Recent Exhibitions

2004–09 Group exhibitions

2009
From Print to Print, Sydney Printmakers Hardware Gallery, Enmore, September
Archaeological Dig: Digging Marulan, Goulburn Regional Gallery, August 8 – September 12. To view the gallery pages for this exhibition click here.
Fluid Connections, Kerrie Lowe gallery, August to September, with Willi Michalski and Dzidra Mitchell
Print to Print, Sydney Printmakers, group exhibition, September 5–25

2008
sink or swim, Orange Regional Gallery – 8/2-6/4, Gold Coast City Art Gallery – 18/10 to 7/12
Sydney Printmakers, Taylor Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney
Sighting the whale, new works by members of Primrose Paper Arts, Mosman Art Gallery
Ocean to Harbour, new works by members of Warringah Print Studio, Mosman Art Gallery

2006 & 2008
An Australian Image, Atelier Skåra, Oslo, Norway, and 2008- Identity, Atelier Skåra, Oslo, Norway, Sydney Printmakers members

2007
sink or swim touring: Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, Geraldton Regional Gallery, Darwin Visual Arts Assoc. and the Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australian Catholic University, NSW, 2008.

2006
sink or swim, exhibition 24 June – 23 July 2006 at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. To view the gallery pages for this exhibition click here.
Sydney Printmakers, Taylor Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney, 2006
Force of fire, with Willi Michalksi, ceramic artist, Marianne Newman Gallery, 2006           
China: Print exhibition at Guangzhau, Guangdong (Canton) province

2004–5
dodecahedron = the force of creative command, exhibition at Flinders Street Gallery, 12 artists
Recent Acquisitions, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, NSW
Traces, Southern Highlands Printmakers, Wollongong Regional Gallery
Southern Highlands Printmakers at Campbelltown Regional Gallery
COFA Staff and students—Prints at Chang-Mai, Thailand
Prints at College of Eastern Utah, USA
Prints at Atelier Circulaire, Quebec, Canada
An Australian Image, Atelier Skåra, Oslo, Norway
Palm to Paper, hand made paperworks at Palm House, Botanical Gardens

2001–07 Selected for exhibitions – international, national and local

2005, 2007 & 2008
Broken Hill Outback Art Award, Broken Hill, NSW

2007
Wrexham (Wales UK) International Print Exhibition

2005
Broken Hill Outback Award, Broken Hill, NSW
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria
Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbeltown Regional Gallery

2004
Big, Warringah Print Studio, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
China:Print exhibition at Guangzhau, Guangdong (Canton) province
Duraloid Silk Cut Award, Victoria
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award, Victoria
Willoughby City Art Prize, (2002, 2003 & 2004) Sydney

2001–3
CUPRUM International Biennial of Prints—Metal techniques, Lubin, Poland
The China Project – book – exchange prints catalogue
MFA exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Exploration, COFA Exhibition /Performance Spaces
11th International Bulgarian Biennale, Varna
Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Japan
PhD and MFA students, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
Canson National Print Prize
Toowoomba Regional Gallery Biennial Exhibition, Queensland
Passion for Paper, Mosman Art Gallery
Exploration, COFA Exhibition/Performance Spaces, COFA
Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania

2002–04 Solo Exhibitions

2004 Hot & Cold, Hardware Fine Art
2002 Site Lines, Hardware Fine Art
2002 Spanning the Mark, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 2002, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

Awards

Broken Hill Outback Art Award, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, 3rd prize
2006 Dylon Paper Award: Dying to Make Paper Awards Exhibition 2006, Primrose Paper Arts, Sydney
2004 Australia Council grant with Gary Shinfield, research for new work towards an exhibition at Manly Gallery and Museum, 2006
2003 & 2005 Best Stand award, Sydney Art on Paper Fair—Independents Stand (6 artists)
2003 North Sydney Art Prize—Contemporary Art
2001: Prize - the CoFA Alumni Paperworks Exhibition
2001 North Sydney Art Prize
2001 Student Research Grant (CoFA UNSW)—overseas research
1996 Joseph Lebovic Print Prize (CoFA UNSW)
1990–94 Two grants from the NSW Ministry for the Arts and one from the Australia Council for Primrose Paperworks Co-op Ltd.

