UPDATES OCTOBER 2025
At SXSW I’m joining Tammy Burnstock and friends in her Play SmellScape- A tabletop game for your nose! session on Saturday 18th Oct at 11am as part of the Games Festival.
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2025
Coming up on Friday 19th September I’m joining Kate Goodwin, Dr Jonathan Jones, Professor Liza Lim AM, and Anne Loxley on a panel with the provocation Reclaiming Tomorrow: Artists’ Visions for a Regenerative Future at Festival of Urbanism.
UPDATES MAY 2025
I’m thrilled to have been appointed to Create NSW’s Digital & Experimental, Immersive and Light Art, Artform Board alongside inspirational colleagues in order to support NSW artists. So great to be part of Create NSW’s support for these artforms with a discrete and dedicated Artform Board.
UPDATES APRIL 2025
ABC’s Compass Series 39 features Deborah Kelly’s CREATION project and choir performance at Art Gallery NSW. You can watch it on Easter Sunday at 6.30pm AEST free to air TV, on ABC Iview anytime or if you are located internationally it’s accessible on their Youtube channel. Catch the ABC News Story here.
And for the month of April you can listen on Soundcloud to one of the commissioned songs ‘Urgently and Gently‘ a sacrament of human-tree kinship; at once a binding spell, an invocation, a calling-into-being. The song is based on a prayer by Juundaal Strang Yettica and is composed by Lex Lindsay and sung by the Creation choir, myself included.
UPDATES MARCH 2025
Vote for us at SXSW! Tammy Burnstock is pitching her game Smellscape as a TableTop Game at this year’s SXSW and voting is now open.
UPDATES OCTOBER 2024
This year I joined the choir for Deborah Kelly’s Creation project, a queer insurrectionary, science-fiction, climate change religion. We’ve performed at the Sydney Opera House, Newcastle Town Hall, Sydney Biennale and this month at Art Gallery NSW for Art After Hours anniversary edition, including a series of public rehearsals. The choir is just one part of a much bigger and more expansive project involving many other extraordinary artists and spanning a commissioned liturgy, poetry, costumes, choreography, animation, video, workshops, a book, photographic portraits and much more. Listening to and singing Lex Lindsay’s libretto under the direction of choirmaster Kit Spencer, and wearing the collection of exquisite non-binary finery has been magical. The project is open for touring and I hope you get to see it somewhere, sometime.
UPDATES AUGUST 2024
A little taste of Medicament for Your Predicament is coming to Adhocracy 2024 as part of Vitalstatistix 40th Anniversary celebrations. Joining me as Guest Artist for OPEN PHARMACY! is Ruby Donohoe!
Very happy to be contributing to The Bearded Tit’s inaugural Art Auction with a limited edition print for In Memory of Now ™ The Tit’s 10th birthday anniversary. The Art Auction is LIVE! and closes on 7th September 8.30pm AEST.
UPDATES JULY 2024
Thanks ANAT for the opportunity to reflect on some of the trajectories emerging from my Synapse residency 10 years on in the July Q&A. It’s lead to unexpected places and is such a wonderful cohort of alumni to be part of.
I’ve had the pleasure of delving into the work of performance artist, Kerith Manderson-Galvin, writing text to accompany their exhibition Perpetual Horror, at IN | ari, Maroochydore.
UPDATES JUNE 2024
Looking forward to the overstimulation of ISEA Everywhen, Meanjin and catching up with the art/science crew after such a very long time apart.
I’m settling in to a month’s residency at 2nd Space, Nambour, Kabi Kabi Country, Sunshine Coast, to dabble with Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty in conversation with Amie Moffat as part of Project 24 supported by Sunshine Coast Council. Such a lovely bunch of other artists-in-residence, curators and producers around.
UPDATES APRIL 2024
The past few months I’ve been rehearsing with the choir for Deborah Kelly’s Creation. We are performing at Sydney Biennale on 13th and 14th April as part of EDGE Town Hall Takeover, Petersham Town Hall. Come!
