PRESENTATIONS/GUEST SPEAKER 2024-2014
Expiry D8, MPavilion Melbourne; Dead Air-Art, Death, and Community Radio Death & Communities Conference, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath UK; Time Immemorial Six Feet Under, Design & Death, Open House Melbourne + Design Week Melbourne; Dead Air-Art, Death, and Community Radio Lifting The Lid Festival of Death and Dying UK; Grave Affairs Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas, Maldon; The Socially Activated Cemetery Roundtable, Redesigning Deathcare Conference, Melbourne University; Feed me to the Roses: environmentally friendly ways to dispose of your body Goldfields Libraries; Castlemaine State Festival Dialogues, We all know how this ends The Goods Shed; Art/Death Practice La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo; Women in the Death Care Industry CARE Symposium: Transforming values through art, ethics and feminism, Melbourne University; Dinner table taboos Life Matters, ABC Radio National; Speak Easy: Death Emerging Writer’s Festival, Brunswick Mechanics Institute; Death Studio Honours Students RMIT Design and Social Context, Melbourne; Grottoes of the Blue Mountains & Death Cafe Pecha Kucha, Carrington Hotel Katoomba.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES 2024-1998
Castlemaine State Festival; Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; The Departure, Castlemaine; c3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne; D2KDay Federation Square; ANCA, Canberra; Blue Mountains Cultural Centre City Gallery; Art Not Apart Festival, Canberra; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin; c3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne; Grant Pirrie Gallery window space, Sydney; Platform RBWH, Museum of Brisbane public art commission, Brisbane; DVAA Darwin; Cité Internationale des Arts Studio, Paris; Charles Darwin University Gallery, Darwin; Darwin Festival, Darwin; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin; Watch This SPACE Inc., Alice Springs; Gallery Sometimes, Darwin; Linden Gallery, St.Kilda.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024-1998
Radical Fields, Glenlyon; Lot19, Castlemaine; George Paton Gallery, Melbourne; c3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne; Platform Gallery, Katoomba; Castlemaine State Festival, Newstead Artspace; Melbourne Festival of Death and Dying, Dancehouse, Carlton; Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre; MAP Blue Mountains; Project Space; DVAA, Darwin & Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, NT; CHAN Contemporary Art Space, Darwin; Roommate & iCAN, Jogjakarta Indonesia; DEAF Space, Darwin; c3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery; exist in o8, International Live Art Event -Brisbane (Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts & Metro Arts) & Toowoomba (USQ Artsworx); Lost Generation Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bendigo Art Gallery; Charles Darwin University Gallery, Darwin; VCA M.Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne; Woods Street Gallery DVAA, Darwin; Perth Centre for Photography WA; Allans Walk Artist Run Space, Bendigo; g&A Studios, Sydney; Tai Hung Tol Restaurant Parap, Darwin; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art Darwin; Darwin Festival, Darwin; Manly Art Gallery & Museum NSW; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art WA; NT Writer’s Festival, Darwin; ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University Burwood VIC; Bus Gallery Inc., Melbourne; Phatspace, Darlinghurst Sydney; Platform 1, Melbourne; RMIT Faculty Gallery, Melbourne; Seventh Gallery Inc. Fitzroy; UrbanArt, Melbourne; Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong; Next Wave Festival, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne; The Public Office, Melbourne; 1st Floor Gallery & Writers Space, Fitzroy.
RESIDENCIES/LABS 2024-2007
Creative Resilience Lab, Newstead (Centre for Reworlding); PROTOtype, Castlemaine (Punctum); Sensibilities of Place, Ruth Hadlow Master Class, Noosa Hinterland QLD; Waaw Studios, Saint-Louis, Senegal; ACME Studios, London UK (Australia Council for the Arts); Cité Internationale des Arts Studio, Paris France (Art Gallery of NSW); Hill End Artists in Residence Program NSW (Bathurst Regional Art Gallery); Lost Generation Space Artist in Residence Program, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
GRANTS/AWARDS 2024-2004
Quick Response Grant -Regional Arts Victoria; Finalist, Best Production 2023, Best New Show 2022 -Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA); Project Development Grant -Castlemaine State Festival; Quick Response Grant -Regional Arts Victoria; Australian Post-Graduate Scholarship (APA) -Charles Darwin University Research and Research Training Committee, Darwin NT; Finalist, 1st Video Performance Video Festival Marseille, France; Finalist, Togart NT Contemporary Art Award exhibition, Parliament House, Darwin NT; Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Grant -Ian Potter Foundation; Janet Holmes à Court Grant -National Association for the Visual Arts; Arts Development Grant -Arts NT, NT Arts Grant Program; Volunteer Service Officer Coordinator position Australian Pavilions, Venice Biennale Italy -Australia Council for the Arts; Professional Development Grants: Arts NT; Presentation & Promotion Grant -Arts NT; Quick Response Grants -Arts NT, Regional Arts Funding; New Work Emerging Artists Grant -Australia Council for the Arts.
EDUCATION 2024-1993
Masters by Research, Visual Arts, Charles Darwin University, Darwin; Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Sculpture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University; Associate Diploma of Technology, Furniture Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology TAFE.