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EDUCATION
1989 Bachelor of Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
1990 Post-Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT
1994 Film and Television Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1996 The Art of Documentary Filmmaking, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney, NSW
2006 Diploma of Visual Arts, TAFE Moss Vale, NSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Memories of Bungendore, Water Through Reeds Gallery, Bungendore, NSW
2023 Songs of the Land, Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
2022 Messengers, Gallery3, Byron Bay, NSW
2021 Dusk Till Dawn, Gallery3, Byron Bay, NSW
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 End of Year Exhibition, Water Through Reeds Gallery, Bungendore, NSW
2024 For Love and Beauty, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2024 Women of the Landscape, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2024 ‘Earthed’ New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
2023 Queensland Style, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Emerging Artist Prize Exhibition, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2022 Kunderang, Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha, NSW
2021 birds, Gallery3, Byron Bay, NSW
2020 Spring Exhibition, Lismore Art Space, Lismore, NSW
2019 Opening Exhibition, The Southern Highlands Artists Collective, Robertson, NSW
Cadence, Sturt Craft Centre, Mittagong, NSW
The Art of Collecting, Curator and Exhibitor, Artists of the Round Yard,
Retford Park, Bowral, NSW
2018 Inland, Places of Internal Imagery, Art Gallery On Darling, Balmain, NSW
The Art of Giving, Artists of the Round Yard, Retford Park, Bowral, NSW
2017 Salt Bush Country, Works inspired from Fowlers Gap, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, NSW
2016 Like Minded Souls, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, NSW
2015 If Not Now, Then When, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, NSW
Southern Highlands Art Trail Open Studio 2008, 2013, 2015, 2019, NSW
AWARDS
2023 Finalist, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Emerging Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD
2019 Finalist, Wingecarribee Landscape Prize, Bowral, NSW
2017 Finalist, Wingecarribee Landscape Prize, Bowral, NSW
2014 Finalist, Wingecarribee Landscape Prize, Bowral, NSW
2006 Finalist, My Home the Block, Director and Camera Operator, International Documentary Film Festival, Adelaide, SA. Currently screening on SBS Demand
2005 Finalist, Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sydney, NSW
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