Born in 1971, Narelle has continually explored and worked within the Visual Arts scope.  In 1990, she attended Frankston College of TAFE enrolled in an Art and Design course studying painting and photography. It was here she acquired a passion for the camera. In 1991, she studied at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology achieving a Bachelor of Arts in Photography with Distinctions. On leaving University, she worked as a commercial photographer in Melbourne and South Australia. Narelle has been successfully exhibiting her photographic works in Melbourne, Adelaide and Hong Kong. She was a finalist in, “The 6th Prospect Portrait Prize”, Adelaide, the “Voices of Women Competition” in Hong Kong, 2015, Scope Galleries Art Award Art Concerning Environment, 2016 and the Pro Hart Outback Prize, 2017. Narelle’s photographs acknowledged adaptations that have occurred in her personal life after leaving her birthplace, Melbourne, Australia in 1997 and residing in an Asian destination until 2019.

In late 2018, personal tragedy forced Narelle to relocate back to her birth country Australia. Now living in Boorloo, Western Australia Narelle returned to study at the young age of fifty and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts through The University of Western Australia.  Her studies were pivotal in providing a strong foundation for self-healing and self-rediscovery. Working predominately with photography, painting, printmaking, and drawing, Narelle’s present artworks deconstruct her past by shredding and cutting personal histories and reconstructing them into sculptural vessels. The construction of these vessels provides the hands with an occupation while the mind slowly gives way to the constant noise and becomes silent.

Also, a passionate arts educator, Narelle has taught Visual Arts in Hong Kong and Australian at Primary and Secondary level. Her practice engages students in the making and appreciating of the arts and she encourages her students to experiment and explore their world using a variety of techniques and materials.  Her role as an educator also informed her desire to publish a series of children pictures books titled, “Lorry the Lorikeet and Alice Springs” which narrate personal memories and travels.