PROFILE

As a full time self employed creative, I have designed and executed over 10 years worth of place-based, community engagement projects, engaging with over 650 community members through small group workshops under my brand “BOHIE”. My innovative approach towards program design has fostered strong relationships with government, corporate, community services, educational institutions, small business owners, and youth alike, creating strong relationships, authentic audience engagement, and meaningful space activation.

What drives me is my passion for building relationships between diverse groups and partnering organisations to foster grassroots, community-based change through purpose driven placemaking. 

I thrive on meeting the niche needs of everyone involved with equal determination; from corporate to community, young to old, vulnerable groups to institutions - and deliver high quality, placed-based projects within budget and scope.  

My deep expertise lies within my unique approach to project design, guided by over 20 years experience merging my studies of graphic design, traditional crafts, street art, research-based placemaking, and fine art together. The running theme throughout all of my project design is authentic storytelling, which I believe requires structure, support, and passion to come to life.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Community engagement including the design, creation and execution of local programs working with at-risk youth, bushfire torn communities, Australian Olympians, global design thinking consultancies, First Nations representatives, and leading international scientists

• Creative business mentor including emerging artist representation, training and networking

• Thought leader in unique approaches to placemaking, including 2023 Research Fellow of the Australian National University’s Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

• Project management artefacts including monitoring, reporting and evaluation 

• Vendor management of supplies and contractors delivered on time and within budget

• Media liaison for national brands including ABC, Channel 9, international podcasts, and cultural online trend setters 

• Stakeholder engagement with clients ranging in scope and complexity from head curators of the National Museum of Australia, to local business owners of the Surfcoast Wholefoods, Torquay

• Supplier and subcontractor to Scentre Group (Westfield), UBER, Jacob’s Creek, University of Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Canberra Airport Group, leading advertising agencies

• Project management artefacts of small to large scale programs of work; initiation, implementation, design, delivery, reporting and evaluation
  

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• NSW Drivers Licence (permanent Geelong address from September 6th, 2024)

• Working with Vulnerable People for Victoria, NSW and ACT

• Cultural Awareness Training from First Nations Cultural Consultant, Alison Simpson

• Introduction to Philosophy, University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education

• Elevated Work Platform (EWP) Licence & White Card (General Induction Construction Card)

• Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design and Digital Media, Canberra Institute of Technology

• Undertook core units of Bachelor of Print Media, Australian National University 

• Year 12 Certificate
  

SELECTED PROJECTS FROM FOUR KEY AREAS;
GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, COMMUNITY, and ENVIRONMENT

National Museum of Australia (2024) Grant-funded project to design and install large scale murals for the “Riding the Olympic Wave; Breakthrough Sports” exhibition in the main foyer of the NMA.  

• Project managed with complex stakeholder groups including the Head Curator of National Museum of Australia, International Olympic Committee in Switzerland, and exhibition partners, requiring police check and security clearance to attain after hours access

• Emerging artist paid mentorship for Surfcoast, Victoria Indigenous artist, Jessi Rebel

• Designed to budget and timeline, providing project summary reports

• In depth knowledge of materials allowed me to adhere to museum standards for low VOC paints ensuring minimal impact on precious artefacts 

• Media, Education Workshops and Public Engagement including educational film for museum archives, public engagement through volunteer group exhibition showcases, design and facilitation of 5 full day school holiday programs aimed at 5-17 year olds in connection to the exhibition.

Creative Supplier and Contractor for Corporate Brands (2015 - 2024) Illustration, traditional sign writing, large scale mural art, and graphic design for Westfield (Scentre Group), Dan Murphy’s, Jacob’s Creek, UBER, Woolworths, and some of Australia's leading Creative and Marketing Agencies. Through these contracts, my team and I designed, coordinated and installed various site-relevant large scale site-specific murals, as well as 50+ ambient artworks per location, across multiple Australian states. 

• Networked to build trusting relationships with corporate staff and third party creative agencies, often based in remote locations

• Successful project management adhering to strict budgets and timelines, providing Risk Assessments, and Safe Work Method statements for various sites in various states with subcontractors working beneath me

• Undertook community consultation, site assessment, budget reports, timely administration and high level project sign-offs

• Navigated challenging after hours installations at heights, with on-site access often limited to between 9pm and 6am

• Undertook on-site inductions to oversee smooth and professional installation on live construction sites, alongside management and coordination of artwork shipping to interstate locations. 

International Women's Day Youth-led Placemaking Projects (2019 - 2023) An annual exhibition of co-created community mural projects installed on empty shopfront hoardings in Garema Place, an outdoor mall in the heart of the Canberra Centre, Canberra City. This annual exhibition engaged local Female Leaders as focus themes. My role included project design and coordination, as well as liaison with Australian Olympians, ACT Young Person of the Year, and UN Women, to provide key speaking and guest workshop facilitation roles with participating students and at-risk youth from local public schools. 

