G.W. Bot
1954Born Pakistan
1955Arrived in Australia

Solo Exhibitions

2011'Glyphs', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2010‘G.W. Bot: The long paddock: a 30 year survey’, Touring exhibition to 2013: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW; Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney; Margaret Carnegie Art Gallery, NSW; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Tamworth Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Artspace Mackay, QLD; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW)
'A morphology of glyphs', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2009'Fire Glyphs and Spirits', Artspace, Mackay
'Field of Glyphs', Hart Gallery, London, UK
2008'Paddock Glyphs ', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Paddock Glyphs', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2007'Glyphs’, Hart Gallery, London, UK
‘G.W. Bot - Glyphs, works on paperand sculptures’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
‘Glyphs’, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2005'Paths of being’, Chapman Gallery, Sydney
'Certainties and Uncertainties', Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
‘Figure in landcape’, Maunsell Wicks at Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
'Paths of being', Chapman Gallery, Canberra
‘Morphic fields and gardens’, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2004'Earth and Sky’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
'An island of life’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
2003‘The Garden of Possibilities’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
‘Gardens’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
2002‘Suburban Gardens: arrivals and journeys’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘The Body in Question’, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2001‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’, Hart Gallery, London, UK
‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2000‘Mystic Language’, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
‘Bundanon Series’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘Recent Relief Prints’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
‘Ancestral Landscapes’, Port Jackson Fine Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
1999‘Enclosures’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
‘Semiotics of the Australian Wilderness’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
‘Works on Paper’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘The Australian Wilderness and Garden: Language, calligraphy and semiotics’, Hart Gallery, London, UK
1998‘Paper Garden’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1997‘The Lady and the Unicorn’, Hart Gallery, London, UK
‘Journeys of a Poet’, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
‘Sacred Gardens: drypoint and relief prints’, Hart Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1996‘The Lady and the Unicorn’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1995‘Journeys’, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
‘Journeys’, Australian Centre, Manila, Philippines
1994‘Journeys’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1993‘Crucifixion’, Criterion Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
1992‘Crucifixion’, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo, NSW
‘An Enclosed Space’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gallery3, Canberra
2005_'An Australian Symphony', 5 + 5 Gallery, New York, USA 2005_‘Morphic Fields’, Hart Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2011'Nature of the Mark' An Exhibition Curated by Deborah Williams, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'Mixed Exhibition', Hart Gallery, London, UK
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
'Summer Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Summer Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Art Loan Collection 2009/10’, Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
'Royal Academy Summer Exhibition', London, United Kingdom
‘Joseph Banks: a regional response’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
‘Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, G.W Bot’, Arts d’Australie, Paris, France
'8éme Mondial de l’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale, Triennale de Chamaliéres,
2009'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
Silk Cut Award 2009, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘Surfacing’, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
‘Stories of our making’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
‘Stories of our making’, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
‘1: 100,000 Mapping the island’, IXL Atrium, Hobart
The International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland
‘Art London’, Chelsea, UK
2008'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Smith Street, Melbourne
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
‘Recent acquisitions’ Prints and Drawings Gallery, British Museum, London, UK
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
Silkcut Award, Glen Eira City Council, Melbourne
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA
‘Retroactive’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
‘The other thing – a survey show’, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
2007'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
‘(Devilbend) 2007’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
CPM National Print Awards (Winner), Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
‘The story of Australian Printmaking; 1801-2005’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
‘Small Pleasures’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Royal Academy’, Summer Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Site and soul III’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
‘Guanlan International Print Biennal’, Shenzhen, China
Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artist’s Book Award, Lismore, NSW
Lessons in History, Vol. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
Prints from the Studio of Hugh Stoneman, Stoneman Graphics Gallery, Penzance, UK
Hart Gallery Collection, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, UK
Artists books and multiples fair Brisbane, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
‘Prints’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Gifted’, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin
Monalto Sculpture Prize, Monalto Vineyard & Olive Grove, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
2006'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Glyphs', Australian Galleries, Sydney
