I was invited by architect Nic Brunsdon to create a sensory element - an aroma - for Room Service, a two-night event that was part of the Fremantle Biennale in November 2025. The installation transformed Fremantle’s heritage-listed P&O Hotel, with more than 40 artists taking over 31 hotel rooms, bathrooms, balconies and hallways with contemporary art, music, performance and place.

Nic Brunsdon and Cristina Guerrero Fernández brought together a creative team to bring this vision to life: natural-dye researcher Helen Coleman, sculptor Emma Lindergaard, furniture maker Spencer Parks, and me. The vision was to create a “meditative little pause space” - a room that gently transported guests elsewhere. The space was stripped back to imagine what existed long before the hotel: the trees, soil and coastal ecology that once shaped this part of Fremantle.

Scent has a powerful, intangible presence. It’s invisible, but it’s never not felt. My brief was to explore how aroma could add another dimension to the room - a way for guests to pause, soften, and settle into a quieter state, while feeling like they were being transported somewhere else.