Publishing history

Books

The Frogs First Song (2025) University of Queensland Press

mark the dawn (2024) University of Queensland Press

how to make a basket (2021) University of Queensland Press 

Selected journals, anthologies and other publications:

2024

Australian Poetry Journal, issue 13.1

Cordite, issue 112

Future Remains, ACCA

Judy Watson, mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri, QAGOMA

Songs to Sing the World Alive, UQP

Woven, Magabala

2023

A Line In The Sand, Red Room Poetry Anthology, Pantera Press

Figuring Ground, Grafton Regional Gallery catalogue

Cordite, issue 109

doingbird, issue 19

NANGAMAY dream MANA gather DJURALI grow, Blackbooks

Stories Out West, ACON x Sweatshop

The National 4: Australian Art Now

2022

Arts of the Working Class, issue 21

Art Monthly Australasia, issue 33

Australian Poetry Journal, issue 11.2

Best of Australian Poems 2022, Australian Poetry

BLACKLIGHT, Sweatshop Publishing

crawlspace, issue 1

National Film and Sound Archive, online

Overland, issue 243

Red Room Poetry, online

Rīvus - a glossary of water, Biennale of Sydney catalogue

Soft Stir, issue 2

Tart, issue 1

Treasure Island | Daniel Boyd, Art Gallery of NSW catalogue 

Wonderground, issue 3

2021

Australian Book Review, issue 428

Best of Australian Poems 2021, Australian Poetry

Bilya Bibi: Crossings, Fremantle Biennale catalogue

Borderless, Recent Works Press

Cordite, issue 100, issue 101, issue 103

DIWIL, Murray Art Museum Albury

djillong dumularra, Artspace 

Jonathan Jones - works on paper 2010-2019, Formist

Rabbit, issue 32

Remember Nature, Penguin

un magazine, issue 15.1

2020

 
Artist Profile, issue 53

Emerging Writers’ Festival, online

Free Association, online

Liminal, online 

No News, Recent Works Press

Overland, online

Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, online

Runway, issue 40

Running Dog, online

Westerly, issue 65.1

2019

Australian Poetry Anthology, Australian Poetry

FNAWN, online

Lieu Journal, issue 2

2018

Australian Poetry Journal, issue 9.1

Meniscus, issue 6.2

Rabbit, issue 23

Film

WINHANGANHA
Feature film commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive, 2023

Festivals and screening venues include:

Mother Tongue Film Festival, Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA (Closing Night)
Festival du Cinéma Aborigène Australien, Paris, France

Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts, USA

TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

Kia Mau Festival, Wellington, New Zealand

London Australian Film Festival, London, UK 
Australian First Nations Cinema Festival, Nuremberg, Germany
Casa Asia Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain

Adelaide Biennial, SA, Australia 
Melbourne Women in Film Festival, Vic, Australia (Opening Night)
Broome Fringe Festival, WA, Australia 
Castlemaine Documentary Festival, Vic, Australia  (Opening Night) 
Vision Splendid Film Festival, Qld, Australia 
Garma Festival, NT, Australia  (Opening Night)
CinefestOZ, WA, Australia
Contains Strong Language Festival, Riverside Theatre, NSW, Australia
Deckchair Cinema Darwin, NT, Australia (Season opening night)
Sydney Opera House, NSW, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
ACMI, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
QAGOMA, Brisbane

Exhibition history

2025

CHTHONIC CHORUS curated by Jake Treacy 
Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne

It’s Always Been Always curated by Zali Morgan
Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle

Taking Back Language
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne 

2024

18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum curated by José Da Silva
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

JOY 
Immigration Museum, Melbourne

Language Exchange curated by Amy Prcevich
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery

Future Country curated by Tess Maunder and Tabitha Glanville
Hassell Architecture, Melbourne

Melbourne Art Fair: Beyond curated by Shelley McSpedden
Melbourne Art Fair

Currents curated by Amber Smith and Ilana Russell
Platform Arts, Geelong

Dhuluny: the war that never ended curated by Jonathan Jones with Wirribee Aunty Leanna Carr
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Free-to-air curated by Amanda Rowell
The Commercial, Sydney 

Echoes curated by Yvette Dal Pozzo
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

Canberra Art Biennial curated by Neil Hobbs and Tegan Garnett
Canberra

Radical Generosity curated by Kathryn Honey
Haydens Gallery, Melbourne

Everything You Can Dream of is True curated by Eddie Abd and Rachelle Esaid
Utp, Sydney + Westspace, Melbourne

This Is How We Love curated by Kelly McDonald
Mosman Art Gallery

Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different curated by Coby Edgar, Jason Wing and Rachael Kiang
Bankstown Arts Centre

2023

Sydney Contemporary The Commercial
Carriageworks, Sydney

All Our Seasons (solo)
Ace Hotel, Sydney

Holding Pattern curated by Tricky Walsh
haus of vovo, Tasmania 

Candy Apple Grey curated by Sebastian Goldspink
China Heights Gallery, Sydney

Alt/Text curated by Jenna Lee
Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne

Between Waves curated by Jessica Clark
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Figuring Ground curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk
Grafton Regional Gallery

Light Beyond Horizon (solo) curated by Arts Matter and Vivid Sydney
Vivid Sydney x Hollywood Hotel, Sydney

With Textual Consent (solo) curated by Amelia Wallin
La Trobe Library and La Trobe Art Institute co-commission, Bendigo

