Image Description: A picture of a smiling Gok-Lim wearing a canvas jacket, with a black shirt with Many Peaks Assembly design, holding a white bowl full of juk or congee. Photography by Danica Zuks.
about me
I am a writer, artist, and curator living and working on the unceded sovereign lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people. I have worked as a co-director at Paper Mountain art gallery, co-producing Peaks, winner of the 2019 Perth Fringe Festival Award for Best Independent Programming. I have also been a festival director for the 2017 Kickstart Youth Arts Festival, an Arts Officer at the City of Albany, Project Officer for Community Arts Network, and Venue and Operations Manager for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing and Literary Studies with First Class Honours from Curtin University, and a Graduate Certificate in Arts and Community Engagement from the Victoria College of the Arts.
I have co-produced participatory theatre (Friendquest, Peaks), co-founded and managed a literary journal (dotdotdash), and curated experimental performance festivals (Grr Nights) and group exhibitions (Words Beyond Grammar, Seasons of Histories, and Hopes, and Anthologia). I was the 2015 Writer in Residence at the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA. In 2016, I was part of the Foundation for Young Australian Young Social Pioneers program. In the 2019 Creative Fellow for the James Sykes Battye Fellowship at the State Library of WA. In 2022, I was part of the Biennale Delegates program with Creative Australia. I was part of the 2023 Queer Development Program at Performance Space, the 2023 Activating Collections residency with Art on the Move, and the 2023 Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Experimental Performance Artist Lab at the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. In 2025, I was part of the Queer Stunts residency at Critical Path Choreographic institute in Sydney.
I write arts criticism, essays, fiction and poetry. I have had work published in Cottonmouth, Westerly, Sitelines, Australian Poetry, Djed Press, Voiceworks, 4A Journal, Art Review, and Art Guide.
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Exhibitions
2015 Anthologia (Co-curator with Alina Tang), Paper Mountain
2016 Radical Ecologies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
2016, Twelve Growls, Paper Mountain
2017 Words Beyond Grammar (Co-curator with Claire Bushby), Spectrum Project Space
2019 Seasons Histories Hopes: Imagined Migrant Futures, State Library of WA
2019 Patches of Hope and Resistance, Spectrum Project Space, Perth
2019 Oracle Bone, Sawtooth Art Gallery, Hobart
2019 Spiritual Drag, the Lockup Gallery, Newcastle
2020 Instant (Part of the Big Heart Anime Film Festival) City Art Space
Residencies
Copyright Council Writers Residency, Fellowship of Australian Writers WA, 2015
Emerging Writers Development Program, Centre for Stories, 2019
James Sykes Battye Creative Fellowship at the State Library of WA, 2019
Venice Biennale Delegates Program, Creative Australia, 2022
Activating Collections residency, Art on the Move and Museum of the Great Southern, 2022 - 2023
Dream Pool Press, Midland Junction Art Centre, 2023
Queer Nu Werk, Performance Space, 2023
ADAM Emerging Performance, Taipei Performing Arts Festival, 2023
Queer Stunts, Critical Path, 2025