ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist, I employ a visual language to allow us to see things in a new light.
The collective inspiration for my art is the allure of the nature, the subtleties of the landscape and what is overlooked in the everyday. I am motivated by simple aesthetics — space, light, colour and texture.
My work is an emotional response to the natural world. Rather than depicting the physical truth of a landscape, I aim to express its essence. I draw upon remembered places and images in my mind to create new visual experiences. My paintings are an abstract interpretation of what the land presents… leaves that scatter the bush floor, twigs that lie in patches, peeling bark on tree trunks, the dappled sunlit earth, a horizon etched out from the sky.
I enable the paint surface to dictate, bringing a touch of the unexpected. I seek a certain amount of unity in the finished pieces, yet I explore an intuitive process to painting and allow for an element of serendipity.
texts
2022
Undertone
Exhibition Poetry by Susie Thatcher, Writer
2017
Faraway
Exhibition Response by Claire Weigall, Writer
2016
Immersion
Exhibition Essay by Penny Gebhardt, Curator
2015
Outside Inside
Exhibition Essay by Suzanne Waddell
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2001
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting)
Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design
Department of Fine Art, Melbourne
2003
Diploma of Visual Merchandising
RMIT University, Faculty of Art, Design and
Communication, Melbourne
2007
Certificate IV Graphic Design
Shillington College, Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Undertone
@14 Art Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2020
Citta.Terra.
Tinning Street Presents, Brunswick, VIC
2018
Last Phase
Hub Furniture, Abbotsdord, VIC
2017
Faraway
Ours Pop-Up Gallery, Northcote, VIC
2016
Immersion
Silver Leaf Art Box Gallery, Merricks, VIC
2015
Outside Inside
Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2014
Bushscapes
Northcote Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2010
Recent Abstracts
Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Coast to Coast
Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Len Fox Painting Award
Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC
2020
Transatlantico
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New York, USA
2019
End of Year Group Show
Daine Singer Gallery, Fitzroy VIC
2018
Art & Object— Open Studio Event
The Apartment at Sisalla, South Yarra, VIC
No Peace In Quiet — Livin Fundraiser Exhibition
Format Framing, Richmond, VIC
This is Home — Curated by Natalie Walton
Precinct 75, St Peters, Sydney, NSW
Women for Women — Making Space
The Artists Guild, Docklands, VIC
2017
Mutual Abstraction — with Bec Smith
Junior Space, Fitzroy, VIC
Summer Show
Silver Leaf Art Box Gallery, Merricks, VIC
2016
Peace of Art — School’s A Gift Fundraiser Exhibition
Fenton & Fenton, Prahran, VIC
Len Fox Painting Award
Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC
Life Abstracted
Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2015
Art 4 All — Fundraiser Exhibition
Fairfield Primary School, Melbourne, VIC
Paint v2
Melbourne Arts Club Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Art Red Hill
Red Hill, Mornigton Peninsula, VIC
2014
Belle Arti Prize
Chapman & Bailey Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Group Exhibit
Franque Salon, Armadale, VIC
Norvill Art Award
Murrurundi, NSW
2009
Moreton Bay Region Art Award
Pine Rivers Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Prometheus Visual Arts Award
All Saints Anglican School, QLD
Barossa Fine Art Exhibition
Barossa Regional Gallery, S.A
The Art of Food and Wine Exhibition
Pigment Gallery, Nicholas Building, Melbourne, VIC
Artworkers Award
Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Postcard Show
Linden – Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC
AWARDS and PRIZES
2016
Finalist – Len Fox Painting Award, VIC
2014
Finalist – Norvill Art Award, NSW
2009
Finalist – Moreton Bay Region Art Award, QLD
Finalist – Prometheus Visual Arts Award, QLD
COLLECTIONS
G13, South Australia
Kane Constructions, QLD
Private collections — Australia, USA, UK, Qatar, Singapore
MEDIA / TV / INTERVIEWS
2017
The Design Files, Studio Visit
Meanwhile in Melbourne, Five Minutes With — Exhibition feature
My Design Alley, Art Talk — Artist Interview
Make-Nice, Women — Artist Interview
Offspring — season 7, paintings featured in set design
2016
Offspring — season 6, paintings featured in set design
The New Normal, podcast
2015
The Room Illuminated, studio feature and interview
Daily Imprint, artist interview
2013
Crisp Magazine, artist interview
INTERNSHIPS and PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT
2009
Artworkers Alliance, QLD, Volunteer
2006
QAGOMA, Brisbane, Gallery Services
2004
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, Gallery Assistant/Intern