I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I live and work, and their deep, ongoing cultural and spiritual connection to this place.

I pay respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, to their Elders, past and present, and to their country. Sovereignty was never ceded and settler colonialism is ongoing.

Adele is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and academic whose practice merges moving image, sound, photography, projection and installation, with a focus on experimental and expanded documentary and cinematic storytelling. She explores the poetics of cinema as a reflection and extension of human and more-than-human perception.

Driven by curiosity and wonder, and informed by her personal history and syncretic culture, Adele’s work plays with collaborative, affective, and sensory experiences; queerness and neurodiversity; fluidity, multiplicity and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Her practice attempts to resist and counter dominator culture and anthropocentrism in various ways, and considers the idea that nature is fundamentally queer and psychedelic. It traces the mycelial, mutualistic relationships between multispecies, and how they shape animist and ecological ways of knowing and being.

Adele’s work has been exhibited, screened, published, broadcast, and transmitted into deep space by organisations including National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Buxton Contemporary, Channels Festival, Composite: Moving Image Agency and Media Bank, Artspace, Blindside, Aphids, Sydney Contemporary, ABC TV, Magnum Photos, Mona Foma, Liquid Architecture, Museum of Brisbane, The Hellenic Museum, Bunjil Place, un Magazine, Lismore Regional Gallery, Midsumma Festival, RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Melaka Art and Performance Festival, and film festivals in the UK, US, and Europe.

Adele’s work was presented in the 2023 Melbourne Now exhibition at NGV Australia as part of the Artist Film Program. Her work was featured in the Still Life exhibition and on the public Big Screen at Buxton Contemporary, June-October 2022, at Composite: Moving Image Agency and Media Bank, August-September 2022, and at Artspace, Feb-March 2025.

Her photography was shortlisted for the 2019 Bowness Photography Prize, exhibited at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Victoria, and the 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize, exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, ACT and at regional galleries throughout Australia.

Adele has completed art residencies at Shiro Oni, Japan (2017), Centre for Dramaturgy and Curation, Australia (2019), Bantengan Nuswantara, Indonesia (2023), Pos Yum, Malaysia (2023), MAPFest, Malaysia (2023) and a photography intensive with Magnum Photos x PHOTO Festival (2021).

She was an art peer assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts 2021-2024, is a founding member of Fruiting Bodies Queer Ecology Collective, a member of Women Photograph, and has helped run the ethnobotanical nonprofit organisation, Entheogenesis Australis since 2008. Adele graduated from RMIT BFA (Honours First Class) in 2021 and was the recipient of the Composite Moving Image Award and the Joel Elenberg Prize. She is currently a PhD candidate and academic in the School of Art, RMIT.

She shares most of her time between Naarm / Birraranga (Melbourne, Victoria), and the region of her birthplace on Bundjalung Country (North Coast of NSW).