This year TRAILS finalists included artists from across Australia. The works reflected a range of media, techniques and experience, providing viewers with a broad spectrum from which to cast their People's Choice vote. TRAILS included large scale works in the main exhibition and small scale works in a miniatures exhibition.
In 2023 four soft sculptures that I call "Children of Compost Symbionts" gather in the wild figuring ways to collaborate and move away from danger together. This symbiont team carries the mission to inspire constructive public discourse to find hope, care, and empathy in the broken world.
Exhibited at Portland Bay Press, 2023
Held on the lands of the Gunditjmara people, we wish to acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.