I am a Tasmanian born artist working between Central Australia and Northern NSW, holding a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from Southern Cross University and a Master of Arts (Research) form Charles Darwin University.

In making paintings, I interrogate Australian Mythic traditions and the role landscape plays in identity making (particularly for women). I carry with me many questions about home, belonging and identity, about the relationship the past and the present share in the making of memory and history, experience and encounter (individually and collectively) and the way in which this process becomes entangled. In attempting to capture these complexities / paradoxes in oil paint, I employ and manipulate strong traditions of landscape, still life, motif, scale and scanography. The intention is to problematise relationships between figure and ground through combining realism and abstraction … to produce ruptures between areas that are out of focus and the clarity of particular motifs. Visual references and processes are interwoven further with conceptual threads and aesthetic conventions including; the temporal concept of Liminalty, the Australian Gothic, and the Sublime. 

In 2021 the artists work is represented in a major solo show in the Northern Territory and in 2022 will undertake a mentorship in Norway with the renowned painter Odd Nerdrum. 

EDUCATION

  • Upcoming (2022) Mentorship - Odd Nerdrum (Painter) Norway

  • 2012-15 Master of Arts – Practice Based Research (Painting) Charles Darwin University NT

  • 2006-11 Bachelor of Visual Arts with Hons - Southern Cross University NSW

 

RESIDENCIES / PRIZES / PUBLICATION

  • 2021 Matrons & Mistresses / Artist Profile - Lizzie McNairy

  • 2020 AIRIM Studio Residency - Byron Bay

  • 2019 ArtEdit (Artist Profile) Spring Issue/September 2019

  • 2017 NT Writers Festival ‘The Territory In-Between’ - Journal (commissioned artwork)

  • 2017 Arts Review ‘The Perception Experiment’ (contribution / writing)

  • 2014 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize (RACT) – Finalist – Hobart/Tas

  • 2008 Kaske Award - Visual Arts (painting) - SCU - NSW

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Upcoming (2021) Araluen Galleries - Alice Springs - NT

  • 2014 Crisis Of The Soul – Nan Giese Gallery - Darwin NT

  • 2010 100% Meat: Consuming Identity - Brunswick St Gallery - Fitzroy VIC

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2019 Group Show - Thomgallery -  Byron Bay NSW 

  • 2018 Group Show/Summer Salon - Gallery CAS - Melbourne VIC

  • 2014 Squared - WTS Gallery - Alice Springs NT

  • 2014 Festival Artist 'FBCG Arts Festival' - Alice Springs NT

  • 2012 Spectacle and Observer - Traffic Jam Galleries Sydney NSW

  • 2011 Group Show - Traffic Jam Galleries Sydney NSW

  • 2010 SJ Group Show - SJ Gallery Fitzroy VIC

  • 2010 Petits Travaux - Retrospect Galleries Byron Bay NSW

  • 2010 Revolution of Art - Retrospect Galleries Byron Bay NSW

  • 2010 Pathways To Collecting - LP Gallery Southport QLD

  • 2010 Collage - Waywood Gallery Byron Bay NSW

  • 2009 Eve - Waywood Gallery Byron Bay NSW

  • 2008 Transit - Southern Cross University Lismore NSW