I’ve lived in many fascinating environments including Africa, Afghanistan, India, and PNG. However, since moving to the Great Western Tiers a decade ago I have become passionate about interpreting this part of the world in my artwork. Mixed media is my preferred medium. Since engaging seriously with my creativity in 2014, I have had ten solo exhibitions and been included in many group exhibitions. My work has been selected for juried art prizes including The Glover, Sulman, Bay of Fires, Mission to Seafarer’s and the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania. My work is shown at The Blenheim Gallery, Tasmania.

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Prize Finalist and Awards

Art Trails Tasmania, Deloraine, Tas (2023) Certificate of Achievement

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2023)

3D @ the Tree, The Poatina Tree Gallery, Tas (2021) Winner.

The Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Tas (2020)

Glover Art Prize, Tas (2019)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2019, 2 works selected)

Mission to Seafarers Art Prize, Docklands, Vic (2018)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2017)

The Poatina Short Film Festival, Tas (2017) Winner.

Praxis, Worldview Creative Arts Competition, Tas (2017) Judge’s Choice, Painting

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2016)

The Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney (2012)

Create to Advocate, Parliament House, Canberra (2008) Honourable Mention.

 

Solo Exhibitions

A Brush with Eden, The Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2024)

Out of the Woods, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2023) 

Big Island – Little Island, Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2022) 

Life in the Bush, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2021)

Otherworldliness, Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery, Tas (2019)

Moving On, Sawtooth ARI Gallery, Launceston, Tas, (2017)

So Far from Country, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tas (2016)

Near and Far, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2016)

Van Dieman’s Land to Port Phillip, Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2015)

Adventuring with the Liardets, The Gasworks, Melbourne (2014)

 

Group Exhibitions

Director’s Choice, The Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2024)

Summer Salon, Poimena Gallery, Launceston Church Grammer School, Tas (2024)

Wordplay, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas 2024

Minds Do Matter, QVMAG, Inveresk, Tas (2023)

Art Trails Tasmania, Deloraine, Tas (2023)

African Safari, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2023)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas, (2023)

Art Trails Tasmania, Deloraine, Tas (2022)

Floating Lands (with Jane Giblin), The Wilderness Gallery, Tas (2021)

Floating Lands (with Jane Giblin), The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2021)

3D @ the Tree, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2021)

Here and Beyond, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2020)

In The Round, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2020)

Artworks by Poatina Artists, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2020)

Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Tas (2020)

Water, The Poatina Tree Gallery, Tas (2020)

Those Creative Liardets, Port Melbourne Town Hall Gallery, Vic (2019)

Collective Chemistry, Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2019)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2019, 2 works selected)

Glover Prize, Tas (2019)

Mission to Seafarers Art Prize, Docklands, Vic (2018)

A New Season, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2018)

UTAS First Years Art Exhibition, Launceston, (2018)

Powerhouse Art Prize, UTAS, Inveresk, Tas (2018)

Praxis, Worldview Centre for International Studies, Tas (2017)

Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2017)

Powerhouse Art Prize, Tas (2017)

Worldview Creative Arts Competition, Launceston, Tas, (2017), honourable mention

Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2016)

Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tas, (2016)

REVIVE, Sustainable Art Tasmania, QVMAG, Inveresk, Tas (2016

Executed in Franklin Street, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall (2016) (invited artist)

Emerge (Albert Hall, Launceston, Tas 2014)

Emerge, Interactive Installation, City Park, Launceston, Tas (2014)

Heart Beat, M16, Canberra (2013)

Something about Canberra, M16, Canberra (2013)

Ten, Watson Gallery, Canberra (2012)

The Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney (2012)

Art of Resistance, Annandale Arts Centre, Sydney (2012)

Create to Advocate, Parliament House, Canberra, (2008), (Honourable Mention)

Riverstone Art Exhibition, Belgrave Heights, Vic (2011)

 

Selected Arts Training

Bachelor of Fine Arts, UTAS, (Launceston, Tasmania), Current

Idris Murphy and Ross Lawrie workshop, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby, NSW, (2019)

Nick Collison painting workshop, Jarvis Bay, NSW, (2018)

Field trip with Idris Murphy and Ross Laurie (Fowler’s Gap, NSW), (2017) 

Bronze Sculpture, Strathnairne, Canberra, (2013)

Advanced Life Drawing, Life Drawing, Painting, ANU, ACT, 1990s

Batik Painting, Pia Pia Gallery, Nairobi Kenya, 1975