EDUCATION
1979 : Completed 3 year Diploma in Art, Alexander Mackie CAE
1998: Completed Bachelor Applied Science (Social Ecology) UWS
1999: Completed Bachelor Applied Science Honours UWS
2007: Doctor of Philosophy UWS awarded 24th April 2007
1978-1983 Illustrations published in Nepean Review magazine
1981 : exhibition of drawings at Balmain Art Gallery
1983 : exhibition of drawings – private residence Edgecliffe
1984 : 1987 drawings, collages and prints shown at Ahah Dodo Craft Gallery Glebe
1985 – 1990 designing and manufacturing ‘wearable art’ ( appliqué bowties, hats and cummerbunds and hand-painted silk kimonos and scarves
Exhibited Australian Craft Show : November 1986, 1987.
Exhibited Gleneon Craft Fair : 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990.
1989- 1998 painting on silk and participating in the following exhibitions
1991 : Post Office Gallery Seaforth (joint exhibition)
1992 : Balmain Watchhouse (joint exhibition) ‘Canvas, Silk and Paper’.
1993 : Balmain Watchhouse (joint exhibition)
1994 : Balmain Watchhouse (joint exhibition)Including linocuts printed on silk
1997 : ‘Glimpses of other Worlds’ solo exhibition Cafe 40 Katoomba
1996 – 1999 Various assignments in my undergraduate degree were submitted as ‘maps’. Coloured pencil and ink on paper, they included:
1996 : Time Chart
1996 : Cartographies of Hell
1997: Chaos Myth
2000 – 2006 No artistic practice. I concentrated exclusively on my doctoral thesis :
‘The dance between Cosmography and Chorography : mapping Australia’.
Since 2008 I have been painting exclusively in oil
2009 : ‘Icon for Anabaenna’ was selected for the ‘Director’s Cut’ online exhibition of finalists in the Blake Prize for religious art.
2015 : ‘Vegetative Dreaming’ won 2nd Prize in the Blackheath Art Prize
2016 : ‘The Dance Part III’ won Commended in the BAS Winter Open Exhibition
2016 : ‘The Dance IV’ won Commended in the Blackheath Art Prize
2018 : ‘Is there Still Life?’ exhibition Braemar Gallery Springwood 22 Feb – 25 March