Curriculum Vitae

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.