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Since 2009 my work has explored humour and the mundane as it occurs within Australian Caucasian culture. I have currently made a shift in my artistic development extending myself on a more personal level. My current project titled Disturbed Habitats is an exploration into my early childhood memories. I have a keen interest in exploring areas with an ephemeral environment and time.
I transform my early childhood memories into hybrid, solid, coded objects. The collection is structured in accordance to my memory between the ages of one to six. Subjective and collective points of view are expressed; the objects are childhood diversions, siphoned from personal and collective History.
Ephemeral memories are entrapped in glass domes like museum specimens or artefacts in eighteenth-century cabinet of curiosities with elements from nature such as oceanic creatures, insects and butterflies. The objects are eternalized inside an environment sealed off from life, a rejection of departure and a rejection of the instant of death. The objects are fixed in gelatine in the glass domes, set as still point.
Born 1965
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2011 |
Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Australian Made |
| 2011 |
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Project Space, Disturbed Habitats |
| 2009 |
Abi Edwards Gallery, Tonimbuk, Planetary Expedition |
| 2008 |
The Vault Gallery, Trafalgar, Aeracura |
| 2008 |
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Lateral Rhythms |
| 2006 |
Montsalvat, Eltham, Places in the Mind |
| 2005 |
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Wet Metaphysical |
Group Exhibitions:
| 2011 |
Monash University, Sculpture Trail, Untitled |
| 2011 |
Federation Square, Melbourne, Sculpture and DVD on the Big Screen, Emergence: Art on the Move |
| 2010 |
Monash, Switchback Gallery, Churchill, Wonder/Wander |
| 2010 |
Monash University, Sculpture Trail, Untitled |
| 2010 |
Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, Sculpture, Fields of View |
| 2010 |
Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Sculpture, Fields of View |
| 2010 |
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Sculpture, Fields of View |
| 2010 |
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Sculpture, Fields of View |
| 2010 |
Queen's Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne, Sculpture, Fields of View |
| 2009 |
Abi Edwards Gallery, Tonimbuk, ECO |
| 2009 |
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Art Melbourne, Sculpture |
| 2009 |
Berry's Creek, Leongatha, Sculpture Garden, Sculpture |
| 2008 |
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Art Melbourne, Sculpture and Photography |
| 2008 |
Tyres Art Festival, Photography, Forests After Fire |
| 2008 |
Arc Yinnar, Yinnar, Biennial Drawing Prize Exhibition, Drawing |
| 2008 |
Montsalvat, Eltham, Sculptors Victoria Annual Exhibition, Sculpture |
| 2008 |
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Sculpture, China's Influence |
| 2008 |
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Sculpture, UNLEASHED |
| 2008 |
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Sculpture, GIPPSLAND |
| 2007 |
Jiu Jiang, Arts & Cultural Centre, China, Sculpture, GIPPSLAND |
| 2007 |
Queen's Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne, Sculpture, GIPPSLAND |
| 2007 |
Burrinja Gallery, Upwey, Sculpture, GIPPSLAND |
| 2007 |
Art Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Photography |
| 2006 |
Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan, Sculpture, GIPPSLAND |
| 2006 |
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Sculpture, GIPPSLAND |
| 2006 |
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Kodak Salon Exhibition |
| 2006 |
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Melbourne Affordable Art, Photography |
| 2004 |
Arc Yinnar Gallery, Yinnar, Photography |
| 2003 |
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Installation |
| 2002 |
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Photography |
| 2001 |
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Photography |
Recent Studies:
| 2011-2012 |
MVA, Monash University |
| 2007-2010 |
Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design, Monash University |
| 2000-2006 |
Diploma of Visual Arts & Design, TAFE |
Awards:
| 2010 |
Award for Design, Rowland Commercial Catering, South Yarra, Victoria |
| 2008 |
Artistic Merit Award, Monash University, Tyres Art Festival, Photo Exhibition |
| 2007 |
Arts Business RAVE Award, Group Exhibition GIPPSLAND |
| 2007 |
Baw Baw Shire Excellence & Innovation Business Award, Group Exhibition GIPPSLAND |
| 2004 |
Warragul Art Show, First Prize, Best Contemporary Art, Mixed Medium |
Commissions & Acquisitions:
| 2008 |
Angel Flight, Brisbane, Sculpture and Photography |
| 2008 |
Painting, Latrobe Regional Gallery, So Swish Cafe |
| 2007 |
Baw Baw Shire Council, Sculpture, Flower of the West |
| 2007 |
Local Government MP, Mixed Medium Hanging Sculpture, Baw Baw Dreaming |
| 2007 |
China, Major of Jiu Jiang, Sculpture, Flower of the South |
| 2005 |
R.T.L. Yallourn Energy, Commission, Mixed Medium, Regenerated Wetlands |
| 2005 |
Private Collector, Commission, Photography Series, Places in the Mind |
| 2004 |
R.T.L. Yallourn Energy, Commission, Photography, Open Cut Mine |
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