Education

2003 Certificate IV, Workplace Training and Assessment
1998–02 Master of Fine Arts (Research -print media), CoFA, UNSW, part-time
1994–96 Master of Art (Studio Art - print media),CoFA, UNSW, part-time
1982–83 Boston. Mass. USA, non-degree student at: Museum of Fine Arts School,
Massachusetts College of Art
Other: Carriage House Paper Mill, Rugg Road Paper Mill
1979–81 Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby: drawing, print media
1970–76 Bachelor of Arts, Sydney University, Diploma of Education, Sydney Teachers College, Post-Grad. Diploma of Arts (Industrial Archaeology) Sydney University

Professional

2003–09 COFA, UNSW Art School sessional teaching, Printmaking
2008 Fowlers Gap Research Station, UNSW- presentation and print workshop, July
2007 Invited to present a paper at Impact 5, International Print Symposium, Estonia - October
2007 Artist in residence at an Archaeological excavation, Marulan NSW -December.
2007 Invited to present a paper at Impact 5, International Print Symposium, Estonia
2001–03 CREATE Australia: (National) Visual Arts, Craft and Design Industry Training Project: Project writer
1975-07 Visual Arts teacher and Head of Dept (Visual Arts) at several schools, teacher at TAFE, Co-ordinator of HSC program at Sydney Institute of Technology (TAFE) 2001
2000–06 S.I.T. Ultimo ( TAFE), part time Visual Arts teacher for HSC, including stint as Co-ordinator for the HSC program at Ultimo
2003–05 Artist in residence at several Sydney schools and gifted and talented programs
2003 & 2005 Sydney Art on Paper Fair – Independents stand
2002 Invited to present a paper at the International Conference on Printmaking, Auckland University, New Zealand, May 17–19
2001 (May) Invited to speak at the Odyssey International Print Symposium, Cortona, Italy
2001 August to September: Artist-in-residence, Bundanon
President of the Sydney Printmakers, active menber of  the Warringah  Printmakers Studio and the Southern Highlands Printmakers
1989–1994 Co-ordinator, Primrose Paperworks Co-op.  Ltd

Biography

2008 Mosman Daily newspaper, June 12, 2008, article and image – Dance!, p.51 Exhibition- Drawn from Life, Marianne Newman Gallery, June
2008 Mosman Magazine, March 2008, image Red Alert included in article on Sighting the whale, new works from Primrose Paper Arts, pp.22-23
2008 Sighting the whale, catalogue essay by Katrina Cashman, Curator Mosman Gallery, p7. Red Alert on cover of catalogue
2008 Mosman Magazine, June 2008, Image-Tracking, included for article for From Ocean to Harbour, recent works by members of Warringah Printmakers Studio, p.15
2008 From Ocean to Harbour, recent works by members of the Warringah Printmakers Studio, catalogue essay by Tony Geddes and Katrina Cashman, Mosman Gallery, p5.2006 Australian Art Collector, Issue 38, October – December, 2006, by article by Sasha Grishin, p.352
2006 Imprint, Spring, 2006, Volume 41, Number 3, Review - Sink or Swim exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, 23 June – 23 July, by Isobel Johnson,  p. 20-21
2006 Sink or swim catalogue
2006 Force of fire catalogue
2006 COFA Staff and students- Prints at Chang-Mai, Thailand, catalogue
2006 Sydney Prints, 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H.Ervin Gallery, catalogue
2006 Print exhibition at Guangzhau, Guangdong (Canton) province, catalogue       
2004/6 Duraloid National Print Award, 2004 and 2006, Victoria, catalogue
2005 Palm to Paper, paperworks at Palm House, Botanical Gardens, Sydney, catalogue2004 State of the Arts, April to June Art Now, by Laura Murray Cree, p.44
2004 Premier Sydney Homes, Issue 13, 23 April 2004. Front cover image, p.2–3, article by Charlotte Adams
2004 Imprint, Spring, Volume 39, Number 3, Matrix (womb and surface) sensitive, protective, conceptual, review by Fiona Barbouttis, selected work by Warringah Printmakers Studio members in Guandong Province Exhibition Hall, Guangzhou, China, 3-13 September, p.6
2004 Imprint, Spring, Volume 39, Number 3, Traces, review by Anne Ryan, exhibition of prints by members of the Southern Highlands Printmakers, Wollongong City Gallery, 31 July – 5 September, p.7
2002 Exploration, curated by Exhibition Management and Curatorial Studies students, COFA, UNSW at COFA Exhibition/Performance Spaces, exhibition catalogue
2002 A Passion for Paper, retrospective exhibition of hand made paper art works from Primrose Paperworks  Co-operative, Mosman Art Gallery, 18 May – 18 June
2001 Exploration, COFA Exhibition /Performance Spaces, 2001, catalogue
2001 Mark as printmakers, by Sasha Grishin, review of Southern Highlands Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong