Urban spaces that have been rejuvenated, transformed, or altered by environmental disturbances captivate Carmel. She seeks out locations that don’t immediately make sense—places marked by histories of darkness or loss, where cultures collide, where graffiti and tagging become part of the narrative, and where invasive flora and fauna redefine the natural order. These spaces become new sites for exploration, where she investigates the complexities of identity, resilience, and change. Through Carmel’s practice, she aims to create work that resonates with an area’s layered industrial history, evolving urban landscape, and the presence of introduced invasive flora and fauna, inviting viewers to engage with the deeper stories embedded within the surroundings.

Carmel is a multidisciplinary artist. She studied Fine Arts with Honours at RMIT and has been a finalist in various art prizes, including the Gallipoli Art Prize (Gallipoli Memorial Club, Sydney), the Environmental Art and Design Prize (Manly Art Gallery, Sydney), and the John Leslie Art Prize (Gippsland Art Gallery). Notably, she was the overall winner of the 2023 Show Your West Side Art Exhibition and Prize in Footscray, and the 2006 Tattersalls Contemporary Art Prize at the Substation Arts Centre in Newport for her video installation Disquiet. She also won the multimedia art prize at Albert Park College in both 2015 and 2017.

Carmel has participated in numerous group shows and held her most recent solo exhibition at SOL Gallery in Fitzroy in 2023. In 2023 and 2024, Carmel participated in the Inner West Art Fair at the Substation in Newport. Additionally, in 2024, Carmel was a selected participant for the Atelier Artist-in-Residence program at Westcove Estate in Ireland.

For over 20 years, Carmel has documented the cultural and environmental shifts within urban landscapes, observing how places evolve in response to their historically damaged and neglectful past. Carmel is fascinated by the multiple layers within these spaces that emotionally and physically connect her, and she enjoys discovering new relationships through the manipulation of different media to explore how she can reimagine a landscape that exposes the raw elements of a space—its history, decay, and renewal.