• Secured financial stakeholders though ACT Government grant funds, alongside corporate and community donations from the Canberra Centre, and UN Women’s Canberra Chapter

• Networked and managed integral relations with community partners from Mura Lanyon Youth Drop in Hub, Dulux Trade Centre, and participating schools and colleges from across the territory

• Timely delivery of flexible project design during 2020-2022 COVID lockdowns, including last minute changes to adhere changing regulations of social distancing, school excursion allowance, participant and subcontractor needs and expectations

• Social media spokesperson including interviews on WIN News, ABC Radio, The Canberra Times, The City News, Canberra Weekly, and social media channels

• This project required leading conversations about gender stereotypes, mental wellbeing, self care and safe expression, resulting in an invitation to speak at “She Leads” Female Leadership Conference, Cultural Centre Kambri, Canberra ACT 2022

Research Fellowship at Australian National University Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (2023 -2024) Co-Author “Street Art as a Vehicle for Environmental Science Communication” science journal paper with Centre for Public Awareness of Science, ANU, published in Italian based journal “Jcom: Journal for Science Communication” 

Guapamacataro Art and Ecology Residency, Michoacan, Mexico (2023) Site-based & community-oriented cultural initiative where artists, scientists, educators and activists converge to foster new ideas for sustainable development.

Ayatana Science Research Program, Gatineau National Park, Quebec Canada (2021-2022) Two week intensive online webinars engaging international artists with leading scientists, thought leaders and museum curators from around the world to discuss how the collaboration between science and art can contribute to changemaking in today's ecological climate. Through this program I was invited to contribute to “Re-Imagining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of the Arts & Sciences”, an exhibition in partnership with Swale House & The National Wildlife Museum of Art at Brown University, Rhode Island USA in 2022.

Bundian Way Artists Exchange Program, ANU School of Art & Design (2021) Cultural Exchange Program, featuring On-Country style field trips focused on building positive reciprocal relationships between artists and local regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities engaged in the Bundian Way; a shared historic pathway used by Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years, linking Mount Kosciuszko with Twofold Bay on the Far South Coast of NSW.

SELECTED PUBLIC SPEAKING,
MEDIA AND PRESS

• Guest Speaker for “Shaking Up The Gender Imbalance” Surface Festival, Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra ACT

• Guest Speaker for “Your idea is going to be big… so what’s stopping you?” Business South Australia

• Guest Speaker for “She Leads” Youth Female Leadership Conference, Canberra ACT.
  Australian Graphic Design Association Keynote speaker, School of Creative Arts, Hobart TAS

• Guest Speaker and Moderator for “WATER - FIRE - LAND” A one hour long one-on-one interview in front of  gallery audience with award winning environmental artist, Fran Ifould, for her retrospective art exhibition opening at Leeton Museum and Gallery, NSW. Supported by Western Riverina Arts and Leeton Shire Councils

• Video interview “Art and The Environment” with Pop[sic]ule (Science and Popular Culture journal from the Australian National University Centre for the Public Awareness of Science), presented to a live audience at the National Film and Sound Archive

• Podcast feature “Mentorship, Bravery and Self Resilience” The Real Work, USA

• Podcast feature “The power of paint, toxic behaviour and the gender experience in street art” Mustard Flats, AUS

• Interviews on ABC Radio Canberra and ABC Radio South East NSW, 2EC Radio Canberra, WIN Local News, The Canberra Times, Canberra Weekly, Broadsheet Adelaide, The Adelaide Review, and selected international press

AWARDS 

• Award for Excellence Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design and Digital Media, Canberra Institute of Technology

• Guildhouse Scholarship for South Australian Young Entrepreneur Scheme Business South Australia 

• Goulburn Arts Prize Shortlisted 2021 and 2022, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW 

VOLUNTEER WORK

• Emerging Artist Creative Business Mentorships and Apprenticeships

• Bushfire Relief Support Person extending private accommodation and hands on support to 2019/2020 Black Summer Bushfire affected locals through Life Center Braidwood, NSW

• Volunteer for Giiyong Festival; a celebration of aboriginal culture on the far south coast of NSW, and Two Fires Festival of Art and Activism, Braidwood NSW, multiple years running

• Art Class Assistant for 6 months at St Bede’s Primary School, Braidwood NSW

• Multiple large scale mural donations to boost tourism across various rural towns in NSW with volunteer organisations Letterheads and Walldogs

• ACT State Representative AGIdea’s Design Conference, Melbourne, VIC, while studying my Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design and Digital Media 2010