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Education

2019  Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts

2017  Graduate Certificate in Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts

2007  Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Management) Honours, University of Ballarat

1992  Bachelor of Art (Ceramic Design), Monash University

Solo exhibitions

2022  PERFECTION – Brunswick Temporary, Melbourne

2022  Self(ie) Pride – Artwork commissioned for Melbourne Pride

           Exhibited at Phee Broadway, Castlemaine, Dudley House, Bendigo, and Go Goldfields Centre, Maryborough

2021  RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW (coming soon) – Wide Open Road Art, Castlemaine

2021  PLAY ON – Camp Reserve, Castlemaine

2021  An Ode to Bushrangers and Buggery – Vault Gallery, Arts Hub, Bendigo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Hue & Cry Art Prize – Hue & Cry Gallery, Geelong

2024  No Vacancy Annual [shortlisted] – No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

2024  The Robots are Coming – curated by Ivan Sun, Dudley House, Bendigo

2024  SEX – curated by Nathan Sims, SOL Gallery, Melbourne

2024  Queer Country – (Inc. years 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, & 2018), Dudley House, Bendigo

2024  We’re Serious, Let’s play – curated by Ryan F Kennedy, Radical Fields Harvest Arts Festival, Glenlyon

2022  Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award [Finalist] – No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

2022  ILFORD CCP Salon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2021  Contemporary AF – Midsumma Festival, Mission To Seafarers Victoria, Melbourne

2021  Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award [Finalist] – No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

2020  Bulleke-bek Brunswick International Screen Marathon – GalleryGallery Inc, Melbourne

2019  Graduate Show – The Stables, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2019  #fromwhereistand – curated by Dr. Kim Donaldson, VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2018  Whatever Doesn’t Works – curated by Dr. Masato Takasaka, Assembly Point Exhibition Space, Melbourne

2018  While they decide… – curated by Dr. Kim Donaldson,  VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2018  Embodied Materialities – curated by Dr. Kate Just, Assembly Point Exhibition Space, Melbourne

2017  The Readymade – CASPA Gallery, Castlemaine

2017  GCVA 2017 – VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2017  Parameters/Framework – George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

Publications

2024  Out-Side: Queer Words and Art from Regional Victoria – inaugural anthology celebrating over 30 writers and artists from Regional Victoria 

           Edited by Michael Earp. Published by Q-lit: Victoria’s Queer Festival of Words

2024  Big Book of Queer Bendigo – an exploration and celebration of LGBTQIA+ history of the Bendigo and Goldfields Region

           Edited by John Richards. Published by Bendigo Queer Arts Festival Inc.

2021  Where art meets… footy! – Midland Express, Tuesday March 30, cover story by Eve Lamb

Awards

2019  Majlis Encouragement Award – Graduation exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2019  Melbourne Global Scholars Award – University of Melbourne

Other

2022  Still Life With Pansy – (ongoing) host of a weekly show exploring contemporary queer art and artists, broadcast on Castlemaine community radio, 94.9 MainFM

2022  Cover art for Riptide – Issue 6 of Tales from Outer Suburbia, by Thomas Vowles

2022  Cover art for Suburban Angel – Issue 4 of Tales from Outer Suburbia, by Thomas Vowles

2021  PLAY ON – pre-show screenings, Melbourne International Film Festival, Theatre Royal, Castlemaine

2020  250 Billion Stars in the Milky Way – artwork for Smythesdale, EP release by Wally Gunn, with Maria Zajkowski and Terrence Hunt

2018  Insert-Self-Here (ISH) – board member and co-curator with Director, Terence Jaencsh, of 2018 program of Queer Arts, Ideas & Activism, Castlemaine

2013  Biome Project – ongoing artistic collaboration with Wally Gunn (composer), Terrence Hunt (film maker) and Anthony Jarvis (visual artist) creating works in response to the

           Scotia region, Murray Darling Depression, NSW

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