EDUCATION
2023 Diploma of New Zealand Art and Design in Ceramics (Level 6), Otago Polytechnic, Te Pūkenga, New Zealand 2022 Diploma of New Zealand Art and Design in Ceramics (Level 5), Otago Polytechnic, Te Pūkenga, New Zealand
2017 Doctorate of Fine Art (PhD), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
2010 First Class Honours in Fine Art (Media Arts) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Australia
2009 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
AWARDS
2021 Toipoto Creative Career Mentoring, Auckland, New Zealand
2021 Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, New Zealand
2021 Finalist Walker and Hall Art Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, New Zealand 2020 British Council in the Arts Peace Prize for Auckland residents 2020 Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, New Zealand 2017 Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2015 Finalist Forever Now, launched at Mona Foma, Hobart, Australia 2013 Finalist Tweed Border Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2012 Public Art Program Funding, City of Wagga Wagga, Australia
2011 Art Start Grant, Australia Council
2010 Finalist The Butterfly Effect, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Finalist Australian Teachers of Media Finalist (ATOM), Melbourne, Australia
2010 City of Melbourne Art and Culture Fund, Docklands Art Grant, Australia
2010 Vice Chancellors Award, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2010 RMIT Student Development Grant, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Golden Key International Honours Society for Academic Excellence in Fine Arts
2008 Finalist Totem: Dolls with Soul, Atrium Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Australia
AUTHOR
2022 ‘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 Author).
Writer in Residence, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada
RESIDENCIES
Leighton Artists’ Colony, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
Cultural Heritage and Art Conservation – New Skills Residency, Athens, Greece
BAIR, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
Cyprus College of Art, University of Leeds, Larnaca, Cyprus, Greece Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos Island, Greece
Jiwar, Barcelona, Spain School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.
Boranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia International Artist In Resident @CRANE Arts and Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Feminist Art Conference (FAC) Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Canada
Kings Bridge Cottage, Cataract Gorge, National Parks and Wildlife, Launceston, Australia Fluevog Artist in Residence, Brunswick, Germany
Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Botanical Gardens, Cairns, Australia
E3 Artspace, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Ateliers Four Winds, Provence, France (returning AIR x 3) CAMAC Centre D’Arte (UNESCO), Marnay sur Seine, France
A.I.R Vallauris, Vallauris, France
Waterfront City Marina, Melbourne Docklands, Australia Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Australia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Vessels for Ondines and Oceanids, ArtBay Gallery, Queenstown, New Zealand.
2017
In Her Hands: Longing to Feel, POP Gallery, Queensland College of Art Galleries, Brisbane, Australia (solo)
2016
Encircling the Body: Cells in Motion, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada (performance)
Sentiments of Infinity, Rolston Recital Hall, The Banff Centre, Canada (multimedia performance)
2015
Edge of The Pink, Project Space, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (solo)
Each Time the Circle Turns it is Not the Same, The Telus Studio, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (performance)
Riding the Pink Cosmos, Skopelos Island, Greece (performance)
BAIR Open Studios, Glyde Hall, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (group)
2014
Leaning into the Earth, Crane Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
Touching the Earth, Crane Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (collaborative)
Are We Out of the Woods? POP Gallery @AFG, Queensland College of Art Galleries, Brisbane, Australia (solo)
Regenerate, The Hold Art Space, Brisbane, Australia (group)
2013
Amulets of a Golden Muse, Sawtooth Ari, Launceston, Australia (solo)
Sitting Circle of Stone & Wood, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga (solo)
Flowers as Pathways; Flora as Traces, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Botanical Gardens, Cairns, Australia (group)
28 Walks Under a Grey Sky, Heptagon Exhibition, French Cultural Centre, Boston, USA (group)
Response and Relate, Crate 59, Cairns, Australia (group)
Sense of Place, Cell Art Space, Cairns, Australia (group)
Women in the Arts, Circa Gallery, Cairns, Australia (group)
Wuurran-Open Gateway, Link Gallery, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia (group)
Relatos, Proyecto Heptagone, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico (group)
2012
Femmes, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (solo)
Venus with Her Life Interrupted, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Fragments of a Circular Dwelling, Arcadia Station, Birrego district, west of Wagga Wagga (solo)
Longing Place of Soft Water, E3 Artspace, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia (solo)
Weaving the River’s Edge, Wagga Wagga Beach, Murrumbidgee River, Australia (performance)
Tracing the River’s Edge, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia (solo)
She Waits Amongst the Allocasuarina… Kings Bridge Cottage Garden, Cataract Gorge, Launceston, Australia (performance)
Feral Children of the Forest Project, Edition 13, Dimanche Rouge, Petit Bain, Paris, France (performance)
Life Bloody Live, Moretti & Moretti Gallery, Paris, France (performance)
2011
Visceral Beating Drum-Beat of Aphrodite’s Breath Upon the Wind (Ma Gaia Drummers of Cyprus), Kouklia, Cyprus, Greece (performance)
Floating in Place… Waterfront City Marina, The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia (performance)