Cara-Ann Simpson’s ‘Furari Flores‘ exhibition catalogue has been made into an audio book including my essay ‘Reaggregating A Body’, available on Soundcloud. E-book coming soon…
UPDATES FEBRUARY 2024
Happy Mardi Gras! This month I’m part of the exhibition Future Dreaming, curated by Emmaly Langridge, at Randwick Town Hall. Showing alongside artists Dennis Golding, Jamaica Moana, Victoria Atkinson, SPACEFLOSS Collective, Jamie James and Robin Lao. Exhibition runs 17th February – 3 March.
UPDATES DECEMBER 2023
‘Furari Flores’ (Stealing Flowers) by Cara-Ann Simpson is a multi sensory art experience exploring the wonder of plants. Delving into this mesmerising visual, tactile, olfactory artwork of Cara-Ann Simpson’s uncovers so much more. My catalogue essay ‘Reaggragating a Body’, for her upcoming exhibition at UniSQ Art Gallery, rearranges a quote from Ross Gibson’s Memoryscopes (2015) and spans themes of illness and recovery, morphogenetic memory, plant chemosenses, social and cultural histories, and Cara’s relationship with Country influenced by Jarowair knowledge holders. If you have the capacity to support an independent artist living with disability with a tax deductible donation head to the Australian Cultural Fund.
UPDATES OCTOBER 2023
Medicament for Your Predicament is a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Award 2023! The finalist exhibition runs from 28 October – 8 December at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Part 1 of Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty is online now as part of fo.am’s anarchiving project and via the wabisabi route. More to come soon…
UPDATES AUGUST 2023
Coming soon! So happy to be bringing Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty into the loving arms of Vitalstatistix and their audiences for a creative development at Adhocracy from 1-3 September. See all the other great artists and projects in the program here.
UPDATES JUNE 2023
Very much looking forward to being at APAM Rising this month!
UPDATES MAY 2023
Thanks Simone Ziaziaris for the lovely feature article in Wellbeing Magazine Issue 204 Thinkers and Doers, Close to Nature.
Looking forward to presenting a special edition of OPEN LAB! and a plenary artist talk next week at the VADEA OFF GRID Conference 2023.
UPDATES MARCH 2023
This month I’m very much enjoying getting to know the practice and projects of new mentees Amanda Bennetts, and Michelle Bucci during their Project 24 residencies, and Ruby Donohoe on This is Incomplete Without You.
UPDATES FEBRUARY 2023
This week Medicament For Your Predicament is making an appearance in the new context of a historic house Blenheim House Randwick 16 – 26 Feb open various times.
I’m navigating into 2023 with a commission from fo.am for their anarchiving project with Ingrid Vranken. Serendipitously coinciding with the ten year anniversary of my residency at fo.am. Such a special time with so many tendrils still emerging.
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2022
Thanks for the feature! ABC Art Works Episode 27 with Sally Coleman came to OPEN LAB! at Highfield Farm and Woodland presented by The Wired Lab – it’s out just in time for agriculture ii Wired Open Day at Rosemount Farm Jugiong.
UPDATES AUGUST 2022
Thanks Hello Sunshine for this little interview ahead of Horizon Festival!
Coming up on 5th September I’m presenting a keynote for Field Trip Symposium on the Sunshine Coast.
Excited to announce the Guest Artist for Horizon Festival is Marisa Georgiou!
UPDATES JULY 2022
Very excited to announce that Medicament For Your Predicament is coming to Horizon Festival on the Sunshine Coast 27 August – 2 September! Limited places for OPEN LAB! get in quick!
I’m just back from a wonderful 9 day residency with The Wired Lab in the Snowy Valleys Region running OPEN LAB! workshops at Kestrel Nest Eco Hut on Highfield Farm and Woodland, Mt Adrah and at Brungle Health and Community Centre near Tumut.
