As Artist in Residence at the Northern Rivers Regional Gallery, the landscape became a place of quiet revelation—the shifting light, mist, rain, and sudden rainbows that slowly unfolded through daily rides along the Northern Rivers Rail Trail.
Over the month I was in Residence, I rode more than 800 kilometres, developing a deeper sense of place through repetition, movement, and close observation of the environment each day.
The trail became both a physical and creative practice. I rode through mornings thick with mist and relentless rain and the occasional sunshine, beneath a canopy of trees that felt cathedral-like in their beauty and stillness.
I passed ancient grass trees standing like grandmothers beside nurseries of new growth. With whip birds echoing through the bush, turtles paddling in creeks and glow worms in a tunnel of darkness.
Returning each day to the studio at the gallery created an important balance between immersion and reflection. It allowed me to process these daily experiences through making and experimentation.
This residency and the daily rides offered the rare gift of time: time to move slowly through a landscape, to observe deeply, and to reconnect creative practice with attention, embodiment, and place.
Watch the video I did of my residency: