Community Citizen of the Year 2024, City of Albany, Western Australia.
Awarded for supporting Albany's artistic community for over twenty years.
EDUCATION
Masters of Philosophy (Australian Studies), University of Western Australia, 1991, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Western Australia, 1983
Awarded for supporting Albany's artistic community for over twenty years.
EDUCATION
Masters of Philosophy (Australian Studies), University of Western Australia, 1991, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Western Australia, 1983
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EXHIBITIONS
SOLO 2019 Continuity, NEXIS Exhibition Space, Narrogin 2017 Continuity, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany 2014 Journey, WA Museum-Albany 2013 Walking, WA Museum-Albany 2012 New Works, Alkoomi Wines, Albany 2011 Reaching Out, Alkoomi Wines, Albany AWARDS 2015 Winner, Shire of Manjimup Art Award, Pemberton Art Prize Winner, Works on Paper category, Kondinin Art Prize Highly Commended, Plantagenet Art Prize 2014 Highly Commended, Great Southern Art Award GROUP
2024 MIX Unplugged, Museum of the Great Southern 2023 Immerse, MIX Artists, Albany Town Hall & Collie Art Gallery 2022 Monochrome, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany 2021 The Alternative Archive, John Curtin Gallery, Bentley MIX IT UP, Albany Town Hall Gallery Refugium, MIX Artists, Museum of the Great Southern and The Painted Tree Gallery, Northcliffe Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries 2020 Hanging by a Thread, WA Fibre & Textiles, Holmes a Court Gallery, West Perth CAST, Princess Royal Forts, Albany Navigate, MIX Artists, Albany Entertainment Centre 2019 Track, Moores Building Art Gallery, Fremantle An Alternative Archive-MIX, MIX Artists, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany 2018 Crypsis, Barracks Gallery, Princess Royal Forts, Albany Galvanise, Artsource, Old Custom House, Fremantle Reservoir, MIX Artists, Albany Town Hall and ArtGeo, Busselton South West Art Now, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries 2017 On the Map, Print Council of Australia and Printmakers Association of WA, Mundaring Arts Centre. Found in Translation, MIX Artists, Mark Blythe Fine Jewellery, Albany TROPHY, MIX Artists, Albany Town Hall 2016 DRIFT, Viewpoint Inc, Vancouver Arts Centre, SQUARE, MIX Artists, Albany Town Hall Mamang-Koort Heart of the Whale, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany 2015 HomeFRONT, MIX Artists, Albany Town Hall 2014 WEB, MIX Artists, Albany Town Hall 2013 LightHouse, MIX Artists, WA Museum-Albany 2012 Decade exhibition, Vancouver Arts Centre, ten(T), MIX Artists, WA Museum-Albany 2011 Take Me Home, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany In the MIX, MIX Artists, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany |
SELECTED CURATORIAL
Open Borders (2022-23) Lead Curator for State-wide project which culminated in a survey exhibition at John Curtin Gallery, Perth, August 10 to October 8, 2023. MIX Artists contemporary art exhibitions - Co-ordinator for Immerse (2023), MIX IT UP (2021), An Alternative Archive - MIX (2019), Reservoir (2018), HomeFRONT (2015), WEB (2014), LightHouse (2013), ten(T) (2012), In the MIX (2011), Co-curator for Hotspot Cultural Project (2006) and Liminal (2005). Miaritch - Collections of Noongar Art, co-curator, Albany Town Hall, July 2023. City of Albany - Curator of 40 Years of the Vancouver Arts Centre (2020), The Story of Wool, Vancouver Arts Centre (2017), Bella Kelly Retrospective, Vancouver Arts Centre (2016), In Print - Printmaking Revealed, Vancouver Arts Centre (2015), Ripples in the Pond, the influence of the Carrolup School on Noongar Art, Vancouver Arts Centre, (2014), Co-ordinator, City of Albany Art Prize (2007 - 2012). Viewpoint Inc - Curator Metamorphosis (2013), Illuminate (2011) and 20 Years and Beyond (2009). New Arts Inc - Curator and project manager, Paperartzi '07, '09 and '11 2D and 3D artworks using paper, presented in shopfronts, outdoor spaces and galleries in Albany. ArtsNarrogin - Curator, The Carol and Peter Taylor Collection inaugural exhibition (2016), Curator, 50/65 Selected works from the Shire of Narrogin Collection (2018). Touring Exhibitions Bella Kelly Retrospective 2016 HomeFRONT 2016-18 (co-ordination) Hotspot 2006-7 Intervention - Contemporary Art from the Pilbara 2001-3 Listen to the Land - Aboriginal Art from the Edith Cowan University Art Collection, 1998 Guy Grey-Smith's Landscapes of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, 2005-6 From Silkscreen to Computer Screen: 20 Years of the Fremantle Print Award, City of Fremantle Collection, 1995-6 Collections Curator, City of Fremantle Collection 1993-6 Interpretation/Writing WAnderland, writer for South West region 2020, https://visitwanderland.com.au/ Landmarks and Laneways, FORM & City of Albany, Gnowangerup Aboriginal Corporation Cultural Heritage Centre, 2004-13 City of Albany Amity Heritage Precinct, 2007-9 |