'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Silk Cut Award 2006, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Being at Bundanon’, curated by Niki Mortimer, Touring: Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW; Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, VIC; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW; Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney; Albury Regional Gallery, NSW
R & M McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize, Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios, Sydney
‘Footprints on the lake’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
‘Multiplicity: Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland
‘Kedumba Drawing Award 2006’, Wentworth Falls, NSW
'Studio One Print Collection', Touring: Narra City Gallery, Japan; Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
‘International Graphic Triennial’, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
Cadaques Mini Print Exhibition, Spain
Acquisitive Award, University of Western Sydney, Permanent Art Collection, Sydney
2005‘Contemporary Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘33’, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
‘Dobell Prize for Drawing’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Site and soul II’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
‘Sculpture 2005’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
’25 x 25’, Celebrating 25 years of Printmaking 1980 – 2005, Megalo Access Arts, Canberra
‘Art Alumina Ltd Award’, Comalco Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Brisbane
‘Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Works on Paper 2005’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘Fireworks: Tracing the incendiary Australian Art’, Touring: Artspace Mackay, QLD; Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, QLD; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
‘National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005’, Finalist, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004‘Surface tension’, New York Society of Etchers, New York, United States of America and national tour, Australia
‘Sculpture 2004’ Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘Contemporary Australian Prints from the collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Sacred Ground: Spirituality and the land in Australia’, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra
‘Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘33rd Alice Prize’, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
‘Bendigo Bank Art Prize’, Brisbane
‘Silk Cut Award 2004’, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘Contemporary Prints and Drawings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘The International Print Triennial’, Touring Municipal Museum in Lowicz, Poland; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland; ‘Profile’, Poznan, Poland; Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenberg, Germany
‘Le tapis Volant, Flying carpet’, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville du Locle, Switzerland
2003‘By George’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘Sulman Prize’ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Sydney Art on Paper Fair’, The 9th Biennial Art Fair, Sydney
‘The International Print Triennial', Touring Krakow Poland; Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow; Palace of Art TPSP, Krakow, Poland; Contemporary Art Gerry, Opole, Poland
2002‘Royal Academy’, Summer Exhibition, London, UK
‘Shakehands’, Neusiedl am See, Austria
‘Shakehands’, Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna, Austria
‘Shades of Pink’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
‘Shakehands’, Halbturn, Austria
‘Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘2002 Silk Cut Award 2002, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
‘Print Australia’, North-West Print Council, USA
‘Miniare Biennale Internationale d’estampes Miniatures de Montréal, Montrial, Canada
2001‘Island Postcards’, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart
‘3rd International Ex-Libris Exhibition’, Rijeka, Croatia
2000‘Weerewa Woodcuts One’, Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, Bungendore, NSW
‘Looking at a Different Aspect of Parliament House’, Parliament House, Canberra
‘The Art on Paper Fair’, Royal College of Art, London, UK
‘5th Sapporo International Print Biennale’, Japan
‘10th Gielniak Graphic Competition’, Poland
‘Six Australian Artists’, Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
‘5th Triennale Moniale d’estampes petits formats Chamalières’, France
‘20th Mini Print International of Cadaqués,Cadaqués, Spain
‘The 4th International Triennial of Graphics and Posters’, Kharkiv, Ukraine
‘Gold Coast City Art Gallery Art Prize’, Surfers Paradise, QLD
‘Silk Cut Award’, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
1999‘Suddenly the Lake’, Canberra Museum and Gallery
‘Premio Internazionale Biella per L’incisione’, Italy
‘Second Skin’, RMIT University, Melbourne
‘The Present Spirit’, Helen Maxwell Gallery/ Burgmann College, Australian National University, Canberra
‘We Are Australian’, The George Adam Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne and national tour
1998‘Gone to the Dogs’, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
‘1998 Tyree-Tycan Art Prize’, Bowral, NSW
‘Thirty Years of Korean Contemporary Prints: A decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking’, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
‘Dogs’ Breakfast’, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
‘Picture Disk Exhibition’, Illawarra Institute of Technology’, Goulburn, NSW
‘Silk Cut Linoprint Collection’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
‘Atelier Point et Marge’, Paris, France
Tyree-Tycan Print Prize, Bowral, NSW
‘1998 Silk Cut Award 1998’, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
'Artists’ Books and Multiples Fair,' School of Arts, Brisbane
‘Recto Verso’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Coulburn, NSW and Canberra School of Art, Canberra
‘Joyce and the Nymph’, Couch House, Sydney
‘International Biennial of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
‘Landscape’, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘29th Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs, NT
Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award (Winner), Illawarra, NSW
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
1997‘Xylon 13: International triennial of artistic relief printing’, Switzerland
‘International Print Exhibition’, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
‘International Print Triennial 1997’, Krakow, Poland
‘The 2nd International Print Triennial Colour in Graphic Art’, Toruń, Poland
