Education/ Artist Training

Diploma Art Education Alexander Mackie CAE 1970-73

Digital Photography Photoshop and Applications Courses 2003-06

Lomography Art Education Society 2005

Life drawing, Printmaking Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank Tafe 2007

Printmaking Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank Tafe 2008-10

Printmaking with Roslyn Kean The Stables Print Studio, Galston 2008-21

Painting (Summer Term June-July) Studio Art Centres International. Florence, Italy 2008

Life Drawing Coordinator Parramatta Artists Studios 2009-10

Life Drawing Coordinator Parramatta Sketch Club 2011-14

Bundanon Group Residency July 20 - 24 2009, July 26 - 30 2010, July 26 - 29 2011

Mokuhanga (woodblock) 1st International Conference Japan 6 - 10 June 2011

Beyond Monotype Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 20 - 24 July 2015

Mokuhanga 3rd International Conference, Hawaii, 28 Sept-1st Oct 2017

Artist- in- Residence, Lake Kawagucchi, Japan 21 Oct- 24 Nov 2018

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Awards and Selected Exhibitions

2024 Inheritance and Innovation (selected) Echizen, Japan, April

2023 Hunter's Hill Art Exhibition (finalist) October 14-22

2023 Awagami International Minature Print Exhibition, Japan, Sept

2023 "Australian Mokuhanga" Impress Gallery, Brisbane, QLD July 27-31st

2023 "Artist Book Award" (selected) Manly Gallery, NSW. March 3-April 16th

2022 "New prints off the block" (selected)R.F. Brush Gallery, St Lawrence University, New York,USA

Artist Book (Mokuhanga Ehon exhibition), Paradise Book Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, Nov/Dec 2021

Sumi Fusion International juried Mokuhanga competition Nara,Japan Nov/Dec 2021

Sydney Paper Contemporary Open Bite Printmakers Booth 12th-15th Sept 2019

Book as Wonder v7 (selected) Decatur City, Georgia USA

2018 Libris Award- The Australian Artists' Book Prize -Finalist

MI-Lab Artist-in Residence Prize Awarded, IMC- Hawaii 2017

Beauty of Mokuhanga: Discipline & Sensibility, August-Oct 2017, Hawaii, USA.

Hida-Takayama Triennial Contemporary Woodblock Competition 2017

Sydney Royal Arts & Crafts Show- Third Prize,Printmaking 2017

Awagami International ,Mini print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan Sept 2015

Sydney Royal Arts &Crafts Show, Third Prize, Printmaking 2015

IMC International Mokuhanga Open Competition, Tokyo, Japan 11 - 25 September 2014

Sydney Royal Arts & Crafts Show - First Prize Printmaking 2011

Art on Loftus- Commended Award 2010

Sydney Royal Arts & Crafts Show - selected 2010-11

Hornsby Art Prize - selected 2009-13

Castle Hill Show First Prize - Printmaking Category 2008/2009

 

Solo Exhibitions

"Finding the Essence" The Form Gallery, Queanbeyan 10 - 29 October 2016 

“Sensing Landscape” Exhibition Space, ADFA Library Canberra 10 September - 8 October 2011

“The Gods” ANU Canberra Nov - Dec 2016

 

Group Exhibitions

"Inheritance and Innovation" (mokuhanga) Echizen, Japan April 2024

"Urbanus" New England Regional Art Museum Feb-April 2024

"Urbanus" Concourse Art Space, Chatswood Dec 6-17th 2023

"OB Printmakers" Orchard St Gallery, Taralga, June 2023

"I See You See" Gallery Lane Cove, Oct 24-Nov19th 2022

Sydney Contemporary Art fair with OBP 8-11th Sept 2022

"New Prints off the block" R.F. Brush Gallery, St Lawrence University, NY, USA Sept12-Oct 8th, 2022

"Red-Palette of Life" Concourse Art Space 13-31st July 2022

"Grounded" Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, NSW, 1-19th Dec 2021

Sydney Contemporary Explore with Open Bite Printmakers 11-21st Nov 2021

"Bookish" Print Council of Australia, (online) August 2021

"Unfolding" Gaffa Gallery, May 2021

"Transitions" Gaffa Gallery, Sydney April 2021

Sydney Contemporary presents 2020 (online) Oct1-31st 2020

Sydney Paper Contemporary with OBP 12-15th Sept 2019

Mi-Lab Advanced Program exhibition CfSHE Gallery Tokyo,Japan Jan26-Feb 1st 2019

"Multiples" Milk Factory, Bowral, NSW Sept 12-26th 2018

"Beyond Horizons" Ewart Gallery, Willoughby Sept 4-15th 2018

"Endless Summer" Bondi Pavilion, June 2017

"Juxtapose" Ewart Gallery, Willoughby 21 March1- April2017

"Endless Answers, One Question" Grace Cossington Smith gallery Jan-Feb 2017

Printed in Australia Spot 81 Gallery 3-25th August 2016 

“inVerse”  Gosford Regional Gallery 9 April - 22 May 2016

“Smalls from the city”  Fire Station, Dubbo Nov 2015

“Works on Paper”  Gallery 307 Oct 2015

“Think”  Ewart Gallery, Willoughby Feb 2015

“Thirteen Ways of looking”  Lavender Bay Gallery Sept 2014

“Okapi + ”Balmain Watch House 28 - 30  March 2014

“Flow”  Gallery Lane Cove 17 - 27  Sept 2013

“Summer Pudding”  Arthouse, Sydney 10 Dec 2012 - 9 Feb 2013

“Vice”  Salerno Gallery 7 - 26  August 2012

“Traces”  Ewart Gallery Willoughby 4 - 21  July 2012

“Art of Watercolour”  Wallarobba, Hornsby 20 May - 3 June 2012

“Okapi recent works”  The Watch House Gallery, Balmain 17 - 18  March 2012

“Paper & Ink”  Hornsby Library 10 - 21 October 2011

“Impressive Editions ” Open Bite 20th Anniversary

Lavender Bay Gallery 7 - 23 October 2011

“Okapi” Eden Gardens  August 2011

“Carve Print Bind ” Hornsby Art Gallery 29 September - 10 October 2010

“Flight”  Hardware Gallery Enmore 29 September - 9 October 2010

“Impress ” The Watch House Balmain August 2010

“Westmead hospital ” 13 August - 24  September 2010

“Wall by Wall”  The Watch House Balmain 2010

“Well Laid”  Breathing Colours Gallery 21 April - 2 May 2010

“Fresh”  See Street Gallery Meadowbank December 2009

“Press Release”  Watch House Balmain October 2009

“Broad Marks”  The Watch House Gallery Balmain October 2009

“Big Aussie Icons”  Hardware Gallery Enmore 8 - 29 August 2009

 

Memberships

Open Bite Printmakers - exhibiting member, Exhibition Manager 2013-16,2020-22

The Stables Print Studio Artists-  exhibiting member

Okapi Group (2011-2014)

NAVA 

 

Collections

University of NSW @ Canberra, Gosford Regional Gallery

Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and Japan