CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EDUCATION

2017 Doctorate of Fine Art (PhD), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

2023 (current) NZ Diploma of Art and Design Ceramics (Level 6), Te Pūkenga.

2022 NZ Diploma of Art and Design Ceramics (Level 5), Otago Polytechnic, Te Pūkenga.

2010 1st Class Honours Fine Art (Media Arts) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

2009 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

2007 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia.

 

 

AWARDS, HONOURS & GRANTS

Selected, The Cleveland National Art Awards, Otago Arts Society, 2022.

Toipoto Creative Career Mentoring, Auckland, 2021.

Finalist, Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, 2021.

Finalist, Walker and Hall Art Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, 2021.

Finalist, Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, 2020.

British Council in the Arts Peace Prize for Auckland residents, 2020.

Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 2017.

Finalist, Tweed Border Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2013.

A Public Art Advisory Panel Funded Project City of Wagga Wagga, 2012.

Art Start Grant, Australia Council, 2011.

Australian Teachers of Media Finalist (ATOM), 2010.

City of Melbourne Art and Culture Fund, Docklands Art Grant, 2010.

Vice Chancellors Award, RMIT, 2010.

RMIT Student Development Grant, 2010.

Cairo at Night, The Centenary of Manifesto Futuro Sound Art, 2009.

Golden Key International Honours Society for Academic Excellence in Fine Arts, 2009.

 

 

RESIDENCIES

CRANE Arts and Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.

School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.

Boranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.

Cyprus College of Art/ Leeds University, Larnaca, Cyprus, Greece.

Leighton Artists' Colony, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre,Frankston, Australia.

BAIR, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Botanical Gardens, Cairns, Australia.

Kings Bridge Cottage, Cataract Gorge, National Parks and Wildlife, Launceston, Australia.

E3 Artspace, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia.

Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada.

JIWAR, Barcelona, Spain.

Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos Island, Greece.

CAMAC Centre D'Arte (UNESCO), Marnay sur Seine, France.

Ateliers Four Winds, Provence, France.

A.I.R Vallauris, Vallauris, France.

 

 

AUTHOR

‘Women Pilgrimage Artists and their Lineages.’ Chapter Eight In Women and Pilgrimage.

Edited by: E. Moore Quinn and Alison T. Smith, CABI. Amazon Best Seller List, 2022.

 

 

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2017

In Her Hands: Longing to Feel, POP Gallery, Queensland College of Art Galleries.

 

2016

Sentiments of Infinity with Maria Rodrik, Rolston Recital Hall, The Banff Centre for the Arts.

 

2015

Forever Now, Mona Foma, Kosmica Conference, and Labatorio Arte Alamade.

Forever Now, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art and Kings ARI.

Each Time the Circle Turns… The Telus Studio, The Banff Centre for the Arts.

 

2014

Leaning into the Earth, Crane Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.

Touching the Earth, Crane Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.

Are We Out of the Woods? POP Gallery @AFG, Queensland College of Art Galleries.

 

2013

Amulets of a Golden Muse, Sawtooth ARI, Hobart.

Sitting Circle of Stone & Wood, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.

 

2012

Flowers as Pathways; Flora as Traces, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Botanical Gardens.

Fragments of a Circular Dwelling, Arcadia Station, Birrego district, west of Wagga Wagga.

Longing Place of Soft Water, E3 Artspace, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery.

Weaving the River’s Edge, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia

Tracing the River's Edge, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia.

She Waits Amongst the Allocasuarina... Kings Bridge Cottage, Cataract Gorge, Launceston.

As She Waits, She Prepares, Kings Bridge Cottage Garden, Cataract Gorge, Launceston.

Venus with Her Life Interrupted, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, Australia.

 

2011

What is Courtly Love… Dimanche Rouge, Editions 10 & 11, Petit Bain, Paris.

Floating in Place… 1, 2,3,4, Waterfront City Marina, The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia.

 

2010

Tracking the Line, RMIT University Foyer, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

Pilgrimage to the Place Where the Four Winds Meet, RMIT University Foyer, Melbourne.

 

2009

The Exiled Body, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

Exiling the Body, Performance, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

Mesmerised, Loop Bar, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Re-Imagining Place, Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Australia.

 

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

FAC Open Studios, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada.

 

2015

BAIR Open Studios, Glyde Hall, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

 

2014

Regenerate, The Hold Art Space, Brisbane, Australia.

 

2013

Relatos, Proyecto Heptagone, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico.

28 Walks Under a Grey Sky, Heptagon, French Cultural Centre, Boston, USA.

Sawtooth ARI Annual Gala, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston.

Response and Relate, Crate 59, Cairns.

Sense of Place, Cell Art Space, Cairns.

Women in the Arts, Circa Gallery, Cairns.

 

2012

Wuurran-Open Gateway, Link Gallery, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga.

