Biography
1989 French Government Artist Residency, Paris
1986 Artist-in-Residence, Canberra School of Art, ACT
1979-80 New York Studio School, Post Graduate Studies, New York
1977 Underdale College, Adelaide, Dip. Ed.
1973-76 South Australian School of Art, Dip. Fine Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002 Allegoria, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2001 Incarnations: Suspended, Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney
2000 Fade to Red, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1999 Flesh and Bone, Earth and Sky, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Tapestry of Detail, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1997 Weaving the Labyrinth, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Bloodlines, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Touch of Light, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
1995 Touche de Lumière, Cité de l'Industrie, Paris
1994 A Field A Stream A Pool A Thought A Tear A Shadow A Skin A Scar, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1993 Dust to Dust: I, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Dust to Dust: II, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1991 Into the Void, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Milburn + Arte, Brisbane
1986 Polarities, Sixth Indian Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademie, Delhi (joint Australian representative)
1985 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1983 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Art Chicago, Festival Hall, Chicago
2001-02 Australian Paper Awards, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne; UTS Gallery, Sydney
2001 Who What Where, CSA Gallery, Canberra O Soul O Spirit O Fire: Celebrating 50 Years of the Blake Prize, QUT Brisbane Tactile Art Exhibition, Object Galleries, Customs House, Sydney
1999 Hermanns Art Award, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
1997 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 Spirit & Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1995 Windows on Australia, Australian Embassy, Tokyo
1993 Resonance through Time and Space, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick Poetics of Immanence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1992 24th International Festival of Painting, Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Australian Artists in Paris, Galerie Parvi, Paris
1990 Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1989 Mindscapes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1988 Advance Australia Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1986 20 Years of selected Australian artists, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1985 Perspecta, Artspace, Sydney Isolaustralia, Fondazione Bevilaqua la Masa, Venice
1982 Vision in Disbelief: Fourth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Awards
2001-02 Two year Australia Council Fellowship
2001 Australian Paper Awards
1997 Visual Arts/Crafts Board Artist Development Grant, New Work Grant
1996 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Gunnery Studios Residency, Ministry of the Arts
1995 Australia Council Fellowship
1994 Artist Grant: La Ministre de la Culture et de la Francophonie, France Kedumba Drawing Award, joint acquisition
1993 Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Artist Development Grant
1992 Campbelltown Purchase Prize
1991 Campbelltown Joint Purchase Prize
1989 Dyason Bequest
1988 French Government Art Fellowship Faber-Castell Art Award University of Technology Purchase Award Muswellbrook Open Prize Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Artist Development Grant
1987 Gold Coast City Art Gallery Award
1986 The City of Lake Macquarie Art Prize Sixth Ansett Hamilton Art Award
1984 Visual Arts Board Special Projects Grant
1983 Muswellbrook Drawing Prize
1979 Dyason Bequest
1978 Peter Brown Memorial Traveling Art Scholarship, New York Studio School, NY
1976 Harry S. Gill College Art Medal, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide
1975 Channel 10 Young Artist Award
Public Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Auckland Museum of Contemporary Art, Auckland
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney
ANU Art Collection, Canberra
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery, NSW
City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Griffith University Collection, Queensland
Horsham Art Gallery, Victoria
Lake Macquarie City Art Collection, NSW
Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
RMIT University, Melbourne
University of Southern Queensland, Queensland
The University of Sydney, NSW
University of Tasmania, Hobart
University of Technology, Sydney
Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
Corporate Collections
Australian Paper Corporate Collection, Melbourne
Cyprus Lakes Collection, NSW
Diners Club International, Melbourne
Faber-Castell Collection, Australia
Kedumba Blue Mountains Grammar School, NSW
Macquarie Bank
National Australia Bank
Nepean Hospital Collection, NSW
News Limited Collection, Sydney
St Vincents Hospital Collection, Victoria
Westin Hotel Collection, Sydney
WMC Resources Ltd, Melbourne
Major Commissions Include
2000-01 Pulse, Public Sculpture Commission, ANU, Canberra, in collaboration with Catherine Donnelley
2000 Mirror Matter Trilogy, Conference Centre, Cyprus lakes, NSW
1999-00 55 Ring Maze, 1.5 Hectare Cornfield Maze, Athur's Seat, Victoria
1998-99 Primordial Alphabet and Rhythm, Foyer Installation, News Limited, Sydney
1998 Terra Nova, Quay Grand, Circular Quay, Sydney


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