My career has unfolded through a series of serendipitous openings rather than a rigid plan.

One thing has led to another: writing, research, galleries, museums, cultural strategy, international projects, and now MARS Miami. Looking back, all of my previous careers and perhaps all of my previous lives, feel like necessary stages. I had to do all of that to get here.

This chapter feels different because, alongside wanting to show up and do good work, I also want to have fun.

MARS Miami began with a fairly simple question with Andy over a mediocre lukewarm coffee in Sydney: what might happen if Australian contemporary art were placed into new conversations across the Americas?

Australia has an extraordinary art scene, but distance can make its artists feel more remote internationally than their work deserves. Miami offers a compelling place from which to change that. It is a city shaped by movement—between North and South America, the Caribbean, and the wider world. People, languages, cultures, and ambitions meet here constantly. It feels less like an endpoint than a point of departure.

That makes sense for a gallery without a permanent space.

MARS Miami can move through pop-ups, art fairs, collaborations, dinners, studio visits, and whatever other forms prove useful. The goal is not simply to bring work across an ocean, hang it on a wall, and call it international. It is to create genuine exchanges: between artists and collectors, ideas and places, Australia and the Americas.

I have always loved connecting people, ideas, and worlds that might not otherwise meet. MARS Miami is an extension of that instinct, and, possibly, one of my more questionable decisions.

But also, why not?

It feels like the natural result of everything that came before it.

I am building it one conversation, one relationship, and one pop-up at a time. I do not know exactly what shape it will take yet. That is part of the process, and part of the fun.

For now, the intention is simple: show up, do good work, introduce remarkable artists to new audiences, and leave enough room for surprise.