Sydney wailed today… a lot. I did not drown.
Also, I like fogged landmarks, even if I look like I’ve stood in a shower to capture one.
#shotoniphone #femalephotographer #landmarks #sydneyoperahouse #rainyday
⏳2015-2025 - RETROSPECTIVE ⌛️
2016 was a year that saw a swath of work disappear when my house was broken into and my computer stolen. It was the year I first lived on my own. It was a time of grief, rebuilding and discovery. Loss was real, but more importantly exploration and reacquainting with the way in which I intrinsically saw and moved through the world was an unstoppable weather system, that moved through, cleansed and established a lot of practice and foundation for the coming years…
1. Carpark choreography - August 2016 2. Balance - August 2016 3. Morning Transit - July 2016 4. Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People - July 2016 5. Life Finds a Way - August 2016 6. Domestic Bliss - November 2016 7. A Universe - November 2016 8. Hidden Tattoo - September 2016 9. Landscape - July 2016 I was stuck on a playlist of many repeats, but on that list, You Am I came up quite a bit. Please Don’t Ask Me To Smile was reasonably my mantra that year, and I learned to smile again in my own time.
#femalephotographer #creativeprocess #oldwork
⏳2015-2025 - RETROSPECTIVE ⌛️
2015 (landscape orientation works)
I find it interesting looking back at these images from 2015 because they have a sense of the size of the world, how small one can feel, and there seems to be an intrinsic melancholy across the work in that year:
1. Flight - June 2025 2. Control - June 2025 3. Reaching - June 2025 4. A Path - November 2025 5. Stones - November 2025 6. Skeleton - November 2025
7. 6400 miles of open sea - November 2025 8. Red Riding Hood - November 2025 9. Thriving - November 2025 10. It’s late spring and yet the snow came in - November 2025 I adore Lief’s Requiem, which I’d discovered early in that year. I still use it as one of my key writing accompaniments.
#femalephotographer #creativeprocess #oldwork #hobart #tarkine
⏳2015-2025 - RETROSPECTIVE ⌛️
2015
I was asked to dig out some old show photos yesterday, and after some back and forth on unlocking my old catalogue, I figured I’d go down a bit of a trip through the last decade — one can almost claim it’s still the New Year, and the last decade brought a lot of stuff to my plate, so seemed a thing to do. I interestingly saw some photos I’d never given time to in a new light, I reedited some others with improved skills and just enjoyed seeing how my eye has changed over time and what I’m keen to explore. 2015 is interesting in that the artistic output started and ended in Tasmania, with a massive life speed bump in between. Weirdly, all of the 2015 photos favoured landscapes and nature, and I’d rarely claim to be a landscape photographer… It was also the year that I swapped out from using Nikon bodies to Sony as my camera of choice. These are the portrait orientation pictures selected for this year:
1. The Birds - June 2025
2. Sentinel - June 2025 3. Moored - June 2025 4. The Tarkine - November 2025 Tame Impala’s Currents was the soundtrack that got me through the second trip to Tassie and traversed the perfect soundtrack to what I was going through… I listen now and it’s as if I’m thinking of a book I once loved long ago: the main character who I once had resounding empathy for, I still hold them with high esteem, and yet, they seem so far away from me and who I am today.
#femalephotographer #creativeprocess #tarkine #hobart #oldwork
SKELETAL FORM
racked between soil and sky
reminds me
we will all
one day
be chalky bones
left on the shoulder
of life’s highway
It was a weird marriage between revisiting Twin Peaks while traveling WA, combating fatigue accumulation, challenging landscapes, and flirting with these ephemeral thoughts that were hovering on the edge of consciousness. Trying to unpack some of the writing I was doing, and have finished editing the images from the trip… I want to go back. Or, at the least, i want to get away to formalize some of this work. I was going to go on a mini solo camping expedition to do some of that work, but something on the horizon interrupted that plan. So in quiet times, reflecting in the mad city, and ploughing onto thoughts and encouraging them to live their best life…
What has become clear to me is that if I wait for work to be “done” it never gets out there… so I’ve set myself the challenge of sharing and pushing past the barrier of “unfinished” for now.
#irphotography #westernaustralia #shortpoem #ekphrasis #sonyalpha #720nm #outback #karijininationalpark #roadtrip #almostblackandwhite #femalephotographer #roughdraft
UNTITLED (for now, but maybe not forever)
Dales Gorge, Karijini
There is life and death and scars and regrowth tied to every part of this vast dome of open-sky wilderness. Many years ago I asked which way I should drive out of Broome and was told repeatedly there was nothing out there… but it is in the nothing there is the most extraordinary. Anthill alien landscapes with trees rekindling their youth, growing over their history, absorbing it and bringing it within.
These experiments in IR make an immediate visual impact of what is showing signs of rebirth, and what is a skeleton ready to return in time, to give back to the earth which bore it.
One of the things that I find deeply evocative about time and space in traveling through Australian bush is how the dirt communicates the story of the land I am privileged to pass through as a stranger. This form has forced me to see the story in a different way. To engage the extremity of what country offers. I can only strive for a deepening appreciation, which is the value of patience and taking one’s time. This land will communicate with you, if you approach with respect and open eyes. Drought, fire, flood, life, death. It is everything.
#irphotography #infraredlandscape #karijini #femalephotographer #sonyalphafemale #lensbaby #lensbabyedge80 #shotonsony #720nm
GHOST TREES
Dales Gorge, Karijini
It’s been two weeks back from romping through WA… it’s been an interesting fortnight, with many unexpected curveballs. Reflecting on some of the images from our journey, this one seems the best to start. Having been delayed by bushfires in the first instance, I do love how the clouds create an almost smoke effect to the otherwise dark sky.
