‘Doily of Desire’, a painted paper cut and a celebration of female sexuality and desire, through a female lens

papercut with painted gouache

What happens when the last Green Turtle dies?

The last Red Tailed Black Cockatoo?

Spotted Tree Frog?

What do we lose?

I made this paper cut with collage trying to express my own feelings of grief, loss and anxiety about this ecological and extinction crisis we are currently in.

‘Web of Life and Loss’ is a paper cut featuring just ten of the many thousands of Australian native species critically endangered or on the brink of extinction since colonisation.

Clockwise from top:

1. Red Tailed Black Cockatoo

2. Numbat

3. Spotted Tree Frog

4. Gouldian Finch

5. Blue Tailed Skink

6. Red Finned Blue Eyed Fish

7. Greater Bilby

8. Eastern Curlew

9. Arid Bronze Azure Butterfly

10. Green Turtle

‘The Pomegranate Tree of Past, Present and Future’, a painted paper cut.

It occurred to me shortly after giving birth to my two children that very few depictions of birth exist in art, and particularly the kind of birthing experiences that so many women I know and I myself experienced - those births that culminate in interventions of one kind or another. I wanted to explore the idea in art, outside the circles of women sharing loaded stories in hushed tones in playgroups, cafes and mothers circles.

A figure brimming over with all the competing identities and responsibilities bursting to escape from her body, the Art-Mother-Monster was created to accompany the release of Issue 02 of Howl Magazine

Painted papercut on black background.

This papercut is available as a print. You can purchase it here

A papercut with collage. An ode to creativity, spirit and life force.

An image of two papercuts I created for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Studio show ‘Paper Garden’. This shows the image of two papercuts ‘The Pair’ and ‘In My Mother’s Garden’ framed behind perspex.

I created a custom papercut of a woman wearing a crown inspired by the work in the Love and Revolution : Frida and Diego exhibition the Studio space responded to. This papercut was used on the banner image outside the Art Gallery of South Australia to publicise the Studio space. It was also used throughout promotional imagery.

‘The Dance’, papercut with blue card. A papercut created for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s ‘Frida and Diego: Love and Revolution’ Studio Iteration.

Papercut with yellow card

A papercut created for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s ‘Frida and Diego: Love and Revolution’ Studio iteration. Women, birds and sun motifs were recurring themes throughout the works.

Spring, a papercut on green card

The Sphinx, papercut with pink card

Red Woman, a papercut made with red card

Dream of Water, a papercut on blue card

Cat, a papercut made with yellow card