BIOGRAPHIC NOTE
Painter. Born Narrandera N.S.W. Studies: Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney. Anatomy, Drawing, Art & Design, Mittagong. Printmaking,
Etching, Drawing. Workshops: Mitchell College, Orange. Waverley School of Arts, Willoughby Art Centre. 1987/88 Painting Expedition
around Australia. Followed by regular returns to centre Australia and inland to outback NSW and Queensland for new series of works.
EXHIBITIONS
1989 Lake Russell Coffs Harbour ‘Four Artists’. 1990 Galerie La Meurianne Sydney, Solo ‘Preserved on Paper’ Mixed Media works of
rare and endangered Wildlife. 1991 Lake Russell Coffs Harbour ‘Three North Coast Artists’. 1992 Monad Gallery Sydney ‘Kadadu Series’.
1992 Lake Russell Gallery Group Exhibition ‘The Forest and the Sea’. 1993 Lake Russell Gallery ‘Made in Coffs’. 1993 Monad Gallery
Sydney ‘Ride a Wild Pony’ Solo. 1994 Lake Russell Gallery ‘Six Winners’ (Group of Six). 1995 Monad Gallery Sydney ‘A Woman’s Nature’
Solo. 1995 Lake Russell Gallery ‘Ranging over the Great Divide’ (4 Artists). 1996 Monad Gallery, Sydney ‘Spirit Katherine’ Solo. 1996/97
Hang Ups Gallery, Brisbane 'Recent Works’ (2 Artists). 1997 Lake Russell Gallery, solo painter with Potter Peter Dobinson. 1997 Moulton
Gallery Sydney ‘Waterways Trio’ (3 Artists). 2001 Group Exhibition Lake Russell Gallery. 2001 Pokolbin Gallery - Mistletoe ‘Recent Works’.
1999, 2000/01 Grosvenor Place, Sydney 2002. Hang Ups Gallery Brisbane. 2002 Pololbin Gallery. 2003 Lake Russell Coffs Harbour
‘The Fragile Land’ solo 2005. Lorne Gallery 4 artists 2006. Lake Russell Gallery Four Artists 2006. ‘New Works’ Hang Ups Gallery Brisbane
2007.
OTHER SELECTED INVITED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Grafton Regional Gallery 1990/92/94/96/98. Avenue Art Mosman 1989/90. Mosman Art Prize 1993/94/95/96. R.A.S. Art Exhibition 1988/89/90/92/93/95. Willoughby Art Prize 1996. Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition S. H. Ervin Gallery 1999. Jacaranda Drawing Acquisitive Award
Grafton Regional Award Tour. Tweed River Regional Art Gallery Sunshine Coast University Gallery. Dubbo Regional Gallery. Manning
Regional Gallery. Ken Done Sydney. Toowoomba Regional Gallery. Tamworth Regional Gallery. Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition
S.H. Ervin Gallery 2001. Musswellbrook Regional Gallery 2007.
ART PRIZES, AWARDS, ACQUISITIONS
1986 CRT Cover Design. 1988 Atelier Finalist. 1989/92 Coffs Harbour City Art Prize Major Prize. 1990/93 Coffs Harbour City Art Prize
Drawing Prize, 1995/98 Wildlife Prize, 1996 Contemporary Prize. 1989 Kyogle Fairymount Festival Art Exhibition Works on Paper Prize.
1990 Taree Art Prize Drawing Prize. 1992 and 1996 Jacaranda Drawing Acquisitive Awards. 1996 Walkcom Manning 3rd Art Prize. Taree
Regional Gallery Contemporary Prize. Awards; R.A.S. Sydney Exhibition 1996/97, Willoughby Art Exhibition 1996, Southern Cross
University Award Coffs Harbour 1999 Major Prize. Selected Portia Geach Memorial Exhibition 1999 and 2001. 2007 Singleton Art Contemporary
Prize 2007 Singleton Art Drawing Prize. Also numerous Highly Commended awards 1986-2007.
COLLECTIONS
Queensland Parliament House, Pacific Bay Resort Commissions, Southern Pacific Hotels, Grafton Regional Gallery, R.S.L Tamworth.
Many private and corporate collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, U.S.A., Holland, Canada and Japan.
ARTISTS IMPRESSIONS and Cover for the book ‘The Fragile Land’ Vol. 1, The Other Side of Bourke', Published 1999.
TOURS: Jacaranda Drawing Award Tour 1999 with the drawing ‘The Way Forward is the Way Back’.