CV
1987 Born Cessnock, Australia
2008 Advanced Diploma Newcastle Art School TAFE, Newcastle
2011 Bachelor of Fine Art (Distinction) University of Newcastle
2012 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Class 1 University of Newcastle
2016 Master of Philosophy (Fine Art) The University of Newcastle, including one year exchange at & Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC.
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Finalist for 2018 Create NSW, Fellowship Emerging, Art Space, Sydney
2015 Margaret Olley Memorial Scholarship
2014 APA University Scholarship
2013 Nick Waterlow OAM Highly Commended Award
2013 Finalist for the Macquarie Group Emerging artist
2013 Winner of the $35,000 Doctor Harold Schenberg Scholarship and the National Tertiary Art Prize, PICA
2013 Finalist in “Hatched” the National Tertiary Art Prize, PICA
2012 University of Newcastle Student Art Prize
2012 The Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship, University of Newcastle
2008 Emerging Artist, Art Scrawl, Hunter valley
2007 Finalist Carol Duval Memorial Award for Painting
2005 Awarded Excellence in art Mount View High school
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Bodies On A Rock, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW, curated by Kim Blunt
2019 Poems To The Poems, Matsushima Bunko Museum, Japan, (curated by Ryota Sato)
2017 Relics, GCS Gallery, in association ACP, Sydney, (curated by Casuarina Bird)
2016 Rites of Passage: The Lost art of Being Human, WATT Space Gallery, Newcastle
2015 Traveller, Standard Practice Space, NYC,(curated by Jessie English)
2013 Primal Crown, 7000 Padauk, Myanmar, (curated by Nathalie Johnston)
2012. Primal Crown, Honours exhibition, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
2012. RE’IM, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, (curated by David Wills)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 20:20 “Edge Of The Garden”, MAMA, Albury, (curated by Nanette Orly, Andrea Briggs, Michael Moran).
2019 All The Rivers Run, The Australian Consulate, NYC, (curated by Simone Douglas)
2019 At The Edge Of The Universe, Pingyao International Festival of Photography, China, (curated by Simone Douglas)
2018 C’mon step on my Lego “CONTINGENCY”, LungA studios, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, (curated by Lotte Rose Kjær Skau & Daniel Grossman)
2018 818 Project, Newcastle Art Gallery, (curated by Sarah Johnson)
2018 Weaving Stories, Art Space Realm, Maroondah, Melbourne
2018 Gift @ First Wink, Top Floor at Wellington, Sydney, (curated by Emily Parsons Lord & Maeve Parker)
2017 2018 Create NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Curated by Talia Linz, Art Space, Sydney
2016 Its Timely, The Lock Up Gallery, Newcastle, (curated by Gary Carsley)
2016 Home, Auckland Festival of Photography, NZ (curated by Simone Douglas)
2015 Scraping, Digging, Unearthing, 25 East Gallery, New York
2015 25 WATT, WATT Space Gallery, Newcastle
2015 Ash Island and its Transformations, “Hattie & Nellie”, The Lock Up, Newcastle, (curated by Belinda Howden)
2014 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist, Sydney
2013 Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, (curated by Leigh Rob)
2013 Alterations, Curve Gallery, Newcastle
2012 Kindred, UON Annual student art prize, Watt Space, Newcastle
2012 Art Collectors Choice, Newcastle University Gallery, Newcastle
2012 Hood Winked, Curve Gallery, Newcastle, (curated by Lisa Who)
2011 3:5 Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
2011 WAM, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Art Guide Australia
2020 The Maitland Mercury
2018 Art Guide Australia
2018 The Newcastle Herald
2018 Art Monthly
2016 The Newcastle Herald Review
2015 A Bowery Residency Promo
2013 Dec 30 The Maitland Mercury
2013 September Real Time 116 (Aug/Sept issue) Cover and article
2013 January 1 Cultural Developments Featured Artists, (web)
2013 April 24 PICA interview,(web)
2013 April 22 The Australian
2013 April Art Collectors
2013 April 22 The West Australian
2013 April 23 The University of Sydney (Web)
2013 April 23 The University of Western Australia (Web)
2013 June 7 Myanmar art Revolution Blog
2012 March 3 The Newcastle Harold
RESIDENCIES
2020 Parramatta AIR Program, Australia
2019 Matsushima Bunko Museum, Kojima, Japan
2019 Space Bodies III, Ontario, Canada
2018 LungA School, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2016 Lunga School, Seydisfiordur, Iceland
COLLECTIONS
The Macquarie Group,The University of Newcastle, Curve Gallery.
