Selected professional record

A continuing
practice.

Current work sits alongside a longer history of construction, collaborative practice, public engagement and research participation.

2024—

Independent interdisciplinary practice

Painting, mixed-media sculpture, assemblage, wearable art and light-responsive work. Studying Fine Art and Visual Culture at Curtin University.

2016—17

Theatrical fabrication

Volunteer wardrobe, costume and set design with Bare Naked Theatre and Heidelberg Theatre Company. The historical professional record includes costume work for Changes: A Theatrical Tribute to the Music of David Bowie (2016).

2011

Brother Award — Best Costume

World Cosplay Summit, Nagoya, Japan. Collaboratively achieved with Tessa Beattie as Team Australia 2011, associated with Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.

Contemporary results & interview ↗

2007—11

Haraju2Girls

Collaborative costume and visual production by Jess Allie (now R. J. Hurst) and Tessa Beattie. Costume engineering, public presentation, competitions, cultural programming, workshops and research engagement.

2003

Art On Legs, Tasmania

First Prize, Student Category; Third Prize, Open Category.

Research & published discussion

Credits in context.

Research participation and practitioner interviews are credited as contributions to research; they are distinct from authorship of the publications.

Selling Otaku?

Craig Norris and Jason Bainbridge, 2009. Intersections 20. An interview-based case study of Haraju2Girls and Australian cosplay practice.

Read the publication ↗

Posthuman Drag

Jason Bainbridge and Craig Norris, 2013. Intersections 32. Subsequent analysis of cosplay, material culture and social networking, including Haraju2Girls.