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CURRICULUM VITAE – abridged

EDUCATION

2007 Research Fellow – Public Memory Research Centre, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

2006 Master in Visual Art (sculpture/research), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

2004 Visiting graduate, School of Art (Sculpture studio), Australian National University, Canberra

1984 Diploma of Fine Art, TCAE Launceston, Tasmania

1976 Jewellery Design Certificate, Randwick Technical College, Sydney

Part-time study and work (jewellery/ hollowware) with Barbara Rees, Sydney, NSW.

1973 Jewellery with Ray Norman, Sturt Workshops, Mittagong, NSW.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Sculpture, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood NSW

2007 Bodies That Matter, Pine River Regional Art Gallery, Strathpine, Qld (June)

2005-06 Up Against the Wall, Ivory Street Gallery, Craft Queensland, Brisbane

2005 Bodies That Matter: exploring the fragmentation of the female body & women’s identity, Metro Arts, Brisbane

A Call to Arms: Re-colonisation of the Feminine, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 Naked, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood, NSW 2007 East Coast Sculpture Show, Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW - Joint Winner/Acquired Artemis – Pillars of Society and Highly Commended – Spin FX (mia-inflorescence). Judges Jude McBean (Director – Grafton Regional Art Gallery); Donna Marcus, (Sculptor & Senior Lecturer in School of Visual Art, Griffith Uni., Gold Coast Campus); Sebastian Di Mauro (Sculptor & Senior Lecturer in Design, QLd College of Art, Griffith Uni.) Prometheus: Visual Art Award, (juried) Prometheus Foundation, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Qld

15th Pine Rivers Annual Art Awards, (juried) Pine River Regional Art Gallery, Strathpine, Qld

Swell, Currumbin Beach Ocean-Walkway, Currumbin Qld

2006 East Coast Sculpture Show, Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW Christmas Exhibition, Swell Gallery, Tugun Queensland Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award & Exhibition, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Qld Swell, Currumbin Beach Ocean-Walkway, Currumbin Qld

St Sebastian’s Spring Art 2006, St Sebastian, Yeronga, Brisbane Casuarina Sculpture Walk, Casuarina Beach Domain Resort Boardwalk, New Tweed Coast NSW Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery Acquisitive Sculpture Competition, Grand Champion - Acquired Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery, Crows Nest, Qld Southern Exposure Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld

Sculptors Queensland Easter Exhibition, Mt Coot-tha Gardens Brisbane

Sculptors Queensland & Photofest Australia Exhibition, 2006 Qld Photographer of the Year Award and Exhibition,Rydges Hotel, Southbank, Brisbane

2005 'Four seasons fill the measure of the year'...Keats, Society of Sculptors Queensland Exhibition, Robyn Bauer Studio Gallery, 54 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington Flying Arts 2005 Regional Arts Award (juried), Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach & Riverside Centre Foyer, Brisbane Warwick Art Prize (juried) – Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld

Prometheus: Visual Art Award, (juried) Prometheus Foundation, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Qld

smaller3, Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

the Churchie: emerging art exhibition, (juried) Anglican Church Grammar School, East Brisbane 2004 Martin Hanson Memorial Art Exhibition (sculpture), Trevor McMaster Refrigeration Award – 3D, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Gladstone, Qld Vectors II, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

Warwick Art Prize (juried) – Sculpture Award, Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld

Stanthorpe Art Prize (juried) – sculpture

2003 Snail Mail - Bribie Arts Centre Bribie Island Qld

2002 Warwick Art Gallery Art Prize – commendation (sculpture) Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld

Best Queensland Destinational Product – memento Queensland Merchandise Awards - designingWomen Int.

EXPERIENCE

2005 Relief Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

Sculpture demonstrator, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

Body Casting, Flying Arts Experience the Arts (ETA), Churchie, Brisbane

2004 Visiting Graduate at the National Institute of Arts, ANU, Canberra (mid April – mid June & August - October) Design & publication of – Pedigree of the Royds Family

2003 Exhibition and Commission work. Private and Corporate commissions including:Design, Editing & Production of Book; Design, production brochures and websites; Public Art Design - Rockhampton City Council

2002 Concept Designs Public Artworks

Pavement, Screens & Metal Banners - City Walk West Refurbishment, Civic, Canberra ACT

Design, publication of Diary of Lieutenant Charles W R Royds RN Expedition to the Antarctic 1901- 1904.

2001 Design & Manufacture of Public Artworks - designingWomen Int.

Art Built-In Project: Cleveland Youth Detention Centre, Townsville

Laser cut Vinyl floor; Water jet cut tile flooring; Cast concrete paving; Digital art Light boxes.

Design water feature - stainless steel, granite, cast concrete, water, lighting & tiling Twmba City Council

Banner Art ~ Designed and manufactured:

banners – acrylic canvas & vinyl, Caboolture Shire Council

banners – acrylic canvas & vinyl, Toowoomba City Council

2000 Banner Art ~ Designed and manufactured:

Concept Plan for Valley Mall, Fortitude Valley

Concept design and manufacture banners, Brunswick St West, Fortitude Valley

Design for Banners Rockhampton City Council

Workshops with St Joseph’s College

Banner design Workshops with Caboolture Community group

Banners – Kingaroy Shire Council and Stephanie Wernick

COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECTS

2007 Scared Forms: Body Beautiful Workshop, Toowoomba International Women’s Conference,

University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Qld

Banner design & fabrication workshop – Dirranbandi - 2 x 2 day workshops

2000 Banner design & fabrication workshop – Caboolture - 2 x 2 day workshops

Banner design & fabrication workshop – Today, Tomorrow, Together, Warwick & Flying Arts.

Style Street pavement art project. Banner design & fabrication workshop

St Ursula’s College, Toowoomba - Vision Millennium Youth Public Art Awards Project – etched stainless steel, water &

granite pond in the court yard of the school. Ephemeral works associated with the project - performance, works on paper, printed fabric banners - Duration: 1 week over a month

ART ORGANGISATIONS

Member: Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS); Nation Art Gallery of Australia; Queensland Artworkers’ Alliance; Craft Queensland; NAVA, Sculptors Queensland

GRANTS

2006 Queensland Arts Council Quick Response Grant – glass workshop Sculptured Glass Australia, Buderim

2005 NAVA Visual and Craft Artists Grant; Artworkers Alliance

2004 Research Grant, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

2003 RADF towards cost of experimental materials – for sculpture

1998 RADF towards cost of The Really Really Big Banner Project

1996 RADF experimental materials – aluminium anodising for culminating in an installation Celebrating The Spirit

COLLECTIONS

2007 Artemis - Pillars of Society, Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW

2006 Spin FX #2, Crows Nest Shire Council, Crows Nest, Qld

1996 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba Qld

1995 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT.

1990 Museum and Art Galleries, Darwin, NT.; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT.; Diamond Valley Art Collection, Shire of Diamond Valley, Greensborough, VIC

1976 Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, WA.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A, Britain, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Africa.