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Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Bibliography

Anderson, Patricia; “Portraiture sitting pretty”, The Australian, 3 August 2005, Arts p.15
Backhouse, Megan; “Poetic portrait”, The Age, A3, 18 August 2003, p.13
Backhouse, Megan; “Two Friends Face Up to Art & Life”, The Age, 25 March 2002, The Culture p.5
Barclay, Alison; “Preview”, Victorian Arts Centre News, 1 May 2001, p.12
Barclay, Alison; “Taking A Stand”, Herald Sun, 17 March 2000, p.81, 87
Cross, Elizabeth; Catalogue essay, Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery, 2002
Cerebona, Ron; “Faces with Inside View’, Canberra Times, 1 June, p.8
Crawford, Ashley; “New Year Group Show”, The Sunday Age, 29 January 2006, p.24
Cross, Elizabeth; Australian Galleries catalogue essay, 2004
Crowle, Dr Christine with Boddy, Janet; “Set Up”, Nillumbik Art Collection Essays, p.76
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Catalogue, 2006
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Catalogue, 1998
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Catalogue, 2002
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Catalogue, 2004
Dougherty, Peter; “Interview”, Art Streams, Nov/Dec 1998
Fortescue, Elizabeth; “Making An Exhibition Of Themselves”, Daily
Telegraph, 18 March 2003, p.121
Frazer, Jane; “Melbourne Brushes Up” The Australian, 27 March 2006, p.12
Germaine, Max; Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand
Hart, Bob; “Jaques Pot”, Herald Sun, 20 November 2004, Good Weekender p.2
Higson, Rosalie; “Rip the Canvas Ceiling”, The Australian, 19 February 2007, p.15
Higson, Rosalie; “Poet the Perfect Subject for Prize Winner”, The Australian, 15 March 2006, p.3
Lambert, Catherine, “Chef warms to art”, Herald Sun, 21 March 2004, p.10
Loxley, Anne; “For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia”, Exhibition catalogue, p.132
Makin, Jeff; “Ahead of the Field”, Herald Sun, 9 November 1998
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McColloch, Sandra; Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2007
McDonald, John; “It’s like a Sausage Factory”, Sydney Morning Herald, 1- 2 April p.28
McWhirther, Erin; “Finally, Painter gets The Big Prize with a Wounded Poet”, The Age, 15 March 2006, p.9
Millington, John; “Too close to caricature”, Courier Mail, Brisbane, 2 January 1999
Neihoff, Pamela; “You Can Leave Your Hat On”, Racing Through History, Autumn, p.3
Nelson, Robert; “Battered by the brush”, The Age, 20 July 2005, Metro, Arts
Nelson, Robert; “Few prizes in Archibald”, The Age, 22 December 2004, A3 p.6
Nelson, Robert; “One’s a stand out”, The Age, 5 November 2004, A3 p.6
Nelson, Robert; “Judge Prefers Horrors Over Jewels”, The Age, 7 December 2002, p. 27
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Smee, Sebastian; “The Odds On The Archibald”, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 2000, p.15
Smith, Amanda; ABC Radio National, Sunday Arts Review, 4 March 2007
Strickland, Katrina; “Artists Face up to More Prize Money”, Financial Review, 15 March 2006, p.8
Takeuchi, Ayand and Simos, Kate; "Windows and Orphans: Something from Nothing", Monash University Publication, p.30
Thomas, Daniel; “Anti-Archibald: Doing the Doug Moran”, Art Monthly Australia, September 2004, p.21

Awards

Collections

Selected Reviews

Finally, painter gets the big prize with portrait of a wounded poet | The Age | 15 Mar 2006
Battered by the brush | The Age | 19 Jul 2005
New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005