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Education

2025 UTAS, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (First Class Honours)

2016 TasTAFE, TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

1997 UTAS, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Upcoming in 2026:

2025-2026 Hidden Icon, Polish Club Ashfield, Sydney

solo exhibition curated by Renata Brak

2025-2026 Earth and Sky: ritual for the free, Georgetown Watchhouse, historic goal, Tasmania

contemporary art installation within a historical colonial context, sponsored by the Georgetown Council

2026 February, RISE, QVMAG, Launceston, Tasmania

exhibition showcasing emerging and mid-career Tasmanian artists

2026 July Elemental, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper based on the elemental experiences of water and earth.

Award and Prize Exhibitions

2025 Georgetown City Council Art Prize, finalist

2024 Georgetown City Council Art Prize, Packing Room Award, Tas

2020 Tidal.20 Art Prize finalist, Tas

2020 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania finalist, Tas

2018 Bay of Fires Art Prize finalist, Tas

2018 Glover Art Prize finalist, Tas

2017 Bay of Fires Art Prize finalist, Tas

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Feeling Kerala, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston

mixed media installation

2022 Spirit of Abstraction, Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart

paintings, sound installation, works on paper

2014 Colour Fields: Inner Vision, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston

works on paper, installation

2013 Local Colour Theory: Summer, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston

works on paper, installation

Group Exhibitions

2025 Summer Salon, Poimena Gallery, Launceston

2024 Summer Salon, Poimena Gallery, Launceston

2023 Emerge: eleventh edition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

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

2020 creation/ destruction, art and process, Poimena Gallery, Tas

2017 Too Much Truth, Thistle Hall, feminist exhibition, Wellington, NZ

curated by Renee Gerlich, NZ

2017 Wildereness, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2016 Tarkine in Motion Group exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart

2016 Tarkine in Motion, documentary

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 to create work:

Mae Finlayson textiles), Vanessa Vanderburg (photography), Justin Chapman (painting), Zac Saldana (sound) and Joanna Pinkiewicz (paper)

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