‘Osaka Triennale 1997’, Japan
‘Artists’ Books’, Criterion Fine Art Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
‘V International Triennial Sztuki’, Majdank, Poland
‘Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award’, Warrnambool, VIC
‘The 3rd International Triennial of Graphics and Posters’, Kharkiv, Ukraine
‘CPM Print Award’, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
19966th National Print Award’, Tweed River Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
Silk Cut Award’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
‘Works on Paper’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘University of Western Sydney National Print Media Exhibition’, Casula
Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
‘Premio Internazionale Biella per L’incisione’, Italy
‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’ Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
‘Xylon 13’, Winterthur, Switzerland
th 45th Blake Prize, Baxland Gallery, Sydney
Acquisitive Award, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
‘Artists’ Books and Multiples Fair ‘96’, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
1995‘ANU Staff Amenities Fund Exhibition’, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
‘A Changing Landscape’, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Canberra
‘Western Australia Print Exchange Exhibition’, Studio One, Canberra
‘Lake Isle’, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW and national tour
‘AMCOR Paper Awards’, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Cultural Centre, Melbourne and national tour
‘Borderlines’, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
‘Second Canberra Art Fair’, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
‘Print Triennial ’94 Consumenta ‘95’, Nuremberg, Germany
Berrima District Art Society, Print Section (Commended), Bowral, NSW
1994‘Open Art’, Berrima District Art Society, Bowral, NSW
‘International Exhibition of Graphic Art’, Kharkiv, Ukraine
‘Winter Solstice’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘Print Show’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘International Print Triennial’, MTG 1994, Krakow, Poland
‘Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award’, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW
‘The Print, the Press, the Artists and the Printer’, Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
‘Outback Print Prize’, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW
‘Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
‘Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition’, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington, VIC
‘Contemporary Australian Printmakers’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1993‘42nd Blake Prize’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
‘Best of the 1992 Blake Prize’, Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
‘Ten Years of Acquisitions: ANU Collection’, Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
‘Saints and Sacred Places’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
‘Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
‘The Tree of Life’, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
‘First Canberra Art Fair’, Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1992‘Third International Women’s Day Exhibition’, Melbourne
‘Between the Covers’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
‘Raft Press Book Project’, National Library of Australia, Canberra
‘Addressing the Chair’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
‘Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
1991‘Hard Pressed’, Jan Taylor Gallery, Sydney
‘Familiar Territory’, Canberra Festival, CAFC
‘Berrima District Art Society Print Award’, Berrima, NSW
‘Common Threads/A Fine Line’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
‘Quasions Mornington Gallery’, Mornington, VIC
‘Art for Life’, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
‘Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
‘A Tribute to Ronaldo Cameron’, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
‘Canberra Souvenir’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
‘Social Images’, Gorman House, Canberra
1990‘Fragments and Foundations’, aGOG Gallery, Canberra
‘Contemporary Art’, Jan Jones Gallery, Bowral, NSW
‘Focus on the Landscape’, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
‘Social Images’, Gorman House, Canberra
‘Calvary Hospital Art Show’, Canberra
‘Artist Made’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
‘Familiar Territory’, Canberra Festival, Canberra
‘Sun, Smoke and Steel’, Studio One National Touring Exhibition, Australia
1989‘Wild Art’, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
‘Edition 89’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1988‘Woden Library’, Canberra
‘10:1 Print Project’, National Touring Exhibition
1987The 36th Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1986Kingston Art Space, Canberra
2007_‘Marks and Motifs: Prints from the PCA Collection’,Touring: QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Artspace Mackay, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD 2007_‘From here to eternity: Contemporary tapestries from the Victiorian Tapestry Workshop', National Touring Exhibition, Australia
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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AMCOR Paper Awards, Wespac Gallery, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 20-25 Arty Facts, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, January 1989
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Barron, Sonia; “Private Garden is Pure Visual Poetry”, Canberra Times, 7 July 2003
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Cinkul, Ljiljana; “Contemporary Graphic Art of the Far East and Australia”, Graficki kolektic, Belgrade, 1999
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Artist’s publications
A Black Book, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
A Red Book, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
Brolga: An Australian Journal About Dance, No 1, December 1994, cover design
Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush, vol 3, Raft Press, Canberra 1991
Journeys, March 1995
Joyce, R. (ed.); Social Images 1891-1991, Goanna Print, Canberra 1991, cover design
Mysteries, BB Press, Canberra 1997
Nugent, A. & Tully, B (ed.); Blast, no 15, 1991
Offerings, Finlay Press and BB Press, Yabber Yabber Publications, Goulburn 1997
The Field of Life, Goanna Print, Canberra 1992
The Spartans, text by L.F. Fitzhardinge, illustrations G.W. Bot, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980
To Walk Across a Field, Raft Press, Canberra 1992


