EDUCATION

2006

Bachelor of Education, Charles Sturt University

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1993

Bachelor Arts/Visual Arts, Newcastle University

         

EXHIBITIONS AND ART SELECTIONS

2025

WAYOUT Artspace, Untitled Connect Committee Members Group Show  

WAYOUT Artspace, Before Now, After, Curated Group Show 

Broadbeach Community Space Gallery, Queensland,  Swell Art Prize Finalist Exhibition

Cowra Regional Art Gallery - 'Central Belonging' Finalist exhibition 

SLOT Window Gallery,  Alexandria Sydney, solo show September - October

Bell Beats Art and Music Festival - temporary art installation, Central West NSW 

Cowra Micro Gallery - Facilitator and creator of Community Art Exhibition 'Cowra Creates'​

Little Magpie Gallery - curated group show 'Patterns and Play', Cowra 

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2024​​​​

Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre  - FINALIST - The Remagine Art Prize  

The Hive (Science Centre) - Ulverstone, Tasmania January - April, Installations. Works purchased for Permanent Collection

Platform Gallery/Odd Sock Gallery Blayney - Textures Of One,: Tin - Highly Commended

Newcastle ARTSPACE - CLOUDS3 curated group show 

NSW State Parliament House Sydney  - While The World Waits - Curated group show, ArtsOutWest, 

​CEMENTA Inc 2024, Kandos - Curated Artfestival , ' Souvenirs Of Kandos', Kandos Museum 

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery - 'Artefact Of The Anthropocene' Solo show 

Work Of Art Showcase - REGIONAL ARTS NSW - Orange NSW 

Campbelltown Arts Centre - FINALIST - Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Contemporary section

Rosby Gallery - 'Clusters' Mudgee, (with Sam Paine) November

Orange Regional Gallery Here/Now open show

Cowra Micro gallery  - Inoffensive Name Art Show, group exhibition  Oct/ Nov. 

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2023 

While The World Waits - Curated group show, ArtsOutWest, travelling NSW for 18 months ​

Western Plains Cultural Centre Dubbo, solo show,  HOMEGROUND program : 'A Lot of Little Nothings' 

Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra ACT - group show : 'Unearthed'

Cowra Regional Art Gallery - solo show : 'Little Nothings'  

Rosnay Vineyard, Canowindra - group show ' MYCOLOGY - fine arts fungi' with Lachlan Landcare  

Manly Art Gallery & Museum - WINNER - Northern Beaches Environmental Art Design Award ceramics/small sculpture

Orange Regional Gallery - group show : 'Here/Now'

Belconnen Arts Centre Canberra, ACT - solo show : 'Plasticus Organicus' 

M16 Gallery, Canberra - collaboration with Freya Jobbins : 'Uberlastung'

Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre  - FINALIST - The Hornsby Art Prize 

Campbelltown Arts Centre - FINALIST - Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Contemporary section

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2022

While The World Waits - curated group show, ArtsOutWest, travelling NSW for 18 months

Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT  - TRACES exhibition group show 

Orange Regional Gallery Here/Now open show

The Breadtag Project multi-platform art/ environmental  project (ongoing since 2018)

The Suburban Review - cover of issue #28 Leaven 

 

2021

Cementa Spirit of 21 - selected as part of OPEN MIKE short video/films

Inscribe/Orana Arts  - selected as illustrator for anthology book - collaboration with Helena Pastor

OutbackArtsCentre, Coonamble NSW - WINNER -  3D/Installation art, Waste To Art

Orange Regional Gallery Here/Now open show

Pepper St Gallery, Adelaide - Reduce, Reuse - Curated group show Fringe Festival 

Cowra Art Gallery, -  Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Exhibition, Highly Commended (drawing/ painting)

 

