About
I remember my Nan amazing me as a child with stories of her daring adventures. I remember thinking that I wanted to have as many of my own great adventures, just like her, and, well, I think I’ve made a pretty good start. I’ve nannied three children, shouted to people on red carpets, exhibited my photography in Belfast, stood on track at the Melbourne Cup (I soooooo could have tripped one of the horses over), toured Japanese students around London, traveled solo to Timbuktu and, for a brief period in history, Sharon Stone had my mobile number (!).
My Nan has 50 years on me and she is still having adventures. Slightly more sedate ones these days. With Ruby, her motorised shop rider. So I know I have plenty more to come. Only now I’m going to make sure my camera is tagging along for the ride.
I have a seemingly bottomless pit of hobbies and obsessions, most of which I start with gusto, some of which I finish the same way. I love to crochet and my enthusiasm for tea cosies can frighten a hipster away (Nan is so proud). Stationery, nice pens, paper, paper, oh nice paper! Origami, polyhedral, not paper cranes, rocks my world.. Rescuing old family photos, anyone’s family, and then wondering who they are? Whats their story? Family history, mine yours, some total fiction. Muppets! Who doesn’t love Jim Henson? And I adore traveling, preferably light and in summer.
I studied Photography in Perth, graduating in 1996, but followed, as my dad would say, my gypsy feet, working and traveling the world until mid 2009 when I settled in Melbourne. And here, as they say, I am.
(Oh, and I’ve never mastered the art of “twenty words or less”.)