Desert Mothers Are to Me Like Desert Roses, Edition 11, Dimanche Rouge, Petit Bain, Paris, France (performance)
Open studios, CAMAC Centre D’Arte, Marnay sur Seine, France (group) GoogleMeThis, Fitzroy Library Artspace, Melbourne, Australia (group)
2010
Tracking the Line, RMIT University Foyer, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Six… Field… Current: RMIT Media Arts Honours Student Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (group)
2009
Sometimes a Glass Cube is Like a Garden, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Frankston, Australia (solo)
Sometimes I Call for a Return to Colour, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Frankston, Australia (solo)
The Exiled Body, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Mesmerised, Loop Bar, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (solo)
Re-Imagining Place, Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Australia (solo)
A Fine Line: RMIT Drawing Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Drawing Department, Melbourne, Australia (group)
The Mapping Room, International Fringe Festival Headquarters, Melbourne, Australia (group)
2008
Drawing, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (group)
Sweet Work Next Wave, Perry Sand hills, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival and Next Wave Festival Mildura, Australia (group)
Picture this 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
Canon Mirror Snips, The Drawing Space, Melbourne, Australia (group)
Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janseen; Life is Over; The John and Yoko Drawings, The Drawing Space, Melbourne, Australia (group)
2007
Peer Esteem, Five Years, Regent Studios, London, UK (group)
Outsiders, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (group)
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2011
What Is Courtly Love, Oxford Street Arts Festival, Sydney, Australia
Floating is Bespattering, City of Melbourne Library, Melbourne, Australia
Floating is Bespattering, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2010
Drawing Out, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Site Unseen, Kasey Chamber’s Concert, Mildura, Australia
Site Unseen, The Australian Bush Film Festival, Wentworth, Australia
Sometimes it’s Important… The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Screenings, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Cairo at Night, Mediatised Sites Festival, The University of North Umbria, UK & The University of Texas, USA
You Saw Me, Cake on the Icing Inter-access 8th Annual Emerging Artist Festival, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED PUBLIC APPEARANCES
2022
Woman and Pilgrimage Book Launch, Women and Gender Studies Program, College of Charleston, USA
Pilgrimage Art of the Tarot: A journey through the lens of feminism in association with Steven Muir, Sacred Journeys 9th Global Conference, University of Primorska, Slovenia (upcoming)
2016
Paths Travelled by a Woman Artist-Scholar, Women’s Studies and Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments, Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada
The Thousand-Word Picture: Teaching Pilgrimage Through Images, Annual Symposium for Pilgrimage Studies, College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA
Walking Women, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Fringe Festival, Scotland
2015
Pilgrimages to Gendered Landscapes Through the Eyes of the Artist, Conference talk at Pilgrimage to the Heart of the Sacred Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford, England
2013
Methodologies and Exhibition Practices in Studio Research, Postgraduate Symposium, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
2012
Bone Map Broadcast, COCA (Centre of Contemporary Art Cairns), Cairns, Australia Pecha Kucha, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, Australia
Art Made in Public Then Left to the Elements, ABC New South Wales, Riverina, Australia
Interview with Ian White, 2 AAA FM, Wagga Wagga, Australia
2010
Reflections on Next Wave Regional Mentoring, Lecture to RMIT Media Art Department, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Walking in a Cube, Arts Access, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Australia
Walking in a Cube, The Australian War Widow Society, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Australia
TEACHER AND MENTOR
2021
The Artists Way, Theosophical Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.
Instagram for Creatives, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand Instagram for Creatives II, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand Empower Your Dreams for 2022, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand
Wednesday Meditation Mornings, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand
The Artist Way, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand.
2020
Introduction to the Artist Way, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand.
2019
Drawing Two; Evening Class Series, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand.
Drawing; Evening Class Series, Waiheke Adult Learning, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand.
2014
Mentor, Masters Students of Fine Arts, Temple University as part of international AIR, Philadelphia, USA, September 2014
2013
Mentor, Masters students of Textiles, University of Tasmania, Academy of the Arts, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, April 2013
2010
Mentor, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival and Next Wave Festival, Mildura, Australia, June 2010
2011
Mentor and teacher, My Persona Project with Angela Barnett, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Australia
2008
Mentor, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival and Next Wave Festival, Mildura, Australia, February- March 2008
2002-2014
High School Teacher for various schools across the UK, NSW And QLD Australia
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Postage Stamp Winery part of the Delamore Estate Wine Labels
Paul D.Fleck Library, The Banff Centre for the Arts Skopelos Foundation for the Arts
Artscape Gibraltar Point
Boranga Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University
Dr Emma Rochester 