Gareth is a poet, installation artist and publisher. Gareth’s first poetry collection Recipes for the Disaster won the 2019 national Anne Elder Award and was highly commended in the Mary Gilmore Prize. Gareth’s second book, The Inclination Compass, a multimedia poetic narrative, was published in 2023 with Puncher and Wattman. 

His immersive art installations involve poetic sound compositions, electronics, video, UV-light, and sculptural assemblages.  With collaborator Kathryn Cowen, he was a finalist in the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, a feature artist at Cementa24 and in 2024 created Serendipia, at Yarrila Arts and Museum. In 2027 they will create a new interactive sculptural work called ‘The Chronoportation Device’ at Maitland Regional Gallery.

In 2020 Gareth founded the archive and small press Apothecary Archive, where he specialises in poetic books of all kinds, t-shirts and other merch.

Apothecary Archive is proud to distribute The Poetry News Magazine - a monthly listing of poetry readings, manuscript and journal submissions, grants, residencies and more.

Gareth’s doctorate focused on writers and artmakers who experience mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. Gareth selected and edited The Toy of the Spirit - the collected works of the prolific artmaker Anthony Mannix, published in 2019. This was done in close collaboration with Anthony.

Gareth is a member of the editorial advisory board of 5 Islands Press and teaches creative writing at Macquarie University.

Gareth has been running creative writing workshops in schools, youth centres, prisons, libraries and galleries for over 20 years. He runs school-based writing workshops with Westwords on an ongoing basis.

He has recently been awarded a place in the 2026 Bundanon artist-in-residence program.