Save the date! Medicament For Your Predicament is part of The Wired Lab’s agriculture ii project presented as a 1 day festival in Jugiong on Saturday 17th September. Tickets FREE and on sale soon!
UPDATES APRIL 2022
Coming up on 1st May I’ll be at Cut n Polish, Carriageworks, artist car boot sale and selling a range of prints, boxed editions, publications, scent samples. Come and say hi!
UPDATES MARCH 2022
This month I’m working on a number of collaborations with artists in Europe, joining a curatorial panel and planning presentations for later in the year.
UPDATES OCTOBER 2021
Look it’s a book! The article I co-authored with neurophysiotherapist Jane Chalmers for The Conversation in 2016 has been included in their book of the best 50 essays from the last decade! Available as paperback or e-book.
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2021
Delighted to have been interviewed by Sirine Demachkie alongside Caro Verbeek on the sense of smell for ABC Radio Weekend Evenings. Listen here.
On the 8th September I’m (virtually) presenting and taking part in Return to Earth a symposium designed and facilitated by Amber Cronin for a small group of artists based in South Australia. Participants will then present a panel in October as part of Nature Festival at Art Gallery South Australia.
UPDATES AUGUST 2021
Next week I’ll be pitching Medicament for Your Predicament at the Australian Performing Arts Market as part of the (now virtual) APAM Gathering at Darwin Festival 10 -19th August. You can register for an online pass here!
UPDATES APRIL 2021
I’m incredibly honoured to have received the Australia Council for the Arts, Emerging and Experimental Arts Award 2021! Some of my art heroes have received this award making it all the more special to be counted alongside them. Thank you so much to those that nominated me.
Opening 10th April till 24th April at Metro Arts is against perfection (fissures and dust) an installation by Marisa Georgiou with voice and contemplation (Mary McIntyre), sound design (Sonny O’Brien) and scent (by me).
UPDATES MARCH 2021
This month marks the beginning of a new mentoring relationship with the inspirational Amber Cronin (SA) supported by the Australia Council for the Arts Future Leaders program.
UPDATES JANUARY 2021
Mixing a little atmospheric experiment for Erth’s Duba at Carriageworks and Badu at Maritime Museum this Sydney Festival.
UPDATES OCTOBER 2020
OPEN LAB! is SOLD OUT!
Thanks for the feature Australian Arts Review On the Couch
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2020
Coming to Liveworks!
Medicament for Your Predicament is coming to Liveworks! 21 – 25 October OPEN LAB! workshop will beam into your kitchen daily and OPEN PHARMACY! installation will be open all hours at Carriageworks with IRL guest host 6-8pm. More information at Performance Space!
Meanwhile on 21st September at 1pm I’m doing a Lunchtime Conversation hosted by City of Sydney about the development of Medicament for Your Predicament. FREE with registration
UPDATES AUGUST 2020
The program is out for Adhocracy! 28 new works rolling out between 4-25 Sept. Here’s the link for my new work WE THE SICK [OF IT] going live on 4 September.
UPDATES JULY 2020
Vitalstatistix has just announced a killer line-up for Adhocracy this year and I’m very happy to be part of it. More info on the program and how you can access it coming soon.
UPDATES JUNE 2020
Other Worlds Zine Fair has gone online this year! You’ll find me in Aisle C.
UPDATES MARCH 2020
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 A special immersive screening event is coming up March 30th at Brunswick Picture House, Northern NSW! INGLORIOUS SMELL-O-VISION is a feature documentary by filmmakers Tammy Burnstock and John Anderson on the history of scented cinema and its unsung hero, osmologist and Swiss inventor Hans Laube. The film features never seen archival footage plus interviews with some of the greats of contemporary scent art, plus yours truly.
It screens with a revival of the animated short A Tale of Old Whiff.
More info here. And please support via the shop!
UPDATES JANUARY 2020
Cat Jones Productions has moved! 2020 begins in a new studio at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse.
