| |  | 1967 | Born Melbourne, Australia | | 1987-89 | Bachelor of Arts (Printmaking), Victoria College, Prahran | | 1991 | Diploma of Education, Hawthorn Institute of Education (University of Melbourne) | | 1994 | Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Fine Art, RMIT | | 1995-00 | Technical Officer, Victorian College of the Arts | | 1997-00 | Print Council of Australia Committee Member & Treasurer | | 1996, 99, 00 | Technician, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy | | 1998-00 | Sessional Printmaking Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Studies in Creative Arts | | 2001-02, 04 | Sessional Teacher, Box Hill Institute of Tafe, Arts & Technology | | 2001-present | Technical Officer, School of Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne | | 2001-present | Sessional Printmaking Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne | | 2002 | Relief Teacher, VCE Studio Arts Units 1, 2, 3, & 4, Media Unit 1&2 Box Hill Institute | | 2003-04 | RMIT Summer Printmakers Residency, Victoria | | 2004 | Relief Printmaking Workshop (volunteer), Bali International School, Indonesia
| | | Printmaking teacher Winja Ulapna Aboriginal Art Program, teaching Aboriginal women on Drug & Alcohol Recovery, Victoria | | Current | Masters by Research, National Art School, Sydney |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2009 | 'Significant Others: Reflecting on a Relationship', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2008 | Preview followed by Melbourne Art Fair, Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2007 | 'If you can't bite, don't show your teeth', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | 'If you can't bite, don't show your teeth', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | 'Unleashed', Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane
| | 2004 | ‘Yesterday I was a dog. Today I am a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog.’ Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 2002 | ‘Recent works’, Red Gallery, Victoria
| | 2000 | ‘Drag Racing’, Firestation Print Studio Inc., Victoria
| | 1999 | ‘Penthouse Pets’, West Space, Vic
| | 1993 | ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Victoria | | ‘Down Faced Dog’, cityartpublicspace, Transport shelter, Victoria
| | ‘Recent works’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
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Group Exhibitions | | | 2008 | ‘Who let the dogs out’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
| | ‘Wish you were here’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah South, NSW
| | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘50 - a print exchange portfolio’, Geelong Gallery
| | ‘Under the Southern Cross’, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
| | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Beasties', a print portfolio exchange, Port Jackson
| | Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, (Finalist)
| | City of Hobart Art Prize, (Finalist)
| | ‘So cold it was a two dog night’, Colville Street Art Gallery, Battery Point, Tasmania
| | 2005 | ‘We are all Animals’, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre Gallery, Bendigo
| | 'Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘33’, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
| | ‘Bestiary’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize’, (finalist), Fox Studios and State Library of NSW, Sydney
| | 2004 | ‘Species’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘The Hutchins Art Prize’, Tasmania
| | ‘23, a print exchange’, Port Jackson Press, Victoria; Phyliss Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Victoria
| | ‘MPRG Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Albury Art Prize’, Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
| | The Grant Gallery, Sanur, Bali, INDONESIA
| | ‘Pelt’, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
| | ‘In the Presence of All Creatures, Great and Small’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Expose’, Dante’s Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Salon 2003, Sleeps with Angels, Sex & Death’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Geelong Print Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper’, MPRG, Victoria
| | ‘Group show’, Red Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Darebin -La Trobe Acquisitive Award’, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre Victoria
| | ‘International Print & Drawing Exhibition’, Silpakorn University, Thailand
| | ‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
| | ‘Works on Paper Art Award’, City of Banyule, Victoria
| | ‘Melbourne Grammar Art Exhibition’, Motorworks, Victoria
| | 2002 | ‘A Melbourne Summer’, Urban Art Tram Shelters, Victoria
| | ‘Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper’, MPRG, Victoria
| | ‘Majority Rules! (Part 1)’, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
| | ‘2002 Silk Cut Award’, Glen Eira Arts Centre, Victoria
| | ‘2002 Hutchins Art Prize’, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania
| | ‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
| | ‘Asylum’, Dante’s Gallery, Victoria
| | 2001 | ‘New Q’, Counihan Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Minutia’, Australian Print Workshop, Victoria
| | ‘All the Rage’, Keith Murdoch Gallery, State Library of Victoria
| | ‘A4 Art’, West Space, Victoria
| | ‘2001 Hutchins Art Prize’, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania
| | ‘Something for the Ladies…’ Penthouse & Pavement art space, Victoria
| | 2000 | ‘New Q 2000’, Linden Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Postcard Show 2000’, Linden Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘2000 Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Acquisitive Award’, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Proof Positive’, Gold Treasury Museum, Victoria
| | ‘Play Thing’, Span Galleries, Victoria (A Next Wave Festival event)
| | ‘The Korea Australia Exchange Exhibition’, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Victoria
