Born
1964 Sydney, Australia
1989-1992
Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
1987
Post Graduate Diploma in Painting, City Art Institute, Sydney
1983-1986
Bachelor of Art Education, City Art Institute, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions
2008
Web, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007
Spider, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006
Close to the bone, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2005
Sounding, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2004
Whale, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2002
John Miller Galleries, Newcastle
2001
Blueprint, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1999
Elbow Room, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Kunstraum 34, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1995
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1994
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1993
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1991
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1989
Coventry Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Dialogue: New Paintings & Print Collaborations, King Street Gallery, Sydney
Taronga Foundation Artists in Residence Program, Taronga Zoo, Sydney
2008
Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, New South Wales
Fisher Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales
Silk and Sand: Chinese & Australian Prints, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South
Wales, Sydney and The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Melbourne Art Fair 2008, (Liverpool Street Gallery), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Victoria
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney
2007
Double Visions, COFA Artspace, University of New South Wales, Sydney and touring to
Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Art on Paper: The 2007 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Kedumba Drawing Award, The Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, New
South Wales
Salon des Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Five x Five, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006
Swell: The Art of Contemporary Beach Culture, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New
South Wales
Cicada Press, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
Going Bush, ILIRI Alliance Francaise, Paris
Melbourne Art Fair 2006, (Liverpool Street Gallery), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Assembled: Works from the Holmes Court Collection, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, New
South Wales
2005
Liverpool Street Gallery 2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Tubular Cels, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
The Collectors Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Thai-Australian Contemporary Prints, Chiangmai University, Thailand
Southern Exposure IV ‘God’s Own Country’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Art on Paper Awards, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Custom Prints Unpacked, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
(Going) Out There, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2004
Liverpool Street Gallery 2004, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2004, (Liverpool Street Gallery), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
The Year in Art 2004, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
2003
Place Mark, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Steven Harvey, Peter Sharp, Kate Turner: A Tribute to Western Australia,
Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
Art on Paper: The 2003 Hazelhurst Art Award Art on Paper Awards, Hazelhurst Regional
Gallery, Sydney
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Southern Exposure III ‘Food for Thought’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Works on Paper, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2002
SCEGGS Redlands Invitational Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Two Thirds Sky, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Southern Exposure II, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2001
Paris Studio Exhibition, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Drawing Symposium Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Salon des Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Artists and the Desert, King Street Gallery, Sydney
Southern Exposure I ’Federation’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Summer Show, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2000
Inaugural Survey Exhibition, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Dogma, King Street Gallery, Sydney
1999
Silver, 25 Anniversary, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Marks and Matter, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Paintings of the Nineties, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1998 Etchings, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, Sydney
Remnants of the Real, Access Gallery, Sydney
1997
Cite’ Internationale des Arts Printmakers Exhibition, Paris
Cite’ Internationale des Arts Residents Exhibition, Paris
1996
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995
Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria
1994
Twenty Artists, Twenty Years, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
50/50 Exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
Obsession, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney
1993
Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Chandler Coventry - A Private Collection, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney
1992
Aspects of Landscape, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales
1991
Kinchega Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
New Work, New Art Five, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1989
Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1987
Post Graduate Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Douglass Art Award, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
 
Residencies
2004
Melbourne Aquarium Residency
1997
Cite’ Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris

Awards
2007
The Kedumba Drawing Award, The Kedumba Gallery, New South Wales
1996
Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales

Projects
2008
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye (Web Nocturne and Day Web prints), Sydney
2007
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye (Spider Prints), Sydney
2006
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye (Day instrument, Night instrument, Blue
instrument prints), Sydney
2005
Collaboration with Salvatore Gerardi and Brenda Tye for Sydney Printmakers
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye (Heads or Tails print), Sydney
2003
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye (Whale Prints), Sydney
2002
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye (Strange Fruit), Sydney
2001
Sean O’Brien and Sophie Jackson, ‘Two Thirds Sky: Artists in Desert Country’, Documentary
Film
Collaboration with printmaker Michael Kempson, Sydney
Collaboration with printmaker Brenda Tye, Sydney
2000
Collaboration with printmaker Basil Hall, Northern Editions, Darwin
Collaboration with potter Cameron Williams, Lithgow Pottery
1998
Collaboration with printmaker Bronwyn Reese, Paw Prints, Brisbane
Collaboration with Brenda Tye (Zoe Prints), Sydney
1997
Lithography Edition at Michel Casse Atelier, Paris
Collaboration with printmaker Bronwyn Reese, (Paw Prints), Brisbane
1996
Group residency at Bundanoon, Arthur Boyd’s Studio
Collaboration with printmaker Bronwyn Reese, (Paw Prints), Brisbane
1995
Book Project between things (eleven woodcuts) with poet Greg Minors

Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Allens Arthur Robinson
Artbank
Baker and McKenzie Law
Grafton Regional Gallery
Holmes à Court Collection
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Macquarie Bank
New England Regional Art Museum
Oz Corp
Pan Continental Mining
Sports and Entertainment Limited
St Vincent’s Hospital
The Kedumba Gallery
University of Southern Queensland
University of Wollongong
Private collections in Australia and overseas

Bibliography
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“Beach Beauty”, Vogue Living, September/ October 2007, p150, (colour illustration)
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Sydney, 2007
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