SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2016 Slot Gallery, Redfern
2015 Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
2011 Depot II Gallery, Sydney
2010 Palm House, Botanic Gardens, Sydney
2010 Red Box Gallery, Sydney
2008 Macleay Museum, Sydney
2007 Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney
2007 Macleay Museum, Sydney
2006 Studio Show
2005 Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2004 Noosa Regional Gallery QLD
2003 Studio Show
2002 Amelie Wallace Gallery, New York
2001 Ewart Gallery, Sydney
2000 Customs House, Sydney
GROUP SHOWS/COLLABORATIONS/SHORTLISTS
2017 Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
2017 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
2017 Stanley Street Gallery (Thinkers and dreamers) Sydney
2016 Stanley Street Gallery (Borne) Sydney
2016 BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2016 Black Box Theatre, Nambour QLD (collaboration. Dangerous Song)
2013 Willoughby Art Prize, Sydney (Connextion points)
2011 – 13 Powerhouse Museum Sydney (Lovelace)
2012 Macleay Museum, Sydney (Coral: Art Science Life)
2012 Paper Now, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2011 Hazelhurst Art Award, Sydney.
2011 Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart.
2004/11/12 Waterhouse Art Prize, South Australian Museum
2008 NSW Art Gallery (Dobell Prize)
2008 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW
1997 Sculpture by the sea
1995 Artarmon Gallery, Sydney
1989 Cultural Centre, Santo Domingo, Mexico City.
1986 Studio Camnitzer 10th Anniversary Show, New York
PRIZES (VISUAL ARTS)
2012 winner of the People’s Choice Award, Love Lace – Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2011 winner of the Facade Project, national public art award – VAC, La Trobe University
2005 1st prize for sculpture Hunters Hill Art Prize, Sydney
2003 1st prize for sculpture Walkom Manning Art Prize, NSW
1997 1st prize for sculpture Hunters Hill Art Prize, Sydney
1995 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts
1994 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts
1993 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts
1993 1st prize for printmaking Mosman Art Prize
PRIZES AND COMMENDATIONS (POETRY)
2017 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 shortlisted Dermot Healey International Poetry Award, Ireland
2017 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2016 1st Prize Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize USQ, Australia
2016 1st & 2nd Prize WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2016 shortlisted World Wetlands Day Poetry Prize
2016 shortlisted O’Bheal Five Words Poetry Prize, Ireland
2014 shortlisted Fish Poetry Prize, Ireland
2014 highly commended Adrien Abbott Prize (poetry) Australia
2104 commended Deakin Leadership Centre Poetry Competition
2013 3rd Prize ACU Poetry Prize, Australia
2013 4th place International Welsh Poetry Competition, UK
2013 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2013 commended Glen Phillips Poetry Prize, Australia
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2017 artist/poet in residence Lynchpin, Hobart, TAS
2016 artist/poet in residence BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2009 new work grant Australia Council
2009 artist in residence Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
2006 artist in residence Upper Landsdowne, NSW
2005 – 2006 artist in residence Electron Microscope Unit, Sydney University
2002 skills and arts development grant Australia Council
ACQUISITIONS
2011 New World Order – Terra Australis – ceramic sculpture, National Museum, Canberra.
TEACHING POSITIONS
2017 sculpture teacher Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
2008,09,11 various workshops Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1999 – 2002 sculpture teacher Workshop Arts Centre, Sydney.
1984 – 86 technical assistant Studio Camnitzer, Valdottavo, Italy.
1980 – 86 etching teacher Workshop Arts Centre, Sydney.
PUBLICATIONS (ANTHOLOGIES AND CATALOGUES)
2017 Award Winning Australian Writing
2014 Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (Jennifer Barret & Jacqueline Millner)
2013 Australian Love Poems (Inkermann & Blunt)
2013/14/15/16/1 chapbooks from the ACU Poetry Award
2011 make Lace Not War – Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award catalogue
STUDIES
2012 – 2015 poetry workshops with Mark Tredinnick, Judith Beveridge, Martin Langford, Deb Westbury
1983 photo etching workshop, Studio Camnitzer, Valdottavo, Italy
1977 – 1979 part time studies in life drawing, printmaking and photography at Hornsby,
Randwick and East Sydney Technical Colleges
1976 Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing, London