Education | |
2008-12 | Doctor of Creative Arts/University of Wollongong |
2004-06 | Master of Creative Arts by Research/University of Wollongong |
2000-02 | Oil Painting Technique and Principles/Charlie Sheard Studio School, Sydney |
1996-97 | Bachelor of Creative Arts (3rd year)/University of Wollongong |
1992 | Bachelor of Arts – Fine Arts (2nd year)/Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
1990 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st year)/University of Tasmania School of Art |
1983 | Bachelor of Science (Hons.) University of New South Wales |
Teaching | |
2007-14 | Sessional Lecturer, Painting/ University of Wollongong |
2005-14 | Tutor, Art Theory/University of Wollongong |
2009-12 | Tutor, Media and Cultural Studies/University of Wollongong |
2005-13 | Teacher, History and Theory of Cultural Productions/TAFE West Wollongong |
2004-09 | Teacher, Painting and Drawing/TAFE West Wollongong |
2004 | Teacher, Drawing and Printing Workshops/Hazelhurst Regional Gallery |
Commissions/Residencies | |
2003-12 | Portrait commissions |
2001 | Visiting Artist/Illawarra Area Health Service |
1998 | Artist in Residence/Wollongong City Gallery |
Solo Exhibitions | |
2013 | One Work / Drawing Room, Kings Cross |
2013 | Hang Ups / The Egg & Dart, Thirroul |
2012 | desire / FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong |
2010 | dirty laundry / FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong |
2006 | Collecting the Self: Paintings / FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong |
1999 | Umbilical Wire / Wollongong City Gallery |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2014 | Le Salon Dans Le Salon: The Egg & Dart Pop-Up Exhibition / Moore St, Austinmer |
2014 | The Gong / Tortuga Studios, St Peters |
2013 | 12x12x12 / The Egg & Dart, Thirroul |
2013 | Presence and Absence / Wollongong City Gallery |
2013 | Transitions / University of Wollongong |
2013 | Intersensorial Threads / FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong |
2013 | Ditto #2 / Drawing Room, Kings Cross |
2012 | WCG Resident Artist Program 20th Anniversary / Wollongong City Gallery |
2011 | 37 / Wollongong City Gallery |
2011 | art atm / gallery: 5crownlane, Wollongong |
2010 | Women’s Work / Project Contemporary Artspace |
2010 | Shelf Life / Delmar Gallery, Trinity College, Sydney |
2009 | Faculty of Creative Arts Staff Show / FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong |
2009 | TAFE West Wollongong Staff Show / Project Contemporary Artspace |
2008 | berg & black Inaugural Exhibition / Clifton School of Arts |
2008 | Faculty of Creative Arts Staff Show / FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong |
2008 | TAFE West Wollongong Staff Show / Project Contemporary Artspace |
2007-08 | Blake Prize Travelling Exhibition |
2007 | (collected) women / Wollongong City Gallery |
2001 | Displaced Desires / Project Centre for Contemporary Arts, Wollongong |
2000 | Illawarra Visions / Wollongong City Gallery |
1999 | Heritage of Health / Wollongong City Gallery |
1999 | Biomorphs / Gallery 4A, Sydney |
1997-98 | Machine / Casula Powerhouse / Watt Space, Newcastle/Project CCA, Wollongong |
1996 | Ways of Knowing / Project Centre for Contemporary Art, Wollongong |
1993 | Taking the Pith / Bare Gallery, Newtown |
1993 | Floor to Ceiling Show / Swanston Street Gallery, Melbourne |
Symposium | |
2013 | Thinking Drawing: Making Drawing / National Art School, East Sydney |
Prizes | |
2009 | Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize |
2008 | Finalist Sulman Prize |
2008 | Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize |
2007 | Finalist Blake Prize |
2007 | Finalist Mosman Art Prize |
Publications | |
Collecting the Self: Painting and the Ambiguous Body. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag (2008) |
Acquisitions | |
Wollongong City Gallery | |
University of Wollongong | |
Private collections |