Little Rhino Designs, based in Walyalup, Fremantle, is a design company specialising in the conception and creation of public art. Little Rhino Designs offers a personal service with an extensive network of contractors to successfully deliver large-scale works of varying complexity. The firm collaborates with other artists and contractors, with a specific focus on attention to detail. A majority of the collaboration is conducted with Noongar artist, Peter Farmer. Peter, his mife Miranda and son Peter Junior have formed a strong creative team to communicate and portray local Noongar stories and traditions, through expressive bold colours, linework, and significant indigenous totems. The teams’ artworks are developed alongside Public Artwork Structures developed by Little Rhino director, Jason Hirst and myself, allowing a structural canvas for Peter’s incredible works and stories.

We have current projects underway, these can not currently be disclosed but please follow both artist’s links to view their selection of completed works.

As part of the Fremantle Biennale INCOMING Lab, we were set on a task to create an audio soundscape as a memorial to the climate crisis. This task was directed by Icelandic Artists, Jonatan Spejlborg & Lasse Høgenhof from LUNGA SCHOOL and HEIMA COLLECTIVE.

Each audio piece was hosted on the SEYÐISFJÖRÐUR COMMUNITY RADIO. My work titled “Before its too late” was a soundscape field journal capturing my nature rest stops around the Waylayup Area. Accompanied by the brilliant backing track #3 by Aphex Twin. Please listen to the audio of all our works, mine is the first introductory peice. Follow this link below skip to the time 18:30: https://soundcloud.com/seydisfjordur/memorial-services-2

INCOMING is the first Fremantle Biennale Creative Lab and Artist-in-Residence Program. The program is open to young creatives to participate in a program of practice-based shared learning and creative development, situated within the context of the Fremantle Biennale.

Artists will work with the Fremantle Biennale team and Creative Producer Claire Krouzecky and Katherine Wilkinson to develop their practice within a creative development program focused on collaboration, care and placemaking. Artists will participate in a series of workshops across three months, led by a rotating schedule of guest artists, producers and community leaders.

Participating INCOMING artists include: Chandler Abrahams, Claire Appleby, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Izzy French, Rosie McCutcheon, Rebecca Riggs-Bennett, Georgia Van Gils.

Images : Taken to a trip to York to collaborate & share a meal with artists, Mike Bianco and Katie West. Taken by Myself and Claire Krouzecky

To&Fro Studios, is based in Walyalup, Fremantle a practice led by multidisciplinary designers, Rosie Halsmith and Loren Holmes. The studio is focused on engagement, spatial strategy and communications, influenced by Halsmith and Holmes’ backgrounds in community engagement, design, architecture and landscape. My role as a designer within the studio requires me to engage graphical skills and illustrations to communicate to clients the process of design. I assisted in process for the Collie Mural Trail an initiative of the State Government of Western Australia & River to Rail Heritage Trail, Shire of Collie initative. From the project’s outset, To & Fro collaborated with the community of Collie to undertake research and community engagement, to gather stories about the town, its landscape, its history and cultural context. This research and learning then informed artist briefs, developing into murals that belong to their sites, specifically and broadly. These stories also informed the development of the Collie Mural Trail brand identity & I helped to assist in the website, signage and map – a series of communications materials designed to convey Collie’s strong foundations and dynamic future.

The project following To & Fro worked together with the Ehdo team to develop a redefined identity that was both respectful to the past and assured about the future. Today, the Ehdo visual identity, website and communications suite together communicate a confident and down-to-earth architecture practice that designs environmentally attuned buildings around the daily patterns of life. I assisted in the final marketing stages of the Ehdo branding for To&Fro.

Working alongside Formworks Architects, the project entitled a large block nestled amongst the towering spotted gums of the Murramarang National Park, and set above the white sands of Pebbly Beach in New South Wales, Australia.

The brief followed the ideal eco-resort “escape”, with a full refurbishment of 1950’s heritage-listed cabins, quintessential Australian beach escape with all of the luxury of a hotel stay. Each cabin has a connection to elements with window outlooks and balconies to allow you to become effortlessly immersed within the natural environment.

