| |  | 1973 | Born Melbourne, Australia | | | | | 1992-94 | Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne | | 1995 | Bachelor of Arts – Honours (Fine Arts), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne | | 1996 | Sessional Lecturer (Drawing), Ceramic Department, Monash University, Melbourne | | | Sessional Lecturer (Drawing), Monash University, Frankston, VIC | | 1999-2004 | Sessional Lecturer (Drawing), Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne | | 2000-02 | Master of Arts by Research (Fine Arts), Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'Black paintings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2009 | 'Shall We?', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2007 | 'Near the Top Dam', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | ‘Recent Painting’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Recent Painting, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2003 | Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 1999 | ‘Recent Drawings’, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 'Australia Day 2011: Celebration', Niagra Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2010 | Finalist 'Blake Prize', National Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Kedumba Prize for Drawing', Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
| | 2009 | -10'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | Ruby Gap, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
| | Prospect and Refuge: Small Landscapes by Five Painters', La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC
| | 2008 | Finalist, 'John Leslie Landscape Art Prize', Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
| | Prospect and Refuge: Small Landscapes by Five Painters', Horsham Regional Gallery Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria
| | 2007 | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Redlands Westpac Art Prize', Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize', McLaren Vale, South Australia
| | 2005 | ‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2004 | ‘Panorama’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2002 | ‘Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition’, AGNSW, Sydney
| | ‘Landscapes’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 2001 | ‘Drawing’, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
| | 1998 | ‘Absolute Secret New York’, McKee Gallery, New York
| | ‘Fall Student Exhibition’, New York Studio School, New York
| | 1996 | ‘1996 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘Drawing from the Visible – New Artists’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
| | ‘Radical Choice – Twelve Figurative Painters’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Spring Festival of Drawing Survey Exhibition 1973-1995’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
| | 1995 | ‘Monash Painting Graduates “Opening Exhibition”’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Mornington Peninsula Spring Festival of Drawing’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
| | 1994 | ‘The Victorian Campus Art Prize Exhibition’, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne |
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CollectionsAustralia Catholic University, Melbourne
ANZ Bank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
City of Whitehorse, Melbourne
Deakin University, Melbourne Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawing, Wentworth Falls, NSW
Monash University, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
Margaret Stewart Founndation, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
University of New South Wales Art Collection, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
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