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