A lyrical, off beat tale of two outsdiers who struggle to trust. How they come together and what happens after is as surprising, illogical and dreamlike as love: Smashing into production in 2024

“I read Smashing this morning and I found it utterly charming and wonderfully loopy and poetic, and it’s gorgeous uncynical belief in love and romance and delight did something lovely to my heart.” Actor, Ben Whishaw

“It’s funny, odd and clever. The physical world Juliet creates is so specific and detailed; and the two young lonely people moving through it, with such longings, are very touching.” Laura Jones, screenwriter An Angel at my Table, Oscar and Lucinda

“Know this, you have a great script. Your target may be young women, but I would see it in a heartbeat, just hearing about it.” Tom Hurwitz ACE

“Smashing is told with a light touch. Embedded with a sense of wonder, it operates on a deeper level, as we come to understand the struggles of a wonderfully unpredictable young woman: timid and passionate, delicate and strong, a spirit which soars above the humdrum - one who represents us all at our most vulnerable.” Nick Waterlow OAM

‘Darling is a natural story-teller with an eye for the tragi-comic, compassionate and quirky that make the experience of reading her work unique.’ Rebecca Swift - Director TLC.

“The monosyllable that provides the title for these three video artworks, for all its simplicity, is complex and ambiguous. As an imperative it asks us to be patient; to reject our natural impatience to grasp, take in and move on, so that some other form of experience may emerge. This is essentially the stance of the maker or artist. As Kipling puts it in his advice to the writer on how he should attend to his ‘demon’: ‘drift, wait, obey’. Its triumph is that it never becomes merely ‘documentary’, its intimacy is never intrusive. An essential musicality or pulse (and this is equally true of Mona Lisa and Bondi) ensures that once we have subdued ourselves to its rhythms, we too are prepared, without resistance or concern, to drift and wait.” Writer, Poet and Essayist, David Malouf