Artist Statement
As an artist I am drawn to the natural and our response to the environment. I enjoy the process of beginning with making the very materials that will eventually form a new and separate work. I respond to that seed of inspiration that often catches us unaware and grows into a work or a series of work or a life long pursuit of making and creating.
I am driven by a desire to make, to put materials and ideas together and see what happens and where that may take me.
I work across a wide variety of media – painting, printmaking, paper making and artists books, drawing, encaustic, basketry and fibre sculpture and enjoy combining methods and materials as inspiration and the work directs.
Often my work will require a substantial investment in time and I find that this time is an important component in the process. It is while working on these long process pieces that my thoughts can settle in to an almost meditative state further fostering the creative process.
Recent exhibitions
2019 un:Seen, untethered fibre artists, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2019 un:Seen, untethered fibre artists, Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, S.A.
2018 un:Seen, untethered fibre artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2018 Synthesis, untethered fibre artists, galleryONE88, Katoomba, NSW
2018 Natural Collection, Manly Museum & Art Gallery, NSW
2018 The Red Tent – The Red Project, Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton, NSW,
2018 inTransit, untethered fibre artists, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Tuggeranong, ACT
2017 inTransit, untethered fibre artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2018 The Printed Mark, The Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW
2018 Drawn Together, untethered collaborative selected, Stitched Up, 76 Queen St Gallery, NSW, (S)
2018 The Space Between, Palm House Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, NSW
2017 Northern Beaches Art Prize, The Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW, (J)
2017 Sobremesa, Studio 2017 Project Space, North Sydney, NSW
2017 Drawn Together untethered collaborative in Stitched Up, The Lock Up, Newcastle, NSW (I)
2018 – 16 Fire, Air, Water, Earth, The Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW, (J)
2017 Marking a Mark, Balmain Watch House, Balmain, NSW
2015 Marking a Mark, George Street, The Rocks, residency and exhibition, NSW
2017 ebb and flow, – untethered fibre artists, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Muswellbrook, NSW
2017 ebb and flow, – untethered fibre artists,Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT
2016 ebb and flow, – untethered fibre artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2017 Warringah Printmakers, The Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW,
2017 Moth Migration, Albuquerque, USA
2016 Morbid Beauty, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney University, NSW, (I)
2015 Out of Hand, untethered fibre artists, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
2015 Elements, The Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW
2016 Façade, Palm House Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, NSW
2015 – 16 Glebe Art Show, Benledi House, Glebe Gallery, NSW
2014 – 17 Basketry NSW exhibitions, Mezzanine Gallery, Primrose Park, Cremorne, NSW
Earlier Exhibitions (selected)
2013 North Sydney Art Prize, The Coal Loader, Waverton, NSW, (J)
2014 – 17 Infiltrating the System, UK, USA, Germany, Iceland, Cuba, Canada, Norway, NZ
Sweden, Italy-Biennial International Artists Book Exhibition
2016 Metropolis, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood, NSW
2014 Marked by Water, Curve Gallery, Newcastle, NSW and Warringah Studio Gallery, NSW, (J)
2012 – 13 Connecting Small, University Western England; Sidney Nolan Trust, UK; Artists Books, Cardiff School of Arts, UK; Milk Factory Gallery, Australia, (I)
2013 Terravita, Balmain Watch House, Balmain, NSW
2007 When Windows Breathe, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown, NSW
2009 – 12 Ubuntu Art Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW
(J) – juried (I) – invitational (S) –selected
Public Collections (selected)
Sydney University Ainsworth Museum, Charles Perkins Centre, (I)
Residencies (selected)
2018 The Printed Mark, Group residency and exhibition The Creative Space,
Curl Curl, NSW
2015 Terravita Group residency and exhibition, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
Professional Affiliations
untethered Fibre Artists,
Print Council of Australia,
Warringah Printmakers
Basketry NSW, Primrose Paper,
Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design Association (ATASDA)
Travelling exhibitions
Warringah Printmakers/ Newcastle Printmakers ‘Marked by Water’. Curve Gallery, Newcastle; Warringah Creative Space; Angel Restuarant Gallery, Queenscliff. 2014
‘Connecting Small Artists Books’
University of Western England, Bristol, 2012;
Sydney Nolan Trust, Herefordshire, 2012;
Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, 2012;
Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, 2013
Prizes
North Newtown Art Show, Newtown, People’s Choice Award 2008
‘Re-Imagine’. Second prize Functional Art, 2015
