Art biography

2023

Exhibitions (group)

  • Bunbury Biennale 2023, Culture / Nature: A Cultural Ecology
    Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, featuring my sculpture Time Machine (2023).

Museum quality art installation

  • Fremantle Arts Centre
  • Perth Institute for Contemporary Art
  • Perth Centre for Photography
  • Maundering Arts Centre

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.
  • Art installation technician at Fremantle Arts Centre: installing A Forest of Hooks and Nails, Revealed, FAC Print Awards, Beating Heart (Jacobus Capone).

Exhibitions (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.
  • Perth Festival, A Forest of Hooks and Nails, 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)

  • Abiotica (July), Paper Mountain, Perth. Download catalogue.
  • Abiotica (May), Quarter Gallery, Perth.

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)

  • Leonora Art Prize.
  • Pay Me, Smart Casual.
  • Curtin University Art Degree Show.

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)

  • South Perth Emerging Artist Award.
  • Home Open a Curtin University third year exhibition.
  • 30×30 a Curtin University exhibition.
  • Fake or fortune a Curtin University sculpture exhibition.
  • Curtin University Art Degree Show.

2015

Awards / achievements / development

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

Exhibitions (group)

  • Absolute Kunst a Curtin University second year sculpture exhibition.