'one month ago we started to love each other. we find it hard to speak to each other. we don't declare our love openly. I don't know how you feel'

Plastic fans, text (found letter from Kalaw, Myanmar)
Gallery Sometimes - empty shop front, Smith Street Mall, Darwin CBD.
February 2006

fusion strength '05 - singapore/darwin

24 HR Art - NT Centre for Contemporary Art.
September 16 - October 22, 2005
A collaborative performance was executed on Saturday 24 September (then we went to my house to watch the AFL grand final!)

Fusion Strength aimed to explore collaboration as a tool for generating contemporary creative art projects. For two weeks the gallery became a chaotic experience: a workspace, a performance space, a studio, a lab and a gathering spot to interact, intervene, and perform in.

Curated by Juliana Yasin. Artists: Jason Lim (Sing), Lina Adams (Sing), Juliana Yasin (Sing), Lucas Ilhein (Syd), Elka Kerkhofs (Dwn), and Hayley West (Dwn).

Fusion Strength 2005

am i there yet? - Perth

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Drawn Out curated by Hannah Mathews
July 2005

am i there yet? - Darwin

see the video of the work in progress
Am I There Yet? in the studio

24HR Art
April 2005
Photos by Fiona Morrison

Am I There Yet? is a sculptural installation; 250 metres of thin paper with a single black pen line retracing the journey from Melbourne to Darwin. Each 10 metre roll is connected by a small piece of red thread. As well as a physical piece, ‘Am I There Yet?’ was also a performative piece, the act of drawing becoming a meditative, emotional experience.

Darwin Festival - window of opportunity

Sink - Hayley West
inflatable pool, wet-ex, thread

Public Perception - Tobias Richardson
inflatable pool, photocopy machine, fountain

empty shop front, Darwin CBD, July 2005

'Dear Claire, Love Sonia'

A page of a found letter is hand stitched with red thread onto found shirts. The letter and shirts were discovered in a residential house in Taipei. The P/S is rewritten in the artist’s own handwriting, printed as postcards for the public to take away, and send away.

Linden – St.Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, St.Kilda
August 2004

'Absence of Presence'

Orange industrial tape is attached to a tree’s branch hanging to the tops of heads of a group of (now absent) people; engraved sinkers at the end of each length identify a person’s height and first name.

Sculpture in the Park
Civic Park, Darwin July 2004

older works relevant to current practice

'Inbetween for Romancin'
Ten love letters rewritten in red ink and cut into concertina form. Pen torches provided for detailed reading.
RMIT, Melbourne 1999





































' Write me, Love Ray'
glass slides with fractured letter in circles.
Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy 2002