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Education
2016 TasTAFE, TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
1997 UTAS, Bachelor of Fine Arts: Textiles, Drawing
Award and Prize Exhibitions
2024 Georgetown City Council Art Prize, Packing Room Award, Tas
2020 Tidal.20 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
Group Exhibitions
2024 Summer Salon, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
2023 Small Works Group Show, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston
2023 Emerge: eleventh edition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2023 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Pejean Gallery, Launceston
2023 A Thread Through Time, COMA Gallery, Sydney
curated by Renata Brak (Cooee Art Gallery)
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)
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Feeling Kerala, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston
2022 Spirit of Abstraction, Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart
paintings, sound intallation, 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
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