Over the last decade, I have collected tumbled bricks from my local beach on Dharawal Country, carried to the sea via creeks from a long-closed brickworks. These industrial remnants have been worn by waves and time, their rigid forms softened into organic shapes, reclaimed by the ocean and reshaped to belong.

I have been thinking about how to honour such resonant fragments, and in 2025 I decided to spend the year exploring how I could collaborate with them to build a body of work while also entering them into various Australian art prizes.