| |  | 1964 | Born Melbourne, Victoria | | 1989-90 | Graduate Diploma (Fine Art), Printmaking, Monash University | | 1987-89 | Printing Assistant at Bill Young Studios, editioning intaglio prints | | 1988 | Full-time Studio Technician at Printmaking Department, Chisholm Institute of Technology | | 1984-86 | Bachelor of Art (Fine Art), Printmaking, Chisholm Institute of Technology | | 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 | | 1995 | Guest Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts | | 1995 | Travel to Europe and America | | 1996 | Guest Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | | 1990-98 | Sessional Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne | | 1998 | Travel to America and Mexico | | 2001-05 | Sessional Lecturer, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | | 2003-06 | Printmaking Workshops, Warrnambool Tafe | | 2004 | Travel to Europe, Mexico and Cuba | | 2005 | Lecturer, Institution of Koorie Education, Deakin University, Geelong | | 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 | | 2007 | 'Herd', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | MV Orlova (Quark Expeditions), The Drake Passage, Antarctica
| | 'Herd', BMG Art, Adelaide
| | 2006 | 'Herd', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2004 | 'Recent work', BMG Art, Adelaide
| | 2003 | 'The Rapunzel Suite and Other New Works?, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 'Recent works', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 'Recent works', Cowwarr Art Space, Cowwarr
| | 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, Sydney
| | 'A Dark City Narrative', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1998 | Cullity Gallery, School of Architecture and Fine Art, University
| | 1997 | Delaney Gallery, Perth
| | Chapman Gallery, Canberra
| | BMG Art, Adelaide
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1995 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1994 | University of W.A. of Western Australia
| | Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
| | 'Wishful Thinking', Prints and Sculptures, The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,
| | 1992 | 'Prints, sculptures and watercolours?, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
| | 1990 | 'Prints, paintings and sculptures?, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Montalto Sculpture Award Exhibition’ Red Hill, Victoria
| | 2009 | 'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Artists’ ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection, 1970-2001’, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, VIC
| | 2008 | 'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ARC Biennial (Art, Design and Craft), Queensland University of Technology Art Museum
| | Montalto Sculpture Prize, Red Hill South, Victoria
| | ‘Antipodean Bestiary’, Project Space / Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne
| | Seoul International Print, Photo and Edition Works Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
| | Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China
| | ‘Artists for Kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 'McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2007' finalist), McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
| | '2007: Works from the studio', Lancaster Press, Melbourne
| | '50 - a print exchange portfolio', Geelong Gallery
| | 2006 | 'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | Melbourne Art Fair, Australian Galleries
| | ‘Partnership or perish’, Acadamy of the Arts, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania
| | ‘Artists for Kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 2005 | 'Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
| | 'Small treasures - 20 emerging and established artists', TILT Contemporary Art, Melbourne
| | 'Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize (finalist), Fox Studios and State Library of NSW, Sydney
| | 'Tales of the city', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 'A decade of collecting 1995-2005', Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
| | 'Surface tension: 21 Contemporary Australian Printmakers', University of Tasmania, Launceston
| | 'Neo-millenium', Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Expansion’, Lancaster Press, Melbourne
| | ‘The Art of Collaboration’, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
| | ‘Artists for Kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 2004 | 'Artists for kids', Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 'Group exhibition', Australian Galleries, 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, Sydney
| | 'Contemporary Australian Prints', National Arts Club, New York;
| | '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, Victoria
| | 2003 | 'Paper matters', Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
| | 'Artists for kids', Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 'Less is more', BMG Art, Adelaide
| | 'The ink?s on me: Bill Young master printmaker?, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta
| | ?Fantastic and Visionary Art?, touring Global Arts Link/ Ipswich Regional Gallery; Orange Regional Gallery; Manning Regional Gallery; TBC Paramatta Heritage Centre; Ballarat Regional Gallery
| | 2002 | Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia Gallery
| | ?Artists for kids?, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne Gallery
| | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
| | ?Six Degrees of Collaboration?, RMIT Faculty of Art, Design and Communication Gallery, Melbourne
| | ?Reciprocal Moves?, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
| | ?International Print Triennial?, Kanagawa, Japan.
