This has enabled me to produce the luminous textured and transparent qualities in my paintings.

My current work has an organic quality that suggests a process of growth or change- signs of life. It has its origin in nature and science referencing the amplified observations of microscopic imagery. These circular forms keep coming back into my work, each time slightly different, they relate to universal processes from cell division to astronomy.

My work has developed from narrative based paintings in the 1990's to paintings that capture the vibrational energy of nature through sound rcordings. With the use of open layered and transparent colours, the work reflects these harmonic tones of nature.

• Born Toora, Victoria
• 1984 –86 Riverina Murray Institute of Higher Education, Wagga Wagga, Diploma of Fine Art
• 1987 Hunter Institute of Higher Education, Newcastle, Graduate Diploma of Art
• 1988 Studio craftsperson, Charles Stuart University
• Currently lives and works in Byron Bay

EXHIBITIONS

• 2006 Brenda may gallery,sydney
• 2005 John Gordon Gallery,Coffs Harbour
• 2004 Barebones Art Space,Bangalow
• 2002 Fox Galleries, Brisbane
• 2001 Fox Galleries, Brisbane
• Fox Studios, Brisbane
• 1997 Studio Plus, Byron Bay
• Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga, NSW
• 1996 Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga, NSW
• Orient Café, Byron Bay
• 1995 Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga, NSW
• Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
• 1993 Delbridge on Brunswick, Melbourne
• Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga, NSW
• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• 1992 Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
• 1991 Laycock Theatre, Gosford
• Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga, NSW

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

• John gordon gallery, Coffs Harbour.
• Art galleries Schubert, Gold Coast.
• Retrospect Gallery, Byron Bay

2007

• John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour
• Harrison Galleries, 'eleven' Paddington, Sydney
• Byron Fine Art Gallery
• Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast

2006

• John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour
• Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2005

• Brenda May Gallery, Colour in Abstaction
• Cape Gallery,Byron Bay
• Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast
• Barebones Artspace, Bangalow

2004

• John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour.
• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast
• Barebones Artspace

2003

• Fox Galleries, Brisbane
• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• Barebones Art Space, Bangalow
• Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast

2002

• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• Barebones Art Space, Bangalow
• Lismore Regional Art Gallery

2001

• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• Barebones Art Space, Bangalow

2000

• Conrad Jupiters Art Prize
• Gold Coast City Art Gallery
• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• Barebones Art Space, Bangalow

1999

• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay

1997

• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay

1996

• Barebones Art Space, Bangalow
• Lismore Regional Art Gallery
• Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
• Convent Gallery, Dayelsford

1995

• Barebones Art Space, Bangalow
• Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga

1994

• Collectors Choice, Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
• Waldron Gallery, Byron Bay
• Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga

1993

• Echo Easter Arts Classsic, Byron Bay

1992

• Mullumbimby Gallery, Mullumbimby
• Collectors Choice, Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
• House Show, Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
• Avoca Gallery, Gosford

1989

• Forte, Newcastle Contempory Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

1988

• Lectures Exhibition, Disposals Gallery, Wagga Wagga

1987

• Mini Prints lake Macquaries Gallery, Lake Macquarie
• Graduate Exhibition, NCAE Gallery, Newcastle
• Australian and New Zealand Print Makers, SVPA Gallery, Wagga Wagga

1986 Print & Form SVPA Gallery, Wagga Wagga
Uses and abuses of the Muses, The Passions of the Superfluous Men,
SVPA Gallery, Wagga Wagga

COMMISSIONS

• 1994 Liverpool Hospital
• 1989 Dockside, Brisbane
• Maitiand Hospital

COLLECTIONS

• John Flynn Memorial Hospital, Gold Coast
• Byron Bay Hospital, Byron Bay
• Charles Stuart University, Wagga Wagga
• Commonwealth Bank, Brisbane
• Artbank
• Marsden Public School, Brisbane
• Various corporate, overseas and private collections

PRIZES

Echo Easter Art Classic – Epicentre Art Gallery Prize

PUBLISHED

• 2006 Coast Living
• 2005 Coast Living. Autumn and Spring editions
• 2001 Review Brisbane NEWS-31 JAN 2001
• 2000 Cover Catalogue of works -Conrad Jupiters Art prize
• Review Courier Mail-Conrad Jupiters Art Prize
• 1996 Review/reproduced Lismore Regional Art GalleryCatalogue

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