CURRICULUM VITAE

Selected Solo Exhibitions

UPCOMING: On The Weight of Unstable Elements. Souvenirs for the Unwitting, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne, November 2016.
the Long View, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney, 2007.
the return room, Ph.D. examination exhibition, Exit Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, 2006.
Orpheus & Eurydice, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, 2002

Selected Group Exhibitions

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2023. Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, 2023. National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2022. Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, March 2022. Place, UoW Library, SCU Library, CSU Library, Grenfell Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Canberra Museum+Gallery, NERAM Armidale, touring 2018-2020. Fable: the art and heart of storytelling, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle 2019. Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2018. Libris Awards, Artspace Mackay, 2018. Memoranda, The University Gallery, Newcastle, 2018.
Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, 202018.                                                                                            
Book Club, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Aug-Oct 2017.                                                                                                Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, 2017.                                                                                                  
Technê: crafting technology, The University Gallery, Newcastle, 2016.
Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, 2016.
Pagination, The University Gallery, Newcastle, 2016.
The Expanded Print, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, 2016.
Australian Print Triennial Prize, Mildura, 2015.
Friends with Benefits: Sharing is Caring, as part of Critical Animals for TiNA Festival, Newcastle, 2015.
Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2015.
Volume 2015 / Another Art Book Fair, Artspace, Sydney 2015.
Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, Geelong Gallery, 2015.
Art Bender, the Lock-Up, Newcastle, 2015.
Bookmarked, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 2015.
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, 2015.
25 Watt, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, 2014.
Friends of UoN Prize 2014, The University Gallery, Newcastle, 2014.
Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2013.
The Hutchins Art Prize, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart, 2013.
Where There is Water, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 2012.
Salad Days: National Art School Artists in Residence, NAS Gallery, Sydney, 2008.
Folio 20, Marianne Newman Gallery, Sydney, 2008 / SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, 2007.
The Capitals Project: Sydney / Seoul, Han Jun Arts Center, Seoul 2007.
SCA Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, 2006.
Books 06: 10+Beyond, Noosa Regional Gallery, 2006.
Libris Awards, Artspace Mackay, 2006.
Books 05: Image as Text as Image, Noosa Regional Gallery, 2005.
Books 03: Watermarks, Noosa Regional Gallery, 2003.
Informé, The Australia Centre, Berlin and the Australian Embassy, Paris, 2003.
Reasons to be Cheerful... Part 2, Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle, 2002.
Books by Artists, Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle, 2002.

Education

Ph.D. Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2007.
B.V.A. (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2003.
B.V.A. University of Newcastle, Australia, 1996.

Grants

ArtsACT HOMEFRONT Grant, 2021. CAPO Materials Grant, 2020. New South Wales Artists’ Grant, 2015.
University Postgraduate Award (University of Sydney), 2003.
Northern Cultural Skills Partnership (UK), Busary, 2001.

Awards

Winner - Ursula Hoff Institute Award, Geelong Print Prize, 2015.
Winner - Non-Acquisitive Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, 2013.
Winner - Acquired, Manly Library Artist’s Book Award, 2011.
Winner - First Prize, BSG 2010 Works on Paper Prize, 2010.
Winner - Acquired, Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artist’s Book Award, 2005.
Highly Commended - Burnie Print Prize, 2023. Judges’ Commendation - Friends of UoN Prize 2014, The University Gallery, Newcastle, 2014.
Finalist - Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, 2023. Finalist - National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2022. Finalist - Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, 2018. Finalist - Libris Awards, Artspace Mackay, 2018.
Finalist - The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing, 2018.                                                                        Finalist - Australian Print Triennial Prize, Mildura, 2015.
Finalist, - Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, 2015.
Finalist - Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, 2015.
Finalist - The Hutchins Art Prize, 2013.
Finalist - The Hutchins Art Prize, 2011.
Finalist - Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, 2010.
Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Open), Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2010.
Finalist - Libris Awards, Artspace Mackay, 2010.
Finalist - The Hutchins Art Prize, 2005.

Collections

National Library of Australia.
State Library of New South Wales. State Library of Victoria.
State Library of Queensland. National Gallery of Victoria Library Geelong Gallery.
Burnie Regional Art Gallery.                                                                                                                                                 University of Sydney Library.
Southern Cross University.
Manly Library. Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem.

Residencies

Visiting Artist: National Art School, Sydney, 2007.

Employment

Sessional Lecturer, Printmaking, Australian National University, 2022 - present. Lecturer, Printmedia, University of Newcastle, 2015 - 2019.
Associate Lecturer, Printmedia, University of Newcastle, 2014.
Casual Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney, 2010.
Sessional Lecturer, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2003 - 2010.
Visiting Artist, National Art School, Sydney, 2007.
Consultant and Facilitator, Books.07, Noosa Regional Gallery, 2007.
Casual Technical Supervisor, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2003-2004.
Gallery Attendant, Newcastle Art Gallery, 2001.
Administrative Assistant, [a-n] Magazine, The Artists’ Information Company, U.K., 2000 - 2001.

Authored Publications

'Raising the Spectre: Contemporary Art and Print Culture in the Aftermath of Colonialism', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 21:2, 208-224, 2021. 'Untying the Knot: Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Print Work', in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking: Critical Writing Since 1986, ed. by Ruth Pelzer-Montada, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 196-206. ‘Keeping Time’ in Book Club, ed. by Ryan, M. (Booragul: Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 2017), pp. 16-17. 'Fumbling Hands and Phantom Limbs: The Photograph, the Hand, and the Artist's Book,' Journal Of Artists' Books: 39, 40-43, 2016.
'A Book for My Guide: The Artist's Book and the Exploration of Memory', in Borders & Crossings: the Artist as Explorer: Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference Proceedings, ed. by Harrison PL, Shemilt E, Watson A. (Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 2014), pp. 69-73.
'Untying the Knot: Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Print Work', in Intersections and Counterpoints Proceedings of Impact 7, an International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, ed. by Morgan, L. (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2013), pp. 81-87.
'Luminous Matter: Recent Work by Mirabel Fitzgerald', Imprint: The Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 48:2 33-33, 2013.   
'Books.07 at Noosa Regional Art Gallery', Imprint: The Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 42:2, 27-27, 2007.         
'Frequencies Collide: Recent Work by Pia Larsen', Imprint: The Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 41:1, 4-5, 2006.   'An Open Book: The Artist's Book and Palimpsestic Space', in Palimpsests: Transforming Communities, ed. by Gerbaz A, Mayes (Perth: Curtin University, 2005), pp. 3-20.       
'Neil Emmerson - (penance)', Imprint: The Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 37:4 5-5, 2002.