2017 Earthly Tales, Gallery152, York, WA
2017 I Stand Alone, Arcade at Five Walls, Melbourne, VIC
2015 Fish out of Water, Murray Cod, Palimpsest #10 ADFA Building, Mildura, VIC
2013 Mother Tongue, Palimpsest #9, ADFA Building, Mildura, VIC
2013 Chasing the Disappeared, Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
2012 Wallflower – The Event, Australian Galleries Melbourne, VIC
2011 Wallflower – Mirror, rorriM, Palimpsest #8, Rio Vista, Mildura Arts Centre, VIC
2010 Penumbra, Gallery 25, Mildura, VIC
2009 Moon Shadow, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Heart Song, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2006 Transient Light, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Transit, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Seam, Lawrence Gallery, RosemontCollege, Philadelphia, USA
2003 The Dialogue of Difference, Tina Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Pulse, Tina Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Swoon, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1998 String of Pearls, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1996 Paradise Lost, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1995 In the Garden of Eve, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Group Exhibitions
2021 Earth Canvas, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC
2020 Home2020, Museum of Innocence, Arts Mildura, VIC
2018 Circle of Stones, Gallery 152, York, WA
2018 This Wild Song, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, VIC
VIVID, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne, VIC
Swan Hill Drawing and Print Prize, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC
New Horizons, and exhibition of Italian Australian Artists, Museo Italiano, Carlton, VIC
2015 f generation: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, VIC
Reclaiming Isis, PPG, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC
The Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2014 The F-Word, Contemporary Feminist Art in Australia, Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC
Imagining Social Equity– migration, gender & community, Museo Italiano, Carlton, VIC
London Works on Paper Fair, Celia Lendis Galleries at Science Museum, London
quietNOISE, Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Observance, Celia Lendis Contemporary, UK
Wonder Room, Maroondah Art Gallery, VIC
2012 Deck the Walls, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
Beautiful Soup, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abottsford Convent, Melbourne
Fish out of Water, whitecubemildura, Mildura, VIC
2011 Large Exhibition of Small Works, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
The Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Mayoral Art Show,Maroondah Art Gallery, VIC
Freak of Nature, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland, VIC
Fair and Square,Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
2010/11 JADA Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2010 The Catalano Collection, Art Gallery Ballarat, VIC
Filomena Coppola, Janet Dawson and Merrick Fry, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2009 Banyule Works on Paper Award, Banyule City Council, Melbourne, VIC
40 x 40 x 40, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
‘…a thousand words, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
On Paper, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
Don’t Stand on the Grass, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2008 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2007 Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Banyule Works on Paper Award, Banyule City Council, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Robert Jacks Drawing Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive, Swan Hill Art Gallery, VIC
Melbourne 06, Dickerson Gallery at the Melbourne Exhibition Building, VIC
The Printmakers Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS
2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Banyule Works on Paper Award, Banyule City Council, Melbourne, VIC
Recent Acquisitions, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
2004 Movimento Rapido, Dickerson Gallery at Steps Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery VIC
EveN, Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura, VIC
Group Exhibition, Glen Eira Arts Complex, Melbourne, VIC
2003 The Book Show, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Distant Noises, Print Council of Australia, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne VIC
The Print Council of Australia’s Member Print 2003, touring nationally
2002 Bendigo Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2001 Stitches, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Group Show, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Food in Art, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS
2000 Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibitions Buildings, Melbourne, VIC
1999 Milles bon Baisers, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Rosamond, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Hutchins Art Prize, Hutchins School, Hobart, TAS
1998 1998 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, VIC
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, TAS
Inkpots to Internet, La Trobe University Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
In Praise of Make-Up, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS and touring
1997 The 1997 Collectors Print Folio, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Contemporary Tasmania Art, Dick Bett Gallery at Caulfield Art Complex, Melbourne, VIC
1996 Mornington Peninsula Print Award, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, VIC
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre, WA
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Printmedia Acquisitive, Casula Powerhouse, NSW
Poets and Painters, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1995 Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Town Hall, Hobart, TAS
Blundstone Art Prize, QVMAG, TAS, touring Victoria and NSW
Partners in Print, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
1994 Canson Student Print Award, QLD College of Art; COFA Gallery, NSW; APW, Melbourne
Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format, Musee d’Art Contemporain, France.
1993 The Conversation of Humanity, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne & touring with PCA.
Education
1993/95 MFA, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of Tasmania,Tasmania
1988/90 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, LaTrobe UCNV, Victoria
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Documentary
2012 Chasing the Disappeared, shot and edited by Robert Klarich
2011 SBS Studio TV, Mildura Palimpsest http://www.studiotv.com.au/arts-news/mildura-palimpsest/
Commissions and Awards
2013 Arts Victoria, Development Grant
2012 Regional Arts Victoria, Project Funding
2009 Shugg Group, Drawing Commission
2005 Imagery Estate Winery andArtGallery, Wine Label,Sonoma,CA,USA
2004 Vermont Studio Centre Residency and Part Fellowship, Vermont, USA
2003 The Print Council of Australia, The 2003 Member Print Selection
2001 Judges Selection, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2000 Ian Potter Foundation, Individual Grant
2000 Tonchi Dzelalija, Drawing Commission
1999 Arts Tasmania, Development Grant
1998 Arts Tasmania, Artsbridge Funding
1998 T42 Restaurant, Drawing Commission
1997 R McCulloch Scholarship, Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, University of Tasmania and Arts Tasmania
1996 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
1996 TAAB Art in Public Places, with Robyn Daw, Queen Victoria Hospital, Launceston, TAS
1995 City of Hobart Art Prize, Works on Paper, Joint Winner
1994 ArtsTasmania Grant, Professional Development Reserve Fund
1993 The Print Council of Australia, The 1993 Member Print Selection
1989 Ilford Torphy 1989, Outstanding Photographic Achievement
Acquisitions and Collections
Artbank, Sydney
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Canson Australia, Melbourne
University of Tasmania, Launceston and Hobart
City of Hobart, Tasmania
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania
Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
The Hutchins School, Hobart
Mildura Arts Centre Gallery, Victoria
Banyule City Council,Victoria
Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales