Travis’ practice has taken him from performing on stage with Bangarra Dance Theatre across Australian, New York and Mongolia, to creating bespoke community programs for Indigenous performers through the Sydney Opera House, to performing his own live storytelling work at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.

Travis is an award winning visual artist, who has held solo exhibitions in Edinburgh (UK), Sydney and Regional NSW and has been part of numerous group exhibitions, art prizes and residencies. Travis creates unique, narrative led large-scale exhibitions combining multiple forms; paintings, drawings, projections and experiential sculptures focusing on recreating and evolving Indigenous and Western Mythologies for a modern era. Storytelling is at the heart of his practice, through the use of fable, metaphor, symbolism and storytelling tropes he invokes a deep connection with audiences to explore a range of both personal and universal themes including; Indigenaity, violence, destruction, politics, love, death and relationships. All of this comes together to create an experiential style of work that is both unique and familiar. 

Travis is a trained dancer and fine artist and is alumni of NAISDA Dance College, where he was awarded the inaugural Chairman’s Award. He honed his skills in the industry, completing further training, both accredited and self-led in sound production, circus, digital art and design, photography and writing. Travis completed residencies with Lane Cove Gallery, Muswellbrook Art Gallery, The Australian Museum and Australian based physical theatre company Legs on the Wall.

Travis has a wealth of producing experience having worked as a producer for the Sydney Opera House and as an Independent consultant on a range of arts programmes. He has worked across large festivals including; Vivid Live, Graphic and Homeground, contemporary music, theatre and dance tours including; Damon Albarn, Flying Lotus and Hofesh Shector, and smaller, niche community projects such as Dance Rites, where Travis engaged Indigenous community dance groups across the country to converge on the Sydney Opera House for a two-day traditional dance competition, the first of it’s kind in the country.

Throughout his career Travis has sought out international opportunities and collaborations and was most notably alumni of The British Council’s ACCELERATE in 2016, travelling to the United Kingdom to meet with likeminded creative, exploring future collaborations. Travis also organised and participated in numerous international arts residencies, he travelled to Paris, France, Barcelona, Spain and Dublin, Ireland in 2015 to visit art galleries, venues and arts organisation through the Sydney Opera House.

In 2018 Travis was the Create NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellow, completing a research residency in the Australian Museum, with the Aboriginal Artefacts and Rare Books Collections to create a new large-scale exhibition for 2019.