Professional/Exhibiting History

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Cat and Cloud Coffee Surfer Sticker

The first commission I ever got, to make a sticker for a local coffee company. Not necessarily affiliated with the environmental messaging mission of the platform, but an important early (and I mean early) step in my journey to doing art professionally as well as for fun. I still get a kick out of seeing these on cars and water bottles from time to time. 

Connection - Animated Short

This short film exhibited in the NUMU ArtNow 2023 art show is ultimately tied to a quote from one of my favorite ocean activists, Sylvia Earle. "We breathe because the ocean lives." The theme of this show was "Unarmed Truth" and as such this truth inspired the short as a whole. "Connection" ended up winning first place in the animated category of this student exhibition,

Australis - Animated short

I exhibited in ArtNow's student exhibition again in 2024, this time under the theme "In Transition." This film was significantly more personal than "Connection," focusing on my personal connection to Australia, predominantly through its flora and fauna. "Australis" takes its name from the plant Hoya australis, a houseplant here, but a plant I got to see growing wild in Ne