GROUP SHOWS AND COLLABORATIONS
2024 Northern Beaches Environmental Award finalist, MAGM, NSW
2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize finalist, Muswellbrook, NSW
2022 Maggie Diaz Prize finalist, St Kilda, VIC
2022 Environmental Art and Design Prize finalist, Northern Beaches, NSW
2021 Art in the Time of Covid, Montsalvat, VIC
2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist
2019 Hornsby Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2019 Now Contemporary Art Prize finalist, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2019 Gosford Art Prize finalist, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2019 Naked and Nude Art Prize finalist, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW
2019 North Sydney Art Prize finalist, NSW
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
SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2020/22 Studio show, Sydney
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 (The Immortals)
2011 Depot II Gallery, Sydney (Threshold)
2010 Palm House, Botanic Gardens, Sydney (A Brief History of Time)
2010 Red Box Gallery, Sydney (On the Origin of Species)
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
PRIZES (VISUAL ARTS)
2021 highly commended Environmental Art Prize, BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2019 highly commended Now Contemporary Art Prize Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW
2018 honourable mention 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, SHORTLISTS, AND COMMENDATIONS (POETRY)
2025 first prize SCWC Poetry Award
2025 shortlisted Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition
2025 highly commended Geelong Regional Library Local Word Poetry Prize
2024 third prize Newcastle Poetry Prize
2023 first prize Woorilla Poetry Prize
2023 highly commended Woorilla Poetry Prize
2023 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize
2023 second prize Plaza Poetry Prize (40 lines), UK
2023 second prize Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines), UK
2023 longlisted Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Award
2023 highly commended Calanthe Collective Prize for Unpublished Poetry, NSW
2023 shortlisted Liquid Amber Poetry Prize, NSW
2023 shortlisted Val Vallis Award, QLD
2022 shortlisted Newcastle Poetry Prize, NSW
2022 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2022 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers’ Centre, NSW
2020 shortlisted Writing Water: River Rain Reef Red Room Poetry NSW
2020 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2019 highly commended Ó Bhéal Five Words international Poetry Competition, IRE
2019 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2018 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2018 shortlisted Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, QLD
2018 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers Centre, NSW
2018 highly commended Sutherland shire Literature Awards, NSW
2017 equal second WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2017 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2017 shortlisted Dermot Healey International Poetry Award, Ireland
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, QLD
2016 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2016 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2016 shortlisted Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize, VIC
2016 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers’ Centre, NSW
2016 shortlisted World Wetlands Day Poetry Prize
2016 shortlisted O’Bheal Five Words Poetry Prize, Ireland
2015 1st prize & equal 2nd WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2015 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2014 shortlisted Fish Poetry Prize, Ireland
2014 highly commended Adrien Abbott Prize (poetry)
2014 commended Deakin Leadership Centre Poetry Competition, VIC
2014 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2013 3rd Prize ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2013 4th place International Welsh Poetry Competition, UK
2013 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2013 commended Glen Phillips Poetry Prize, WA
GRANTS
2020 Nillumbik Shire Council, Victoria Art in the Time of Covid Grant
2020 Northern Beaches Arts and Creativity Grant
2009 Australia council new work grant
2002 Australia council skills and arts development grant
RESIDENCIES
2023 artist in residence (Environmental Art Award Prize) BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2019 artist in residence Hill End, NSW
2017 artist in residence Lynchpin, Hobart, TAS
2016 artist in residence BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2009 artist in residence Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
2006 artist in residence Manning Regional Gallery, NSW
2005 – 2006 artist in residence Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Sydney
