Personal Details
Location: Mansfield, Victoria - Australia
Qualifications: B. Ed (Art & Crafts) 1987
Dip. Arts - Ceramics 2004
AWARDS / GRANTS:
2009 Arts Victoria Grant - Artists-In-Schools Program at Mansfield Primary School
2008 Winner 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize - Mansfield Shire section, for the painting titled
'Regeneration' as judged by Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson and Peter Rancie.
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibitions
2011 New Work - Geelong Gallery foyer
2008 'Wildflower' - Craft Victoria EnCounter space
2007-9 Mt Buller - concurrently with Mt Buller Art Prize
2006 'Elemental Exposure' Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2011 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino Japan
- awarded Honourable Mention
2011 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award - Finalist
2010 State of Design Festival - Design:Made:Trade, Royal Exhibition Buildings,Carlton
2009 Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary National Award - Finalist
2009 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award - Finalist,
*'Firewheel' acquired for Manningham City Council Public Art Collection
2008 Mt Buller Art Prize for painting, (see Awards above)
2007 Fringe Furniture - Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Museum
2007 Mt Buller Art Prize - painting
2005 'On The Table' - Planet Furniture, Sydney
2004 'Composed' - VCG at Gasworks St Kilda
2003-6 Pottery Expo @, Federation Square, McClelland Gallery and Warrandyte
1987 National Tertiary Painting exhibition, Bathurst
Selected Invitational Exhibitions
2010 'Melting Pot '- a French / Australian exhibition, Manningham Gallery
2009 'Delicate Matters' - Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne
2008 'In The Making' Craft Victoria 8 August - 9 September
2007 Masterworks - Eltham College
2007 'And There Was Light' - Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong NSW
2006 'Surface Connections' - Manningham City Gallery, Victoria
2006 'High Tea - the beauty of beakers' Collect Gallery, Sydney
2004 9x5½ Exhibition - Antipodes Bookshop Gallery, Sorrento
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Beyond The Studio Door' - Life Drawing exhibition, Mansfield VIC
2010 Botanica - Spring Arts, Mansfield VIC
2005 [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne - featured Ceramic artist
2004 Graduate exhibition - Dip Arts Ceramics Holmesglen TAFE
2004 Dandenong Ranges Open Studio Weekend
2003 'Clarity' Skepsi On Swanston,
2002 'Stoked!' Exhibition, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:
- National Gallery of Victoria - 150th Anniversary commemorative vessel for NGV shop, 2011
- Bendigo Art Gallery - Ecualyptus Bell, purchased 2009
- Manningham City Council - Grevillea Lace, purchased 2009
- Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, purchased 2004
- Mazda Australia - Corporate gifts for Foundation members, 2005
- Mt Buller Resort Management - Sponsors' gifts for the RT Edgar Alpine Mt Buller Art Prize and Exhibition
-
Mt Buller Resort Management - Sponsors' gifts for the RT Edgar Alpine Mt Buller Art Prize and Exhibition & Gift for Arts Minister, Lynne Kosky
-
Commissioned to paint three 13m² murals for Taskworks, Mulgrave
- Gifts for delegates from 11 countries attending the International Ski Patrollers'
PUBLICATIONS: (Selection)
- The Weekly Times, June 29 2011
- North by North East magazine, June 2011
- 'Ceramics Today' - Jeffrey B. Snyder, 2010 Schiffer Books
- 'Handmade In Melbourne 2009', (work featured on front cover)
- High Country Times - front page, March 2008
- The Journal of Australian Ceramics - Vol 44#2, pp 54-56 2005
- Australian House & Garden magazine, pg 27 May2005
- Herald-Sun, Home magazine, pg 18 9 April 2005
- Pottery in
- Ranges Leader newspaper, 17 Sept 2003