Hi,

My name is Avalon and I am a curator, photographer, and arts administrator.

Growing up I was exposed to the camera from a young age through my dad’s interest in and practice of photography. Naturally, I developed a connection to photography as a mode of image making and way of looking at the world around me. When I photograph, I concentrate on capturing landscape and location. ​My aim is for the viewer of my images to be able to engage with these spaces in a prolonged manner. This deeper looking that the photography allows for is important as most of us have little opportunity to engage with it in our daily lives and routines.

My curatorial work centres around supporting emerging artists and experimental practices. By intentionally providing the viewer a space to be able to approach my exhibitions with curiosity, I aim to encouraging engagement and an opportunity for learning. My research is rooted in the emerging curatorial methodology of exhibitionary affect, and how when applied it can aid in creating moments of feeling states in an exhibition by encouraging relational experiences between the viewer and the works on display. Exhibitionary affect does not assume of the viewer and acknowledges multiple ways of knowing, seeing, understanding and learning in the gallery space.