EDUCATION/PLACEMENTS

2020-21 

  • Regeneration: Workshop artist- Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra

  • Research Assistant for Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra

  • Project Artist: Young Artists Mentoring Program- QPRC

2019-20 

  • Workshop artist:  Mental Health week- Gungahlin Arts

2017 

  • Project artist - BIGHART –Project O, Cooma

2016- 

  • Visual Art mentor- Australian Defence Force- Arts for Recovery program, UC

2015-20 

  • Workshop artist - IGNITE Community Arts program, Belconnen Arts Centre

2012-15 

  • Manager - Messengers Youth at risk Arts program

  • Certificate in Mental Health First Aid, MHFA, ACT

2010 -15 

  • Project Artist – Australian Federal Police- Collaboration with youth at risk

  • Concept Costume Designer – ‘Red dress’ Production, Denmark

2008-12 

  • Art’s tutor & Youth worker, Messengers Arts Program, ACT

  • Certificate in Community Welfare / Youth Work, Phillip, CIT

1997

  • Certificate in Electronic Publishing, CIT

1986-89 

  • Bachelor Visual Arts Degree (Honours), ANU School of Art & Design

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

  • QUIET - UNQUIET, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra, NSW

  • Three-person exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

2022

  • Shift: Installation, Design Festival, CMAG on THE SQUARE, Canberra

  • Re- locate installation: Assembly point, Southbank Melbourne, VIC

2021

  • CONFRONTING THE LINE: The border Artspace, NSW

2020

  • OFF BALANCE: An online exhibition of videos, animations and sculptures

  • RUMINATION animation, online. The Border Gallery, NSW

2019

  • Perceived Indifference: Canberra Glassworks, Kingston, ACT

  • Drone Strike: Pegboard, M16 Artspace, Griffith, ACT

2017

  • FERAL GAZE: Jas Hugonnet Gallery, ACT

  • Deep longings migrated: The Bearded Tit Gallery, Redfern

2016-17

  • Fugitive Faith: A conscripted oath, Canberra Museum and Gallery

2016

  • Fugitive Faith: The Fitters Workshop, Kingston

2014

  • and I stopped: Tuggeranong Arts Centre

  • Remnants of a ritual past: Canberra Contemporary Arts Space

2011

  • Something and nothing: ANCA Gallery, Dickson ACT

2010

  • A peculiar accomplice: Jas Hugonnet Gallery

2009

  • Limbo mania: Canberra Museum and Gallery

2004

  • Remnants- Represented by: Maunsell Hughes, Woolahra, Sydney

2002

  • Rumores- Represented by: Helen Maxwell Gallery ACT

2001

  • Vida, ANCA Gallery, Dickson ACT

1999

  • Testiga, ANCA Gallery, Dickson ACT

1998

  • Transformation, Tilley’s Devine Gallery, Lyneham, ACT

1996

  • Work-Ways Screen, Gorman House Arts Centre, ACT

  • Images by del Castillo, Old Parliament House, ACT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • Compression, Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT

  • Longing and Belonging , Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT

2023

  • Finalist in Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra, NSW

  • Drawn to Place: A shift in the landscape, Curated by Belinda Hungerford, New England Regional Museum, NSW

2022

  • Finalist in Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra, NSW

  • Contour 556/22, Canberra’s Art Biennial, ACT

  • ‘Making: acts of resistance’ Rusten House Art Centre, NSW

2021

  • 6 in – Queanbeyan artists in lockdown: The border Artspace, NSW

  • AUSTRALIEN Curated by Dan Toua, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space

2020

  • Invited: Contour556/20 - Canberra's biennial public art festival, curated by Neil Hobbs

  • Ruination - Art not Apart, The Shine Dome Sculpture Garden, ACT

2019

  • Small works, Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT

2017

  • Finalist in Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW

  • Finalist in Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra, NSW

2018

  • Invited: Contour 556- Aspen Island, ACT

  • Finalist , Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Contemporary, VIC

  • ALL WE CAN'T SEE -Forty five downstairs Gallery, VIC

  • A significant fact- Chutespace M16 Artspace, Griffith

2016

  • Finalist in M16 Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Griffith,ACT

  • Invited: Contour 556- Commonwealth Place East Gallery Space, ACT

2015

  • Footy Fever- August 28th, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space

  • Installation works – Opening of Ainslie & Gorman Art Centres

  • ART + CLIMATE = CHANGE - Australian Galleries, VIC

  • PROTEST exhibition, M16 Artspace

  • VANUart Auction, Tuggeranong Arts Centre

2014

  • Mash up Glue up, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, Manuka

2013

  • BAD GIRLS, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space

  • LAKESIDE, Tuggeranong Arts Centre

  • ANIMA, Lanyon Gallery, Lanyon, ACT

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2022

  • CAPO Fellowship

  • Bundanon Artist in Residence

2020

  • ArtsACT HOMEFRONT Funding recipient

  • BELCO ARTS Going the Distance grant

2018

  • Materials Grant for Contour 556, Aspen Island

2015

  • Awarded CAPO Macquarie Wealth Award

  • Barnett Lilley & Associates commission

2014

  • Materials Grant, Arts ACT

2013

  • Winner of LAKESIDE exhibition

2011

  • Finalist, Cancer Council Arts Award, Victoria

2009

  • Awarded CAPO Rosalie Gascoigne Award

2008

  • Finalist, DOMAIN Project, ANU, ACT

2004

  • Materials grant, Arts ACT

  • Encuentro Group, Pat Corrigan Artists Grant

  • Madonna exhibition of migrant women Grant- Arts Act

  • Art store art award, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT

2001

  • Mounting an Exhibition Grant, Arts ACT, ACT

2000

  • Health PACT and Quit exhibition, Health PACT Grant

1996

  • Work-Ways Commission Gorman House, ACT

1989

  • Emerging Artists Support Scheme, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, ACT

REPRESENTED/ COLLECTIONS

  • Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection, 2010 & 2014

  • ACT Legislative Assembly, ACT 2024

  • Gorman House Art Collection, ACT

  • St. Dominican Catholic Church, Glebe, NSW

  • Mallesons Stephen & Jaques, Barristers and Solicitors, Canberra, ACT

  • Australian National University, Acton, ACT

  • NRS Group, Canberra, ACT

  • The Parliamentary Group, Canberra, ACT

  • Private and Corporate collections

  • Australia, U.K, Ecuador, USA, Germany, Denmark, Japan