SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2018 Slot Gallery Window, Redfern, Sydney (Dictionary of love and loss)
2016 Slot Gallery Window, Redfern, Sydney (Mapping Home)
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 AND COLLABORATIONS
2018 Hornsby Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2018 Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize finalist, SA
2018 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2018 Bridget Kennedy Project Space, North Sydney (Sanguine)
2017 Bowness Photography Prize finalist, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
2017 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2017 Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney (Thinkers and dreamers)
2016 Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney (Borne)
2016 BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2016 Black Box Theatre, Nambour QLD (Dangerous Song)
2013 Willoughby Art Prize finalist, Sydney (Connexion points)
2011–13 Powerhouse Museum Sydney (Lovelace finalist)
2012 Macleay Museum, Sydney (Coral: Art Science Life)
2012 Paper Now, Incinerator Art Space finalist, Sydney
2011 Hazelhurst Art Award finalist, NSW.
2011 Hutchins Art Prize finalist, TAS.
2004/11/12 Waterhouse Art Prize finalist, South Australian Museum
2008 NSW Art Gallery (Dobell Prize finalist)
2008 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
1997 Sculpture by the sea finalist, Sydney
PRIZES (VISUAL ARTS)
2018 honourable mention (digital art stills), Hornsby Art Prize, Sydney
2017 honourable mention Bowness Photography Prize, VIC
2017 honourable mention Northern Beaches Art Prize, Sydney
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, VIC
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, Sydney
1994 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts, Sydney
1993 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts, Sydney
1993 1st prize for printmaking Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
PRIZES, COMMENDATIONS AND SHORTLISTS (POETRY)
2018 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2018 shortlisted Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, QLD
2018 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2018 shortlisted Sutherland shire Literature Awards, NSW
2018 equal second WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 shortlisted Dermot Healey International Poetry Award, Ireland
2017 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 highly commended Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award, VIC
2017 3rd Prize Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards
2017 Highly commended Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards
2016 1st Prize Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize USQ, Australia
2016 1st prize & equal 2nd WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2016 shortlisted Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize
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 in residence (by invitation) Lynchpin, Hobart, TAS
2016 artist in residence (by invitation) 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
2017/18 Sculpture teacher Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School, Sydney
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)
2018 Grieve, vol 6 (anthology) Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2018 Shadowplay (Flarestack Poets, UK) poetry collaboration with UK poet Philip Gross
2017 Award Winning Australian Writing
2017 ear to earth (an anthology of Australian Poetry 2017)
2017 Literary Nilumbik Anthology of Writing 2017
2013–17 Chapbooks from the ACU Poetry Award
2016 Grieve, vol 4 (anthology) Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2016 Five Words Volume IX (3rd Five Words International Poetry Competition)
2014 Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (Jennifer Barret & Jacqueline Millner)
2013 Australian Love Poems (Inkermann & Blunt)
2011 Make Lace Not War – Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award catalogue
STUDIES
2012 – 2014 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 studied etching, Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing, London
2018 Slot Gallery Window, Redfern, Sydney (Dictionary of love and loss)
2016 Slot Gallery Window, Redfern, Sydney (Mapping Home)
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 AND COLLABORATIONS
2018 Hornsby Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2018 Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize finalist, SA
2018 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2018 Bridget Kennedy Project Space, North Sydney (Sanguine)
2017 Bowness Photography Prize finalist, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
2017 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2017 Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney (Thinkers and dreamers)
2016 Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney (Borne)
2016 BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2016 Black Box Theatre, Nambour QLD (Dangerous Song)
2013 Willoughby Art Prize finalist, Sydney (Connexion points)
2011–13 Powerhouse Museum Sydney (Lovelace finalist)
2012 Macleay Museum, Sydney (Coral: Art Science Life)
2012 Paper Now, Incinerator Art Space finalist, Sydney
2011 Hazelhurst Art Award finalist, NSW.
2011 Hutchins Art Prize finalist, TAS.
2004/11/12 Waterhouse Art Prize finalist, South Australian Museum
2008 NSW Art Gallery (Dobell Prize finalist)
2008 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
1997 Sculpture by the sea finalist, Sydney
PRIZES (VISUAL ARTS)
2018 honourable mention (digital art stills), Hornsby Art Prize, Sydney
2017 honourable mention Bowness Photography Prize, VIC
2017 honourable mention Northern Beaches Art Prize, Sydney
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, VIC
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, Sydney
1994 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts, Sydney
1993 1st prize for sculpture Fairfield City Festival of the Arts, Sydney
1993 1st prize for printmaking Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
PRIZES, COMMENDATIONS AND SHORTLISTS (POETRY)
2018 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2018 shortlisted Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, QLD
2018 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2018 shortlisted Sutherland shire Literature Awards, NSW
2018 equal second WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 shortlisted Dermot Healey International Poetry Award, Ireland
2017 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2017 highly commended Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award, VIC
2017 3rd Prize Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards
2017 Highly commended Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards
2016 1st Prize Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize USQ, Australia
2016 1st prize & equal 2nd WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia
2016 shortlisted Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize
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 in residence (by invitation) Lynchpin, Hobart, TAS
2016 artist in residence (by invitation) 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
2017/18 Sculpture teacher Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School, Sydney
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)
2018 Grieve, vol 6 (anthology) Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2018 Shadowplay (Flarestack Poets, UK) poetry collaboration with UK poet Philip Gross
2017 Award Winning Australian Writing
2017 ear to earth (an anthology of Australian Poetry 2017)
2017 Literary Nilumbik Anthology of Writing 2017
2013–17 Chapbooks from the ACU Poetry Award
2016 Grieve, vol 4 (anthology) Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2016 Five Words Volume IX (3rd Five Words International Poetry Competition)
2014 Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (Jennifer Barret & Jacqueline Millner)
2013 Australian Love Poems (Inkermann & Blunt)
2011 Make Lace Not War – Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award catalogue
STUDIES
2012 – 2014 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 studied etching, Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing, London