| |  | 1964 | Born Melbourne, Victoria | | | | | 1984-86 | Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Printmaking, Chisolm Institute of Technology, Melbourne | | 1987-89 | Printing Assistant at Bill Young Studios, Editioning intaglio prints, King Valley, VIC | | 1988 | Full-time Studio Technician at Printmaking Department, Chisholm Institute of Technology | | 1989-90 | Graduate Diploma (Fine Art), Printmaking, Monash University, Melbourne | | 1991 | Travelled to England, France, Spain and United States (Winsor & Newton International Travelling Bursary, National Students Art Prize) | | 1991 | Worked in private studios in Gaucin, Spain and New York, USA | | 1994-95 | master of Fine Arts, Monash University, Melbourne | | 1995 | Guest Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts | | 1995 | Travelled to Europe and America | | 1996 | Guest Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne | | 1990-98 | Sessional Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne | | 1998 | Travelled to America and Mexico | | 2001-05 | Sessional Lecturer, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | | 2003-06 | Printmaking Workshops, Warrnambool TAFE, Warrnambool, VIC | | 2004 | Travelled to Europe, Mexico and Cuba | | 2005 | Lecturer, Institution of Koorie Education, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC | | 2005 | Lecturer, National Art School (Summer School), Sydney | | 2005 | Sessional Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2009 | 'Anno Domino, Antarctica and The Anatomy Lesson', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | The Art Vault , Mildura, VIC
| | 2008 | MV Orlova (Quark Expeditions), The Drake Passage, Antarctica
| | 2007 | 'Herd', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘Herd’, BMGArt, Adelaide
| | 2006 | 'Herd', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2004 | ‘Recent work’, BMGArt, Adelaide
| | 2003 | ‘The Rapunzel Suite and Other New Works’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | ‘Recent Works’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
| | ‘Recent works’, Cowwarr Art Space, Cowwarr, VIC
| | 2002 | ‘The Rapunzel Suite’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘Strange Games’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 1999 | ‘A Dark City Narrative’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | A Dark City Narrative’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 1998 | Cullity Gallery, School of Architecture and Fine Art, University of Western Australia, Perth
| | 1997 | Delaney Gallery, Perth
| | Chapman Gallery, Canberra
| | BMGArt, Adelaide
| | ‘Menagerie’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Menagerie’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1995 | ‘Paintings, Prints and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Prints, Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1994 | Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
| | Graham Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
| | ‘Wishful Thinking, Prints and Sculptures’, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
| | 1992 | ‘Prints, Sculptures and Watercolours’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
| | 1990 | ‘Watercolours, Prints and Small Bronzes’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Paintings, Prints and Sculptures’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
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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
| | Rick Amor Print Prize, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
| | ‘Sculpture by the sea’, Aarhus, Denmark
| | ‘Artwork to Tapestry’, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC
| | Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, TAS
| | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Summer show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
| | ‘Summer stock show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne
| | ‘Sub10’, Substation, Melbourne
| | ‘McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2010’, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, VIC
| | Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove, Red Hill South, VIC
| | 2009 | 'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Lorne Sculpture’ (Winner), Lorne, VIC
| | 2008 | 'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Smith Street, Melbourne
| | 2007 | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ARC Biennial (Art, Design and Craft), Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
| | ‘Prints Tokyo: International Print Exhibition’, Tokyo, Japan
| | Seoul International Print, Photo and Edition Works Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
| | Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China
| | ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
| | ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘Antipodean Bestiary’, Project Space / Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne
| | Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove, Red Hill South, VIC
| | McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2007, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, VIC
| | ‘2007: Works from the studio’, Lancaster Press, Melbourne
| | ‘50 - a print exchange portfolio’, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | 2006 | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Partnership or perish’, Academy of the Arts, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
| | Libris Awards, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, QLD
| | ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘Bookish’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | Melbourne Art Fair, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | 2005 | ‘End of Year Group Exhibition’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Contemporary Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘Expansion’, Lancaster Press, Melbourne
| | ‘The Art of Collaboration’, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
| | ‘Double take’, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
| | ‘Small Treasures - 20 emerging and established artists’, TILT Contemporary Art, Melbourne
| | Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize, Fox Studios and State Library of NSW, Sydney
| | ‘Tales of the City’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
| | ‘A Decade of Collecting 1995-2005’, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, QLD
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | ‘Surface Tension: 21 Contemporary Australian Printmakers’, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS
| | ‘Neo-millenium’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
| | 2004 | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | ‘Group Exhibition’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
| | ‘Species’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | ‘In the presence of creatures great and small’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | ‘Tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Prints’, National Arts Club, New York, USA
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Prints’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Bridge’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Vivid’, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
| | Lake Gallery, Paynesville, VIC
| | 2003 | ‘Paper matters’, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | ‘Less is more’, BMGArt, Adelaide
| | ‘The ink’s on me: Bill Young master printmaker’, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta, VIC
| | ‘Fantastic and Visionary Art’, Touring: Global Arts Link, QLD; Ipswich Regional Gallery, QLD ; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW; Manning Regional Gallery, NSW; Parramatta Heritage Centre, Sydney; Ballarat Regional Gallery, VIC