| | ?Fantastic Art?, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales
| | ?Dancing made a man out of me?, The Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Campus
| | ?Artists for kids?, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | ?Celebration?, Victorian regional touring exhibition
| | 2001 | ‘Artists for Kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 2000 | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
| | ?The Hutchins Art Prize?, Hobart, Tasmania
| | ?Artists for kids?, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | 1999 | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
| | ?We are Australian?, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, touring exhibition
| | ?Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award?, Warrnambool Art Gallery,Victoria
| | ?National Works on Paper?, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria
| | ?Artists for kids?, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
| | ?Pleasure?, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 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, Victoria
| | Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta
| | ?Synergy?, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli; Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Bombay; Birla
| | ?Contemporary Australian Tapestry?, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum, Denmark
| | 1995 | Art Gallery; Australia House, London
| | ?Interweave - Tapestry A Collaborative Art?, Heide Museum of Modern Art; Geelong
| | ?Contemporary Printmakers?, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
| | ?Contemporary Australian Tapestry?, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur
| | ?Contemporary Australian Tapestry?, Australian High Commission, Singapore
| | ?Circus Capers?, Caulfield Arts Complex, Victoria
| | 1994 | M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington, Victoria
| | Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Western Australia
| | Australian Universities of Visual Art, Australian High Commission, Singapore
| | ?Prints, Paintings and Sculpture?, BMG Art, Adelaide, South Australia
| | ?ACAF 4?, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
| | 1993 | Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Western Australia
| | 1992 | Fremantle Print Prize Travelling Exhibition
| | ?Transitional Times?, Print Council of Australia Travelling Exhibition
| | ?Second Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints?, Japan
| | 1991 | Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool
| | Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia
| | ?Table Top Sculpture?, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ?Art 91?, London Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK
| | 1990 | M.P.A.C. Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
| | Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia
| | ?The Christmas Show?, Intaglio Printmaker, London, U K
| | ?Australian Contemporary Art?, AZ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1989 | National Student Art Prize, Bathurst, New South Wales
| | Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia
| | City of Doncaster Acquisitive Print Prize, Doncaster, Victoria
| | ?Affiliations?, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
| | 1988 | M.P.A.C. Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
| | Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
| | 1987 | ?The Comedy Show?, Print Guild, Melbourne
| | ?Fluxus Art Flow?, Melbourne
| | 1986 | Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
| | C.I.T. Graduating Students Exhibition | | 1998-99_?Australian Prints?, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 2000-01_?Workings of the Mind: Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s?, Touring exhibition: Grafton Regional Gallery; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Nolan Gallery, Canberra; Bendigo Art Gallery; Percy Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
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Books and catalogues
ARC Biennial Exhibition (exhibition catalogue), Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 2007, pp. 78-79
A Dark City Narrative, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1999
Clabburn, Anna; “The Collaborative Spirit”, Australian Tapestries: Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 1995, p.37
Fantastic Art, Orange Regional Gallery, 2001
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Identities in Printmaking, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, 2000
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s, Craftsman House, 1997
Havighurst, Sophie (illustrations by Geoffrey Ricardo); When Lester lost his cool, The University of Melbourne, 2007
Kolenberg, Hendrik and Ryan, Anne; Australian Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998
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, 2000 Awards| 2009 | Winner, The Great Ocean Road Sculpture Prize, Lorne Sculpture exhibition | | 2005 | Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize (finalist) | | 1994 | Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Prints Acquisitive Exhibition | | 1989 | Windsor and Newton International Travelling Bursary | | 1989 | Linbrook International First Prize for Printmaking |
CollectionsArtbank
Art Gallery of NSW
Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Victoria
City of Box Hill, Victoria
City of Whitehorse
Downlands College, Toowoomba
Geelong Grammar School, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus)
Helensvale High School, Queensland
Holmes A’Court Collection, Western Australia
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Monash University, Victoria
Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Collection
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Print Council of Australia
Private collections in Australia, Switzerland, USA, UK, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Holland
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology, Queensland
Shire of Diamond Valley, Victoria
Star of the Sea College, Victoria
The Melbourne Club, Victoria
University of Central Queensland
University of Technology, Sydney
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Commissions| 1993 | Tapestry design for the Festival of Perth Official Poster (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne) | | 1994 | Tapestry design ‘Elephant Gingham’ (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne) | | 1995 | St.Kilda Festival Poster | | 1995 | ‘A Night of Infectious Laughter’ Poster | | 1999 | Tapestry design, ‘Emblem’ (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne) | | 2005 | Tapestry design for Bairnsdale Hospital (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne) |
Selected ReviewsNew Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005
Special NotesResidencies
| 2010 | The Art Vault , Mildura (included continuous public flag making workshops which were flown as part of The Wentworth Mildura Art Festival) | | 2009 | The Art Vault, Mildura (included two public printmaking workshops) | | 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, Sept 1993 |
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