Billie is an artist, designer and maker running her own business
and fashion label in Melbourne, Australia
Raised in a tiny country town by a graphic designer in the 1990s, she was taught the basics of photoshop on a Mac LC 575 and was soon enthusiastically cutting out digital images for pocket money (while secretly making her own BILLIE magazine covers on the side)
She has extended her practise beyond screens and walls into sculpture, textiles and functional objects
Salvaging and re-using discarded materials, Billie's work rejects the ethics of mass production in favour of unique, one of a kind items that are collected and treasured
* (NAARM) Australia, like most of the earth, is founded on land that was stolen from Indigenous people.
Naarm, now 'Melbourne' (and surrounding) was inhabited solely by the Wurrundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation who before me cared for and created their artistry and culture upon it for 60,000 years.
The wealth that has been generated by that theft is disproportionately distributed. All people who live here today, or who lived here in the past, have not benefited equally from the continuing dispossession of Indigenous people.
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