Research & Creative Practice

In 2026 my research asked a simple question with a complicated answer: how can regenerative creative practice be explored and illustrated through lived experience? That inquiry is now complete — submitted in August 2026 as my Master of Creative Industries through SAE University Australia, worked through a Creative Practice Research (CPR) framework, and currently under examination.

I didn't come at this as a theorist. I came at it as a writer-turned-filmmaker and mother-of-three now hand-building a boat. Throughout the research period, hand-building a 41ft Polynesian-inspired catamaran in coastal Finistère became the practice through which regeneration, custodianship and right relationship got tested against real constraint and everyday decision-making.

Alongside the build, I document the abandoned boats across Brittany — vessels now rotting into the water they were meant to carry people across. Reading the two sites together shaped one of the research's central findings: that ethical attention belongs to systems and custodianship, not to any material judged good or bad on its own.

That thinking took shape as The Living Framework, a conceptual model built through the practice itself — spanning regeneration through relationship, material custodianship, community participation, and untidy tensions. Ocean runs through all of it, dynamic systems shaped by tides, currents, weather patterns, migrations and ecological relationships that continually influence one another.

Academic Collaboration

I welcome collaboration with researchers, institutions and doctoral programs working in practice-led environmental inquiry, and I'm available to advise organisations putting regenerative materials strategy, ethical storytelling or citizen-science engagement into practice.