1975
Born in Moree, NSW Australia. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education
1995-6
Bachelor of Arts Industrial Design, University of Newcastle, Newcastle
1999
Bachelor of Arts Fine Arts (Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2002
Bachelor of Arts Honours Fine Arts (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Established artist initiative Clubsproject.inc, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 There Are No Ordinary Days, Credit Suisse Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia Works on paper, Barbara Flynn Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia
2010 Luciende, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Barjek & Kiri, 20a Cecilia Road, London United Kingdom
2008 Helovanorak, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, PICA, Perth, Australia
Present Elsewhere, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia.
Helovanorak, Darren Knight Gallery at silvershot, Melbourne, Australia
2007 The Last Great Wilderness, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 The only thing you taught me is the only thing I know, (with Helen Johnson) GCAS
Room 103, Auckland, New Zealand. Dragonflyeye, Studio 12, GCAS, Melbourne, Australia Dragonflyeye, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004 Making Faces, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Playing House, Clubsproject, Melbourne, Australia.
2003 People who need people, First Draft, Sydney, Australia Yakkedee Yak Yah Yah Yah, with Rob McHaffie, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.
2002 Paintings and Posters, TCB/Uplands, Melbourne, Australia. Orcis, It's all Greek to me, Slide GCAS, Melbourne Australia.
Group Exhibitions
2012 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (forthcoming)
2011 Gertrude Edition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia (forthcoming)
Hysteria, Laughter and a sense of Seriousness, conceived by Mareike Dittmer & Raphael Gygax for Karma
International & Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 SV10: Members show, selected by Rebecca Warren & Jennifer Higgie, Studio Voltaire, London
Home Project, Tomaso Anfossi via Bono Cairoli 17 | 20127 Milano An Elaborate Fiction, Acme Project Space, London Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Australia.
2009 I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Problem Solving; I wish Charlie Kaufman wrote Relational Aesthetics, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, Victoria, Australia The Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Victoria Forced Fields, Conical, Melbourne, Australia Bal Tashchit, Thou Shalt Not Destroy. Environmental Apocalypse and the Hebrew Bible, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Monash University Collection - A Selection of Recent Acquisitions MUMA, Victoria, Australia Too Near Too Far, Care/of Contemporary Art Centre, Milan, Italy Contemporary Collection Benefactors Auction, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia Across the board, Wallspace Gallery, Sydney Australia
Life is sweet: contemporary Australian watercolours, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia
2006 Gertrude Studios 2006, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Australia
Plastic Myth, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia Girl Band, Deloitte Sydney, Australia The Drawingames Project, PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Figure, Deloitte Sydney, Australia Reflections in a golden eye, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia. After Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia. SLAVE, Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. The Royal Melbourne Show, Sullivan & Strumpf, Sydney, Australia.
2005 Primavera 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, Muswellbrook, Australia.
Paperchase, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A Short History in a Fast Machine, GCAS, Melbourne, Australia Freedom for Prosperity, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane, Australia. It's all About Us, Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Salon De Freehands, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. SLAVE ,VCA Gallery (Margaret Lawrence Galleries at the VCA), Melbourne, Australia.
2004 1+1+1, Yuill Crowley, Sydney, Australia. Species, NextWave Festival, Domain House (formally ACCA), Melbourne, Australia. Clubs in the Pines, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia.
2003 Second, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Nature Rubik 14, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Linden Postcard Prize, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Publications
2005
Volumeverything, printed by Clubsproject for A Short History in a Fast Machine. GCAS.
BLESS No 25 Uniseasoners, SLAVE collaboration.
2004
SLAVE Bless Cover, printed by Rob McKenzie.
2003
Rubik 14, printed by Uplands Gallery.
2002
Volumeveryone, printed by Clubsproject.
1998
Rubik 4. Printed by Rubik at 1st Floor Artists & Writers initiative.
Awards and Prizes
2010-1 Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship
2009 Australia Council London Studio, United Kingdom
2008 Paris Cite University of Sydney Power Institute Residency, Paris, France
Silvershot Residency Program, Melbourne , Australia
2006 ANZ Art & Australia Emerging Artist Award
Shortlisted ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award
2005-6 Studio Artist Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Collections
Art & Australia Collection,Australia
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Credit Suisse, Sydney, Australia UBS, Melbourne, Australia
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE Artbank Australia
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