ACQUISITIONS
2011 New World Order – Terra Australis – 6 ceramic sculptures, National Museum, Canberra.
ART PUBLICATIONS
2014 Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (Jennifer Barret & Jacqueline Millner)
2011 Make Lace Not War – Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award catalogue
POETRY PUBLICATIONS (ANTHOLOGIES AND CATALOGUES)
2024 Publication of poetry Collection, Clarion, Liquid Amber Press
2024/22 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
2024 ACU Prize for Poetry Chapbook (also 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)
2022 Canberra Times
2022 Cordite
2021 Plumwood Mountain
2021 Meanjin (Spring edition)
2021 Verity La
2020 Meanjin (Autumn edition)
2020 Red Room Poetry (Writing Water: Rain River Reef )
2020 Written in the Time of Covid anthology
2020 Verity La
2020 Canberra Times
2019 Stilts Journal
2019 Lane Cove Literary Award Anthology NSW
2019 Canberra Times
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
2016 Grieve, vol 4 (anthology) Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2016 Five Words Volume IX (3rd Five Words International Poetry Competition)
2013 Australian Love Poems (Inkermann & Blunt)
TEACHING POSITIONS
2017–2025 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
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
2024 Northern Beaches Environmental Award finalist, MAGM, NSW
2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize finalist, Muswellbrook, NSW
2022 Maggie Diaz Prize finalist, St Kilda, VIC
2022 Environmental Art and Design Prize finalist, Northern Beaches, NSW
2021 Art in the Time of Covid, Montsalvat, VIC
2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist
2019 Hornsby Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2019 Now Contemporary Art Prize finalist, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2019 Gosford Art Prize finalist, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2019 Naked and Nude Art Prize finalist, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW
2019 North Sydney Art Prize finalist, NSW
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
SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2020/22 Studio show, Sydney
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 (The Immortals)
2011 Depot II Gallery, Sydney (Threshold)
2010 Palm House, Botanic Gardens, Sydney (A Brief History of Time)
2010 Red Box Gallery, Sydney (On the Origin of Species)
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
PRIZES (VISUAL ARTS)
2021 highly commended Environmental Art Prize, BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2019 highly commended Now Contemporary Art Prize Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW
2018 honourable mention 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, SHORTLISTS, AND COMMENDATIONS (POETRY)
2025 first prize SCWC Poetry Award
2025 shortlisted Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition
2025 highly commended Geelong Regional Library Local Word Poetry Prize
2024 third prize Newcastle Poetry Prize
2023 first prize Woorilla Poetry Prize
2023 highly commended Woorilla Poetry Prize
2023 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize
2023 second prize Plaza Poetry Prize (40 lines), UK
2023 second prize Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines), UK
2023 longlisted Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Award
2023 highly commended Calanthe Collective Prize for Unpublished Poetry, NSW
2023 shortlisted Liquid Amber Poetry Prize, NSW
2023 shortlisted Val Vallis Award, QLD
2022 shortlisted Newcastle Poetry Prize, NSW
2022 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2022 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers’ Centre, NSW
2020 shortlisted Writing Water: River Rain Reef Red Room Poetry NSW
2020 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2019 highly commended Ó Bhéal Five Words international Poetry Competition, IRE
2019 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2018 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2018 shortlisted Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, QLD
2018 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers Centre, NSW
2018 highly commended Sutherland shire Literature Awards, NSW
2017 equal second WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2017 highly commended ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2017 shortlisted Dermot Healey International Poetry Award, Ireland
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, QLD
2016 highly commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2016 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2016 shortlisted Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize, VIC
2016 shortlisted Grieve Anthology, Hunter Writers’ Centre, NSW
2016 shortlisted World Wetlands Day Poetry Prize
2016 shortlisted O’Bheal Five Words Poetry Prize, Ireland
2015 1st prize & equal 2nd WB Yeats Poetry Prize, VIC
2015 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2014 shortlisted Fish Poetry Prize, Ireland
2014 highly commended Adrien Abbott Prize (poetry)
2014 commended Deakin Leadership Centre Poetry Competition, VIC
2014 shortlisted ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2013 3rd Prize ACU Poetry Prize, VIC
2013 4th place International Welsh Poetry Competition, UK
2013 shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize, UK
2013 commended Glen Phillips Poetry Prize, WA
GRANTS
2020 Nillumbik Shire Council, Victoria Art in the Time of Covid Grant
2020 Northern Beaches Arts and Creativity Grant
2009 Australia council new work grant
2002 Australia council skills and arts development grant
RESIDENCIES
2023 artist in residence (Environmental Art Award Prize) BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2019 artist in residence Hill End, NSW
2017 artist in residence Lynchpin, Hobart, TAS
2016 artist in residence BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2009 artist in residence Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
2006 artist in residence Manning Regional Gallery, NSW
2005 – 2006 artist in residence Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Sydney
ACQUISITIONS
2011 New World Order – Terra Australis – 6 ceramic sculptures, National Museum, Canberra.
ART PUBLICATIONS
2014 Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (Jennifer Barret & Jacqueline Millner)
2011 Make Lace Not War – Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award catalogue
POETRY PUBLICATIONS (ANTHOLOGIES AND CATALOGUES)
2024 Publication of poetry Collection, Clarion, Liquid Amber Press
2024/22 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
2024 ACU Prize for Poetry Chapbook (also 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)
2022 Canberra Times
2022 Cordite
2021 Plumwood Mountain
2021 Meanjin (Spring edition)
2021 Verity La
2020 Meanjin (Autumn edition)
2020 Red Room Poetry (Writing Water: Rain River Reef )
2020 Written in the Time of Covid anthology
2020 Verity La
2020 Canberra Times
2019 Stilts Journal
2019 Lane Cove Literary Award Anthology NSW
2019 Canberra Times
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
2016 Grieve, vol 4 (anthology) Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle
2016 Five Words Volume IX (3rd Five Words International Poetry Competition)
2013 Australian Love Poems (Inkermann & Blunt)
TEACHING POSITIONS
2017–2025 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
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