Artist Statement

* (2011)
I see patterns everywhere I go. Geometrically, I love watching houses being constructed and seeing the patterns in their infrastructure and even the construction equipment such as cranes; but the patterns I appreciate the most occur naturally in the shapes of leaves. Their colours and internal designs are infinitely fascinating and instinctively they appear in my art as patterns that re-emerge again and again. My vision is that I create work that captures these natural and man-made patterns but also that I add a unique sense of unforced raw energy.

Awards

• 2011 - Selected as Cover Art for “Between the Leaves”, Ed. K. Holmes, Perth: UWA Publishing
• 2011 - Winner, Works on Paper, Combined Art Societies of Sydney
• 2010 - Finalist, Natural History Prize, Adelaide (Printmaking)
• 2010 - Finalist, Fisher's Ghost, Campbelltown (Works on Paper)
• 2010 - Winner, Other Media, St George Art Society, Kogarah
• 2009 - Winner, Watercolour, St George Art Society
• 2009 - Winner, Irodori Acquisitive Prize for Watercolour, Tokyo
• 2008 - Winner, Mixed Media, Oyster Bay A&C
• 2003 - Sydney University Linguistic Prize for Aboriginal Languages

Qualifications

• 2008 - 2011 : COFA, MArt
• 2003 : University of Sydney, BA, Linguistics

Skills

• Artist Books
  Collaboration with poet Jayne Chapman "The Four Seasons"
• Digital Media
  Photoshop, Illustrator
• Event Management
  Organiser of multiple exhibitions, great with Microsoft Office and diary management
• Painting
  Watercolour, Acrylic, mixed media
• Printmaking
  Etching, Woodcut, Linocut and lino-etching, Photopolymer, Relief and Intaglio printing, collographs