‘Sensory Bat Womb’ is a multisensory performance installation originally conceptualised in 2023 as part of my ‘Upside-Down People’ showcase of works at The Capitol, Melbourne. The work has since developed into something that better expresses the concepts and ambience I had initially hoped for and have been better able to achieve as my creative practice has developed. The work engages with the important, active role Bats take in growing my sense of autistic personhood. The wor

Bats were once considered to be strange, featherless Birds condemned to the night, surely longing for the light of day like other Birds. Not unlike autistic people - expected to exist in ways that are not natural for us and assumed to be unhappy with our tragic lot in life. Bat's aren't Birds though - and just like autistic people they have their own ways of doing things. Ah, Poor Bird - take your flight Up above the sorrow of this dark night. Ah, Poor Bird - as you fly Can

Sensory art is much harder than people think. Sure, you can throw together a bunch of stuff that feels nice to touch and play some...

I've already written about my proprioceptive sensory experiences and why I draw them as proprioceptively distorted animals in another...

The Earth is alive - a macrocosm of our small bodies bound together by regulatory ecosystems and diverse organisms that to a Planet are...

I drafted this comic not long after finishing my job as a content producer for the Burra Learning Place at the Australian Museum. The...

Eye contact with humans is hard. I find holding the gaze of another person for longer than a few seconds excruciatingly painful. It...

I've been experimenting with a Microbat character for a story I am writing. My character needs to be someone who reflects the nocturnal...

Inspired by sketching activities from the Urban Field Naturalist Project , this Bat was drawn in a single continuous line. Using a...

Many autistic people experience sensory synaesthesia. Synaesthesia means that different senses are cross wired so that when one kind of...

Banggu is the name for Bats in my Dhurga Yuin language. This woven Grey-Headed Flying Fox Bat uses pyrography & watercolour illustration...

The following images are part of a poetry project called 'Weaving A Warrior' that reflects on my recovery journey after trauma. These...

These cute little people are my first attempts at weaving Bats, a series of designs that I have been working on and perfecting since...

First ever attempt at a hand-drawn comic from start to finish. I've always had a dark sense of humour and couldn't resist illustrating my...

The Waratah is a stunning, large red flower who is Indigenous to the south-eastern parts of these unceded lands now known as 'Australia'....

no matter what they believe, no matter what they say, no matter how much they love you... they will never understand why we can't forget,...

we had a yarn where dreaming reflects River, Rock, and Reeds. a Spirit yarn where Sun shines behind closed eyes, and we are most awake....

trauma is a River after the Flood has raged through, devastating the life in its path. the Waters subside. the River calms, welcomes....

autistic… Aboriginal… woman… intersectional warrior. the Tide flows in diverted directions, some Fish never get their turn. where to...

why do shitty people seem to come out on top, while those they harm are forever pushed down back onto the ground? why are their hands...