BIOGRAPHY 1963 Born in Salvador, Brazil 1998-2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Program), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2002 Research, Fine Arts, School of Media Arts and Photomedia, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Currently lives and works in Sydney GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003 Descubrimientos - PhotoEspaña 2003, Madrid, Spain Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2002: Exhibition of Selected Entries, Artspace, Sydney Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Artbox Inc., Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2002 Others, Level 2 Contemporary Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2002, Artspace, Sydney Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney 1635, Artbox, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney Childhood, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney Speak Up, Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Calibre Art Foundation Project, Calibre Store, Sydney Appliance, Solar Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney Expo 2002, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney Strange Futures, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 2001 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2001: Exhibition of Selected Entries, Artspace, Sydney Annual Open Members Exhibition, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney Mint Graduate Exhibition, Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Context, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Context, Kudos Gallery, Sydney The Secret of Grey Walls, Blaugrau Gallery, Sydney Patis Vasijan, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney Vanishing Point, Blaugrau Gallery, Sydney 2000 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Maryland, USA Dialogue - Selected Works, Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney d / struct, Kudos Gallery, Sydney 1999 Y2K - Embracing the Millennium Exhibition, Beijing, China Lumen, Solar Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney Archival Purposes, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 1998 Natura Naturans, Maudespace Gallery, Sydney 1996 Australian Centre for Photography Members Only Show and Merit Awards, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 1995 Sydney Mardi Gras Photo Award Exhibit, T.A.P. Gallery, Sydney AWARDS and GRANTS 2002-05 Australian Postgraduate Award, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2001 Honours Year Scholarship 2001, University of New South Wales, Sydney Kayell Photomedia Award, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney GAS Scheme Grant, Students' Association, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2000 Apple Macintosh Digital Photomedia Award, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Hirof Digital Imaging Award, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney 1996 Silver Merit Award, Australian Centre for Photography, Members Only Show and Merit Award, Sydney COLLECTIONS Private collections throughout Australia and internationally SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Peter Hill, 'Artbox Inc.', Sydney Morning Herald, 7-13 February 2003, p. 27 Blair French, 'A surfeit of style', Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture, vol. 31, no. 4, December 2002 - February 2003, pp. 12-13 Russell Storer, 'Vanila Netto', Photofile, no. 67, December 2002, pp. 41-45 'Australian photography', Bulletin, 5 November 2002, p. 85 Lenny Ann Low, 'Bowled over - Others', Sydney Morning Herald, 5 October 2002 'Others', Qantas - The Australian Way, October 2002 'Others', Capture Commercial Photography, September - October 2002, p. 8 Judy Annear, Others, catalogue essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002 Judy Annear, 'Others - Capturing the mundane or the strange in matter of fact ways', Look, Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, September 2002, pp. 17-18 'Photography', Metropolitan, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 2002, p. 14 Peter Hill, 'The week's best - Others', Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 13-19 September 2002 Peter Hill, 'Critic's picks - Others', Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 13-19 September 2002, p. 27 Portfolio, 'Others - Contemporary photography in Sydney', Australian Artist, 1 September 2002 'Others', La Fiamma, 21 August 2002 City Travel, 'Others', City News, 1-14 August 2002 Susan Owens, 'Photography finds its glass slipper', Australian Financial Review, 28 March-1 April 2002, pp. 87-9 Scott Rochfort, 'Spotlight: today's best exhibition', Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2002, p. 13 'Critic's pick - strange futures', Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 15-21 February 2002, p. 27 Jo Bosben, 'Student profiles', COFA Newsletter, no. 1, autumn, 2001, p. 1 Tanya Peterson, 'Comfortable responses', Patis Vasijan, catalogue essay, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney, 2001 Deborah Ward, 'A digital opening', Artwrite, no. 18, 1999, pp. 8-9 Katrina Pym, 'Lumen luminis', Artwrite, no. 16, 1999, pp. 18-19 Nicole Lehmann, 'Picture perfect', Good Living, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 November 1997, p. 2 Maggie Alderson, 'Coffee in a snap', Good Living, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 October 1996, p. 2 The artist gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney. She also thanks friends and models Uros Cvoro, David Gacs, Melissa K. J. Lee and David Wills. TOP