My art practice has long held a deep connection to place and the opportunity to visually and viscerally connect to many places in remote and regional Queensland is the inspiration for the 'Patterns of my Days’ component within the title of this exhibition. Over many years I have travelled across the landscape of the eastern states of Australia by car and plane. Some were short 3 day working visits; others part of extended family holidays. Flying into locations and viewing the land from the air has long held a fascination for me artistically. Impressions of place and changes in geographical landscapes have long been a source of inspiration. Arriving in different localities, photographing the landscape, buildings and the nature, picking up seedpods and ephemera – this became a source of inspiration  incorporating found plant fibre, materials, paper ephemera within the body of work.

I began to think about the people in regional and remote locales- their connection to the land and where they live, alongside the connection of indigenous people who have long cared for country and hold deep links to the landscape geographically and spiritually.  I was documenting and celebrating the beauty of nature and landscapes as I saw it as I travelled and the changes made by people within this landscape as they lived their everyday lives.
Exploring the concept of people’s interaction with the land, I discovered an organisation called Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) who are attempting to align contemporary industrial civilisation with the interconnectedness of nature in Australia through the creation of laws that give rights to nature . The focus of these  ‘earth laws’ is about encompassing  the rights of nature but allowing  coexistence with people who have respect for the resource that is our landscape and all it provides. Australian Earth Laws Alliance seeks to move the current ‘human-centred’ legal system away from treating the environment as ‘resource’ and move to create laws that curb the excesses of our current system, allowing people and nature to exist and flourish together.
Patterns and Rules as words within the title are a direct juxtaposition of concept which this exhibition seeks to explore. This exhibition documents the coexistence of people and nature through observational mixed media landscapes and nature observations, as well as hand-stitched textiles and sculptural work that celebrate the diversity of our natural world. It tells the story of the landscapes in which we all live- both locally and across the state, the people within the landscape and the complexities we face in caring for the land which sustains us.