Feral Children of the Forest Project, Edition 13, Dimanche Rouge, Petit Bain, Paris, France.

Circular Structures are… Moretti & Moretti Gallery, Paris, France.

 

2011

Desert Mothers Are to Me… Edition 11, Dimanche Rouge, Petit Bain, Paris, France.

Turn to Face the Sky, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France.

Correspondence Project with Rebecca Merry, A and D Gallery, London, UK.

One Day Man and Nature… CAMAC Centre D'Arte, Marnay sur Seine, France.

GoogleMeThis, Fitzroy Library Artspace, Melbourne.

 

2010

Six… Field… Current, RMIT School of Art Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne.

Site Unseen, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival, Mildura.

Site Unseen, Next Wave Festival, Wentworth.

The Butterfly Effect, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne.

 

2009

A Fine Line, RMIT Drawing Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Drawing Department, Melbourne.

The Mapping Room, International Fringe Festival Headquarters, Melbourne.

 

2008

Totem, Atrium Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne.

Drawing, First Site·Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne.

Sweet Work Next Wave, Perry Sand hills, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival, Wentworth.

Sweet Work Next Wave, Next Wave Festival Mildura.

Picture this 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.

Canon Mirror Snips, Tony Trehy, The Drawing Space, Melbourne.

Life is Over: The John and Yoko Drawings, The Drawing Space, Melbourne.

 

2007

Peer Esteem, Five Years, Regent Studios, London, UK.

Outsiders, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.

 

 

SCREENINGS

2011

What Is Courtly Love, Oxford Street Arts Festival, Sydney.

Floating is Bespattering, City of Melbourne Library, Melbourne.

Floating is Bespattering, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne.

 

2010

Drawing Out, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne.

Site Unseen, Kasey Chamber’s Concert, Mildura.

Site Unseen, The Australian Bush Film Festival, Wentworth.

Sometimes… ATOM Finalist, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne.

Screenings, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne.

 

2008

Cairo at Night, Mediatised Sites Festival, The University of North Umbria, UK.

Cairo at Night, Mediatised Sites Festival, The University of Texas, USA.

You… Cake on the Icing 8th Annual Emerging Artist Festival, Toronto, Canada.

 

 

TEACHING, LECTURING & MENTORING

Instagram for Creatives, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, 2021.

Instagram for Creatives II, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, 2021.

The Artist Way II, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, 2021.

The Artists Way, Theosophical Centre, Auckland, 2021.

Introduction to the Artist Way, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke, 2020.

Walking the Labyrinth, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island Walking Festival, 2019.

Drawing Two, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2019.

Drawing, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2019.

Paths Travelled… Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada, 2019.

Purposeful… Travel Research Cluster Concordia University, Edmonton, Canada, 2015.

Artist Talk, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 2014.

Mentor, Masters Students of Fine Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 2014.

Art Forum, Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, 2013.

Mentor, Masters students of Textiles, University of Tasmania, Academy of the Arts, 2013.

Art Forum Artist, University of Tasmania, School of Visual and Performing Arts, 2012.

Mentor and teacher, My Persona Project, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, 2011.

Mentor, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival and Next Wave Festival, Mildura, 2010.

Mentor, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival and Next Wave Festival, Mildura, 2008.

 

 

CONFERENCES, TALKS & R A D I O

Woman and Pilgrimage, Gender Studies Program, College of Charleston, 2022.

Pilgrimage Art with Steven Muir, Sacred Journeys 9, Univ of Primorska, Slovenia, 2022.

Understanding the Labyrinth, Sea of Faith, Auckland, 2019.

The Thousand-Word Picture, College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA, 2016.

Artist Talk, Walking Women, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Fringe Festival, Scotland, 2016.

Pilgrimages, Pilgrimage to the Heart, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, 2015.

Methodologies… Postgraduate Symposium, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane, 2013.

Bone Map Broadcast, COCA (Centre of Contemporary Art Cairns), Cairns, 2012.

Pecha Kucha, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, 2012.

Art Made in Public Then Left to the Elements, ABC New South Wales, Riverina, 2012.

Emma Rochester in Interview with Ian White, 2 AAA FM, Wagga Wagga, 2012.

Reflections Next Wave Regional Mentoring, RMIT Media Art Department, Melbourne, 2010.

Walking in a Cube, Arts Access, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, 2009.

Walking in a Cube, The Australian War Widow Society, Frankston Arts Centre, 2009.

Exiling the Body, Artist Talk, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, 2009.

 

 

SELECT PUB LIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Postage Stamp Winery part of the Delamore Estate Wine Labels

Skopelos Foundation for the Arts

Artscape Gibraltar Point

Charles Sturt University

Arcadia Station

Paul D. Fleck Library, The Banff Centre for the Arts