Collections

Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Artbank, Sydney
Art and Craft Teachers Association of Victoria, Melbourne 
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Perth
Artspace, Mackay, QLD
Australian International School, Hong Kong
Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra
Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
Brisbane Grammar Art Collection, Brisbane
British Museum, London, United Kingdom
British Library, London, United Kingdom
Bundanon Collection, West Cambewarra, NSW
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS
Camberwell Grammar Art Collection, Melbourne
Canberra School of Art, Art Collection, Canberra 
Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne 
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Centre for the Artist Book Collection, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
City of Banyule, Melbourne
Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne
Downlands College Art Collection, Queensland
Falmouth Gallery, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Fogg Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States of America
Geelong Grammar Art Collection, Geelong, VIC
Genazzano College Art Collection, Melbourne
Gippsland Centre for Art and Technology, Gippsland, VIC
Gippsland Regional Gallery, Gippsland, VIC
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gladstone, QLD
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW
Hailebury College, Melbourne
Hamilton Art Gallery, Melbourne
James Hardie Collection of Australian Fine Art, Brisbane
John Curtin Gallery, Perth
Kedumba Art Collection, Blue Mountains Grammar School, Katoomba, NSW
Kharkiv Art Gallery, Ukraine
Kooweerup Secondary College, Victoria
Lublin Museum, Poland
Macquarie Bank Corporate Art Collection, Sydney
Magnani Papers Australia, Melbourne
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC
Mitchell Library, Sydney
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Collection, Mornington, VIC
Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Art Collection, Melbourne
Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW
Presbyterian Ladies College Art Collection, Sydney
Print Council of Australia, Inc, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 
Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane
Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Ronaldo Cameron Collection, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
Silk Cut Foundation Collection, Melbourne
South Queensland Institute of TAFE, QLD
St Ursula’s College, Toowoomba, Toowoomba, QLD
St Peter’s College, Brisbane
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Sunraysia Institute of Tafe, Mildura, VIC
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
University of Canberra Art Collection, Canberra 
University of Technology of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
University of Western Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
University of Wollongong Art Collection, Wollongong, NSW
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Westminster School, Adelaide
Private Collections in Australia, Europe, Asia and the United States of America

Commissions

INCLUDES AWARDS

2010                Calvary Hospital, Canberra (‘Tree of life’)
2009                Tweed River Art Gallery’s Anniversary Print Collection Exhibition, Murwillumbah, NSW
2008                ‘La Gravure Originale’, Commissioned Member Print, Paris
                       ‘The Lake’, sculptural installation, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
2007                Tweed Shire council award (Acquisitive), CPM National Print Awards, Tweed Shire, NSW
                       Print Council of Australia Commissioned Member Print, Melbourne
2006                National Critics Selection: ‘50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector’, Canberra
                       Artist in Residence, Sculpture Workshop, ANU School of Art, Canberra
2005                National Critics selection: ‘50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector’
                       Alumina Ltd. Award, section 2, works on paper, Comalco Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards,           Gladstone, QLD (judged by Tony Elwood, Dep. Dir. NGV)
2004                Print Council of Australia Commissioned Member Print, Melbourne 
                       The Canberra Times Artist of the Year, Canberra 
                       Silk Cut Award, Acquisition, Melbourne
2003                Artist in Residence, University of Wollongong, NSW
2001                Residency Kultervereingung Nördliches Burgenland, Neusidl Am See, Austria
2000                CAPO Fellow
                       Silk Cut Award, Acquisition
                       Mini Print International, Cadaqués, Spain, Acquisition
1999                ACT Cultural Council Development Grant, Canberra
                       Artist-in-residence, Arthur Boyd’s Gift to the Nation, Bundanon, NSW
                       Print Council of Australia Member’s Print Commission, Victoria 
1998                National Gallery of Australia ‘New Worlds from Old’ commissioned portfolio
                       Studio One, Canberra (Awarded)
                       1998 Tyree-Tycan Print Prize, Bowral, NSW (judged by Hendrik Kolenberg, curator of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, AGNSW) 
                       Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award, Illawara, NSW (Awarded)
                       29th Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs, Acquisition (judged by Alan Dodge, Dir. Art Gallery of Western Australian)
1997                Three commissioned drypoints, Hugh Stone Graphics, Cornwall/Hart Gallery, London
1996                Artist-in-residence, Arthur Boyd’s Gift to the Nation, Bundanon, Nowra, NSW
                       Acquisitive Award, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumah, NSW
                       Acquisitive Award, University of Western Sydney, Permanent Art Collection, Sydney
                       ACT Cultural Council Development Grant, Canberra
                       Print Council of Australia Member’s Print Commission, Melbourne
1995                ACT Cultural Council Development Grant, Canberra
                       Environmental Artists in Schools Scheme, Australia
1994                Berrima District Art Society, Print Section, Commended, Berrima
                       Canberra Critics Awards, Visual Arts
                       CAPO Grant, Canberra
                       Zaokhochuval’na Prize, 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art and Posters, 4th Block, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1992                CAPO Grant, Canberra
                       Canberra Critics Award, Visual Arts, Canberra