New publication! Black Magic: Fragility, Flux and the Rewilding of Art by Andrew Goodman is a chapter on my work Somatic Drifts in Immediations: Art Media, Event, edited by Erin Manning, Anna Munster and Bodil-Marie Stavning Thomsen, recently published by Open Humanities press. Download the FREE PDF.
UPDATES DECEMBER 2019
Bringing my Medicament For Your Predicament wares to Brisbane for a residency with Metro Arts on Hope Street 2-24 December! So happy to be part of the beginning of the company’s transformation and the first residency at Hope Street.
UPDATES OCTOBER 2019
Already looking forward to 2020! I’m joining The Powerhouse NSW Creative Industries Residency Program along with a great team of artists and makers with all kinds of potential for collaboration with thanks to Lisa Havilah for such great vision.
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2019
Dust and Shadow #2 by fo.am is out in print, e-book and in expanded digital form. There’s something from me on #olufsenandi #lettherightonein including a transmission from the Australian Museum on behaviours recorded in my katydid home videos.
UPDATES AUGUST 2019
Coming up in Adelaide my new work/shop is part of Adhocracy at Vitalstatistix 6-7 September! Medicament for your Predicament
UPDATES JULY 2019
DLUX Constellations podcast EP#11 “The Plants’ with Monica Gagliano and I is out now. Plus you can subscribe to the whole series on iTunes.
UPDATES APRIL 2019
On 4 May I’m joining the Institute of Art and Olfaction and friends to present at the Experimental Scent Summit, Amsterdam.
On 15 April I’m checking in to Blast Theory (UK) to be artist-in-residence for the next little while!
Recording live on 2 April and soon to be released is DLUX podcast The Constellations Episode #11 ‘The Plants’ with Monica Gagliano and myself on vegetal philosophy, Somatic Drifts, neuroscience and plant science.
UPDATES JANUARY 2019
Recently published in full and currently available online and FREE to download till 13 March, is “Embodying the Illusion of a strong fit back in people with chronic low back pain. A pilot proof of concept study“ a co-authored paper inspired by my findings in Plantarum: Empathic Limb Clinic and Somatic Drifts. Published in Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, Volume 39, February 2019, Pages 178-183.
In the first week of February I’m off to The WIRED Lab and Wiradjuri country to begin a new commission for agri[culture] ii alongside Steve Bull from pvi collective, Julie Vulcan, Martyn Coutts and Anna Schoo from Field Theory, Sarah Last, Dave Burraston, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphries, and Eugene Ughetti from Speak Percussion.
Coming up on 16 February is one last open day for Dust, an exhibition on insects, collections and care at Woodford Academy Blue Mountains. The exhibition includes my tiny audio visual installation #olufsenandi #lettherightonein and zine Habits of a Katydid: Rituals of Mind.
On 13 February I’m showcasing Century’s Breath as part of The Sensorium trade exhibition for The Five Senses of GLAMR session ALIA Conference plus slipping something special into delegate showbags. The session also features lightning talks, presentations and experiences from augmented reality artists including Alison Bennett, Stephen Loo, Thomas Wing-Evans, David Woodbridge, Anthea Taylor and myself Chaired by Deb Verhoven and Sue Hutley.
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2018
Scent of Sydney is a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Art Centre! Featuring an excerpt with the scents and sounds of Resistance:Shades of Mettle by Pat Fiske and Zaatar Wah Zait by Patrick Abboud. Open to the public 3 November – 13 December.
A Treatise on the Art of Grafting: Failure to Thrive is a sculptural installation of failed protoypes in prequel to my horticulture and neuroscience experiments that also comment on the cultural thievery and severences created by colonisation showing as part of This Mess We’re In curated by Tarsh Bates, at Fremantle Town Hall as part of Unhallowed Arts alongside Quite Frankly It’s a Monster Conference. Opening 13th October.
#olufsenandi #lettherightonein is a multi-species study on medicine and iatrogenesis, tiny three channel video and zine and part of DUST an exhibition on insects collections and care curated by Jacqueline Spedding for the National Trust at Woodford Academy, Blue Mountains, 15 September, 20 October and 17 November.
