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EDUCATION

2015  Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Art).  Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. 

2011  Bachelor of Arts (Visual & Performing Arts) (Hons Div. 1), Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.

2008 Masters of Art (Drawing). College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

2006 Bachelor of Science (Psychology), Macquarie University.

 

AWARDS and GRANTS

2016 Vice Chancellor's College Visiting Artist Fellowship - Australian National University School of Art

2016 Australia Council for the Arts - Development Grant

2015 Finalist - Archibald Prize

2014 Finalist - Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

2013 Semi-finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

2012 Australian Postgraduate Award - Charles Sturt University

2011 Country Arts Small Grants Program (CASP) from Regional Arts New South Wales

2011 CSU Annual Perpetual Art Award - Coolamon Art Prize

2008 British Council Travelling Art Scholarship

2008 Finalist - Mosman Art Prize



RESIDENCIES

2015-16 Meeting Room 1 – Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.  Wagga Wagga, NSW

2015 Visiting Artist – Australian National University School of Art

2014 Please Be Seated - Artist in Residence at Radford College.  Canberra ACT

2013 As Long As You're Here.  National Portrait Gallery of Australia.  Canberra, ACT

2012 Identify, Identity, Identikit.  Museum of the Riverina.  Wagga Wagga, NSW

2010 AuralDynamics.  Fraser Studios.  Sydney, NSW

 

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017-18 Random feels familiar. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

2017 Loop.  Galerie Pompom, Sydney.

2017 The unconscious is a rectangle.  M16 Artspace, Canberra

2017 Instances of Fixed Proportions.  Nicholas Projects, Melbourne

2017 Limiting Entropy collaborative solo exhibition with Lachlan Brown - ANCA Gallery Canberra

2016 Almost Illegible solo exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House.  Braddon, ACT

2015 How you show yourself is how you’ll be seen.  ANU School of Art Main Gallery.  Australian National University School of Art.  Acton, ACT

2015 Excerpts from an Ouroboric Gaze.  Art Atrium.  Bondi Junction, Sydney, NSW

2015 STAY.  Links Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW

2013 Parts of You Are Dying.  Art Atrium.  Bondi Junction, Sydney, NSW

2012 Die Sektions.  E3 Space.  Civic Square, Wagga Wagga NSW.

2012 Face Value.  Annabel Wallace Gallery.  Murringo, NSW.

2011 Finding Arthur Wicks.  H.  R.  Gallop Gallery.  Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW.

 

Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2018  Straight Outta Canberra, curated by Alexander Boynes.  May Space, Sydney

2017 Material World.  M16 Artspace, Canberra.

2017 Aura: Repetition, Reproduction and the Mark of the Artist.  Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney.

2017 Naturally Yours.  ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Canberra.

2017 A Walking Exhibition.  The Garage, Canberra.

2015 Art Atrium at Sydney Contemporary.  Carriageworks, Sydney.

2015 Archibald Prize 2015 exhibition of finalists.  Art Gallery of New South Wales.  Sydney.

2014  Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition of finalists.  Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney.

2014  Salon des Refusés:  The Alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize Selections.  S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

2013 Art 3K - Art Atrium.  Sydney.

2012 Staff Show – Gallery 43.  Riverina Institute of Tafe, Wagga Wagga, NSW.    

2010 Sydney Open: Artist in Residence Exhibition.  Fraser Studios, Sydney

2009 Bucket.  MOP Projects. Sydney NSW.

2008 Icon Creative Summit.  Brisbane Powerhouse.  Brisbane, Qld.

2008 Mosman Art Prize Exhibition of Finalists.  Mosman Art Gallery

2008 By the Throat, Edinburgh School of Architecture Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland.


COLLECTIONS

2017, Permanent Collection - Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Wagga Wagga, NSW

2015, 2017 Permanent Collection – Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

2012 Permanent Collection - Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga NSW


ARTIST TALKS

2016 Guest Lecture - Cyberculture Lecture Series - Australian National University, Canberra.

2015 Artforum guest lecture – Visiting Artist.  Australian National University, Canberra.

2015 STAY: Artist Floor Talk - Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

2015 A Contemporary poetics for portraiture.  H.R.  Gallop Gallery Seminar Series.  Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW.

2014 How can portraiture elicit participation?  Australian Council for University Art and Design Schools.  Victorian College of the Arts.

2013 Self Aesthetics:  Towards an audience of one.  Australian Council for University Art and Design Schools.  College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2013 Digital Material - Guest Lecture.  Australian National University, Canberra.

2013 As Long As You're Here - Wednesday Gallery Talk October 16.  National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. 

2012 Self Aesthetic or the Aesthetic of Self:  A Practice-led Enquiry into the Phenomenon of Self.  H.R.  Gallop Gallery Seminar Series.  Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW.
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