| | ‘The 2000 Hutchins Art Prize’, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania
| | ‘All creatures great and small’, Gold Treasury Museum, Victoria
| | ‘A4 Art’, West Space, Victoria
| | 1999 | ‘Play Thing’, Craft Victoria
| | ‘Rene Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Impressions’, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
| | ‘AGITATE! a celebration of street art’, Platform 2 Flinders Street Station & Lower Swanston Town Hall, Victoria
| | ‘Williamstown Acquisitive Art Prize’, Victoria
| | ‘Geelong Print Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
| | ‘SWAP’, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘The Cask, An Aussie Icon’, Umbrella Gallery, Townsville; University of Southern
| | Queensland, Toowoomba; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria
| | 1998 | ‘Decalog – A Catalogue of Ten Years of Australian Printmaking’, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
| | ‘The Cask, An Aussie Icon’, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
| | ‘A Dog’s Breakfast’, Myer, Melbourne, Victoria
| | ‘Geelong Print Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
| | ‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia
| | 1997 | ‘International Print Exhibition’, Portland Museum, Oregon, USA
| | ‘The Embellished Egg’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Animal Exhibition’, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
| | ‘Australian Printmedia Awards’, UWS Macarthur, New South Wales
| | 1996 | ‘21st Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
| | ‘Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition’, MPRG, Victoria
| | 1995 | ‘Print Council of Australia 1995 Member Prints’, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney,New South Wales,
| | Noreen Graham Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland, Print Council of Australia, Victoria.
| | ‘Transfer’, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | 1994 | ‘Canson Student Print Award’, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Queensland; College of Fine Art Gallery, New South Wales; Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘RMIT Graduate Printmakers Exhibition’, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria
| | ‘Watch This Space’, Platform Exhibition Space, Spencer Street, Melbourne, Victoria
| | ‘19th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
| | ‘International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola’, Republic of Macedonia
| | ‘Erotica Group Show’, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘Eureka Group Show’, Engramme, Quebec
| | 1993 | ‘Christmas Show’, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘Partners in Print’, Melbourne Sydney Print Exchange, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | 1992 | ‘Christmas Show’, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | ‘Partners in Print’, Melbourne, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | 1990 | ‘St Kilda Festival Exhibition’, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
| | ‘Fringe Festival Exhibition’, Fringe Studios, Fitzroy, Victoria
| | 1989 | ‘Victorian Tertiary Students Inter Campus Arts Festival’, RMIT Gallery, Victoria | | Press, Melbourne
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Clarke, Peter and Haultain, Lynne; 774 ABC Melbourne, 18 February 2004
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Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Print Workshop, Victoria
Belfast Print Workshop, Ireland
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Chiangmai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand
City of Banyule, Victoria
City of Whitehorse, Victoria
Edinburgh Print Workshop, Scotland
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Glasgow Print Workshop, Scotland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Latrobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
London Print Workshop, UK
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
Print Council of Australia, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Silk Cut Collection, Australia
Tasmanian Museum Art Gallery
The Chicago Print Collective Workshop, USA
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland
University of Papua New Guinea
University of Southern Queensland, Queensland
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Yayasan Yudisthira Collection, Bali
CollectionsArt Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Print Workshop, Victoria
Belfast Print Workshop, Ireland
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
Chiangmai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand
City of Banyule, Victoria
City of Whitehorse, Victoria
Edinburgh Print Workshop, Scotland
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Glasgow Print Workshop, Scotland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Latrobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
London Print Workshop, UK
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
Print Council of Australia, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Silk Cut Collection, Australia
Tasmanian Museum Art Gallery
The Chicago Print Collective Workshop, USA
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland
University of Papua New Guinea
University of Southern Queensland, Queensland
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Yayasan Yudisthira Collection, Bali Commissions| 2003 | Acquired, ‘Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery Works on Paper’, Victoria | | 2002 | Acquired, ‘Silk Cut Award’, Victoria | | 2000 | Highly Commended, ‘New Q 2000’, Victoria | | 1999 | Acquired, ‘Rene Ellen Print Award’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria | | 1997 | Acquired, ‘International Print Exhibition’, Portland Museum, Oregon, USA | | 1996 | Acquired, ‘Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery Works on Paper’, Victoria | | 1994 | Print Council of Australia, Member Print Commission | | 1988 | Highly Commended, ‘Powell Street Gallery Award’, Victoria College, Melbourne, Victoria |
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