Art biography

2022

Awards / achievements / development

Sessional lecture for first year Fine Art Studio Methods at Curtin University.
Peer reviewed article published in Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology. Read paper.

2021

Awards / achievements / development / media

Interviewed on ABC Radio Saturday Breakfast presented by Molly Schmidt about my Mineral Rites install at Fremantle Arts Centre.
Interviewed live on RTR FM Art Beat presented by Maxxi May about my Mineral Rites install at Fremantle Arts Centre. Listen to broadcast.
Photo of my installation, Mineral Rites, was featured on the cover of Artist’s Chronicle (issue No. 196).
Review by Ted Snell (AM CitWA) of A Forest of Hooks and Nails exhibition, featuring my Mineral Rites installation, was published in The Conversation (25 Feb 2021) and Artist’s Chronicle (issue No. 196). Read review.
Review by Jaimi Wright of A Forest of Hooks and Nails exhibition, featuring my Mineral Rites installation, was published in Seesaw (24 Feb 2021). Read review.
Casual employee for the Fremantle Arts Centre as art installation technician: installing A Forest of Hooks and Nails, Revealed, FAC Print Awards, Beating Heart (Jacobus Capone).

Exhibitions (solo/group)

Tectonics online exhibition curated by Dr Perdita Phillips, part of the ASLEC Beyond Human Scales conference.
Timestamp Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery and Museum. Download catalogue.
A Forest of Hooks and Nails, Perth Festival, Fremantle Arts Centre, featuring my Mineral Rites installation.

2020

Awards / achievements / development

Casual employee for the Fremantle Arts Centre as art installation technician: installing Bricolage, Revealed and Panacea.
Sessional lecture for first year Creative Arts Practice given at Curtin University.
Presented in the Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) Directions & Destinations 2020 symposium.

Exhibitions (solo)

Explaining humanism to the oldest rock in the world (Oct), Quarter Gallery, Perth.
(Exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery and Museum was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID19 outbreak).

2019

Awards / achievements / development

Presented an academic paper at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand conference hosted by the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Presented artist talk and research at SymbioticA, University of Western Australia (UWA).
Presented an academic paper at the Art in the Anthropocene conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Abiotica exhibition reviewed for Grok Magazine by Emily Green. A Look into Deep Time: ‘Abiotica’ Review (29 July 2019). Read review.
Casual employee for the Fremantle Arts Centre as art installation technician: installing Other Suns, Revealed, Idols, Preppers and Animaze.

Exhibitions (solo)

2018

Awards / achievements / development

Selected and published in the book To The Mountains edited by Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey, a collection of the best New Zealand alpine writing over the past 150 years.
Presented academic paper in the Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) Directions & Destinations 2018 conference.
Accepted PhD Scholarship offer by Curtin University.
Casual employee for the Fremantle Arts Centre as art installation technician: installing Print Awards, Semiconductor, Rachael Dease | Like Embracing Ice, Sensual Nature, Revealed, and In Cahoots.
Contracted by Perth Festival and Fremantle Arts Centre to install the exhibition for Latai Taumoepeau.

Exhibitions (group)

Heathcote Select, curated by Jana Braddock at Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery and Museum.
Speculative Nature / Spatial Nature, exhibited with Alira Callaghan, Quarter Gallery.
Staff Room, Fine Art Exhibition, exhibited with Curtin University fine art staff and PhD students at Edwin Millen House.

2017

Awards / achievements / development

Bachelor of Arts Degree (First Class Honours) at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
2017 Humanities Honours Fine Art Studio Award for highest course weighted average for the Humanities Honours program.
Nominated for Hatched: National Graduate Fine Art Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), (although not shortlisted by PICA).
Artist’s assistant to Dr Perdita Phillips on her We Must Catch Up exhibition at Paper Mountain, Perth.
Artist’s assistant to Dr Andrew Sunley Smith on his Carbon Supremacy installation at Fremantle Arts Centre.
Artist’s assistant to Trevor Richards on his Public Road Commission, Bentley.

Exhibitions (group)

2016

Awards / achievements / development

Received Bachelor of Arts Degree (Fine Art) from Curtin University, Perth Australia.
Nominated for Hatched: National Graduate Fine Art Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), (although not shortlisted by PICA).
Selected for Curtin Razor, the annual screening of the best Screen Arts graduate films at Curtin University.

Exhibitions (group)

2015

Awards / achievements / development

Head of School’s commendation for academic performance at Curtin University’s School of Design and Art.

Exhibitions (group)