Bio

I was born on the Gold Coast, Australia in 1990 and moved to Sydney shortly thereafter. I grew up in a very multicultural area in southwest Sydney and was raised in a bustling Italian household by my mother, her parents and her siblings. My performance and installation work explores the influence and identity of my family and their culture.

Using performance and installation, my work investigates space between two cultures, and what it means to experience foreign customs and traditions, made familiar through the filter of bloodlines that connect me to my ancestral homeland.

I have experimented with ideas of authenticity, mimicry, language, over-identifying with cliché and stereotypes in order to locate my personal experience within the diaspora of Italians in Australia, and around the world.

As a second generation Australian (who has never been to Italy and understands little more than obscenities), I am part of a large demographic of young Australians whose ethnographic and cultural ties have significant bearing on the formation of individual and collective identity.

I hope to share with others a humble insight into this slightly dysfunctional, parochial but ultimately charming culture and to connect us by drawing upon some of the experiences that we, as members of an increasingly global community, have in common.

Since 2011 I have curated and exhibited in the following shows:

2011
The Collective, QCA

2012
The F-Bomb, QCA
Propriety Limited, New Farm

2013
Homeland, Kaleidoscope Gallery

I'm due to graduate from my BFA in performance at installation at the College of Fine Art, UNSW.