Education
2013 Arc& Mig Gas welding, South West Institute Tech.
2013 Welding for Artists. South West Institute Tech.
2011 Adv Dip Visual Art and Craft (sculpture) Central Inst. Tech. Perth.
2007 5 day site specific sculptural workshop with Francois Davin Northam
2004 Disability awareness training. DADAA
2003 Community Cultural Planning. LGAGOVA606A CANWA
2001 Post Graduate Certificate, Indigenous Australian Studies, Curtin University.
2000 Bachelor of Arts (Vis Arts) Honours. Edith Cowan University.
1988 Diploma Art Studies, TAFE
Employment History
2023 Studio Artist
2022 Studio Artist
4 week Community Art Project / residency, Esperance.
2021 Studio Artist
Remembrance workshops with Live-Die-Well.
2020 Studio artist.
2019 Reveal workshops tutor. Fremantle Arts Centre.
Noongar Sculpture workshop. Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries.
2018 Studio Artist.
Resilience and Recovery sculpture workshop. Yarloop.
2017 Arts Adviser - Womanmade.com project Arts Advisor to participants.
Visual Arts Lecturer ECU Bunbury Campus
Judge - Kalgoorlie Art Prize.
2016 Visual Arts Lecturer ECU Bunbury Campus
Research assistant - ECU Yarloop recovery research.
Arts Adviser - Womanmade.com project as Arts Advisor to participants.
2015 Visual Arts Lecturer ECU Bunbury Campus
2014 Judge – Iluka Visions 2014 Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
Public Art Commission, Bridgetown
Presenter: Sculpture Forum Sculpture with a conscience Rockingham
Visual Arts Lecturer ECU Bunbury Campus
Children's workshops - Sculpture by the Sea. Cottesloe
2013 Art Tutor. Children's Studio. Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
Awards
2022 DLGSC U/15k grant
2020 Regional Arts WA (2 year) Fellowship Award.
2016 South West Art Now. Bunbury City Acquisition Award.
2014 People's Choice Award South Western Times Survey
2013 Melville Sculpture Walk Major Award
2011 West Australian Environmental Art Award (Major award).
2007 Mullalyup Muster Award
2006 Art Geo Busselton. Seriously Funny Award - major prize
2005 City of Wanneroo Art Awards 2005. Mixed Media Award
2004 Mundaring Shire Acquisitive Award
2001 City of Perth Art Award, Commendation Award
South West Survey, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
Major prize winner, Edith Cowan University Award
2000 South West Survey Exhibition, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries Worsley Alumina Award for Excellence
1988 Dux Painting, Forrestfield TAFE
Collections
2023 Janet Holmes à Court Collection
2019 Janet Holmes à Court Collection
2018 Janet Holmes à Court Collection
2016 City of Bunbury
2014 City of Bunbury
2013 City of Melville
2011 Central Institute of Technology
2008 Lloyd and Liz Horn Collection
Olsen Collection
2004 Mundaring Shire Council Collection
2002 Worsley Alumina Board Room Collection
Centre for Indigenous Studies - Curtin University
1999 Omagh Tragedy Collection - Library Board Ireland
Solo exhibitions
2018 Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries.
2013 Heathcote Museum and Art Gallery Perth
2008 Lake Grace Art space
2007 Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame Kalgoorlie
2005 Fremantle Arts Centre
2004 bread box gallery. Perth
2002 Gallows Gallery Perth
Major Group Exhibitions
2023 Bunbury Biennal
2023 Representing Differents - Inaugural exhibition in the Edith Cowan Gallery at Parliament House.
2023 Emergences Exhibition, as part of the state-wide 'Open Borders', Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix.
2022 Jury Prize Port Hedland
2022 Royal Perth Art Prize
2021 Bunbury Biennale. Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries
2021 Dwelling Rituals, Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix. IOCT
2020 Fibre, Holmes à Court Gallery, West Perth.
2020 Sculpture@bathers, Kidogo Gallery Fremantle.
2020 South Western Times Survey, Bunbury Art Galleries.
2019 Bunbury Biennale. Bunbury Art Galleries.
2019 Alternative Archive, Lost Eden Gallery, Dwellingup.
2019 Wildflower State, Midland Junction Art Centre.
2018/19 The Spaces Between Us, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick University, Ireland.
2018 Stations of the Cross, Wesley Centre Perth
2018 South West Art Now, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
2017 Sculpture@bathers, Bather's Beach Fremantle.
2017 Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries.
2016 The Mechanics of Fluids. Central Gallery Perth.
2016 The Space Between Us, Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries
2016 South West Art Now, Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries.
2016 Mundaring Invitational Acquisitive Award, Mundaring Arts Centre
2015 Bunbury Biennale. Bunbury Regional Arts Galleries
2015 Handle with Care, Heathcote Museum and Art Gallery.
2015 Sculpture@Bathers, Kidogo Gallery Fremantle
Publications
- ECO-ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL WORK. Just(ice) Arts, in practice: processes and collaborations. 2019
- ABC Radio National interview. Hub on Arts. 2018 and 2019
- Are We There Yet? Catalogue.
- ABC Radio National Interview. Books and Art 2016
- 20 years Sculpture by the Sea
- closet circus A Survey of Lloyd and Liz Horne Collection
- SURVEY 2010 ART IN THE SOUTH WEST D. Bromfield and P. Tandy
- Peppermint Magazine Winter 2013 edition
- Who'dhavethought blog site
- ABC State Wide Radio interview November, 2013
- Big Kids Magazine 2014 Edition 6 & 7.