Education
2019
Ph.D. (Art History), University of Melbourne. Research question: What can an examination of sculptural Arte Povera works’ performativity reveal about the notion of artistic ‘poverty’?
Primary Supervisor: Dr Anthony White
Secondary Supervisor: Prof Rachel Fensham
2018
Honours (Art History), University of Melbourne. Title: All and Nothing: Povera and Performance in the Durational Works of Giovanni Anselmo and Gilberto Zorio. Supervisor: Dr Anthony White
2017
Graduate Diploma of Arts (Art History), University of Melbourne
2012-2014
Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing), RMIT University
Professional Experience
2021
- Subject Tutor, The World in 20 Artworks, Art History Faculty, University of Melbourne
- Presenter and Chair, American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Panel: “Suonare il Piffero della Rivoluzione? Culture and Politics in Italy’s Long ’68”
- Organising Committee, Memory Conference, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA)
- Editor, ‘Archipelagic Encounters I’ special issue of Currents Journal, forthcoming
- Organising Committee, Marxism Conference, Melbourne
2020
- Podcast Host, GAPS [ ]: Encounters with Art, Episode One: Composing in Space, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) Graduate Academy
- Organising Committee, Archipelagic Encounters symposium, University of Melbourne, Australia and LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- Subject Tutor, The World in 20 Artworks, Art History Faculty, University of Melbourne
- Presenter, American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Tucson, Arizona (Conference suspended due to COVID-19), Panel: “Visual Culture in Postwar Italy”
2019
- Presenter, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, Panel: “Encounters, Environments and the Arts”
2018
- Regular Contributor, RealTime Magazine
2017
- Sub-Editor, .JPG Journal
Selected Awards, Prizes and Mentorships
2020
- American Association for Italian Studies Doctoral Student Travel Award
2019
- Australian Government Research Training Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2018
- R.G Wilson Scholarship for Honours, University of Melbourne
- The Dwight Final Assessment Prize, Fine Arts, University of Melbourne
- SEVENTH Gallery Writers Program
2017
- Next Wave Festival DanceWrite Mentorship
- Dance Massive Experimental Writing Mentorship with Claudia La Rocco
Selected Writing
- ‘Prima Materia, Bundoora Homestead’, (Memo Review, July 6th 2019)
- ‘Lara Kramer’s Windigo’, (Melbourne Critique, May 17th 2019)
- ‘The Tennis Piece’, (un Projects, April 24th 2019)
- ‘One Infinity: Visualising the Listening Experience’, (Difficult Fun, November 25th 2018)
- ‘PRECOG – Next Wave x Liquid Architecture’, (Difficult Fun, May 20th 2018)
- ‘JOLT’s Musical Myth-Making’, (RealTime Magazine, 5th December 2017)
- ‘Experimenta: Make Sense: Disorientation and Distance’, (RealTime Magazine, 11th November 2017)
- ‘Supersense: Ecstasy Sought, Partly Met’, (RealTime Magazine, 30th August 2017)
- ‘Sonya Lacey: By Sea’, (RealTime Critical Video, August 2017)
- ‘Sacred and Other Resonances: Liquid Architecture’s Polyphonic Social’, (RealTime Magazine, 6 June 2017)
- ‘Corridor (2009): A World Between Screens’, (RealTime Critical Video, May 2017)
- ‘Imagination and Incarceration: Squidsolo’s RIMA’ (RealTime Magazine, Issue 134, 2016)
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