Rethinking artist-run initiatives through place. Essay.
2018 Un Magazine 12:1 Angkentye arle akngarrele.
2017 Dear Un: Apmere Angkentye-kenhe, in conversation. Online.
2016 Coles Carpark Files – Self-published data zine
2016 If We All Spat at Once They’d Drown: Drawings about class. Editor: Sam Wallman
2015-2018 Ambiguous Bases 1&2&3, Caldera Press, Glom Press
2015 Three Words: Anthology of Aotearoa NZ Women’s comics.
2009 From Sometimes Love Beth, Affirm Press, ISBN 100980637805
2008 Lines of Wisdom, Affirm Press ISBN 9780980374650
Residencies
2019 Basis Voor Actuele Kunst - Art as Politics Summer School, Utrecht
2018 Frontyard Projects, Marrickville, Sydney
2015 Silence Awareness Existence, Hameenkyro, Suomi/Finland
2012 Artist Wants a Life, Alice Springs, NT
2011 Splendid Arts Lab, Lismore, NSW
Talks & Presentations
2022 Hát Xe Buýt (Singing Bus) guest host with Rene Kulitja. Melbourne Museum, Footscray Community Arts & Westspace, VIC
2019 Language: An interdisciplinary forum, Melbourne University, VIC
2019 Let’s Go Outside: Making Art Public, Monash University, VIC
2018 Politics of Listening Symposium, UNSW, Sydney, NSW
2018 Stories from the Frontline, Katherine, NT
2018 Practicing the Social, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, NT
2018 The art of community, Victorian College of the Arts, VIC
2017 ‘Ghosting the hosted’ AAANZ Directions in Art, Perth, WA
2017 ‘Language is a Map’ Power, Place Privilege, Melbourne, VIC
2017 Apmere Angkentye-kenhe, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Awards
2020 THE LOFTY - An award that recognises ‘key contributors to the cultural and artistic life of Central Australia’.
Other contributions & experiences
2021-2022 Member of Un Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Committee
2019-2022 Member of the Curatorial Committee, Watch This Space ARI, NT
2016-2022 Studio Artist, Watch This Space ARI, NT
2018-2022 Volunteer, Alice Springs Community Garden
2019-2022 Cert 4 Ceramics, Charles Darwin University
2016-2018 Member of the Board, Watch This Space ARI, NT