#irphotography #landscape #karijini #karijininationalpark #sonymirrorless #sonyphotography #sonyalpha #sonyalphafemale #lensbabyedge80 #lensbaby #gonebush
"Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious" has premiered with a conversation with the wonderful Don Bridges! To whet your appetite for the rest of our fab line up of guests, here's a snippet of the conversation between host Sally McLean (@sallymcleanactor ) and awesome fellow actor/writer/director, Phoebe Anne Taylor (@thingsfromiso ).
Phoebe Anne Taylor is a Melbourne based theatre maker, actor and writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and Honours in Performance from Monash University, and was a graduate of the inaugural Full Time ensemble of the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia. Phoebe is also an alumni of the Ar-tel-les Creative Centre in Finland, having completed the Silence Awareness Existence residency. She was awarded runner up for her work in the 2020 Alpine Fellowship International Theatre Writing prize, and has had work produced at La Mama and the Butterfly Club. Theatre acting credits include "the art of f*cking", "no blinding light", "Old Man Nanook", "Titus Andronicus" and "Speak English or Die". Her direction credits include Buried at Sea for Second Breakfast, Kiss me Kate, The Producers and Away for Trinity College and Hamlet and The Tempest for Hartwell Players. She is also a regular narrator for the Vision Australia Information Library Service and has narrated several audio books for various publishers.
Here is a taste of Phoebe and Sally's conversation, where Phoebe shares her thoughts on working with the iambic pentameter ...
#shakespeare #podcast #acting #interview #phoebeannetaylor #history #performance #conversation #lovethebard
Season One of "Musing on the Bard" features a plethora of fascinating guests from Australia, the UK and the USA discussing Shakespeare, acting, filmmaking and more! Follow or like us to keep in the loop for when Phoebe's full interview is released in the line up! You don't want to miss it! For all listening links and more info:
"Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious" is supported with a Small Grant from the British Shakespeare Association (@bsashakespeare ).
@lamamatheatre … My home the last two weeks. I have the deepest gratitude. Being granted space and time to devote to creative practice, and development of a slippery and difficult piece of work, is nothing short of extraordinary.
There’s energy in working in space that holds not only the stories of so many artists past, but those in residence this year, and most importantly as part of a long lineage of storytellers that lived on this land far before my ancestors landed on this land. I am privileged to create in a legacy much bigger than any individual can fathom.
It’s weird to go into a space and work on a thing in isolation. To set up and pack down your office every day. Working on a piece that will be passed through many trusted hands in times to come. To present ephemera and be reaffirmed that your ideas are big and affecting. To start on a journey with characters you didn’t know were inside you, and see them come to life, and put them through (I apologise to my fictional friends) through trials and tribulations you’d never be willing to endure. And to know that those circumstances have resonance for others.
My heart is full. I feel reinvigorated. I remember the process. Thank you thank you thank you #lamama, for the space, time and history.
#theatre #writing #artistresidency #playwriting #process #theatremakers #deepwork
Tiny collection of my being a creative weirdo, allowed by @lamamatheatre … as the bathroom art of old says, “I’m at La mama with my art. They’re willing to employ it!”
I was honoured at the end of last year to be granted a residency at La Mama, a place that has held me as an artist a number of times. To have suddenly got here is… mindbreakingly fast… but I’m in the room and remembering how to do the thing.
The need for time and space to create is so vital, and the ritual of setting up and packing down my workspace the last four days has been healing and rejuvenating. I’m also trying to let go of all the capitalist narratives of “what is the concrete outcome” in order to explore and enrich this strange elusive work I’m creating. Enter long reading of mythology, technical philosophy, history, music and (infuriating) “conversations” with chat bots… hopefully more to come over the next six days!
#longlivelamama #playwriting #creativeresidency #theatre #arts #naarm #creativeprocess #theatre #writersroom #drafting #research #writing #femaletheatremakers #creativeexploration
So lovely to record at @visionaustralia again. With the generous use of their recording studios. Having not done a DAISY audiobook in nearly ten years, I’ve returned to record my father’s memoir as an audiobook, due for release next month! Working with @audiobooks_radio and Kerr Publishing has been a dream too!
It’s been a meaningful journey to lend voice to this project: where for so many years my father has worked tirelessly to eliminate preventable blindness both in Australia and globally — but none more meaningfully than his work with and for Indigenous Australians — and not understanding as a child why I “had to share my dad with the world”. Slowly as an adult I’ve learned more and more about the impact of his legacy. When I was asked to do it, I asked all the questions a performer does, but for this one particularly: am I the right voice to tell this story? I can’t answer that question… but I am honoured to be able to share it, in the way I remember the stories, and learning deeper levels about my father’s mark on the planet.
Quite simply, my father is a rockstar. He doesn’t play an instrument. He doesn’t wear leather pants and doesn’t do drugs in the green room. His musical tastes gravitate, these days, to Wagner. But boy almighty, there’s not many people who you can say you know personally who’ve changed the life of literally hundreds of millions of people around the globe. How’d I get so lucky?
#narrator #audiobook #familystory #actorlife
Thornbury nights.
Calm before festival storm hits my life. Trying to gently remind myself of daily practice.
#liminalphotography #streetphotography #nightphotography #thornbury #womeninphotography #shotoniphone #myneighbourhood
