Education

 

BFA (Honours) VCA - graduated 2019 received First Class Honours (H1)

BFA FTV (Animation) VCA - graduated 2016

 

Awards

​

Montsalvat Film Prize (2019) 

• 3 month live in residency at Montsalvat Artist Colony awarded for my honours graduate performance It’s Brutal Baby 

New Voice Award (2016)

•  Awarded for my Graduate animated film Of Safe Return 

 

Creative works and exhibitions

 

I got covid! 

• Self produced short film 2022

• Performance, video, editing and sound

You Gotta Want It

• Self produced dance work presented at Dancehouse Interia Program 2021

6 easy tips to make your 6th lockdown more cinematic! 

• Self produced short film 2021

• Performance, video and editing

Bellows of a Church Shaped Hall 

• Self produced short film 2020

• Produced during 3 month live in residency at Montsalvat Artists Colony, 

It's Brutal Baby

• Dance and animation integrated performance work 2019

• Honours research piece, performed at VCA 

Resonating Spaces 

• Exhibition of video art works at Tsinghua University Beijing 2019

Power Theory: Iteration 1 

• Screen based dance and animation work commissioned for the Chin Chin Wall of Art 2019

• Excerpts exhibited at Austin SXSW Melbourne Hub at Australia House 2019

An End in Itself 

• Commissioned screen based dance and animation work for the Signal Screen, month long public exhibition 2017

After Ours 2017 

• Screen based video art for group exhibition curated by Minno Wu at Brown Alley

Under the bus - 2017

• Animated music video for local Melbourne band Ghomns

Of Safe Return - 2016

• Graduate film 

• Winner of graduate “New Voice Award” 2016

Look up stupid - 2014

• Animated film, Screened at MIAF Panorama program 2014

 

 

Collaborative work

 

Alterity 

• Experimental dance film made in collaboration with Gemma Notara and Chelsea Byrne, 2019

• Created from footage of Gemma Notaras live performance by the same name, 2016

4 Seasons 

• Three short films and a live dance work made in Collaboration with Gemma Notara (sound) and Chelsea Byrne (Dance) 

• Exhibited at Montsalvat Artist Colony 2021

Evolv

• Dance work featuring projected animations operated live in response to the performance, choreographed by Chelsea Byrne 

An end in itself (live)

• A live improvised performance based on the short film I had produced previously, Gemma Notara (sound) Chelsea Byrne (dance) myself (projection operation)

100 steps project

• Group collaborative project, curated by Glynn Urquhart exhibited at West projections 2016 

Hidden Creatures 

• Group collaborative project exhibited at Gertrude Street Projection Festival, winner of judges choice award 2015

 

Performance Credits 

 

Ruthless (Gold Satino)

• Site specific theatre work commissioned for Front Beach Back Beach Public art festival in Mornington Peninsula

• Nominated for best ensemble 2023 Green Room Awards  

The Break (Oscar Shaw)

• Devised independent theatre, 2022

No Thoughts Head Empty (Quinn Franks)

• Motion capture performance for animated film 2022

• Screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival 2023

This is Grayson (Gold Satino) 

• Site specific theatre work

• Remounted Midsumma festival 2021, The Substation 

• Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018, The Substation 

(Received four Green Room Award Nominations in the Contemporary and Experimental Performance panel and received the awards for Innovation in Site Responsive Performance and Performance for Young Audiences.)

Seduction (Gold Satino)  

• Site specific theatre

• Melbourne Fringe 2019 Festival, Docklands

Adults Only group show (Glynn Urquhart)

• Motion capture performance for multi channel video art work 2017

 

Freelance video/animation 

 

Zoë Bastin 

• Ongoing video editing, production, 3D modelling 2021-present  

Devika Bilimoria

• 3D modelling and design

Streaming Seamen! The Digital Sea Shanty Spectacular (Cameron Stewart)

-  Melbourne Fringe Festival 2021

-  winner of Hybrid Touring Market Ready Award and The SA Tour Ready Award

Youth Solutions 

• Animated Alcohol and Other Drugs harm minimisation resource 2021

Lotus (Chi Nguyen)

• Melbourne Fringe 2019 

• Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2020

•  animation and video editing, technical support

Bunjil Place opening festival 

• Animated projection material for opening festival 2018

Body Acousmonium (Amanda Lever, Gillian Anderson)

• Melbourne Fringe 2019, Promotional video

Fem&ist Films (Amanda Barbour)

• Animated promotional video 2018

Under the Bus (Ghomns)

•  Animated music video 2017

• Animated and directed

After Ours

•  Promotional video for exhibition and club night at Brown Alley, Curated by Minno Wu 2017

• Shot and directed

 

Workshop facilitation (dance and animation) 

 

On The Table 2023

• Hosted Public choreographic and research practice session focused on upcoming work Tits Out 

Tits Out 2023

• Public practice sharing workshop, first development for upcoming work Tits Out 2023

Youth Dance Makers Initiative 2022

• Invited to facilitate a workshop on choreography and improvisation for young dancers 

Emerging Choreographers Program 2022

• Hosted a choreographic practice sharing workshop for current participants of the program 

On The Table 2021

• Hosted a public choreographic and research practice sharing session 

Melbourne University 2018

• Animation workshops for Thomastown College students hosted by the Victorian College of the Arts animation faculty.

Odyssey House 2017

• Hosted a series of animation workshops focused on engaging young people affected by AOD use with harm minimisation principles. Sessions held at Sydney Road Community School, Box Hill Institute, and Caulfield Park Community School.

 

Lighting and tech support 

 

Fem&ist Films (Les Flâneuses series: feminism and architecture) 2017

• Tech coordination and set up for film festival

Inplay Projects (Withhold) 2022

• Lighting plot and operation for season of dance performance

Inertia Program (Dancehouse) 2021

• Lighting operation for two programs in a festival of dance works

 

Other roles (arts)

 

Gallery manager (Cage me a Peacock)

• Floor manager for small independent gallery, roles included day to day maintenance, supervision of exhibition install and de-install, event organisation and customer service 2017-2018

Ushering (Fem&ist Films) 

• Ticketing, ushering, customer service, ongoing seasonal work for film festival events 2017-2020

Volunteer (Girls Rock)

• General assistant workshop facilitation for young people, including music, screen printing and boxing 2018