Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
I am an Illustrator, Visual Designer, Animation Art Director, Academic, Design Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Animation at the School of Art and Design, Adelaide University, Adelaide, South Australia. I have a focus on visual communication, illustration and animation - how they can help transform and communicate across biodiversity and science, education, histories and heritage, social work and health. I am passionate about design as well as the ability to think and experience visually. My forthcoming book 'Illustration and Cultural Production: An investigation into creative practice' will be published with Bloomsbury in 2028. My illustration work can be found on my website. My research is practice-based and interrogates and scope out the socio-cultural positioning of illustrators and their construction of knowledge in the design process and their illustration practice. How our past experiences impact our present perceptions of practice. I am also a singer/songwriter and have released music under the banner of 'Threebirds Records', an label managed with Joseph Cheek. My Music can be found on spotify.
Senior Lecturer/Course Coordinator, Professional Practice Lead: Course Co-ordinator: Illustration Studio 2 (2026), Visual Narrative (2026), GRAP 3025 Illustration Animation Studio 4 (2026). Member | Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) Doctoral Supervision: • Type Speaks: An Exploratory and Explanatory Study of Vietnamese Display Typography , PhD (Design).
-Seconded Course Designer: Curriculum and Assessment Design, and Canvas Build for Core Courses in program. Program team – Program Design, Academic Development and Assessment, Program Learning Outcome (PLO) and Course Learning Outcomes (CLO) Mapping for Bachelor of Illustration and Animation (2026) and service programs. -Peer-Reviewer for Adelaide University Creative Courses.
Current PhD Supervision: •Disabled by Design: Enhancing accessibility guidelines for education, PhD(Design), Exegesis. 2023- present. Completed PhD Supervision: •New China: The Historical Contexts of Brand Design Development (1912 - 2023) PhD (Design), Thesis.
Creative Industries Honours Coordinator (Course Co-ordinator/Designer/Lecturer) • Sem1- 2022: CIND4002: Research Methods and Planning • Sem1- 2022: CIND4002: Introduction to Research and Creative Practice • Sem1- 2022: DESN2003:The Design Process in Theory and Professional Practice • Sem1- 2022: DESN1200: Drawing Foundations • Sem2- 2022: DESN1311: Character Design Big Picture School Academic mentor. Honours Supervision: • Home is where the mind is: Drawing from memory as a form of Visual Ethnography. (2022) • Catfish: Encouraging social play through character design and anthropomorphism (2021) College Medalist & Class 1 Honours. • Uniquely Me: An investigation into designing for accessibility, inclusivity & dyslexia in Children’s Book Illustration (2021). College Medalist & Class 1 Honours. • Pandora’s Box: An exploration of purposeful integration of technology in children’s book literature (2019).
Bachelor of Design (Illustration and Animation). UniSA is the only Australian University to offer a degree specifically in illustration and animation. UniSA Creative Academic Board 2025 Member | Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) Member | Higher Education Research Network (HERN) Associate Editor, Journal of Illustration (Intellect), Board Member Illustration Research Network. Lecturer/Course Coordinator, Professional Practice Lead: Course Co-ordinator GRAP 2009 Illustration Animation Studio 2 (2023, 2024, 2025) Course Co-ordinator GRAP 2010 Illustration Animation Studio 3 (2023, 2024, 2025) Course Co-ordinator GRAP 3017 Illustration Animation Studio 4 (2023, 2024, 2025) Teaching GRAP 1029 Illustration Animation Studio 1 (2023), Seminars (2024, 2025) Adelaide University Curriculum Design: Program and Course Development (2024, 2025) Doctoral Supervision: • Fostering pro-environmental attitudes: environmental education through botanical illustration of native South Australian flora, PhD (Design). • Type Speaks: An Exploratory and Explanatory Study of Vietnamese Display Typography , PhD (Design). Honours Supervision: • Storying unseen silence: How intersections of illustration, writing, and metaphor can communicate traumatic impacts of domestic abuse and family court outcomes (2025) • A Practice-based exploration of extinction stories in the form of picture book Illustration (2025). • Visualising Gender Euphoria: Investigating transgender experience through illustration practice (2023). • Authentic Animation : Incorporating Indonesian Narrative through Practice-Based Research (2023).
External Examiner: Bachelor of Art and Design (Honours), Illustration/Animation- UniSA 2022.