Light Sensitive curated by Rachel Keir-Smith
Town Hall Gallery, Boroondara

Out of the Everywhen curated by Jane Barlow, Caine Chennatt and Rachael Rose
Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

Decolonising Water (solo) curated by Ayomi Olasoji and Michael Gentle
MPavillion, Melbourne

Knowledge of Wounds curated by Joseph M Pierce and SJ Norman
Performance Space New York, New York

2022

How I See It: Blak Art and Film curated by Kate ten Buuren
ACMI, Melbourne

LIGHTMOVING curated by Amanda Rowell
The Commercial, Sydney

Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists curated by Micheal Do
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

NO FALSE IDOLS curated by Con Gerakaris
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

Yarra Lights, Naidoc Week curated by Agency Projects
Collingwood Yards, Centre for Projection Arts x Agency Projects, Melbourne

Unfinished Camp curated by Ana Roman
Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo

Jazz Money (solo) curated by Agency Projects
Agency Projects, Melbourne 

Aesop Queer Library (solo) curated by Aesop
Aesop Paddington, Sydney

Recollections curated by Dennis Golding
Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

I will tell you my story curated by Talia Smith
UTS Gallery, Sydney

Shortwave curated by the Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House

bordering on voidness curated by Theia Connell and Grace Herbert
Visual Bulk, Hobart

2021

Hyphenated Biennial curated by Nikki Lam and Phuong Ngo
Melbourne

Hyphenated Biennial: The threads we hold together curated by Nikki Lam and Phuong Ngo
Rosyln Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 
Campbelltown Art Centre

untitled (transcriptions of country) | Jonathan Jones curated by Daria de Beauvais, Alexie Glass-Kantor and Michelle Newton
Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Fremantle Biennale: Crossings artist director Tom Mùller
Fremantle

Unfinished Camp curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szántó
Commissioned by ACMI, Melbourne
Presented at The Shed New York, HEK Basel Switzerland and ACMI Gallery 5

Eucalyptasdom curated by Emily McDaniel, Sarah Rees and Nina Earl
Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Science, Sydney 

Accumulates in the throat, emerges from the mouth curated by Kings Artist Run
Kings Artist Run, Melbourne

Textbook For Desire curated by Josephine Skinner
Cement Fondu, Sydney

Here:After curated by Tian Zhang
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Western Sydney

No Show curated by Aarna Hanley
Commissioned by Firstdraft
Carriageworks, Sydney

2020

We Need To Talk About Fire curated by Nicole Smede
Bundanon Trust, Bundanon

Collective: Ghost curated by Nerida Ross, Sophie Penkethman-Young and Anna Kirk
Outerspace ARI, Brisbane

Machine Listening curated by Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern 
Unsound x Liquid Architecture, Krakow x Melbourne

Live Dreams, Liveworks curated by Hannah Donnelly
Carriageworks, Sydney

Distant Echoes: Write around the Murray curated by Nanette Orly
Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury

Torrent Blossom curated by Firstdraft
Firstdraft, Sydney

Under Southern Skies curated by Beau James and Stephen Gapps
Australian National Maritime Museum

A Sight for Sore Eyes curated by Pierra Van Sparkes and Elijah Money
Blak Dot Gallery

2019

Relics of Survival curated by Kari Lee McInneny-McRae and Zoë Bastin
Bus Projects

Awards

UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Winner, 2024

Dreaming Award, Australia Council for the Arts
Winner, 2022

The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund
Recipient, 2022

Queen Sonja Print Award
Nominee, 2022

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Winner, Aboriginal Art Award, 2021

First Nations Emerging Career Award, Australian Council for the Arts
Winner, 2021

Rising Star Award for Young Alumni, University of Melbourne
Winner, 2021

Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Shortlist, 2021

David Unaipon Award
Winner, 2020

Nakata Brophy Award
Runner up, 2020

Val Vallis Award
Shortlist, 2020

Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize
Shortlist, 2020

Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert Poetry Prize
Winner, 2019

Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship
Fellow, 2019

ACU Poetry Prize
Shortlist, 2019

The University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize
Winner, 2018

Nakata Brophy Award
Shortlist, 2018

Marpha Foundation, Nepal
Creative Fellow, 2017

The Gwenda Ford English Literature Scholarship, The University of Melbourne
Winner, 2014

Performance

Selected venues and events 

Adelaide Writers’ Festival 2022, 2024

All About Women Festival 2022

Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts 2024

Auckland Writers Festival 2023

Australia Museum 2021

Biennale of Sydney 2022

Brisbane Writers’ Festival 2022

Blacklight Festival, Perth 2022

Blak and Bright Festival, Melbourne 2022

Blue Mountains Writers Festival 2024

Byron Bay Writers Festival 2024

Carriageworks 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022

Emerging Writers Festival 2020

Garma 2024

Hay Festival, Wales 2024

Kyogle Writers’ Festival 2022

Literature Live! Mumbai 2022

Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2021, 2023

Museum of Contemporary Art 2021, 2023

National Young Writers Festival 2020

National Gallery of Victoria 2024

Newcastle Writers Festival 2024

NT Writers’ Festival 2022

Parrtjima Festival 2022

Performance Space, New York City 2023

Sydney Living Museums 2021

Sydney Opera House 2021, 2022

Sydney Writers’ Festival 2022, 2024

TEDx Sydney 2022

Ten Days On The Island, Hobart 2023

Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 2024

Board

Common Ground First Nations