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Born in 1970 in the wheatbelt Railway town of Narrogin,
population 4500, 192km south east of Perth.
Ours is a family of pioneering stock, and I have
a great love for and attachment to the
land, fruit born from generations of the
simple sorrows and the simple joys endured.
From humble beginnings on a small horse farm, to
the reverence of existence on a million acres
north of the26th parallel, north of Perth some
1400kms, and north of anything remotely
sentimental or 'womanly', inspiration was
lived not searched.
The shear expanse of the landscape, with its
seamless ultramarine sky, and infinite horizon
shimmering promises, offered a myriad of
contradictions, greatness and trepidation,
smallness and strength, fear, fight, love, loss.
Isolation too Jekylled friend and foe, a sense
of freedom, a heady mix of never ending enticing
realism to dance nonsensical.
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EDUCATIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS & studies
2006 Portugal Study
Tour
2004 Kimberly & Northern
Territory study tour
1989—1991
Certificate Architectural
Drafting
ART— Self Taught
SOLO EXHIBITIONS DETAILS
2009 Florence, Italy
'Home Lies Wide A
Thousand Miles'
2007
McKenzie Gallery -
Claremont, WA
2006 McKenzie Gallery - Claremont, WA
'Birds & Birds Alike'
2006 Boranup Gallery - November,
Margaret River, WA
'The Promised Land'
2005 Lynne Wilton Gallery - Melbourne
Vic
'A Fortunate Life'
2005 Narrogin Regional Art Gallery -
Narrogin WA
'A Fortunate Life'
2004 St Bernards - Kojonup, WA
2003 McKenzie Gallery—Claremont, WA
2002 Pilbara Fine Art Gallery– Karratha, WA
2001 Boranup Gallery— Margaret River Wine
Festival, WA
2001 McKenzie Art Gallery— Claremont, WA
2000 Pilbara Fine Art Gallery—Karratha, WA
1999 Pilbara Fine Art Gallery—Karratha, WA
1999 Giralia Station Variety Club Bash—Exmouth,
WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DETAILS
2009 Perth College - WA
2009 She-scapes -
Gallery82 - Adelaide SA
2007 Towoomba - Tiffany Jones Fine Art Gallery,
Buderim QSLD
2007 Art Melbourne 07' - represented
by Lynne Wilton Gallery,
Armadale, VIC
2007 Royal Pines Ladies Masters Tornament -
Corporate Art,
Burleigh Heads, QSLD
2007
McKenzies Representation -
promoting works in over 20 of Perth's
leading Charity, School &
Variety Exhibitions
2006 Art Sydney 06 - represented by
Corporate Art, Burleigh Heads,
QSLD
2006 Lynne Wilton Gallery - Royal Childrens
Auction, Melbourne VIC
2006 Cossack Exhibition - Karratha, WA
2006 St Bernards - Kojonup, WA
2006 McKenzies Representation - promoting
works in over 20 of Perth's
leading Charity, School &
Variety Exhibitions
2005 Silvery Gibbon Project -
Perth Zoo Art Auction, WA
2005 Affordable Art Show - Sydney, NSW
2005 McKenzies Investment Auction -
Claremont, WA
2004 McKenzie Gallery
Representation—promoting works to over 20
of Perth’s leading Charity,
School & Variety Exhibitions
2004 Moerart - Moeralina Exhibition
represented by McKenzie Gallery
Painting used as gallery invitition/
promotion
2004 McKillop College Ar X
Pose Exhibition—painting requested to
promote auction
2004 Silvery Gibbon Project -Perth Zoo Art
Auction
2004 Bettongia Gallery, Williams
representation
2003 Yeltrah Gallery, Upper
Swan—joint exhibit Spring in The Valley
Wine Festival
2003 Painting requested to promote Moerlina
School Art Exhibition.—
represented by McKenzie Gallery
2003 McKenzie Gallery
Representation—promoting works to over 20
of Perth’s leading Charity,
School & Variety Exhibitions.
