Born Sydney, Australia 1976


EDUCATION

2003 MFA (Art) California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
1997 BA (First Class Honours) Visual Arts, University of Western Sydney


AWARDS/PRIZES

2022 Winner, John Villiers Outback Art Prize
2022 Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
2022 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2021 Winner, St Kevins Art Award, Works on Paper prize
2021 Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize
2021 Winner, IAS/Artech Art Prize
2021 Finalist, Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize
2021 Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
2020 Awarded Pollock-Krasner Grant
2020 Winner, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Musswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2019 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre
2019 St Kevins' Art Prize, St Kevins' College
2019 Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery
2019 Threshold, Banyule Award for works on paper, Hatch Contemporary Art Space
2018 Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award
2018 Winner - second prize - Pro Hart Outback Art Prize
2018 Finalist, Paul Guest Prize
2017 Finalist, Footscray Art Prize
2017 Winner, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Drawing Award
2017 Highly commended, St Kevins Art Prize
2016 Finalist, Substation Art Prize
2016 Finalist, Paul Guest Prize
2016 Finalist, Rick Amore Drawing Prize
2016 Finalist, Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards
2016 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Art Award
2015 Finalist, Hobart City Art Prize
2015 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize
2015 Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper
2014 Finalist, Paul Guest Prize
2014 Finalist & Acquired artist, Kedumba Drawing Award
2014 Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award
2013 Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize
2013 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize
2013 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2013 Finalist, Hazelhurst Art Award
2013 Finalist, Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award
2012 Finalist, The Fishers Ghost Art Prize
2012 Finalist, The Substation Contemporary Art Prize
2012 Finalist, National Works on Paper
2012 Finalist, The Paul Guest Prize
2011 Finalist, Hobart City Art Prize
2011 Finalist, The Substation Contemporary Art Prize
2010 Winner, Metro Art Award,
2010 Winner Local Artist Award, Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize
2008 Finalist, Robert Jacks Drawing Prize
2006 Finalist, National Works on Paper
2006 Winner Local Artist Award, Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Award,
2005 Awarded, NAVA Visual and Craft Artists’ Grant Scheme
2002 Awarded, CalArts Scholarship
2002 Awarded, CalArts Deans Reserve Fund
2002 Awarded, Samstag Supplementary Scholarship
2001 Awarded, Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2000 Awarded, Gunnery Studio Program, Artspace, Sydney
1998 Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship
1997 Awarded, William Fletcher Trust Grant


