Artist
About
Artworks created range from installations, interventions and video to smaller drawings and objects. These reference human responses to natural environments and manufactured objects. References to the land gave way to found books and maps from 2013 to 2018 but a deep concern for the surrounding environment is persisting in new work. Sculptures, videos and drawings are often made in the process of realising larger projects, extending to any materials found to be of interest. Objects impart their own potencies to each work, from multiple ready-made star pickets to live grasses, each lending the weight of differently accrued histories.
ARTWorks
Biography
Selected individual exhibitions and installations
2019 -2025 #Save. State forests on Gumbaynggirr Country, NSW. Banner series.
2018 Damaged Item Returned. Chutespace. Canberra. Installation.
2016 245 |aObliterate. M16 ArtSpace, Canberra. Exhibition.
2014 Crossing Snow. Mitte, Berlin. Park intervention.
2013 Bibliovia. Literary Institute Hall, Urunga NSW. Installation
2012 Blocking Burdett Bridge. Burdett Bridge, Bellingen NSW. Intervention.
2005 Aotearoa Landing. Regard Gallery, Sydney. Exhibition.
1989 Once. University of Newcastle, NSW. Installation.
1988 Exhibition, Manning Regional Art Gallery NSW.
1984 40 Bales. Little Maidment Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand. Installation.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 New Year New Work, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour.
2017 Still Salon, Sawtell. Preserve of the Gloriosa Superba.
2015 Drawing prize exhibition, M16, Canberra. Navigate I.
2014 Drawing prize exhibition, M16, Canberra. Obliterate I [the artefact].
2005 Domain 2005: a temporary public art project, Parliamentary Zone, Canberra, ACT. Boundary. Installation.
2005 Postcard Show 2005. Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
2004 [OUT OF GALLERY] Art Park: Environment and Ecology in Art. Intervention in public spaces. Blacktown, Sydney. Ghost Grazelands.
2004 - 2005 Thursday Plantation East Coast Sculpture Show, Ballina NSW. Installation. Star Picket Crossing.
2003 Aquaculture exhibition. Town Green, Port Macquarie NSW. Installation. Floodrunner.
2002 Manning Regional Art Gallery. Exhibition. Surface.
1989 Sculpture and Drawing, Conference Rooms, University of Newcastle.
1985 - 86 Youth Express exhibition, touring Auckland and regional galleries North Island, New Zealand.
Studies
1985 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
1987 Diploma of Information Management – Librarianship, University of New South Wales.
Prizes
Walkom Manning Art Prize, 3rd prize sculpture. Wild Funnel.
Publications
2005 ANU School of Art 2005, Domain; a temporary public art project. ISBN 1731530446.
2004 [Out of Gallery]: a series of guerrilla exhibitions in Western Sydney. Postwest No.19. Special edition. ISSN 1323 1499.
Collections
1985 Artists’ books collection. University of Auckland Fine Arts Library.