2003 Shell Agricultural Awards—Royal Show.
Re: Williams Expo
2003 Cossack Art Award—Cossack
2002 Geraldton Grammar School Biannual Art
Exhibition, Geraldton
Joint exhibition with Leon Pericles,
Larry Mitchell & Mike
Vandeluer
2002 Liberal Party Art Exhibition, Dalkeith
— invitation artist
2002 McKenzie Gallery
Representation—promoting works to over 20
of Perths leading Charity,
School & Variety exhibitions
2002 Feature artist— New Gallery opening
Swan Valley—Spring in
The Valley Wine Festival
2002 RAS Perth Royal Show
2002 Cossack Art Awards—Cossack
2002 Art Expo—Williams
2002 Silvery Gibbon Project Art Auction—
Perth Zoo
2001 Bunbury Catholic College Art
Extraordinare Exhibit
2001 Invitation Only Art Auction—Aranmore
College, Perth
2001 Silvery Gibbon Project Art Auction
—Perth Zoo
2001 Millbrook Art Expo—Williams
2001 Cossack Art Awards—Cossack
2001 Williams Art & Craft Exhibit— Williams
2001 Margaret River Wine Festival—Margaret
River Hotel
2001 Moora Art Exhibition—Moora
2000 Bunbury Catholic College- Art
Extraordinare Exhibit.
2000 Invitation Only Art Auction - Bunbury
Catholic College
2000 Aranmore Catholic College Art
Exhibition
2000 Aranmore Invitation only Art Auction.
2000 Narrogin Spring Festival Exhibition
2000 Perth Royal Show
2000 Perth Royal Show - Pilbara Development
Display
2000 Cossack Art Awards– Cossack
2000 9' x 5' Williams Art Expo Exhibition
2000 Williams Agricultural Show Exhibition
1999 Northhamption Agricultural Art
Exhibition
1999 Mt Magnet Art Exhibition
1999 Bunbury Catholic College- Art
Extraordinare Exhibition
1999 Cossack Art Awards—Cossack
1998 Shell Agricultural Awards- Perth Royal
Show
1998 Chapman Valley Agricultural Society
Art Awards
1998 Geraldton Rotary Art Awards & Auction
1997 Cossack Art Awards
1997 Geraldton Rotary Art Awards
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AWARDS
2002 1st Prize Peoples Choice—RAS Perth
Royal Show, Shell
Agricultural Award
2002 1st Prize RAS Exhibition– Williams -
Best painting of Rural
Theme. Oil
2002 Finalist
RAS Perth Royal Shell Agricultural Art Award
2001 1st Prize Cossack Aquisitive Art
Awards -Best Oil Landscape
$2500
Judge— Ken Done
2000 1st Prize Aquisitive Art Awards
Hamersley Iron -Best Oil
Landscape
$2500
Judge— Robert Juniper
1999 1st prize Cossack Aquisitive Art
Awards Judge— Curator
National Gallery
Titan Resource Best Oil Landscape $2000
1998 1st prize Cossack Aquisitive Art
Awards - Pilbara
Development Commission -
Best painting by a
Pilbara Artist $1000
1998 1st prize 'The Muster" - Chapman
Valley Ag. Society Art
Awards
Represented C.V.A in Royal Show Shell Awards
1998 Finalist Shell Royal
Perth Show Ag. Society Art Awards
1998 1st prize Geraldton Rotary Art
Awards & Auction
Best landscape
1997 Honourable Geraldton Rotary Art
Awards
Mention
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
2004 Painting chosen to promote
MacKillop College, Busselton 2003
New works sold @ both
McKenzie Gallery Investment Auctions
2004 Painting chosen to promote Moeralina
Art Exhibition
2003 New works sold prior to McKenzie Gallery
Investment Auctions
2003 Interview—women in small business in
remote areas
www.afascinatingjourney.com.au
2002 Invitation only– Geraldton Grammar School
Joint Exhibition with
Leon Pericles & Larry
Mitchell
2002 Painting requested for invitation of new
gallery opening–
Swan Valley (Barrel of Beujoulis)
2002 Commission– Shire of Boyup Brook Tourism
committee–
advertising
2001 Private Collector large commission— Sydney
2000 Collection of paintings representing
Pilbara Development
commission— Perth Royal Show
2000 Invitation only Aranmore Art Auction
2000 Painting requested to
advertise AranMore Catholic College Art
Exhibition.
2000 Invitation only Bunbury Catholic College
Art Auction
1999 Painting used in Pilbara Fine Art Gallery
Promotion ( titled:
' Come Dance with Me' )
COLLECTIONS
Shire of Roebourne, Pilbara Development
Commission, Robe River Mining, Hamersley Iron
Mining, Titan Resources, Robe River Pastoral
co., Medical Group Geraldton, Worsley Alumina,
Private Collections - Western Australia,
Canberra, South Australia, NSW, VIC,
Queensland, England, Scotland, Texas, New
Zealand, Singapore
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