Bio

Lives and works in Melbourne


There are two ways in which the grid functions to declare the modernity of modern art. One is spatial, the other temporal.
In the spatial sense, the grid states the autonomy of the realm of art. In the flatness that results from its coordinates, the grid is the means of crowding out the dimensions of the real and replacing them with the lateral spread of a single surface. In the overall regularity of its organisation, it is the result not of imitation, but of aesthetic decree.
In the temporal dimension, the grid is an emblem of modernity by being just that: the form that is ubiquitous in the art of the modernist century. By discovering the grid, cubism, de Stijl, Mondrian, Malevich landed in a place that was out of reach of everything that went before.
They landed in the present, and everything else was declared to be in the past.
- Rosalind E Krauss, "Grids", 1979.


EDUCATION

1990 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2021 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne (Grid Paintings: 25 Years)
2014 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2009 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Orson & Blake Gallery, Sydney
2003 Body Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
1999 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
1997 Temple Studio, Melbourne
1995 Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Temple Studio, Melbourne


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Summer Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Group Show Catalogue 08, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
2001 Something for the Ladies..., Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
2000 Episode, Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Julia, Sarah and Joanne Ritson, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Ritson, Somerville, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Parcel Post Show, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1993 The Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Melbourne
1992 Diary, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1990 Seven Artists, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne
1990 20 Painters, Ministry of Arts, Melbourne


AWARD

1990 Dora Wilson Award for Painting (Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria), Victorian College of the Arts