Born 1971 Sydney
Studies
1999-2002 Master of Fine Arts MFA, University of New South Wales (College of Fine Arts)
1996-1998 Assisted Robert Klippel with assembling and painting sculpture
1989-1991 Diploma of Fine Arts, East Sydney Technical College (National Art School)
Teaching
2017-2021 National Art School, Sydney
2002-2016 Meadowbank TAFE, St.George TAFE, Wollongong West TAFE, Goulburn TAFE,
Goulburn TAFE, Moss Vale TAFE, Queanbeyan TAFE
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Illawarra landscapes (2014-2022), Alexandra Sasse Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Flagstaff Road Watters Gallery, Sydney
2016 Outer Harbour Watters Gallery, Sydney
2015 Riversdale Dreaming, Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC Sydney
2015 Port Kembla Watters Gallery, Sydney
2014 Plein Air Paintings and Works on Paper Watters Gallery
2013 New Paintings Watters Gallery
2011 Objects Watters Gallery, Sydney
2010 Streamliners Watters Gallery, Sydney
2008 ¼ acre Legge Gallery, Sydney
2008 Wednesday Morning Soma Galleries, Adelaide
2007 Honeymoon Suite Legge Gallery, Sydney
2006 Dazzle Ship Wollongong City Gallery
2005 Paintings and Prints Legge Gallery, Sydney
2004 Squadron Legge Gallery, Sydney
2003 New Work Legge Gallery, Sydney
2002 New Work Legge Gallery, Sydney
2002 Master of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition COFA Exhibition and Spaces, University of New South Wales
2001 Collage Legge Gallery, Sydney
2000 New Work Legge Gallery, Sydney
1999 Collage Legge Gallery, Sydney
1998 Assemblages Legge Gallery, Sydney
1997 New Paintings Legge Gallery, Sydney
1997 Paintings Dogget Street Studios, Brisbane
1996 Paintings Legge Gallery, Sydney
1994 Paintings Legge Gallery, Sydney
1993 Paintings Legge Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2022
Australian Watercolour Institute 96th Annual Exhibition, Juniper Hall, Sydney
2021
Christmas exhibition, Alexandra Sasse Gallery, Melbourne
Illawarra landscapes, Queenscliff Gallery, Queenscliff, Victoria
Salon des Refuses, The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Draw, Alexandra Sasse Gallery, Melbourn
The Kings’s School Art Prize, The King’s School, Sydney
2020
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Tradition and Transformation II: 2020 Taiwan-Australia International Watercolour Exhibition. Dadun Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan
The Frank Watters Gift UTS Gallery, Sydney
Urbanscapes, with Hendrik Kolenberg, May Space, Sydney
2019
Monochrome, Wollongong Art Gallery
Dimensions Variable, staff exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2018
Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery.
Adelaide Perry Prize, Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC Croydon
An Idiosyncratic Selection, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2017
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007– 2017, Orange Regional Gallery
LOCK the GATE: stop the undermining at Suttons Forest NSW, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Australian Watercolour Institute 94th Annual Exhibition, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Class Act, Curated by Nick Vickers, See Street Gallery, Meadowbank TAFE
2016
War Watters Gallery, Sydney
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament House
Salon des Refuses, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Vivid: The Luminous World of Watercolour, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Steel Town Port Kembla, Wollongong Art Gallery
Heads, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2015
Big and Little, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament House
2014
Watters Gallery Fifty Years, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Kedumba Drawing Award, Wild Valley Art Park, Orange Regional Gallery
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament House
2013
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
2012
Ron Lambert, Stand up Close, Wollongong City Gallery
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Contemporary Prints, Wollongong City Gallery
2011
Frank’s Flat, Maitland Regional Gallery
2010
Art Month, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art fair 2010
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2009
Seeking Images, interpreter dreamer pragmatist, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Into the Blue, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Works on Paper, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary & Indigenous limited edition prints in association with Duck Prints
NG Art Gallery, Sydney COLLABORATION WITH DUCK PRINT FINE ART
2008
Black and White, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2008
2007
Art Sydney 2007
Hazlehurst Art on Paper Award, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Works on Paper, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2006
Urban Theme, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Large Sculpture, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Group Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2006
Ghosts of the Coast, Gallery 4a, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Legge Gallery Artists at Big Star Gallery, Adelaide
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery
2004
Packsaddle, New England Regional Gallery
Stock Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2004
Waverly Art Prize
Base Ten New Directions in Painting, Side-on Gallery
Group Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2003
Pointlessness, Wollongong University Gallery
Collage, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2002 Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2002
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
The True History of the Kelly Gang, First Draft Gallery
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2001 Full Fathom Five, Rocket Art Gallery Newcastle
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
Packsaddle, New England Regional Gallery
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2000 Ten Year Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Take, Five Rocket Art Gallery Newcastle
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Proposed Acquisitions, Sir Hermann Black Gallery Sydney University
1999 Guitar Shaped World, Tamworth Regional Gallery
Evolution, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Hall Show, College of Fine Arts (UNSW)
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1998 Aloha – Live from Annandale: Elvis Resurrection Special ‘98,
Gallery 235 Nelson St. Annandale
Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Award, Lanecove Council Chambers
Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Gallery
Group Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Christmas Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1997 SCEGGS Redlands, SCEGGS Sydney
Group Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Flipper, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney
Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Gallery
Sanguine Valedictions, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1996 View, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Theresa Byrnes Foundation Art Auction, Westpac, Sydney
Mellow Down Easy, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Gallery
1995 Summer Exhibition, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Artists Don’t Believe in Sanity Clause, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Alumni, Cellblock Theatre National Art School
Waverly Art Prize
Group Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1993 Tempest, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1992 Artist’s Eye, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Thisness, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Art Gallery
1991 Graduate Show, Cellblock Theatre East Sydney Technical College
Paint Space, Ten Taylor Street Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibition, Juniper Hall Paddington, Sydney
Awards
2015 Winner, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament House
2009 Winner, Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery
2006 Winner, Alvaro Painting Prize, Berrima District Art Society
Highly Commended, Loquat Valley Art Prize
Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Collections
Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC Sydney
Art Bank
Laverty Collection, Sydney
Liverpool TAFE
Maitland Regional Art Galley
National Art School, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NSW Parliament
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
The Ergas Collection, ACT
TAFE NSW
University of Technology, Sydney
Wollongong Art Gallery
University of Wollongong Art Collection
University of Wollongong in Dubai
Private collections in Australia and Overseas
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