2020 

Cowra Japanese Garden & Cultural Centre  -Polychromatic solo show  

Grenfell Art Gallery - INSIDElifeINSIDE  solo show 

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2019 

Corner Store Gallery, Orange  - 8 X 10 curated group show 

Spiral Gallery, Bega South Coast NSW  - Endangered curated group show 

Cowra Art Gallery, Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Exhibition - Highly Commended (miniatures)

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2018

Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT  -TRACES exhibition Group show 

Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW  - Works On Paper Curated group show  

Cowra Japanese Garden & Cultural Centre - Whimsy & Wonder Solo show - 

Brooklyn, New York USA -The Sketchbook Project  - Participant in project 

The Breadtag Project - multi-platform environmental project begins

 

2017

ArtShed, Bathurst ( ArtsOutWest ) - Invincible  (Artists With and Without Disability) Curated Group Exhibition 

Cowra Japanese Gardens & Cultural Centre Between Here and There  - solo photography exhibition    

Grenfell Art Gallery  - Domestica Botanica - solo show  

 

2016 

Grenfell Art Gallery  - After Dark - selected for Contemporary Australian Photography slideshow, curator Hamish Ta’me  

Women In Focus - 111 women Community art /photographic installation, collaboration with Cowra Council for International Women's Day  - pop up gallery Kendal St Cowra and The Mill Gallery 

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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES​​​

• FACILITATOR/CREATOR of Community Arts Project  - Cowra Creates

• CURATOR  - Before Now, After Exhibition, WAYOUT Artspace Kandos NSW

• WAYOUT Artspace AIR Committee member 

• ARTS OUT WEST  - CASP GRANT recipient for 2025 Community Art Project 'Cowra Creates'

• REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - Selected participant for Creative Regions National Summit, Canberra October 2024

• SIDETRACK ARTS INC. - Artist Run Initiative, founding Committee member

• ORANA ARTS - Grant recipient for CASP GRANT May 2024

• 'ARTSPACE' - Host, facilitator and curator of workshops and exhibition, for Cowra HEADSPACE 2024

• GROUNDFLOOR - Selected to participate in Groundfloor, Regional Art Symposium March 2024

• THE HIVE, ULVERSTONE TASMANIA - Artist Residency  January 2024

• REGIONAL ARTS NSW - selected to be part of Work Of Art program 2023-24

• REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - selected to be participant at ARTLANDS September  2023, Canberra

• CEMENTA/ KANDOS  recipient of Artist Residency, November 2023 

• ORANA ARTS - Grant recipient for Artist Residency, a collaboration with Freya Jobbins

• FRANKIE MAGAZINE - WINNER  - Good Stuff Awards - People's Choice & Craft categories December 2022

• ORANA ARTS/ CORRIDOR PROJECT Artist Residency, September 2022

• LIGHTHOUSE ARTS / Hunter Writers Group - Artist Residency, Newcastle, 2022

• PUBLISHED- photography/co-creator 'Tag Art' Children's book, Firefly Educational Publishers 2022

• AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM AND RESEARCH ASSOC. (ACARA) - collaboration to create lesson plans/ educational resources with breadtags

• ORANA ARTS - 2021, recipient of Studio Grant for arts practice

• REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - 2021, grant recipient to attend ARTLANDS, Tasmania

• ORANA ARTS and Mudgee Art House - 2021,  recipient of Studio Co!lab print collaboration

• CORRIDOR PROJECT AIR + PDLab  - 2020, Artist Residency

• ARTSOUTWEST - selected as contributor to Art book for distribution to heath services

• AMBASSADOR for Micador Art  - 2018 - ongoing, featured artwork on packaging, content creation, tutorials etc 

• WINNER NATIONAL ONLINE CREATIVES/blogging for KIDSPOT#VOICES OF 2015, Home and Wellbeing

• Social media content creator : Creatively Squared, Scotch Aus/NZ FordAustralia, Kidspot, Country Culture, Fat Mum Slim, amongst others

• Founder of The Collage Club, international collage group on Facebook (900+ members) 

• Creative workshop host ( 2015 - present ) throughout NSW