ARTIST BIO

GROUP EXHIBITIONS       ‘Emerge 2012’, The Highway Gallery, November 2012;

The Highway Gallery, Trio Exhibition, Contemporary works in mixed media, August 2005;

The Highway Gallery, Tea Time Exhibition, May 2005.

‘The Glen’ Exhibition of Framed, Unframed Paintings  & Craft, Waverley Arts Society, May 2013, July 2010;

‘Between the Covers’, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, September 2010;

Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, May 2010;

Mount View Annual Art Show, June 2012 – 2003;

The Royal Melbourne Show, 2012 – 2005.

Chapel Gallery, Kallista, August-October 2009;

Contemporary Art Society, ‘The Collector’s Exhibition’, 2009 – 2007;

The Highway Gallery, ‘Inner Space’ Exhibition, June 2009.

Contemporary Art Society, ‘Art atBurnleyHarbour’, 2008 – 2007;

‘Seeing Ourselves’, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, September 2008.

‘The Glen’ Exhibition of Unframed Paintings, Waverley Arts Society, May 2006;

‘Things My Mother Taught Me’, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, May 2006.

Waverley Arts Society Annual Exhibition, October 2012 – 2002.

‘The Glen’ Exhibition of Framed Paintings & Craft, September 2006 – 2002;   

The Highway Gallery Exhibition, May 2004.

Monash Kids Art Show, October 2002

AWARDS                              

Third Place, Pastel Drawing, Royal Melbourne Show, 2012

Commended, Pastel or Drawing, Royal Melbourne Show, 2009 and 2005

Highly Commended, WAS ‘Striving for Excellence Exhibition, 2006.

COMMISSIONS                  

‘What I Like About Camberwell’, City of Boroondara, November 2012

Three pastel works of Persian cats for Mr. & Mrs. Berrett 2004.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS    

Pastel Costume Sketch for Womens Circus Show A Plane Without Wings is a Rocket! Women’s Circus Fundraiser 2012

Pastel Jupiter, Womens Circus Fundraiser, 2010

Pastels Fire! I, Fire! II, Women’s Circus Fundraiser 2009

Pastels Jupiter I, Sea Stroll II, Madura Tea Estate Women’s Circus 2008

Pastel work of Abyssinian cat for Glenvale Veterinary

Clinic, Dr. M. Rohan Nicholls BVSc RDA, 2004.

PUBLICATIONS                   Jupiter, pastel work in Between the Covers, Stories

& Poems from the Boroondara Writers Group 2008-2010

Illustrator, Boiled Egg on Sunday, Stories & Poems from the Boroondara Writers Group 2006-2008

The Graze, in Dreaming Planet Earth, Melbourne Poets Union 2008.

WORK EXPERIENCE         Between the Covers, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery,

July-September 2010

 Seeing Ourselves, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery,

July-September 2008

Artists in Action,WaverleyArts Society, Jells Park

Teahouse, Wheelers Hill, 2004-2005

Curator, GraingerMuseum, University of Melbourne, 1989-1992.

 MEMBERSHIPS                 

Boroondara Artists Travelling Show (BATS);

Friend of The Highway Gallery,

Waverley Arts Society