Who is Flying Fox Woman?

Flying Fox Woman was born in 2007 from leftover fabric and bits and pieces found around my house in Melbourne. At the time I was home with two very small babies, navigating a sense of isolation as a new mum and a feeling of alienation that came from an unfamiliar urban landscape.

She was my homemade superhero — a feminist power figure suffering from domestication. The lo-fi photomontages I created were cut and pasted by hand, much like the hand-stitched garb of the protagonist herself — a metaphor for the way women navigate their disrupted lives and use whatever is at hand to keep creating and feeling alive.

Nearly two decades later, Flying Fox Woman re-emerges — transformed. No longer confined to the domestic interior, she moves boldly through the night city, drawing her spirit from the confident and fearless navigation of flying foxes through urban environments. A feminist hero and environmental guardian, she exists in the liminal space between phantom and reality — part mythological character, part urban legend.

 She has grown from a deeply personal symbol of constraint into a collective symbol of liberation. Through the Flying Fox Woman project at Logan Art Gallery, she is no longer mine alone — she belongs to every woman who has ever felt unsafe, unseen or constrained. Together we reclaim public space at night through creativity, mythology and art."