Artist statement

 

My work represents changes in my ways of seeing and responding to the landscape in the Blue Mountains over time. The art I make could be described as landscape but it is as much about inner as outer terrain.  Changing the media used, as well as the scale of works, enables me, and also the viewer to gain different perspectives of the unique place that I live in.

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There are many different notions of landscape. It can represent something outside us, greater than ourselves. It can be a precious refuge, a return to nature and simplicity. But at times it may also feel overwhelming, threatening, even dangerous. At the present moment in history there is a growing understanding that the landscape around us is fragile, its existence threatened. Underlying all this is the awareness that the Australian landscape has a history with the indigenous inhabitants of this country long before the coming of white man.

 

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Education:

2020      Bachelor of Visual Arts (Fine Arts) with Distinction, Federation University, Australia

2016      Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (Distinction), Nepean Arts and Design Centre, TAFE -  Western Sydney

2014      Diploma of Visual Arts (Distinction), Nepean Arts and Design Centre, TAFE - Western Sydney        

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Exhibitions:

2024     Collectors Edition #10, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW

             Coalescence, solo exhibition, Gallery NWC, Katoomba, NSW

 

2023     Blue Mountains Print Prize, second prize winner, Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre

             Shadows and Light, solo exhibition at Braemar Gallery, Springwood, NSW

            

2022     Three, group exhibition with Natasha Junmanee and Suzie Salisbury at M2 Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW

             Collectors Edition #8, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW

             Blue Mountains Portraits, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW

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2021     Collectors Edition #7, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW

             Blue Mountains Portraits, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW

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2020     Hawkesbury Art Fair, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW

             Contained, solo exhibition, Platform Gallery, Katoomba, NSW

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2019     Time and Terrain, group exhibition with Maeve Dunnett, Gallery One88, Katoomba, NSW

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2018     Blacktown City Art Prize - finalist, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW

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2017     Blacktown City Art Prize - finalist, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW

             Pure Greenway, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW

             The Drawing Show, Trapezium Gallery, Nepean Arts and Design Centre, TAFE- Western Sydney

             Culturescape, Blue Mountains, NSW

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2016     Student Art Award - finalist, Trapezium Gallery, Nepean Arts and Design Centre, TAFE- Western Sydney

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2015     Blacktown City Art Prize - finalist, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW

             

2014     Wippabald, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith, NSW

            

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