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Qualifications

2017 Master of Art (With Excellence), University of NSW Art & Design

1995 Bachelor of Education, Western Sydney University

Arts Organisation Membership

2017-24 Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains (MAPBM) Committee

2017 Blue Mountains City of The Arts Trust Grants Committee

2015-23 Mountains Made, Blue Mountains Creative Industries Cluster

2009-14 ATLAS Arts Skye (Scotland) - Vice Chair, Educational Engagement, Trustee

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Field, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Field II, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney

2018 Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne, France

The Lost and Found, Platform Gallery, Katoomba

Near and Far, Braemar Gallery Springwood

2017 here/there, Kudos Gallery, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington

2014-23 Single Track Gallery, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Lumière – Mount Victoria’s Festival of the Moving Image (curator / artist)

2021 Diadikasia, Galerie pompom, curator - Nancy Constandelia

Blue Too, Wayout Gallery, Kandos, MAPBM, curator - Beata Geyer

2020 Blue, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, curator -Beata Geyer

Occupied, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, curator - Rilka Oakley

A Night at The Manor, Mt Victoria Manor immersive exhibition, Blue Mountains (co-curator)

2019 Mapping - MAPBM, Braemar Gallery, curator - Anthony Bond OAM

2018 Imperceptible Resistances, Everglades, curated by Lizzie Marshall

Galerie Diderot, Chateau Orquevaux, France (acquired 4 works)

2017 Drawing In The Expanded Field MAPBM 3x6 (Curator, Artist)

EDACC, Katoomba Falls Kiosk 3x6 Project, curator – J. Drinkall 2016

Ethereal, m2 Gallery - Art Month Sydney and Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum Now Festival

Awards

2023 Winner, 2D Artwork Award, Blue Mountains Artfest

2019 Winner, Photography Award, Blue Mountains Artfest

2017. Industry Award, The Annual, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design

Finalist, Chippendale New World Art Prize, Sydney

Highly Commended (Local Government Excellence Award), Nox Night Sculpture project, Randwick Eco Park, Sydney

Finalist, Greenway Art Prize, Inner West Council, Sydney

Finalist, National Campus Art Prize

2016. Finalist, Kudos Emerging Artists Award, UNSW Art & Design

Finalist, Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, UNSW Art & Design

Highly Commended, Jenny Birt Painting Prize, UNSW Art & Design

Grants

2021 Lumière - Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust, AMaGA, Bendigo Bank, Australian Cultural Fund

2020. Myer Family Grant

2016 3 x ARC/UNSWAD: Ethereal / Vivid Ideas Symposium @ MCA / Postgraduate Masterclass - Painting, More Painting, ACCA, Vic

 

Curation

2021/22 Lumière: Mount Victoria’s Festival of the Moving Image

2020 A Night at the Manor (co-curator)

2018 Place, Chateau Orquevaux, France

2017 The Annual, UNSW Art & Design, Kudos Gallery, Paddington

Drawing in the Expanded Field, MAPBM Kiosk 3x6 Project

2016 White Cube Gallery Program, Kudos Gallery, Paddington

Air Pressure, Airspace, Sydney (curatorial team)

Nox Night Sculpture, Randwick Eco Park (curatorial team)

Residencies

2018 Chateau d’Orquevaux, France

2017 3x6 Kiosk Studios Residency, MAPBM, Katoomba

Platform Gallery Residency @ The Kiosk Studios, Katoomba

BigCi, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives

Isle of Skye, Scotland, 3-month immersive research residency for here/there exhibition

2016 Gunyah, North Arm Cove, NSW

Art Teaching

2015-2018 Art Teacher, NSW Department of Education, & Art Est, Leichhardt

2009–2014 Head of Creative Learning, University of the Highlands & Islands / West Highland College, Isle of Skye, Scotland

2008 Lecturer, Master of Teaching - Creative Learning, WSU, Australia

2003-06 Lecturer, Creative Learning, Stevenson College, Edinburgh

1993-2003 Art Teacher, Australia, Edinburgh and London, UK

Professional Development / Arts Sector Engagement

2021. Health & Wellbeing in Arts & Cultural Management, Deakin University

NSW Creative Arts Curriculum K-10 Consultation, NAVA

2020 Revising NAVA’s Code of Practice – Commissioning, Funding

Creative Industries & Covid-19: Now & Next, NAVA

Writing Grant Proposals – Stephanie nova Milne - NAVA (accredited)

Darkroom Photography – TAFE NSW (accredited)

2019 Managing Team Creativity, The Creative Spark: Social Innovation, Western Sydney University

2018 Professional Dialogues - The Value of Artist Residencies, Chateau d’Orquevaux, France

Collections - Australia, USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, France