I am writing this from Belém, where the Amazon River moves with ancestral certainty and COP30 swells with the urgency carried by the global majority

I kept a public diary on Instagram during my tenure as co-AD at Arts House, and I’ve carried that habit with me.

Arts House stands as one of the city’s most fertile laboratories for contemporary performance, live art, and experimental practice.

My five years at Arts House included the pandemic.

arriving on Sundays
a desolate Errol and Queensberry street
venue key checked and re checked

When I moved to Naarm/ Melbourne over 15 years ago, I knew I was walking into a “collegiate” arts community.

A vital thing about being an independent artist for the long haul is the relationships with the people who make art, make art possible and respond to art.

A couple of years ago my father handed me a box. Inside that box was a bunch of photographs and ephemeral documents relating to my great grandfather…

In the decade beginning in 2010 Arts House was at the centre of an incredible time of experimentation and creativity.