About Bea
Maker of magical things. Bringing a little weird into the world and helping others find and express their weird.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist, maker, poet, storyteller, photographer and designer whose practice spans painting, installation, assemblage, kinetic sculpture, mixed media and junk metal art, spoken word, music, and live performance.
My work is concept-driven and takes many forms: painting, mixed media, installation, kinetic sculpture, junk metal art, music and performance. Often, my larger pieces transform waste into art — reclaiming discarded materials to spark imagination and new ways of seeing.
I’m the ARTery lead and run a theme camp called Miss Peaches at several Australian regional Burning Man events in Australia, where creativity is collective, messy, and alive.
In my professional life, I have over 20 years’ professional experience in human-centred design and innovation, and have led creative programs and collaborative initiatives for organisations including eHealth NSW, icare, Transport for NSW, Bendigo Bank, Fairfax, the ABC and Telstra. I am currently the CX Design Principal for eHealth NSW.
At the heart of everything I do is a simple drive: to encourage people to explore their own self-expression, to play without fear, and to co-create art, space, and performance in bold and unexpected ways.
Participatory art leads to participatory lives
My practice is built around four main principles:
Permission
Making accessible, fun art that has a connective function, provides a voice for everyone and welcomes people to create, share ideas and build community.
Collaboration
Bringing people together and using creative design thinking to inspire asking questions, thinking differently, imagining better and making change.
Participation
Making engaging art designed to be touched, handled and moved through in a public arena and that invites a collaborative response from an audience.
Experience
Creating unexpected delightful experiences and imaginative, playful spaces for people to discover, explore and enjoy.
Through my work, I am to minimise waste and environmental impact. Wherever possible, materials used in creating my art projects are found, recycled, upcycled and reused.
Exhibitions and events
2025
May: ARTery lead + The Altar of Passion
Running ARTery and installing the Altar of Passion installation at Burning Seed’s Pilot Burn, Capertee Valley
April: Natural World
2 paintings in a group exhibition at Red Point Gallery, Wentworth St, Port Kembla
February: The Altar of Passion
Interactive art installation, Spice of Life, St Albans
February: Noir et Blanc
4 paintings in a group exhibition at Project Contemporary Space, Wollongong
January: Honk Oz & Illawarra Folk Festival
Playing sax with the Femme Fatales, Wollongong
2025
November: DaRkStAr Episode two
Performed ritual dismemberment and resurrection poetry
Plushtown Studios, Brookvale
September: Soundworks Arts Hub party and exhibition
Exhibited multiple works
Soundworks Arts Hub, Marrickville
September: Miss Peaches at The 3rd Degree
Ran multiple events, including a performance stage
The 3rd Degree, Central Coast
August: Winter Wonderland Soiree
Fundraiser for 3 Burning Man Australia theme camps. Ran the stage and MC’d the night.
Rikota, Marrickville
April: Here Be Dragons
Spoken word murder poetry performance with Alasdair Greenbard and Jesse McCormack.
Church St Studios, Camperdown
March: Soundworks Arts Hub Inaugural Art Show
Exhibited multiple works
Soundworks Arts Hub, Marrickville
March: DaRkStAr Episode one
Performed murder poetry spoken word
Plushtown Studios, Brookvale
2024
November: Miss Peaches at Sydney Decom
Ran an open mic / performance stage
Sydney Decom, Sydney Park
October: Murder Poetry
Spoken word performance
Burn-O-Ween, Botany View Hotel
October: The Devil Dances In Me
Series of mixed media illustration and collage pieces
Spoken word performance
Halloween group show, Tap Gallery, Surry Hills
September: Miss Peaches Theme Camp at Third Degree
Miss Peaches is an interactive performance art theme camp where the performances don’t happen until the audience is participating.
Miss Peaches Speakeasy
Miss Peaches High School Disco
The 3rd Degree, Central Coast
April: Catbus at Ironfest Stayin’ Alive,
Ironfest, The Foundations, Portland
February: Conspiracy
I had the delightful honour of being invited to perform spoken word as a warm up to Sophie Cook’s Conspiracy show. Video thanks to Robert Gibson.
Conspiracy, Wollombi
2023
September: Miss Peaches Theme Camp at Third Degree
Miss Peaches is an interactive performance art theme camp where the performances don’t happen until the audience is participating.
The 3rd Degree, Central Coast
March: Art on the Paddock
Catbus and Miss Peaches Speakeasy
Burning Seed, Matong State Forest, Matong
February: Sydney Xpressions art expo, Camperdown, Sydney
January: “The Little Things” photography exhibition, and “Totemic Spirit Figures” waste to art sculptures exhibition
Good Space Festival, Ultimo
2022
December: “Now is the Summer of our DiscoTent” popup Globe Theatre facade and performance space, Wild Yam, A Midsummer Night’s Yam, Lower Mangrove
November: Art Groupie Exhibition, Darlinghurst Road Gallery
October: “Catbus” performance, Canberra Kinetic Sculpture Race
September: “Totemic Spirit Figures“, waste to art sculptures, Kuringai Wildflower Gardens Sculpture Trail, St Ives (2nd place winner)
June: “Miss Peaches Speakeasy“, jazz karaoke bar and music jam space, Potnia Sacred Honey Winter Solstice Burn, Canberra
2021
December: “Miss Peaches Speakeasy“, jazz karaoke bar and music jam space, GlamYam, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
April: “Forest of Love” and “Mobile Love” installation, Harvest Yam, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
2019
“Catbus” performance, Ironfest, Lithgow and Burning Seed Zoophemism, Matong State Forest
“Wild Temple of Yam” v3, community art space, GodYam, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
2018
“Wild Temple of Yam” v2 and Spirit Figure totemic sculptures, community art space, Yamazon, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
2017
“Wild Temple of Yam” v1 and Circus character temple guardians, community art space, Cirque du Yam, Alice in WonderYam and Pirates of the CarribeYam, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove, 2015-17
2016
“Community Mandala” workshop and land art piece, Alice in WonderYam, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
2015
“Wishing Tree” community art piece,
Cirque du Yam, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
“Tree corset” land art piece,
“Collaborations with Nature” workshop with Shona Wilson, Eramboo Artists Environment, Terrey Hills
“Tinker lab: creating art“, series of workshops with the Kinma kids to create saleable, collaborative art for the annual school fundraising auction, Kinma Primary and Preschool, Terrey Hills
2013
“Community Totems” workshop and community art piece, Wild Yam Festival, Lower Mangrove
“Memory Quilt” interpretive piece,
“Ordinary (extra)ordinary” group exhibition,
Mona vale Music, Basset St, Mona Vale
2012
“Community Totems” workshop and community art piece, Kinma School 40th anniversary celebrations
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communication, Multimedia Design)
2010 Raffles College of Design & Commerce (North Sydney)
Associate Diploma of Arts (Graphic Arts)
1991 University of Western Sydney (Nepean)
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