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Dirty Diesel & Dusty Deeds, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery (Feb)
2018 Listen Like in the Sunset, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne (Nov)
2018 Dirty Diesel & Dusty Deeds, Mayspace, Sydney (May)
2016 Untitled, Scott Livesey Galleries (Oct)
2014 Obsolescent Transit, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Time Travels, Mick Gallery, Sydney (Oct)
2012 Wasteland Wanderlust, Metro Gallery, Melbourne (Aug)
2011 Auto Abandon, Metro Gallery, Melbourne (Mar)
2009 Sunrise after sunset before sunrise, Billboard Project Hobsons Bay Council, Melbourne (Jan)
2007 Wild West Break Down, Nellie Castan Gallery (Aug)
2006 Auto Drive By, Mori Gallery, Sydney (Jun)
2004 Drawings, Room 35 at Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney (Nov)
2004 Stitched, Gertrude Contemporary Exhibitions, Melbourne (Aug)
2003 Untitled, Gallery D300, CalArts, Los Angeles (Feb)
2002 Paul White Sews, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles (Nov)
2002 Untitled, The Lime Gallery, CalArts, Los Angeles (Feb)
2001 Untitled, Rubyayre gallery, Sydney (Feb)
2000 The Green Room, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (Jul)
1999 Detour, Room 35 at Gitte Weise, Sydney (Aug)
1998 n>4+g7-?i1)..Y, Open House Gallery, Sydney (Oct)
1997 Untitled, 151 Regent Street, Sydney (Feb)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Dobell Drawing Prize regional tour, Gosford art gallery (April)
2022 John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Waltzing Matilda Centre, Winton QLD (March)
2022 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, PLC, Sydney (Feb)
2022 Dobell Drawing Prize regional tour, Bank Art Museum, Moree (Feb)
2022 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre (Jan)
2021 Dobell Drawing Prize regional tour, Logan Art gallery, Old (Dec)
2021 Seeing past the future, Pollock Krasner house online exhibition (July)
2021 Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Syd (Mar)
2021 Space YZ, Campbelltown Art Centre (Jan)
2021 St Kevins Art Prize, St Kevins college (May)
2019 Duality, KSR Art Bar
2018 Incinerator Art Prize, Incinerator Gallery (Oct)
2018 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Art Gallery (Aug)
2018 The Paul Guest Prize, Benndigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo (Aug)
2018 W.O.P. Scott Livesey Galleries (Feb)
2017 Out of Line, May Space, Sydney
2017 Footscray Art Prize, Footscray Community Art Centre
2017 St Kevins Art Prize, St Kevins College
2017 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2017 How Does Your Garden Grow?, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2017 Summer Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Curtain Call, Blindside, Melbourne
2016 Double Bind, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
2016 The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Newport Substation
2016 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat
2016 Just Draw, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2016 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2016 Just Draw, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
2016 Adelaide Perry Art Award, PLC, Sydney
2016 Hot Rod, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2015 Hobart City Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
2015 Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart
2015 Mug Shot, Gallery Ecosse, NSW
2015 Visible Storage, Artbank, Sydney
2015 The Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2015 Group Show - Five Artists, Gallery Ecosse, NSW
2014 The Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo
2014 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2014 Kedumba Drawing Award, Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls
2014 The Incinerator Art Award, the Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Jet Set, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Fleurieu Art Prize, McLaren Vale, South Australia (Oct)
2013 Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart (Oct)
2013 Suburbia, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne (Sept)
2013 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, QLD (Aug)
2013 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst, Syd (fJuly)
2013 Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane (June)
2013 Deconstructed, Metro gallery, Melb (June)
2013 +1, Marrickville Garage, Sydney (Feb)
2012 The Game pt II, These Walls Don’t Lie Gallery, Adelaide, (Nov)
2012 Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (Oct)
2012 The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Newport Substation, Melbourne (Sept)
2012 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne (Aug)
2012 The Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Melb (July)
2012 Young Guns, Linton & Kay Contemporary, Perth (Feb)
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, (Aug)
2011 The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Newport Substation, Melbourne (Aug)
2011 Hobart City Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania (July)
2011 Winter Solstice, Metro Gallery, Melbourne (June)
2011 Metro gallery Group show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne (Jan)
2010 Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne (Aug)
2010 MCM House Art Show, MCM House, Sydney (May)
2010 Look See, Hunter St Mall - in conjunction with Look Hear @ Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle (April)
2010 Off the Wall - Art Melbourne, Exhibition Centre, Melbourne (April)
2010 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, Newport Substation, Melbourne (March)
2010 After Christmas Slasher Sale, Public Space One, Iowa City, Iowa (Jan)
2009 Koast Snowboarding an exhibition, Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery, Sydney (Sept)
2009 The Forty Thieves 2, Gorker Gallery, Melbourne (Aug)
2008 Stitched, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney (Nov)
2008 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Gallery, Melbourne (Sept)
2008 Cracow Screen Festival, Cracow, Poland (May)
2006 2x1, Nellie Castan Gallery (Dec)
2006 Tallis Foundation National Works on Paper, Mornington Regional Gallery (Jun)
2006 Pleasures and Terrors, Blindside, Melbourne (May)
2006 Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Award, Newport Substation, Melb (Mar)
2005 Paper Chase, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (Dec)
2005 Lapped, Campbelltown Arts Centre, (Sep)
2005 Room 35 turns 8, Room 35 at Gitte Weise, Sydney (Sep)
2005 CalArts Alumni Reunion Show, CalArts, Los Angeles (Jul)
2005 CalArts Fundraiser, Online Show/Auction (May)
2005 No War Benefit, Mori Gallery, Sydney (May)
2005 Checkpoint; Placard Project. Mori Gallery, Sydney (Jan)
2004 Junket, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico (Aug)
2003 Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, (Oct)
2003 We’ve Moved, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, (Sep)
2003 Emergence, Track 16, Bergamot station, Los Angeles, CA (Mar)
2003 Art Weird, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, Valencia, CA (Feb)
2002 Soft, Time and Place, Lebec, CA (Nov)
2002 Mid Residency Show, CalArts, Los Angeles (Oct)
2001 That was now, this is then, Gitte Weise, Sydney (Jun)
2001 Gettin’ Lucky, Lewers Gallery, Penrith (Feb)
2000 Rubyayre Benefit Show, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney (Apr)
1999 Hack, Grey Matter, Sydney (Nov)
1999 Nine Lives, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (Oct)
1999 Qintex, Smith and Stoneley, Brisbane (Jul)
1999 Al Eisen and Friends, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney (Mar)
1998 Symbol (Mx6), first draft, Sydney (Aug)
1998 Suspension, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney (Jul)
1998 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney (May)
1997 Sterile Until Opened or Damaged, Artspace, Sydney (Dec)
1997 Love Letters to John McDonald, 151 Regent Street, Sydney (May)
1997 Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Cont. Art,(Apr)
1996 How Much Do You Love Me?, 151 Regent St, Sydney (Dec)
1996 Taking A Line, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne (Sep)


