Curriculum vitae

Education -

Caulfield Institute Technology
Diploma Fine Art and Design, 1979

Melbourne State College
Graduate Diploma in Teaching, 1980

Teaching -

30 years teaching in schools in Victoria and QLD
Art, Humanities and Special Education.

Participating in and organising arts festivals, performance and stage sets.

Community displays and murals, mentoring Senior Art students and providing art experiences for SWD.

Building a body of work around a personal narrative as an Emerging Artist.

Group Shows -

Cooroy Butter Factory Art Gallery
QLD Flying Arts Alliance
Gympie Regional Gallery
Sunshine Coast Regional Gallery
Noosa Open Studios
Sunshine Coast Art Competition
Mary Valley Art Competition
Wallace House Noosaville
Netanya ResortNoosa

Regional and local competitions -

2024
Du Rietz Award Gympie Regional Gallery, finalist
Mary Valley Arts Festival, highly commended Landscape
Fying Arts Regional Art Awards
Martin Hansen Memorial Art Prize Gladstone

2023
Du Rietz Award Gympie Regional Gallery, finalist
’More Than the Sum of Its Parts’ exhibition, Noosa Regional Gallery
Studios 100, group exhibition, Cooroy Butter Factory

2022
Arts Alliance Regional Arts Awards QLD, Winner watercolour
Brisbane
Mary Valley Arts Festival, Portrait Prize winner and highly commended
Du Rietz Awards, Gympie Regional Gallery, finalist
Noosa Open Studios Group exhibition
Cooroy Butter Factory The Doyles Award, Mudgeeraba Hall, finalist
Noosa Open Studios participant, 20019-23
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Prize, Gladstone Regional Gallery