Education
2006 Portugal Study Tour
2004 Kimberly & Northern Territory study tour
1989—1991 Certificate Architectural Drafting
ART— Self Taught
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Wildflower, The Studio Gallery, WA
2020 Wanderland, Gallerysmith, VIC
2019 Nectar The Studio Gallery, WA
2018 Gallery Smith, VIC
2017 Gallows Gallery, WA
2016 Gallows Gallery, WA
2016 The Studio Gallery, WA
2016 Mater Dei College, WA
2015 Pullman Resort, Bunker Bay, WA
2011 McKenzie Gallery ‘Dream Journals’ - Claremont, WA
2010 Wentworth Galleries – Sydney, NSW
2009 'Home Lies Wide A Thousand Miles' Florence, Italy
2009 Buderim, QLD 'Babes in the Wood'?- Tiffany Jones Fine Art
2007 – 1999
‘Dream Journals’ McKenzie Gallery - Claremont, WA
Boranup Gallery - Margaret River, WA
'A Fortunate Life' Lynne Wilton Gallery - Melbourne Vic
'A Fortunate Life' Narrogin Regional Art Gallery , WA
St Bernards - Kojonup, WA
McKenzie Gallery—Claremont, WA
Pilbara Fine Art Gallery– Karratha, WA
Giralia Station Variety Club Bash—Exmouth, WA
Group Exhibitions
2019 Beyond Karijini, The Studio Gallery
2017 Beyond the Gilded Cage, Art Space Collective, WA
2017 Easter Exhibition with Mel Brigg, The Studio Gallery, WA
2017 Art Space Corporative, Scarborough, WA
2017 Art Extraordinaire, Bunbury,WA
2016 Self Portrait Exhibition, The Studio Gallery, WA
2016 Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA
2016 Rediscover
2016 Bunbury, WA
2016 Southern Forrest Exhibit. Collie, WA
2015 Studio Gallery, Yallingup, WA
2015 Gallows Gallery, Perth, WA
2015 Collie Art Gallery, Portrait exhibition, WA
2015 Hutchins Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2015, 2014 Lethbridge Art Awards Exhibition, QSLD
2015, 2014 Cossack Art Awards Exhibition, WA
2015 Salon De Refuse Portrait Exhibit- Perth, WA
2014 Studio Gallery, Yallingup, WA
2014 Tiffany Fine Art Gallery - Buderim, QSLD
2013 Kojonup Art Exhibition - Kojonup, WA
2011 Hale School Art Exhibition - Perth, WA
2011 Art Extraordinaire - Bunbury
2009 Perth College, WA
2009 She-scapes - Gallery82 - Adelaide, SA
2007 Towoomba - Tiffany Jones Fine Art, Buderim, QLD
2007 Art Melbourne 07' - represented by Lynne Wilton, Gallery, Armadale, VIC
Awards
2021 Finalist Adeladie Perry Drawing Prize
2020 Winner The Jury Art Prize, WA
2020 Finalist The Kilgour Prize, NSW
2020 Finalist Collie Art Prize, WA
2020 Highly Commended Gallipoli Art Prize, NSW
2020 Finalist Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing NSW
2020 Finalist Collie Art Prize, WA
2019 Winner Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize, WA
2019 Finalist The Lester Prize, WA
2019 Finalist RSA Prize, WA
2019 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award, NSW
2019 Finalist Len Fox Art Prize, VIC
2018 Winner of People's Choice Award, Kilgour Portrait Prize NSW
2018 Finalist Bruny Island Art Prize TAS
2018 Finalist Black Swan Portraiture Prize
2018 Semi -Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize NSW
2017 Finalist Minawarra Art Award, Armadale
2017 Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Art Award, QLD
2016 Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Art Award, QLD
2016 Finalist Black Swan Portraiture Prize, WA
2016 Finalist Minnawarra Art Award, Armadale
2015 Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Art Award, QLD
2015 Semi Final Doug Moran Nation Portrait Prize, NSW
2015 Winner Digital Portrait Photographic Award, WA
2015 Finalist Hutchins Works on Paper Award, TAS
2015 Selection Salon De Refuse Black Swan Prize, Perth, WA
2014 Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award
2014 Semi Final Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2014 Winner Cossack Art Award
2013 Semi Final Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2013 Finalist Art quench Gallery- USA. Depicting Contemporary Life & The Urban Experience
2012 Final Select Contemporary Artists Volume 5.USA
2012 Finalist Artivita – World Wide Art – California
2012 Honorable Artivita – World Wide Art – California Mention
2011 Finalist Nannup Art Prize, Nannup, WA
2002 1st Prize Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards – Best Oil Landscape. Judge – Ken Done
2002 Finalist RAS Perth Royal Shell Agricultural Art Award
2001 1st Prize Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards Hamersley Iron – Best oil Landscape. Judge – Robert Juniper
1999 1st Prize Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards Hamersley Iron – Best oil Landscape. Judge – Curator- National Gallery
1998 1st Prize Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards Pilbara Best Painting by a Pilbara Artist
1998 1st Prize Ag.Society Art Awards. Geraldton Represented C.V.A in Royal show Shell Awards
1998 Finalist Shell Royal Perth show Ag.Society Art Awards
1998 1st Prize Gerladton Rotary Art Awards
Ours is a family of pioneering stock, and I have a great love for and attachment to the land, fruit born from generations of the simple sorrows and the simple joys endured.
From humble beginnings on a small horse farm, to the reverence of existence on a million acres north of the 26th parallel, north of Perth some 1400kms, and north of anything remotely sentimental or 'womanly', inspiration was lived not searched.
The shear expanse of the landscape, with its seamless ultramarine sky, and infinite horizon shimmering promises, offered a myriad of contradictions, greatness and trepidation, smallness and strength, fear, fight, love, loss. Isolation too Jekylled friend and foe, a sense of freedom, a heady mix of never ending enticing realism to dance nonsensical.