Unencumbered by style or commerce, my approach to making art is resolute on focusing attention to structure and unity, the development of spatial tension, to colour, shape and placement; ultimately using all of these to express emotions. These principles guide my technique, confidently grounded in gestural abstraction, to produce works that are primarily about how I see my environment and how I feel in it.
Constant, thorough observations of my surroundings are transposed onto canvas, wood or paper using paint, ink, crayon and pencil along with sanding, scratching and scrubbing; removing then reapplying media until satisfied that each work expresses exactly what I wish it to.
I am also an experienced graphic designer and illustrator, lecturer in visual and performance art education and currently working as a visual artist and illustrator from my studio in Northcote, Victoria, Australia.
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education
2017 Certificate of Extended Practice – Victorian College of the Arts – The University of Melbourne
1997 Graduate Diploma in Visual and Performing Arts – RMIT University, Melbourne
1984-1988 Diploma of Arts – Victoria College (Swinburne University), Melbourne
memberships and associations
National Gallery of Victoria, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, National Association for the Visual Arts
residencies
2024 – [ Awarded 2022 ] Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne, France
solo exhibitions
2022 Somewhere in the Southern Ocean , Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Australia
2021 [All Cancelled]
2020 [All Cancelled]
2019 [All Cancelled]
2017 Currently untitled (new small works), Tacit Galleries, Abbotsford, Australia
2017 al pha bet, Pg2., Richmond, Australia
2015 island clouds / treasured maps, Pg2., Richmond, Australia
2003 nowhere else, Moor Street Art Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2002 life within, Moor Street Art Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2000 new works, Vivurtu, Westgarth, Australia
1999 lush, The Stage, Fitzroy, Australia
group exhibitions
2022 Synergies, Galleria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2022 SUBSTRATE 22, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Australia
2022 Little Treasures 2022, Galleria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2021 Sm’Art Fair 2021, Parc Jourdan, Aix-en-Provence, France
2021 CASV Annual Exhibition, STEPS Gallery, Carlton, Australia
2020 Sm’Art Fair 2020, Parc Jourdan, Aix-en-Provence, France [Postponed]
2020 20[2020], Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
2020 CASV A4 Art Australia, Herring Island Gallery, South Yarra, Australia
2019 The Illusion of Reality, 2019, Galleria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2019 Little Treasures 2019, Galleria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2019 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St. Kilda, Australia
2019 small!, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
2019 CASV Annual Exhibition, Gallery 314, Richmond, Australia
2018 The Roi Prize (Finalist), Roi Building, Fitzroy, Australia
2018 Camberwell Art Show, Swinburne University – Hawthorn, Australia
2018 A1, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora, Australia
2017-2021 Luxembourg Art Prize (Certificate of Artistic Merit)
2017 VCA Group Show, Besser Space, Collingwood, Australia
2016 (Finalist) Maritime Art Awards and Exhibition, The Mission to Seafarers, Docklands, Australia
2016 Small Works 2016, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2016 40 x 40 2016, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2014 Life Aquatic 20 x 20 Exhibition, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, Australia
2006 – 2011 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Australia
2006, 2007 9 x 5 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Australia
2006, 2007 (Finalist) He who…Art Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Australia
2003 Group Show, Moor Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2001 fruition, Montsalvat, Eltham, Australia
1998 Faith Works, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
1997, 1998, 2000 Artists Advent St John’s, Southgate, Australia
Awards and Prizes
2022 Denis Diderot Grant
2022 Award of Excellence, Trevisan International Art
2017-2022 Certificate of Artistic Merit, Luxembourg Art Prize
2018 The Roi Prize (Finalist), Roi Building, Fitzroy, Australia
2016 Maritime Art Awards and Exhibition (Finalist), The Mission to Seafarers, Docklands, Australia
2006, 2007 He who…Art Prize (Finalist), Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Australia
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