I was born in Clyde, NZ in 1978.  I grew up on a sheep farm near Lauder, Central Otago.  At age 19, I moved to Dunedin to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, graduating in 2000. 

Since graduating, I have worked as a full-time artist, setting up a printmaking studio in 2004 with a fellow Dunedin printmaker.  After living in Dunedin for the past eight years, although I am fond of it, I still find the city quite claustrophobic, filthy, noisy and irritating at times.

I have a strong need to escape, and am able to do so through my art, by surrounding and immersing myself with images of home.  As a child, I would suffer terrible home-sickness during school camps; I was always very aware of the distance between myself and home.