My Story

“I have always recorded the environment around me and how it makes me feel. I am particularly drawn to dramatic, rocky landscapes and love the immediacy of plein air painting, capturing the light, shapes and colours of what I see before me.”

Surrounded by the beautiful and sometimes austere alpine environment of Victoria’s North East, my studio looks directly to Mt Buller. My work is strongly influenced by seasonal changes on the landscape and the diversity of native Australian flora.

Field paintings are developed in the studio in a range of painting media and translucent porcelain. I revel in painting ‘en plein air’ within the landscape, trying to capture the mood of the moment. These sketches are developed into larger, more considered compositions, using oil and acrylic paints, as well as my thrown or handbuilt ceramics, where the vessel becomes my canvas.

My awarded work is held in private and public collections, both nationally and internationally, and I have been selected as a finalist in numerous art prizes for painting and ceramics. My porcelain vessels have also been given as ministerial and corporate gifts. More details below.

ARTISTIC C.V.

AWARDS / GRANTS:

2024 The Urbach Prize - 1st Runner-Up (prize money, 1 month residency September ‘24) – SAM -Shepparton

2023 Winner – Friday Foundation Prize, Best local artist – Mansfield & District Hospital Auxiliary Art Show

2019 Grant Recipient – Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant

2019 Artist Residency – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW

2011 Honourable Mention – Finalist - 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan

2009 Arts Victoria Grant – Artists-In-Schools Program at Mansfield Primary School

2008 Winner - 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize – Mansfield Shire (judges Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson & Peter Rancie)

EXHIBITIONS:

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2025 Mountains to Sea – 11-22 June - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC

2023 Resilience - 1-30 September - The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove, Victoria

2023 High Country - 14-25 June - RED Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria

2019 Escarpment – The Produce Store, Victoria.

2019 Terrain – The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove, Victoria.

2018 Mallacoota Impressions – Mallacoota Art Space, Victoria

2017 ‘Elevation’ – Without Pier Gallery, Cheltenham

2015 SNOWLINE – Alpine Central, Mt Buller, August

2011 ‘New Work’ - Geelong Gallery – foyer

2008 ‘Wildflower’ - Craft Victoria, Flinders Lane, Melbourne

2007-9 Mt Buller – concurrently with Mt Buller Art Prize

2006 ‘Elemental Exposure’ Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento

Juried Exhibitions (selection)

2025 Salon des Refusées – Lethbridge Landscape Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD

2025 Finalist – Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat VIC

2024 SAM Open : Memories, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC

2024 Finalist – Omnia Art Prize, St Kevins College, Toorak VIC

2024 Finalist – Salon des Refusées – Lethbridge Landscape Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD

2023 Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD

2023 Finalist – Harden Landscape Prize, Harden NSW

2023 SAM Open: ‘Home’, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC

2022 Finalist – Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra NSW

2022 Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD, both exhibition and salon

2022 Finalist – Omnia Art Prize, St Kevin’s College Toorak VIC

2022 Finalist - Lethbridge Landscape Prize - online salon, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD

2022 Finalist – 3 Faces Portrait Prize, Arts Council Mansfield, Mansfield VIC

2021 Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 Art Award – online Salon – Lethbridge Gallery, QLD

2021 Finalist - 3 Faces Portrait Exhibition - Arts Council Mansfield, VIC

2021 Finalist - Klytie Pate Ceramics Award - National - Mansfield, VIC

2020 Finalist - online – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award – Lethbridge Gallery, QLD

2018 Finalist – 45th Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, New South Wales

2018 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Prize, Mansfield Victoria

2017 Finalist – Victorian Craft Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2017 Finalist – Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee Victoria

2017 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Prize, Mansfield Victoria

2016 Finalist – The Alice Prize for Contemporary Art, Alice Springs

2016 Finalist – Handpicked Handmade, Gallery Klei, Sydney

2015 Finalist – Clunes National Ceramic Award, Clunes Victoria

2015 Finalist x2 – Victorian Craft Excellence Award, Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

2015 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery

2013 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery

2011 Honourable Mention – Finalist - 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan

2011 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery

2010 State of Design Festival – Design:Made:Trade, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton

2009 Finalist - Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary National Award – Manningham City Gallery

2009 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery (Acquired as a foundation piece for the Manningham Collection)

2008 Winner - 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize – Mansfield Shire (judges Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson & Peter Rancie)

2007 Finalist – Mt Buller Art Prize – painting. Mt Buller

2007 Fringe Furniture – Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Museum

2005 ‘On The Table’ - Planet Furniture, Sydney

2004 ‘Composed’ – Gasworks St Kilda

Invitational Exhibitions (selection)

2024 Melbourne Affordable Art Fair – 28 Aug-1 Sept, Vernissage Gallery

2024 FLOW – Stories From The Wetlands – 1-30 June, The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove VIC

2019 Small Works – Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT

2018 Ceramica – Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte, Victoria

2018 Canterbury Art Show, Canterbury Victoria

2017 Summer Smalls – Southern Buoy, Mornington

2017 ‘Coolart’ – Summer Exhibition, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring. Without Pier Gallery

2016 Works on Paper – Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne

2016 Contemporary Porcelain 2 – 10 Australian Masters – Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney

2016 Harvest – Mansfield Art Gallery, Mansfield

2010 Melting Pot – a French / Australian exhibition, Manningham Gallery

2009 Delicate Matters - Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne

2008 In The Making - Craft Victoria, Melbourne

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

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2024 Mansfield – 12-23 June - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC

2013 ‘Our Backyard’ – Landscape paintings, The Mansfield Produce Store in April 2013

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

2003 ‘Clarity’ Skepsi On Swanston - Melbourne

COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:

· Mansfield Shire Gift to the Governor General, Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove, 2015

· Mansfield Shire – Botanical Gardens – ‘Weather’s Coming’ sculpture – Wendy & David Jagger, 2013

· National Gallery of Victoria – 150th Anniversary commemorative vessels for NGV shop, 2011

· Bendigo Art Gallery – Eucalyptus Bell, purchased 2009

· Manningham City Council – Grevillea Lace, purchased 2009

· Mt Buller RMB – Regeneration, oil on canvas

· Mazda Australia – 25 Corporate gifts for Foundation members, 2005

· Holmesglen Institute of TAFE – collection, purchased 2004

· Ministerial Gifts – from State and Federal Governments to visiting dignitaries

PUBLICATIONS: (Selection)

Mercedes Me Magazine, March 17 2023
North East Living Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2020, pp30-33
The Age - Epicure
‘Ceramics Today’ – Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Books
Weekly Times – 29 June 2011
North By North East- May 2011
‘Handmade In Melbourne 2009’, (work featured on front cover)
House & Garden, May
EDUCATION:
1987 Bachelor of Education (Art & Crafts) Melbourne College of Advanced Education
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts – Holmesglen Institute of TAFE