| | 2002 | Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | 2001 | Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | ‘Six Degrees of Collaboration’, RMIT Faculty of Art, Design and Communication Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Reciprocal Moves’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
| | International Print Triennial, Kanagawa, Japan
| | ‘Fantastic Art’, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
| | ‘Dancing Made a Man out of Me’, The Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland, VIC
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | ‘Celebration’, Regional touring exhibition, VIC
| | 2000 | ‘Workings of the Mind: Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s’, Touring: Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Nolan Gallery, Canberra; Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC; PercTucker Regional Gallery, QLD
| | Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | The Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | 1999 | Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Space, Fremantle, WA
| | ‘We are Australian’, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
| | Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
| | ‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington, VIC
| | ‘Artists for Kids Culture’, Brightspace, Melbourne
| | ‘Pleasure’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1998 | ‘Australian Prints’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1997 | ‘KNOCK, KNOCK’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Woven Colour, The Art of Tapestry’, Dr Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
| | 1996 | M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington, VIC
| | Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta, India
| | ‘Synergy’, Touring: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli, India; Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Bombay, India; Birla, India
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Tapestry’, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Australia House, London, UK
| | 1995 | ‘Interweave - Tapestry A Collaborative Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | ‘Contemporary Printmakers’, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, VIC
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Tapestry’, Australian High Commission, Singapore
| | ‘Circus Capers’, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
| | 1994 | M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington, VIC
| | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | Australian Universities of Visual Art, Australian High Commission, Singapore
| | ‘Prints, Paintings and Sculpture’, BMGArt, Adelaide
| | Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
| | 1993 | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | 1992 | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | ‘Transitional Times’, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
| | ‘Second Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints’, Japan
| | 1991 | Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
| | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | ‘Table Top Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Art 91’, London Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK
| | 1990 | M.P.A.C. Print Prize, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington, VIC
| | Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
| | ‘The Christmas Show’, Intaglio Printmaker, London, UK
| | ‘Australian Contemporary Art’, AZ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1989 | National Student Art Prize, Mitchell College, Bathurst, NSW
| | Fremantle Print Award Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | City of Doncaster Acquisitive Print Prize, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Affiliations’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1988 | M.P.A.C. Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington, VIC
| | Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
| | 1987 | ‘The Comedy Show’, Print Guild, Melbourne
| | ‘Fluxus Art Flow’, Melbourne
| | 2009_‘Artists’ ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art 2009_Gallery Collection, 1970-2001’, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, VIC
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A Dark City Narrative, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1999 ARC Biennial Exhibition (Exhibition catalogue), Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 2007, pp. 78-79
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Havighurst, Sophie (Illustrations by Geoffrey Ricardo); When Lester lost his cool, The University of Melbourne, 2007
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Lawrence, Michel; Framed; photographs of Australian Artists, 1998
Modern Australian Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 2000
The Rapunzel Suite, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2002
Wallace, Dr Carmel (Essay); Surface Tension, Twenty One Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Gallery 101, Melbourne, 2004
Workings of the Mind : Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, 2000 Awards| 2009 | 'Lorne Sculpture' (Winner), Lorne, VIC | | 1989 | Windsor and Newton International Travelling Bursary, UK | | | Linbrook International First Prize for Printmaking, Australia |
CollectionsArtbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Australia
City of Box Hill, Melbourne
City of Whitehorse, Melbourne
Downlands College, Toowoomba, QLD
Geelong Grammar School, Geelong, VIC
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD
Helensvale High School, Brisbane
Holmes A’Court Collection, Perth
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, VIC
Monash University, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Council Collection, Mornington, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Print Council of Australia. Melbourne
Private collections in Australia, Switzerland, USA, UK, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Holland
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Shire of Diamond Valley, Diamond Valley, Victoria
Star of the Sea College, Melbourne
The Melbourne Club, Melbourne
University of Central Queensland, Brisbane
University of Technology, Sydney
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Commissions| 1993 | Tapestry design for the Festival of Perth Official Poster (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne), Perth | | 1994 | Tapestry design ‘Elephant Gingham’ (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne), Australia | | 1995 | 'A Night of infectious Laughter' Poster St.Kilda Festival, Melbourne | | 1999 | Tapestry design, ‘Emblem’ (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne) | | 2005 | Tapestry design for Bairnsdale Hospital (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne), Australia, Bairnsdale, VIC |
Special NotesResidencies
| 2011 | Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival Project, Mildura, VIC | | | Residency - The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC | | 2010 | 'Wish', Collaboration set design for Pocketfool, Artplay, Melbourne |
| The Art Vault (included continuous public flag making workshops which were flown as part of The Wentworth Mildura Art Festival), Mildura, VIC | | 2009 | The Art Vault (included two public printmaking workshops), Mildura, VIC | | 2008 | Artist in residence, MV Orlova, Quark Expeditions, Antarctica | | 2003 | Residency – Bairnsdale Regional Health Service, Bairnsdale | | 1998 | Residency – School of Architecture & Fine Art, University of Western Australia, Perth | | 1997 | Residency – La Salle/Fia, College of the Arts, Singapore | | 1996 | Artist-in-residence, Victorian Tapestry Workshop | | 1993 | Reduction Aquatint Workshop & Residency, Graphic Investigation Department, Canberra School of Art, Canberra | | NOTE: | all residencies have included workshops involving students, children or the general public |
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