Selected
Individual
Exhibitions
2015 We
lost and we won,
Ararat Regional Art Gallery (October)
2014 In
Search for the Great rock star car park,
whitecubemildura, Mildura, Victoria.
2012 What
do you see when you look up?
Stefano's Gallery 25, Mildura, Victoria.
2011 The
maker and the user,
Motel
Project, Palimpsest #8, Mildura, Victoria.
2004 Making
a place,
West Space Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
Incessant
pruning generates prickly fruit,
Melbourne
International Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria.
2003 Uninhabitable,
Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Victoria.
2002 Over
the horizon,
Platform
2, Melbourne, Victoria.
2000 Cutting
out the bad bits,
TCB,
Melbourne, Victoria.
Great
Re-Decorating Ideas (The Beginning),
West Space Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
1999 One
way to skin a cat,
Linden Art Centre, Melbourne, Victoria.
Designs
for an unobstructed airway,
Platform 1, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne, Victoria.
1998 How
to save a severed body member,
Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Victoria.
1997 Vulnerable
Points,
First
Site Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2015 Victorian
Craft Award,
Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
Communication
beyond words,
Allpress Studios Collingwood, Victoria.
XS
Collective,
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura Victoria.
2013 Mildura
Palimpsest Biennale #9, Mildura,
Victoria.
Women
in the arts 2013,
Knock
Knock Contemporary Arts Initiative, Cairns, Queensland.
2012 Commence,
Visual Arts Research Studios, La Trobe University, Mildura.
2011 Think
Tank - the visual diary,
The
Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania.
2010 Celebrating
20 years of Platform,
Platform, Melbourne, Victoria.
2009 Re-Socialisation,
Old Wentworth Gaol Project, Murray Darling Palimpsest #7,,
Wentworth, New South Wales.
2008 Chaos
and Revelry: Neo-Baroque and Camp Aesthetics,
Counihan, Gallery Brunswick, Victoria.
Paper-Cut,
24hr Art, Darwin, Northern Territory.
2007 The
Space in Between - Book Project,
VCA
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne and Regional Galleries
throughout Victoria.
2006 The
Presence of things… sense, veneer, guise,
touring exhibition to regional galleries in Melbourne, Morwell,
Castlemaine, Wangaratta, Ararat and Mildura.
Materials
& Techniques Series: Paper,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia
2005 The
Siemens awards,
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
Brainstorms,
Grantperie, Sydney, New South Wales.
plural2,
The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy.
2004 Re-generation,
The
Response Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia,
Melbourne, Victoria.
2003 Boogy,
Jive and Bop,
touring
exhibition:
Academy
Gallery, Launceston, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport and
Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
Papercuts,
Faculty
Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria.
The
Future in Every Direction: the Joan Clemenger Endowment for
Contemporary Art,
National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourn, Victoria.
2002 Fold,
Craft
Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
National
Works on Paper,
Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria.
2000 Deacons
Award 2000,
The
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Victoria.
14
GO – Emerging Artists Make Their Mark,
Bendigo
Art Gallery, Victoria.
Geelong
Contemporary Art Prize,
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria.
1999 Cultivated
Sphere of Events,
Mildura
Arts Centre, Mildura, Victoria.
BILLPOSTERS
will not be prosecuted,
Federation
Square Hoardings Project, Melbourne, Victoria.
1998 Institutional
transit lobby (part 2),
200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria.
Silent
Fall,
Linden Arts Centre, St Kilda, Victoria.
Residencies,
2015 Thirning
Villa, Ashfield Council, Ashfield Sydney, Australia.
2005 Australia
Council for the Arts- Skills and Arts Development –Rome Studio
2000 Beijing
Arts Academy/Redgate Gallery, Beijing, China.
1998 Studio
Artist, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne Australia.
Awards
& Grants
2015 Arts
Development Grant, Mildura Rural City Council.
2005 Siemens
RMIT Fine Art Scholarship.
2004 Myer
Foundation.
2000 Deacons
Award 2000.
1999 Pat
Corrigian Artists’ Grant.
Professional
and Volunteer Appointments
2011-12 Lecturer
in Painting at La Trobe University Mildura.
Co-Instigator
(with Filomena Coppolla) of whitecubemildura
artist run initiative, Mildura,Teacher, Sunraysia Institue of TAFE
2008 Project
Facilitator, “Boston Tea Party Mural” Art + Power, Bristol UK.
Project
Facilitator, “People's Republic of Stokes Croft Mural” Art +
Power, Bristol.
Volunteer
Arts Tutor, Mallee Family Care, Mildura, Australia.
2007 Curator,
Art + Power, Centrespace, Bristol, UK.
Volunteer
Studio Manager, Art + Power, Spike Island, Bristol UK.
2006 Big
Draw workshop, Artplay, Melbourne, Victoria.
2003-2006 Committee
Member at West Space Gallery Melbourne, Victoria.
2004-2005 Program
Manager, West Space Gallery Melbourne, Victoria.
2004 Art
Cart workshop National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Victoria.
2000 Curator,
Docklands
glass street gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
Paper
cutting workshops Post Master Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
Since
2000 Artist talks and Lectures to Tertiary students and the general
public painting, drawing, stencilling workshops for targeted groups.
Other
Community Projects collaborated on
2014
& 15 International Women's Day event (with Amnesty International
Mildura group and Arts Mildura, and the 2014 Multicultural Festival
Collections
National
Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Private
collections.
Education
2012 Bachelor of Social Work, La Trobe University, Mildura, Victoria.
2006 Master of Art (Fine Art) by research RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.
1996 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (painting) RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.
1997 Bachelor of Arts, Honors in painting, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.
2010 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Sunraysia Institute of TAFE, Mildura, Victoria.