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EDUCATION

2019

Master of Contemporary Art

Victorian College of the Arts

University of Melbourne

2017

Graduate Certificate in Visual Art

Victorian College of the Arts

University of Melbourne

2007

Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Management) Honours

Federation University

(prev. University of Ballarat)

1992

Bachelor of Art (Ceramic Design)

Monash University

Melbourne

AWARDS

2019

Majlis Encouragement Award

Victorian College of the Arts

Graduation Show

Melbourne Global Scholars Award

University of Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

PERFECTION

Brunswick  Street Temporary

Brunswick, Victoria

Self(ie) Pride

Artwork commissioned for Melbourne Pride

Exhibited at Dudley House, Bendigo, and Go Goldfields Centre, Maryborough, Victoria

2021

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW (coming soon)

Wide Open Road Art

Castlemaine, Victoria

PLAY ON

Camp Reserve

Castlemaine, Victoria

An Ode to Bushrangers and Buggery

Vault Gallery

Arts Hub, Valentine’s On View

Bendigo, Victoria

OTHER

2024

Out-Side: Queer Words and Art from Regional Victoria

Inaugural anthology celebrating over 30 writers and artists from Regional Victoria

Big Book of Queer Bendigo

The Big Book of Queer Bendigo is an exploration and celebration of LGBTQIA+ history of the Bendigo and Goldfields Region

2022 -ongoing

Still Life With Pansy,

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

Melbourne International Film Festival

Festival Hub, Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, Victoria

2020

250 Billion Stars in the Milky Way

Artwork for Smythesdale, an online EP release by Wally Gunn, with Maria Zajkowski and Terrence Hunt

2018

Insert-Self-Here (ISH)

Board member and co-curator alongside the Director, Terence Jaencsh, of 2018 program of Queer Arts, Ideas & Activism

Castlemaine, Victoria

2013

Biome Project

Ongoing 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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Queer Country

Dudley House

Bendigo, Victoria

Curated by Nathan Sims

Radical Fieldz

Harvest Arts Festival

Glenlyon, Victoria

Curated by Ryan F Kennedy

2023

Queer Country

Dudley House

Bendigo, Victoria

Curated by Chris Butler & Sarah Wallace-Smith

2022

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award [Finalist]

No Vacancy Gallery

QV Building, Melbourne, Victoria

ILFORD CCP Salon

Centre for Contemporary Photography

Fitzroy, Victoria

Queer Country

Dudley House

Bendigo, Victoria

Curated by Chris Butler

2021

Contemporary AF

(Midsumma Festival)

Mission To Seafarers Victoria

Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award [Finalist]

No Vacancy Gallery

QV Building, Melbourne, Victoria

Queer Country

(Bendigo Pride)

Arts Hub, Valentine’s On View

Bendigo, Victoria

2020

Bulleke-bek Brunswick International Screen Marathon

GalleryGallery Inc

Brunswick, Victoria

2019

Graduate Show

The Stables

Victorian College of the Arts

University of Melbourne

#fromwhereistand

VCA Art Space

Victorian College of the Arts

University of Melbourne

Curated by Dr. Kim Donaldson

Queer Country

Dudley House

Bendigo, Victoria

Curated by Noel Hourigan

2018

Whatever doesn’t works

Assembly Point Exhibition Space

Melbourne, Victoria

Curated by Dr. Masato Takasaka

While they decide…

MCA First Year Exhibition

VCA Art Space

Victorian College of the Arts

University of Melbourne

Curated by Dr. Kim Donaldson

Embodied Materialities

Assembly Point Exhibition Space

Melbourne, Victoria

Curated by Dr. Kate Just

Queer Country

Dudley House

Bendigo, Victoria

Curated by Noel Hourigan

2017

The Readymade

CASPA Gallery

Castlemaine, Victoria

GCVA 2017

Graduate Exhibition

VCA Art Space

Victorian College of the Arts

University of Melbourne

Parameters/Framework

George Paton Gallery

University of Melbourne

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