CV

Education

2021: Bachelor of Textiles (Design) with Distinction, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

2010 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts and Music (VCAM)

2005 First Class Honours in Fine Art, Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University, Brisbane

2003 Bachelor of Visual Art in Fine Art, Majoring in Painting at QCA

Awards, Residencies and Grants

2024 The Atrium, tenancy 16, Fed Square, residency with ‘Surface Paradise Workshops’, Paypal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Program

2023 NG Art Creative Residency, Maussane-les-Alpilles, France

2021 City of Melbourne 2021 Annual Arts Grant

2021 VIC/TAS Textile Design Award of Merit, Design Institute of Australia

2021 Recipient, NAVA Artist’s Benevolent Fund

2019 Highly commended for the NG Art Creative Residency Prize, Eygalières, France

2011 Recipient of an Australia Council Art Start Grant (2010-2011)

2008 Artist in Residence, Siena College Girls School, Melbourne

2005 Artist in Residence, Somerville House Girls School, Brisbane

2003 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence

Solo Exhibitions

2024 On the Surface, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne

2024 Elemental, Metro Tunnel Creative Projects Hoarding at Anzac Station

2021 Imaginary Science at Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne

2012 Swarm Series red gallery contemporary art space, Melbourne

2012 New Work St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent Melbourne

2011 St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent Melbourne

2010 Tape Space, Melbourne

2009 Hidden Futures c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne

2009 Postgraduate Gallery, VCAM, Melbourne

2004 Unknown Southern Land Klug Contemporary, Brisbane

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2023 Finalist, Merri-bek Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2023 Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2023 ‘A home away from home’ The NG Art Creative Residency Exhibition, Moulin de

Gréoux, Maussane les Alpilles, France, curated by Nicky Ginsberg

2023 ‘Uncommon Threads’, Naarm Textile Collective, FortyFiveDownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Tamara Russell

2023 Gallery of Small Things, Canberra

2023 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2023 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2022 Finalist, Merri-bek Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2022 Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2022 Thread[laid]bare, Geelong Art Space, a satellite event as part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Contemporary Festival, curated by Katherine Marmaras

2022 Finalist, Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane

2022 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2022 Finalist, Rick Amor Self-Portrait Prize, Montsalvat Arts Centre, Melbourne

2022 Finalist, Remagine Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Sydney

2021 [Wall]flower, Geelong Art Space, a satellite event as part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Contemporary Festival, curated by Katherine Marmaras

2021 Finalist with an honourable mention, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea

2021 Fungi x Botanica, Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

2021 Finalist in the International KOGEI Award at Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design in Toyama, Japan

2020 Finalist in The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

2020 Semi Finalist in the Lester Prize, Perth

2020 Finalist in the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award, Victoria

2020 Online Art Auction, Choose Art, Give Light to Refugees an online Art Auction in the fight against COVID-19, curated by Nicky Ginsberg. 

2019 Finalist, Clayton Utz Launch Art Award, Brisbane

2013 Finalist, Clayton Utz Launch Art Award, Brisbane

2013 Linden Postcard Prize, Melbourne

2012 Finalist, Clayton Utz Launch Art Award, Brisbane

2012 Interstate Romance, Pseudo Space, Sydney, curated by Jonathan Mcburnie

2011 The rest is silence Death be Kind, Melbourne, curators Claire Lambe & Elvis Richardson 

2011 Belle Arti Chapman & Bailey Art Award, Melbourne 

2011 Salon exhibition, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne

2011 Finalist Agendo Exhibition and Award for Emerging Artists, St Heliers St Gallery, Abbotsford Convent Melbourne. 

2011 The You’re Welcome Show: Charity art raffle for the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, Mars Gallery, Port Melbourne.

2011 St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent Melbourne.

2010 Other Msconceptions, Level Ari, Brisbane, curator Jo Diball

2010 Curious Collector, Project Gallery, QCA, Brisbane

2009 Graduate Masters Exhibition, VCAM, Melbourne

2009 Mid Year Show at the Postgraduate Gallery, VCAM, Melbourne

2009 Order / Disorder, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne

2008 We Make Good Pets, Metro Arts, Brisbane, curator Jo Diball

2007 The Micro Macro show of the x-umbiliQCA, College Gallery, Brisbane

2007 Linden Postcard Prize, Melbourne

2005 Finalist Thiess Art Prize, Dell Gallery, Brisbane

2005 Chimera Graduate Honours Show, QCA, Brisbane

2005 Collaberratum, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2005 Studio 6.09, College Gallery, Brisbane

2004 Finalist Science Meets Art, Parliament House Brisbane

2004 Finalist 15 Artists, Redcliffe City Gallery

2004 Finalist Churchie Emerging National Art Prize, Brisbane

2003 Finalist Thiess Art Prize, Dell Gallery, Brisbane

Collections

Gold Coast University Hospital

Mater Private Hospital

Mater Children’s Hospital

Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection

Gadens Lawyers

Private Collections in Australia and France

Current Professional Experience

2024 Sessional Lecturer in the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) at RMIT; Textile Design Illustration

2024 Guest tutorials in the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) at RMIT; mixed media approaches to embroidery