Kit Spencer is redefining boundaries. The 28-year-old writer, performance artist and musician has spent the day cultivating a plot of land, and regeneration is on his mind. “I’m working on re-establishing the biodiversity of an area of bushland, extending the community out to the bush,” he says.

Kit Simpson performing his show Castrati. Photo supplied

“Whether it is communities, individuals or the environment, understanding each other and forging alliances is becoming increasingly important. Extending that to my own life, opening myself up to the ‘livingness’ of the land that I’m on, the other things that are alive around me and connecting common goals through alliances and coalitions are what drive me.”

Living on Wangal land in Sydney, Spencer fulfils his need to connect with people and nature through his “hands-in-the-dirt” day job as a horticulturist.

A graduate of UNSW’s music faculty, Spencer is also preparing for his one-man show Castrati, described as “a multidisciplinary mosaic, straddling the future and the past combining old and new art forms . . . offering new perspectives on the history of the virtuosic and often-maligned castrato.”

In an added twist, Spencer will sing in his transmasculine voice,...