Selected Collaborations, Partnerships and Documentary Works
Artist Richard Bell – 'My Art is an Act of Protest' | Tate. 2020. Director/DOP and Camera Operator.
Richard Bell is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities. Bell grew out of a generation of Aboriginal activists and has remained committed to the politics of Aboriginal emancipation and self-determination. One of Australia’s most significant artists, Bell’s work explores the complex artistic and political problems of Western, colonial and Indigenous art production.
Producer: Tessa Morgan.
James C Sourris AM Collection Interviews for State Library of QLD. Producer, Director/DOP and Editor.
James C Sourris AM is a long-time supporter and friend to many in the Queensland cultural community. His enthusiasm for contemporary Australian art and artists is evidenced through his private collection and series of long form archival artist interviews created for State Library of Queensland. These interviews provide an insight into the motivations, inspirations and tribulations of some of Australia’s most acclaimed visual creatives and enable research, student learning and archiving of oral histories. Artists interviewed include D Harding, Megan Cope and Eugene Carchesio.
Artist Vivienne Binns - "Waiting for Those Little Moments of Inspiration" | Tate. 2021. Director/DOP and Camera Operator.
Australian artist Vivienne Binns is known for a diverse stylistic approach in a career that spans painting and community activism over the course of more than half a century. Hear the artist talking from her Canberra studio about how she became committed to surfacing ordinary women’s stories through memory and family connections from the late 1960s to mid-1980s when she worked deep within communities, and how she returned to painting in 1985 with a renewed passion for articulating her own experiences and emotions.
Producer: Elizabeth Robert. Interviewer - Julie Ewington.
Elisa Jane and Sonja Carmichael for Fremantle Arts Center. 2021. Director/DOP, Camera Operator and Editor.
This short documentary follows the creation of “Dabiyil Bajara”, a cyanotype work by Elisa Jane and Sonja Carmichael, for the exhibition “Undertow” at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2021. The film was shot on Quandamooka country, at Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), where the mother daughter team live and work.
Hiromi Tango for Brisbane City Council. 2020. Director/DOP, Camera Operator and Editor.
The sculpture, Roots, 2020, by Hiromi Tango was commissioned by Brisbane City Council, and expresses the artist’s desire to be grounded in her adopted home of Australia, whilst creating space for her identity, culture and memories linked to a traditional upbringing in regional Japan. This short documentary tracks the project, over a period of 6 months, from collaboration with the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens staff, (it’s eventual resting place), through to the work’s fabrication and install.
Chantal Fraser, The Ascended, 2023. Consultant, Director/DOP and Camera Operator, Video editor.
Samoan-Australian artist Chantal Fraser’s multimedia practice has garnered significant acclaim within Australian contemporary art and reflects the complexity of lived experiences for diasporic Samoan and Pasifika communities. Exploring ritual, adornment and gestures of exchange, the 5 channel video projection, The Ascended crystallises Fraser’s exploration of power and class through her anti-colonial and anti-capitalist strategies, developing a theory that links ornamentation, personal protective devices and protest aesthetics as means to subvert and liberate identities.
Originally created for Fraser’s solo show at Griffith University Art Museum in 2023, the exhibition has also travelled to Rockhampton Museum of Art, and NorthSite Contemporary Art Centre in Cairns. Curated by Naomi Evans. Performers: Lisa Faalafi, Jori Etuale, Saskia Sassen and Elizabeth Fraser. Sound Design by Jesswar. Install and video stills courtesy the Artist.
Warraba Weatherall, Dialectics, 2025. Consultant, Video editor, Animator.
As part of Weatherall’s first solo museum exhibition “Shadow and Substance” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. The exhibition and 2-Channel Digital Video work considers how knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture is collected and conveyed by institutions. Sound Design: Samuel Pankhurst. Video stills courtesy the Artist.
Vernon Ah Kee, way to be, 2024. Consultant, Video editor.
In July 2022, Vernon Ah Kee was invited by Deadly Innovation (part of Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland) to develop a proposal for a project that could be an exhibition outcome featuring the Rock Art of Magnificent Gallery. way to be explores the way in which we view and interact with cultural heritage sites such as the Western Yalanji galleries, using various technologies including infra-red capture and drones. Install, portrait and video stills courtesy the Artist.
Judy Watson, skullduggery, 2021. Consultant, Video editor, sound design.
A layered single channel video work that details the theft of a skull and king plate from the grave of an Aboriginal man, Tiger, known as ‘King of the Mines’ of Lawn Hill near Waanyi Country. The piece combines a map, blood-stained paper, and correspondence between Matron Agnes Kerr from Burketown Hospital and curators at the Welcome Museum in London, who are organising the transfer of the skull. Voice Artists: Daniel Browning, Lafe Charlton, Roxanne McDonald. Sound Recordist: Ross Manning. Photography: Carl Warner.
The work has been featured extensively throughout Australia, including at Watson’s ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri’ solo exhibition at QAGOMA in 2024. Video stills courtesy the Artist.
Judy Watson, shadow bone, 2022. Consultant, Video editor, sound design.
The single channel video work layers documents sourced from the Queensland State Archives. In Watson’s distinctive style, multiple layers of video drift, emerge, and submerge across the screen. Her work is often concerned with unearthing hidden histories of Indigenous Australian experiences under colonialism. There are familiar insertions of Watson’s pre-existing artworks as well as pencil drawings from the 1880s by a young Aboriginal man from Queensland, known only as Oscar. Voice Artist: Daniel Browning.
The work and related guest article by Watson was also catalogued in The New York Times article “Illuminating a Forgotten History” published Dec 9 2022. Video stills courtesy the Artist.