Writing
✍️ I write regularly about the arts, particularly literature, theatre and dance, as well as fashion, conscious consumerism and mental health.
2024 📆
Arts writing 🖼️
In Conversation with Jarrad West about Every Brilliant Thing, 12 August 2024
A Creative Response to Manage Your Expectations, 3 August 2024
RiotACT, Winners announced: The 2024 National Photographic Portrait Prize and the Darling Portrait Prize for Painting, 21 June 2024
Winners announced: The 2024 National Photographic Portrait Prize and the Darling Portrait Prize for Painting EXTENDED, 21 June 2024
RiotACT, A monument to nature: Temple at the NFSA, 10 April 2024
RiotACT, Law, politics and power: An uplifting new play exploring the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 8 April 2024
RiotACT, Social satire collides with spectacular physical performance in Stunt Double, 1 March 2024
RiotACT, Afrique en Cirque: A glimpse into life in Guinea through circus, 18 February 2024
2023 📆
Arts writing 🖼️
RiotACT, The magic of A Christmas Carol returns to Canberra Theatre, 8 December 2023
RiotACT, Canberra dancers explore powerful messages in Ausdance ACT’s Youth Dance Festival, 16 October 2023
RiotACT, Queensland Ballet excited to bring A Midsummer Night’s Dream alive in Canberra, 10 October 2023
RiotACT, Miss Peony 牡丹小姐: A comedy of beauty pageants, unrealistic expectations and family, 13 August 2023
ACTHUB, Inside ‘Hay Fever’ with Director Joel Horwood, 3 August 2023
Portrait, A stitch in time: Participating in portraiture, 15 May 2023
RiotACT, Powerful acting combines with soulful gospel hymns in Choir Boy, 28 March 2023
ACTHUB, Inside Everyman Theatre’s Production of Holding the Man, 15 March 2023
RiotACT, Exploring power, ambition and misogyny in the theatrical production Julia, 15 March 2023
RiotACT, Electrifying new dance from Sydney Dance Company in Ascent, 24 February 2023
RiotACT, Air Play: World-renowned circus comes to Canberra, 19 February 2023
What I’m writing, reading and listening to 📚
HerCanberra, What I’m reading after the Canberra Writers Festival, 20 September 2023
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to during Pride Month, 27 June 2023
HerCanberra, What I’ve been reading, writing and listening to this month (travel edition part two!), 25 April 2023
HerCanberra, What I’ve been reading, writing and listening to this month (travel edition), 7 March 2023
2022 📆
Arts writing 🖼️
RiotACT, A Christmas Carol: song, humour and festive joy comes to Canberra, 9 December 2022
RiotACT, That Was Friday world premiere pushes boundaries of dance, theatre, 21 November 2022
RiotACT, Australian debut of Emilia tells powerful story of love, loss and identity, 9 November 2022
RiotACT, Chalkface: A darkly comedic love letter to teachers, 26 October 2022
RiotACT, Julia: Groundbreaking Australian theatre a decade on from misogyny speech, 23 October 2022
RiotACT, The Wharf Revue are Looking for Albanese, 12 October, 2022
RiotACT, Gravity-defying circus brings its physical theatre to Canberra, 25 September, 2022
RiotACT, Urgent new dance theatre on the violence of forgetting, 19 September 2022
RiotACT, Award-winning playwright shares modern classic under Whitefella Yella Tree, 14 September 2022
RiotACT, Students reflect on the tumultuous world with Dance Fest 2022, 5 September 2022
Photo Access, Catalogue Essay ‘Ultra Visible’ for ‘I am that I am – a deconstruction’ an exhibition by Prue Hazelgrove, 11 August 2022
Portrait Magazine, Let’s Dance, Winter Issue 2022
RiotACT, Terrain’s 10 years of powerful dance connects to Country, 19 July 2O22
RiotACT, A family affair: Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Kanneh-Masons, 13 July 2022
RiotACT, THREE brings cutting-edge contemporary dance to the fore, 21 June 2022
What I’m writing, reading and listening to 📚
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to in October, 25 October, 2022
HerCanberra, What I’m reading from the Canberra Writers Festival, 24 August, 2022
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to in August, 2 August 2022
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to in June, 27 June 2022
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to in May, 4 May 2022
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to in March, 24 March 2022
HerCanberra, What I’m reading, writing and listening to in February, 21 Februrary 2022
In the Wardrobe with… 👗
HerCanberra, In the wardrobe with: Alison Plevey, 9th August 2022
HerCanberra, In the wardrobe with: Claudia Tétreault-Percy, 15th February 2022
Other Writing ✏️
On Being Mentally Ill, 29th October 2022
HerCanberra, Salvation Army volunteer Alan Jessop honoured with OAM, 26th January,2022
2021 📆
Vogue Australia, What happens to a long-term relationship when one partner transitions? 20 May, 2021
Before 2020 📆
My writing for Leiden is no longer being maintained and is quietly eroding on the internet.