MEDIA /PUBLICATION

2021 Classic & Sportscar Magazine, feature article (Aug)
2014 Australian Muscle Car Magazine, feature article
2014 Artist Profile, issue 27, 'Process', p 128-130
2013 Presenter, Semi - Permanent Creative Conference, Melbourne Convention Centre (Oct)
2013 Presenter, Semi - Permanent Creative Conference, Sydney Convention Centre (May)
2012 Empty magazine, Issue 22
2012 Wasteland Wanderlust, Metro Gallery Exhibition catalogue with essay by Ashley Crawford
2010 The Age, Melbourne, Metro Gallery Awards, 11Ǟ񳏊
2010 Beat Magazine, Shop assistant wins Metro Gallery award, 11Ǟ񳏊
2010 Hobsons Bay Leader, Not too rusty, 10Ǟ񳏊
2010 Stonnington Leader, Ride-in on dinosaurs, 10Ǟ񳏊
2010 Sydney Morning Herald, 24 hrs The Arts Diary, Rainbow Dreams, 4Ǟ񳏊
2010 Herald Sun Melbourne, Drawing on a love of cars, 4Ǟ񳏊
2010 The Mail, Classic cars honoured on canvas, 4Ǟ񳏊
2010 Channel 9 news Melbourne, Metro Gallery Award, 3Ǟ񳏊
2010 Transfer Snowboard Magazine, Art & Culture, Issue 3, 2010
2010 Williamstown Advertiser, Artist off the wall and over the moon, 24Ǚ񳏊
2010 Williamstown Advertiser, Another success for artist, 17Ǚ񳏊
2009 Hobsons Bay Leader, Holden on to an icon, 10Ǚ񳏉
2009 Williamstown Advertiser, Sunsets on billboard series, 4ǘ񳏉
2009 Hobsons Bay Leader, Sun sets on conversations billboard art project, 3ǘ񳏉
2009 22 zine, Issue 5, Oct 09, feature artist, pg 26
2009 viewable online http://issuu.com/twenty2wo/docsቲissue05_web
2008 Empty magazine issue 12, front cover and inside spread feature
2007 Article - The Journal of Art Education Victoria, Vol 9, Number 2, 2007
2007 pg 36 - Review ‘Wild West Break Down’ Sue Kinneally
2007 The Age, A2, Art around the galleries, Megan Backhouse 11Ǟባ
2004 Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, Tracy Clement, 10ቨበ
2004 Interview on 3RRR FM (Melbourne), High & Low, 31Ǟበ
2004 Stitched Exhibtion catalogue pub. Gertrude contemporary
2004 Junket Exhibition Catalogue
2003 New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA.
2002 Sydney Morning Herald, Change of Art, Lenny Ann Low, 24ǝ቞
2001 Sydney Morning Herald, Exhibitions, Weird Science, Victoria Hynes, 22ǜቝ
2001 Sydney Morning Herald, Exhibitions, Lucky Stars, Victroia Hynes, 2Ǚቝ
2001 Gettin’ Lucky Exhibition catalogue
2000 The 2001 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship catalogue (pub. Samstag program, University of South Australia)
2000 Art Asia Pacific, In Search of Dissidence, A. Curruthers, #28, p.40-47
2000 Art and Text, Hack (review), Blair French, #69, p.90
1999 Nine Lives Residency and Exhibition catalogue (pub. Casula Powerhouse)
1999 Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Arts, Much Ado About…What?, Bruce James, 20ቧ኿.
1999 Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Arts, Al Eisen and Friends, Bruce James, 03በ኿.
1998 Interview on 2SER FM (Australia), Arts on the Air, 15ቤኾ
1998 Interview on 2SER FM (Australia), The Buzz, 13ቤኾ
1998 Sydney Morning Herald, The Galleries, Bruce James, 04ቤኾ
1997 The West Australian, Big Weekend, Cullinanes Travels, David Bromfield, 28ቢኽ
1997 Healthway: National Graduate Show catalogue (pub. PICApress)


COLLECTIONS

Artbank
Newcastle Art Gallery
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Outback Regional Gallery
Kedumba Collection
IAS collection