Graphic designer, sometimes researcher, sometimes lecturer, sometimes workshopper, feminist, artist, friend, woman. Sometimes works on research, cultural projects, exhibitions, publications, typography, branding for not-for-profits and small businesses, commissioned artworks, music. Lives in Naarm (Melbourne). Please get in touch for collaborations.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD Candidate, RMIT University
MA Comm Design, RMIT University
BA Visual Arts (Printmaking), Sydney College of the Arts

2026–
2019
2012

Exhibitions

Babel Bookcase, exhibition on graphic design practice, curated by Brad Haylock, part of Melbourne Now 2023, National Gallery of Victoria

2023

Professional Projects

Festival of Para-Academia: Institutional Drift, Value at the Threshold, Balam Balam Place

2025

Table Matters, Melbourne Design Week

2025

The Disorganised Manifesto, commissioned by Bus Projects, Liquid Architecture and West Space

2021

Lectures
& Panel Discussions

Good Design is Feminist Design, lecture presented to RMIT Master of Communication Design students on considering intersectional feminism and care ethics in the ideation, iteration and application of graphic design, RMIT University

2025

Guest lecturer, Industry Lecture Series, Victorian College of the Arts,
The University of Melbourne

2025

Supply & Apply: A panel discussion on the dynamics of drawing and using type, facilitated by Counter Forms with Ela Egidy, Daniel Peterson, Vincent Chan, Seb McLauchlan and Thy Ha, moderated by Dominic Hofstede, RMIT University

2025

A Knowing Wrongness in Graphic Design, in conversation with Fraser Muggeridge and Ziga Testen, moderated by Brad Haylock, Rising Festival

2024

Breaking the Pixel Ceiling, panel discussion with Grace Moore, Sabina McKenna, Mikaela Stafford and Gemma Mahoney, moderated by Play on Play Studio, Melbourne Design Week

2024

Melbourne Graphic Design Now, panel discussion with Stuart Geddes and Michaela Webb, moderated by Brad Haylock, National Gallery of Victoria

2023

Designing With(in) the Mess, lecture presented for Melbourne Design Week, Capitol Theatre

2021

Collectives

Board Member: Seventh Gallery

2025–

Forum of Para-Academia (FOPA)

2025–

Board Member: Runway Journal

2018–2020

Employment

Freelance Designer

2019–

Senior Visual Designer, R/GA Melbourne

2025

Visual Designer, R/GA Melbourne

2022–2025

Sessional Lecturer, School of Design, RMIT University

2022–

Sessional Lecturer, Bachelor of Visual Communication, JMC Academy, Melbourne

2021–2022

Visual Designer, Streamotion Sydney

2018–2019

Design Intern, Formist
Sydney

2018

Communications Coordinator, Firstdraft Sydney

2017–2018

Press & Media Manager, Joshua Liner Gallery
New York, NY

2013–2017

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