Born 1967, Adelaide, Australia
Lives & Works Bathurst, NSW
Studies & Travel
1998 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship: Europe
Studio Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Slade school of Fine Art, London, (Summer School)
1992-93 Master of Art (by coursework) COFA, UNSW, Sydney
1991 International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy,
1986-88 BA Visual Art, City Art Institute, (now COFA, UNSW), Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Survey show: Sustaining Light, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2012 Paintings & Drawings King Street Gallery on William
2011 New Works Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2007 painting and drawing king street gallery on burton, Sydney
2005 Past and Present Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2002 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2000 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1997 Access Contemporary Art Gallery
1996 Access Contemporary Art Gallery
1994 Bare Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 AR+COLLECT : Celebration of Colour, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2019 New Aquisitions, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2018 Artstate NSW, My Own Backyard, Bathurst
2016 200×200 Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 30 years 30 Artists Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Salon des Refuses SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2009 Director’s Choice Exhibition Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2008 7th Drawing Biennale Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
2007 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Recent Acquisitions, 2004 – ’07
2004 Small Wonders Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, Sydney
2002 Australian Women Artists Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Sydney
1996, ’97,’99,’04 Blake Prize for Religious Art
’05,06
1995 Cities and Water The Gallery, West India Quay, London Docklands, UK
1993,’96,’97,’99, Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery New South Wales
’00,’01,’03,’11
Awards/Commissions
2017 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney
2016 Artist in Residence Haefliger Cottage, Hill End
2013 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery Sydney
2010 Central West Regional Artists Award and Viewers Choice Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
2006 Artist in Residence, Haefliger Cottage, Hill End, sponsored by Country Energy
Windmill Trust Scholarship [joint recipient]
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, PLC, Sydney
Alan Gamble Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2003-4 Communion of Saints Commission, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta
2000 Waverley Woollahra Art Prize
1998 Art Gallery of New South Wales- Dr Denise Hickey Studio Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts,Paris
Dyason Bequest, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1997 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship
1996 Blake Prize for Religious Art
Blake Prize- Viewers Choice Award
1995 Kedumba Drawing Award (jointly)
Waverley Woolahra, Drawing Prize and Miniature Prize