UPDATES FEBRUARY 2018
I’m thrilled to be entangled with Michael Marder, Monica Gagliano, the water lily and other entities in Prudence Gibson’s monograph The Plant Contract published by Brill Rudopi.
“Eco-punk Australian artist Cat Jones completely dismantles our perceptions of plants. [Her concepts] are a queering. Jones disrupts our sensory perceptions and adjusts our sexual self-identities…The transgender trans-species model of her work fits within an aesthetic of queer play and associated politics.”
Prudence Gibson, The Plant Contract
UPDATES JANUARY 2018
Queer Ecologies, Special Issue, CSPA, Quarterly 19, features my article Olfactive Ecologies (p7-21), an overview of my scent projects and their entanglements plus Anatomy’s Confection as front and back cover art.
UPDATES NOVEMBER 2017
My new work Insecta Delecta, commissioned by The Wired Lab and created in collaboration with chef Soon Lee Low is featured on ABC News. You can watch the excerpt video segment and read the accompanying online article.
UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2017
Coming to Melbourne! to present at Experimenta Social #13 Participation Sense and Taste, at ACMIx 11th October. I’ll be featuring a selection of scents from Century’s Breath and speaking alongside artist Elizabeth Willing as part of the Experimenta Make Sense Triennial Exhibition. More info and bookings here.
UPDATES AUGUST 2017
Tickets are now on sale for agri(culture) 21 October at The Wired Lab here! Early Bird discounts till 30 September. I’ll be presenting my new work Insecta Delecta with molecular chef Soon Lee Low!
So many great artists for this magical day! Featuring Field Theory, Julie Vulcan, Tamara Dean, The Ronalds, Wiradjuri Weavers, Chris Watson (UK) and so many more!
UPDATE 25 AUGUST 2017
Last week I was artist in residence at The Wired Lab beginning a new commission for their agri(culture) project working with molecular chef Soon Lee Low on edible insects! agri(culture) is on Saturday 21st October in Cootamundra with a host of artists including Field Theory with Kids vs Art, Julie Vulcan, The Ronalds and more. Makes for a great country weekender. Save the date! Tickets will be on sale soon. Subscribe to The Wired Lab for updates.
UPDATE 29 JUNE 2017
I’m the guest writer for In Wild Air this week!
Delivered on a Monday morning this newsletter project by Heath Killen is full of ideas, people, places and culture . This week I’m ruminating on microbes, scent, fermentation, personal and political histories of sewing, rewilding and bias.
UPDATE 23 MAY 2017
Very excited to be working with The WIRED Lab again this year on a new commission for WIRED Open Day agri(culture) 21 October 2017. Subscribe to The WIRED Lab for their ticket sale launch coming out soon.
UPDATE 23 MARCH 2017
I’m featured in the new ABC Iview web series Shock Art in Episode 4 Fear of the Female presented by Christina Chau and produced by Periscope Pictures.
UPDATE 1 February 2017
This month I’m traveling to Calgary, Banff, Vancouver, Bristol, Berlin, Brighton and London to visit and meet a whole range of festivals, collaborators and inspirational artist peers thanks to the support of Sydney festival, pUsh festival, Banff centre for creativity and arts, Arts NSW, and the Australia Council.
UPDATE 23 January 2017
Scent of Sydney has a feature on Radio National Books and Arts – you can listen to the podcast here
UPDATE 28 DECEMBER 2016
Speaker lists have been announced for our public talks program for Scent of Sydney.
UPDATE 14 DECEMBER 2016
Realtime’s Gail Priest has written a lovely preview – Making scents of Sydney
UPDATE 1 NOVEMBER 2016
I’ve been officially inducted into the UTS Superlab today!
UPDATE 26 OCTOBER 2016
Launch day today for my next big project Scent of Sydney for Sydney Festival 2017! I’m artist-in-residence at the UTS Superlab and presenting the project in Bay 19 Carriageworks.
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