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My installation work brings together research, visual communication, fabrication, and audience experience. I approach installations as more than displays; they are designed environments where viewers are invited to pause, reflect, move through space, and make connections. Whether I am planning a school-wide Red Dress Day installation or developing an educational display, I consider the relationship between space, story, materials, tone, and the people who will encounter the work.

These projects require systems thinking from the earliest planning stages. I use floor-planning, modelling, digital walkthroughs, graphic design, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, 3D printing, and hands-on installation methods to move ideas from concept to physical experience. I am especially interested in installations that support conversation and learning, where design choices help make complex or sensitive subject matter more accessible.

Collaboration is central to this work. Installation design often involves coordinating with students and staff, while also managing practical constraints such as the current space to tell the story, the current data available and considerations of future expansion. My goal is to create experiences that are visually engaging, thoughtful in their purpose, and clear enough for viewers to understand.

My installation work brings together research, visual communication, fabrication, and audience experience. I approach installations as more than displays; they are designed environments where viewers are invited to pause, reflect, move through space, and make connections. Whether I am planning a school-wide Red Dress Day installation or developing an educational display, I consider the relationship between space, story, materials, tone, and the people who will encounter the work.

These projects require systems thinking from the earliest planning stages. I use floor-planning, modelling, digital walkthroughs, graphic design, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, 3D printing, and hands-on installation methods to move ideas from concept to physical experience. I am especially interested in installations that support conversation and learning, where design choices help make complex or sensitive subject matter more accessible.

Collaboration is central to this work. Installation design often involves coordinating with students and staff, while also managing practical constraints such as the current space to tell the story, the current data available and considerations of future expansion. My goal is to create experiences that are visually engaging, thoughtful in their purpose, and clear enough for viewers to understand.

Installations

Technology

Woodworking

Animation

Graphic Design

Installations • Technology • Woodworking • Animation • Graphic Design •


Red Dress Day

May 5th marks the day to mark the national emergency of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people (MMIWG2S+). This installation was created to create conversation around this issue, and allow for students and staff to have constructive discussions. Each poster is a point to stop, read and reflect. Over 400 names written on red dresses, the names of known victims in the national database.

Location:
Crofton House School

Year
05/05/2025, 05/05/2024

Truth And Reconciliation Day Planning

September 30th, also known as Orange Shirt Day, marks the remembrance of Indigenous victims of residential schools in Canada. An exhibition I am proposing for next year is a walking timeline, where visitors take one step for every year, and interact with informational videos and infographics about the dark period of Canada’s history.

Location:
Crofton House School

Year
30/09/2026

Graphic Planning

In these early stages, I work in mood boards and research what format the information might take.

The final art project ideas.
“Why it matters to me” could be the theme of the exhibit. It brings it into the personal space of the visitor. A large banner with orange feathers pre-painted, so that visitors can fill in the feathers when they visit.

Page 9/16 from the 100 years of loss pdf from The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF).
This is a powerful message, and is the core of this exhibition. I will use this as a starting point, and work backwards.

Touch screen plinth built with plywood.
The website timeline made by
Seneca Polytechnic is easy to navigate, and I will take this as inspiration, as it contains survivor videos and explainers. I will mock up the plinth plans in Fusion, and make it to fit a 36” monitor.

Pathway start with plinth mockup and touch screen.
Vinyl path on the ground is cut and has arrows to direct the visitor to the information.

Project Planning

This project is an exhibition based on 100 years of loss pdf from The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF). The proposed plan is to use a vinyl pathway or timeline on the floor. One step is one year, and at specific stopping points on the timeline, information about that date will be close by in either a video or poster.

Final stop on exhibit pathway
The final hub is where visitors can contribute to an art project to be on display in the school year round.

3D render of the space in Metasteps, to visualize the exhibition in a virtual environment.
Work in progress
LINK.

Community art project from 2 years ago.
The final art project proposed would include the voices of everyone that wants to contribute. Either on paper or fabric, to be a legacy project.

The starting pathway of the exhibit space.
The first few steps around the pathway of a visitor to the space, looking back.

Layout Planning

The planning started as sketches on paper, and then to floorplans and a 3D render in SketchUp.

Created floor plan of installation space
Made in Rayon software

Floor plan imported into SketchUp
Used Trimble SketchUp

3D model of the space with architectural elements
Created in SketchUp

Close up of model
Textures and elements created in SketchUp

Graphics And Posters

Created posters to convey information and pause for thoughtful introspection.

Missing & Murdered infographic Poster
Modified in Adobe Photoshop

What Can I Do? Poster
Created in Adobe Illustrator

Red dress vinyl sticker
Created in Adobe Illustrator

Why is this a crisis? Poster
Created in Adobe Illustrator

Questions to consider poster
Made in Adobe Illustrator

Red dress button design
Modified in Adobe Photoshop

Final Installation

Final installation in the space with the elements completed.

Main atrium and information table with buttons

Atrium view from the hallway

One hallway with posters and information

Hallway section with posters and looping video on tablet

Small window installation

Video Walkthrough of Installation