October was excellent! I got to show my work at Firstdraft in Sydney, which was a bit of a dream come true for me tbh. Everyone there was/is and will continue to be amazing. I highly recommend apply to one of their open calls, their love and support is fantastic and you get to hang with a bunch of really nice folk, what’s not to love hey.

I also got to spend a week in Sydney for the second Next Wave intensive. We speed dated, we went to fancy events with fancy people and we hung out in parks/bars and talked about art, life and how we all try and make these two things work together.

Finally, I was selected for the Joondalup Invitation Art Prize and used my residency at Tje Fremantle Arts Centre to makes new, shapes canvas painting for the show. I didn’t win 😢 but I met some great people and got some really nice feedback on my work. I’ll definitely be giving it another shot next year.