The main focus of the project was Ushka's House, a 3 bedroom luxury family stay house. The existing cabin was inhabitable due to poor foundation, exterior cladding deteriorating and poor interior design.

Initial stages of the design included, finalising the site plan and landscaping, as well as demolishing plan for Ushka’s House. The design of the house developed via client meeting over zoom calls due to interstate locations between client and architects.

The project was all used in Revit, providing a great platform to communicate with clients design options and visualisation images via Revit plugin Enscape. Enscape provided a visual platform plugin that could be used to navigate around design with various design options.

During our first collective exhibition “In Lingering Gestures” We are creating a socially engaged, youthful, and community-minded performance project. This will be revealed through sonic, visual, and performative mediums. The group itself is made up of cross-disciplinary artists that come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Together we hope to create an embodied experience for the viewer, inspiring diverse ways of thinking and drawing attention to how we subconsciously interpret the world. Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup, Western Australia, has offered the Sediments Collective a month-long residency (February-March 2022)

July 2018

Salt House Surf Shop, North Fremantle, WA

Interior renovations and fit out for owners of Salt House. Working as an independent designer and meeting with client to discuss various design options. Providing visualisation changes and variations and simple measurement drawings for easy fit out application.

Liminal Gestures;

First Year Architecture Design Studio, ARCT1001, Semester One, 2019

Where Perth is an inherently liminal place – sandwiched between the coast to our west and the Darling scarp to our east – our experience of the coast, and relationship with the Indian Ocean landscape is uniquely West Australian. In this studio we will explore two distinct coastal sites along Fremantle’s coastline; one at Bathers Beach, the other, South Beach. Each site bears distinct differences as well as similarities, it is up to your acupuncture architecture to highlight and celebrate these latent conditions in a way that helps us understand how fortunate we might be to find ourselves in such a place.

What Phase One; A Look-out. This lookout will service both Surf Lifesaving WA as a coast guard service post, and also a public viewing platform. Both utilitarian and experiential in nature, this look-out needs to balance these uses whilst remaining sympathetic to the Indian Ocean landscape. Further details on both this project and the Phase Two project requirements will be provided and discussed during studio time.

Why Architecture doesn’t simply facilitate the pragmatic needs of our day-to-day lives, it has a unique ability to elevate our civic infrastructure into something much more meaningful. Even the humblest of buildings can be powerful, and thought provoking pieces of architecture. We will investigate this simple building type with the express intent of understanding how architecture, no matter how utilitarian, can constitute moments of joy within the everyday.

liminal; adjective technical occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.

gesture; noun a movement or action to express an idea or meaning

A handful of Masters Student are asked to run the School of Design Student Hub at the University of Western Australia.

Administering the desk, students would approach me with queries on software or clarification with assignments. As well as administering the UWA Design Instagram page and frequently updating it @uwa_design

Tutors would ask us to assist in there classes when needed, by presenting tutorials and creating step by step PDFs of our more expert field within the university.

I presented two tutorials on the Masters Unit, photoreal rendering. My screen was projected unto a wall of a classroom and students followed my step to step tutorial on the intro to Forest Pack, within the program 3dsMAX.

I have a strong desire to work overseas, as well as Australia. After completing my degree I left Australia for the Netherlands, where I worked on completing the construction, furnishing and final design elements for a houseboat in Amsterdam.

I was impressed with their fascination with living on the water and their sustainable approach to doing so. Many lessons can be learned from their creative solutions to the problems associated with rising sea levels.

As well as graphic and digital design, I enjoy creating with painting mediums, involving mural and font works, with a sensitive approach to portraying important messages in society. In collaboration with local artists, Koro Moon and Baz Emerald, I designed a mural for live music venue Mojos. . The mural was created during a controversial time within the community to convey a message, about commanding Respect; to respect everyone, no matter your gender, race, or social class with the font type reading “Respect is Hot”. This mural was commissioned along- side the cultural shift which aimed to create a safe live music venue space for all individuals within the community. Actively supporting female musicians and artists under the new female management.

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