I am a writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. My doctoral thesis formed the basis of my first book, a scholarly work published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. My personal interests in New Zealand contemporary art, biography and social history were the drivers for my biography Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist (Auckland University Press, March 2025). The book was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026 and was included in the 'Best Books of 2026' list for The NZ Listener and Newsroom. For this project I was awarded a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant, the 2024 Marti and Gerrard Friedlander Charitable Trust publishing grant, and I achieved a runner-up placement in the CLNZ / NZSA Writers’ Award.

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