CV
Education
2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours, University of Tasmania
2016 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Tas TAFE
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania
Awards, Scholarships and Prizes
2025 Placed on the University of Tasmania Roll of Excellence for study in the Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours
2025 Awarded the Jim Bacon Memorial Scholarship in Fine Arts
1995 Placed on the Dean's Roll of Excellence for 1994
Award and Prize Exhibitions:
2025 Georgetown City Council Art Prize, Finalist
2024 Georgetown City Council Art Prize, Packing Room Award, Tasmania
2020 Tidal.20, Finalist, Tasmania
2020 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Finalist, Tasmania
2018 Bay of Fires Art Prize, Finalist, Tas
2018 Glover Art Prize, Finalist, Tas
2017 Bay of Fires Art Prize, Finalist, Tas
Solo Exhibitions:
2025 Earth to Sky; Ritual for the Free, Georgetown Watch House, part of Contemporary kinimathatakinta/ Georgetown
2025 Hidden Icon, Polish Club Ashfield, Sydney
2024 Feeling Kerala, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston
2022 Spirit of Abstraction, Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart
2014 Colour Fields: Inner Vision, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston
2013 Local Colour Theory: Summer, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston
Selected Curated Group Exhibitions:
2025 Rise, QVMAG Gallery, Launceston
2023 Emerge: eleventh edition, Brunswick Street Gallery
2023 A Thread Through Time, COMA Gallery, Sydney, curated by Renata Brak
2021 The Life I Have Not Lived but Can Remember, feminist exhibition, Otaki Library, NZ, curated by Renee Gerlich, NZ
2017 Too Much Truth, Thistle Hall, feminist exhibition, Wellington, NZ, curated by Renee Gerlich, NZ
2016 Tarkine in Motion, Long Gallery, Hobart
Curatorial
2020 destruction/creation, art and practice, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tas
showcasing practices of artists who work with a process of erasure or re-assemblage.
Residencies
2022 Salamanca Art Centre, Artist’s Cottage, Hobart
2015- 2016 Kings Bridge Cottage Residency, Launceston
Collections:
2005 Queen Victoria and Art Museum Collection, purchased by Launceston Art Foundation:
Infinity, Linoprint, 2005
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“The purchase through the generous support of the Launceston Art Foundation of four major pieces of art including Peter Schouten's Kakapo and with works by Ian North, Philip Wolfhagen and Joanna Pinkiewicz. “
Media:
2022 The Examiner:
https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7588330/colourful-abstracts-a-spiritual-connection-for-artist/
2021 Recorded interview about my practice by Kerry Turnbull from Engage Arts:
https://engagearts.com.au/2021/11/10/colour-and-creativity/?fbclid=IwAR07BrH6dDwEnegm-OqP3aYOiq_VUH6X-3Sa7HK7-R68kmsfcM6YoUeAuqI
Memberships
Interweave Arts Board Member
Contemporary Art Tasmania Member
Professional Development:
2024 Online 4-week course ‘Drawing Out the Spirit: Ibn Arabi and the Art of the Unseen’, with Dr. Ali Hussain (Phd in Mysticism, Lecturer at University of Michigan)
2022-2023 Kochi Biennale, India
2023 ‘On critical curating’, talk and workshop with Prof. Dorothee Richter, Zurich at the Kochi Biennale, India
2023 Slide presentation Gov. Collage of Fine Arts, Thrissur, Kerala, India