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Biography

ACADEMIC HISTORY

2013 Master of Visual Arts, Monash University
2012 Honours, Bachelor of Visual Arts, Monash University, Conferred
2011 Bachelor Visual Arts, Monash University, Gippsland, Conferred
2005 Diploma Community Services, Community Work
1999 Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment & Training, Chisholm TAFE
Conferred1983 Associate Diploma in Welfare Studies, Monash University,

AWARDS

2012 Pro Vice Chancellors Acquisitive Award
2012 Monash University Honours Jubilee Scholarship for Art and Design
2011 Dean’s Commendation for merit

MAJOR WORKS/EXHIBITIONS

2013 ‘Mutations -a multi-textural experience’
The work explores what it means to be ‘of’ place as a white Australian of colonial descent.

2013 ‘Overlay’
An exhibition at La Trobe Regional Gallery in May and June 2013, exploring place, identity and the environment.

2012 ‘Ethnogenesis’
Monash University, Digital series exploring identity, gender, and contemporary impacts of colonization.
Pro Vice Chancellor’s Acquisitive Award for 2012.

SPECIAL COMMENDATION Board of Examiners, School of Art & Design, Monash University.

2012 “The International Art Contest”
Image ‘Family Tree’ accepted into the Digital Art category.

2011 “Mindful Things”
La Trobe Regional Gallery Gippsland 4 June -31 July. The works in this show focus on perception introspection, identity, emotion and the unconscious mind.

2011 “Emanate”
Creative Gippsland Sculpture Show ‘light’ Sculpture. The work engages the viewer in the question of what is art.

2010 “Crucible”
Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University. Digital series of 9 images questions the actions of colonial male power brokers through a juxtaposition with environment, traditional weaving and a contemporary white Australian woman.

SPECIAL COMMENDATION Board of Examiners, School of Art & Design, Monash University.

2010 “Transported”
Monash University, Digital series exploring identity, gender, power and the environment

2009 “Water-line Whispers”
Over to Kate’s Gallery. Series of silver gelatin photograms, various sizes.

2009 Corinella and District Contemporary Art Show
2ND PRIZE WINNER, Photography Section.

2008 “Re-dreaming our futures”
Monash University, As we 'think global act local' could it be that the very planet is imprinted in us, if only we look? The work is a series of 5 pigment images on archival paper, each image 900 x 1300mm

2008 Corinella and District Contemporary Art Show

2008 “Show Yourself Up” Bass Coast Photographic Show
1ST PRIZE WINNER, Black and White Silver Gelatin image: World in Flux.

2007 “Faces of Coronet Bay”
Coronet Bay Community Hall, Faces of Coronet Bay is an exploration of identity and community in a small coastal town. A series of 24 Silver Gelatin images 300 x 400mm

2007 Corinella and District Contemporary Art Show

2006 “Out of Ash”
Tyers Art Show and Exhibition at La Trobe Regional Gallery Gippsland, exploring the experience of re-growth after '06 wildfires.
1ST PRIZE WINNER, ‘Out Of Ash’ section, Tyers Art Show.