Dakota has over 8 years experience being engaged across a range of not-for-profit, government, education and cultural institutions. Dakota has been working as a freelance consultant, educator and practitioner since 2020. This has involved the independent design, management and delivery of a range of programming and professional services including workshops, training, learning resources and interactive sessions with a ranging emphases on narrative practice, cultural resilience, shared wellbeing, environmental care and restoration.

Publishing History

2024

Tell Me Like You Mean It 7, Cordite Poetry Review

2023

A Line in the Sand, Red Room Poetry

Cordite Poetry Review, issue 108

2022

Best of Australian Poems 2022, Australian Poetry

Rabbit Journal, Issue 34

Art Monthly Australasia, issue 33

2021

Wonderground Journal, Issue 2

SoftStir Magazine, Issue 2

10 Men Magazine, issue 18

Red Room Poetry, online, Poem Forrest

Exhibition History

2022

Here + Now III, Wollongong Art Gallery, 2022

Performance

New York University (NYU), New York

State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), Sydney

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney

Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney

Vivid Festival, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

Revolution Renegade, Sydney

Yours and Owls Festival, Wollongong

Enough Said Poetry Slam, Wollongong

Emerging Writer’s Festival, Melbourne

Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Melbourne

UNTOLD MPavillion, Melbourne

Art on Bundjalung Market, Kyogle

Practitioner History

Workshops:

  • Scarborough Public School

  • Fairymeadow Demonstration School, Poem Forest

  • Red Room Poetry, Poem Forest

  • Moruya Public Library, Eurobodalla Shire Council

Wellbeing Sessions:

  • KidsUni Staff

  • FlexiSchools Staff

MC, Guest Lectures & Keynotes:

  • Wollongong Reconciliation Conference, 2023

  • AHMRC, Suicide Prevention Conference, 2021

  • Connexions Reconciliation Conference, 2021

  • University of Wollongong, 2021

  • University of Wollongong, Reconciliation Event 2018

  • University of New South Wales, 2017, 2018

Brachychiton Acerifolius, 2022

Mosaic of Secrets, Wollongong Botanic Gardens, 2021

Water & Smoke III, Wollongong Art Gallery, 2022

Fairymeadow Demonstration School, Poem Forest Workshops, 2023

KidsUni Wellbeing Session, 2022