My personal arts practice is interdisciplinary, spanning performance, installation and image making that delves into the politics of self, power, autonomy and gender. I am interested in how identity is constructed, challenged and performed—both publicly and privately. Drawing on lived experience, critical theory and playful performance practices, my work explores the tension between agency and expectation, Beauty and Horror.
I am drawn to the absurd, the surreal, dream logic, symbolism and theatricality as devices to reframe perception. My practice explores the eerie undercurrents of everyday life and the visceral materiality of the body—its vulnerabilities, contradictions and capacity for transformation.
Through performance, video, installation and site, I create atmospheres that are both unsettling and immersive. Using dialogues of tenderness against violence, intimacy against estrangement, elegance against distortion—I seek to reveal the tensions that shape lived experience. My process begins with mapping and imagining before production, aiming to generate affective, felt encounters rather than linear narratives.
Resisting easy categorisation, the work is situated between the real and the imagined, where identity, memory and power are constantly being re-scripted. Influenced by filmmakers such as David Lynch, Peter Greenaway and David Cronenberg, as well as artists like Nick Knight, Cindy Sherman, Leigh Bowery, Vivian Sassen, Matthew Barney and Marina Abramović, I draw on surrealist, dada, cinematic and performance traditions to create worlds that are at the same time disquieting while hopefully seductive.

Tenancy.
Collaborator. Video & Design.
In collaboration with performer, Mia Hollingworth TENANCY is a grotesque celebration of the body we occupy. Presented as part of OUTBOUND contemporary dance and live art festival.
Performer Mia Hollingworth Photo Habitus

Imposter. #1
Creative Director.
An ongoing inter-disciplinary enquiry into the constructed self, anonymity and the super ordinary. Involving the body, performance, moving image and object. The experiment employs ideas of assemblage, absurdity, unnatural narratologies and radical beauty to propose moments of poetic nonsense designed to make you feel something. Supported by Butter Factory Arts Centre and Noosa Regional Arts Development Fund.
Performers Megan Rowland and Courtney Scheu Photo Warwick Gow Photography
Imposter. #2
Creative Director. Performer
Another chapter in the ongoing enquiry into the constructed self, anonymity and the super ordinary. This time involving cabbages, a live music collaboration with Chucho Bruno and an immersive installation and performance at Eumundi Imperial Hotel, Eumundi. Presented by Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance.
Performers Megan Rowland, Courtney Scheu and Chuco Bruno. Visuals Warwick Gow Photography. Video capture Tim Birch.
independance Residency
Creative Director. Choreographer.
A three week residency at Mad Dance House facilitated by Phluxus2dance to support independent choreographers experiment and create new work. Residency cuminates in a performance showing at Princess Theatre. Supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Performers Olivia Rooney, Madi Farrell and Jill Gregory Video Habitus
Imposter. #3
Creative Director.
IMPOSTER is an ongoing enquiry into the constructed self. IMPOSTER seeks radical beauty in the ordinary. This presentation of imposter considers; States of overwhelm and startle. Moments when the simplest things seem hard and it feels like life is unravelling. When stuff is thrown at you metaphorically and sometimes literally. When what seems sweet turns sour. In the form of a multi-channel video installation, poster prints and one-off intimate performance event. Supported by Noosa Regional Arts Development Fund and Phluxus2 through indepenDANCE.
Exhibition & Performance - Upper Foyer Gallery, The J Noosa
Collaborator : Warwick Gow Performers : Olivia Rooney & Madi Farrell Video by Habitus



ONGOING Independent.
Performer, choreographer, director, producer.
Many collaborations and much experimentation across 20 years of independent inter-disciplinary performances and exhibitions including projects supported by Australia Council, Creative Victoria, Australian Choreographic Centre and Regional Arts Development Fund performed at venues and festivals including Theatreworks, Dance House Melbourne, Next Wave Festival and Butter Factory Arts Centre.
Performers Megan Rowland Courtney Scheu Photo Warwick Gow Photography