WELCOME
Please see my current work in Instagram – link above.
SPARK FESTIVAL IPSWICH PROJECTION COMMISSION 2025
Motion Art in 2026
Gaining Momentum (2025)
2026 The Merv Touring Group Exhibition
Flying Arts Alliance
Shifting States (2026)
In Motion Group Exhibition, Festival House Gallery
Flying Arts Alliance
Animated Abstract Video
or Fluid Abstraction
This current series of abstract video artworks are adaptions of my sequential artworks
Drifting Storm Remix (2026)
a 4 minute video with sound
Breathing Space (2024)
a 55 second video with sound
Cyberspace Sailing (2024)
a 1 minute video with sound
Animated Digital Collage
Video
This current series of animated artworks are adaptions of my digital collages.
Coastscapes (2024)
Works on Canvas
Precinct (2024)
RESUME
Qualifications
Doctor of Creative Arts
University of Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Masters of Arts - Human Relations
University of Nottingham UK.
Bachelor of Education
QUT, Australia.
CV HIGHLIGHTS 2025-2014
Public Art Commission: Digital Artworks for the 78 m Video Screen, Sunshine Coast City Hall foyer
Artist-in-Residence: February, Digital Artist, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
Co-ordinator: Critical Light Event Horizon Festival, Sunshine Coast
Participant: AI Art Summit 3 days online, Vienna, Austria
Participant: AI and the Creative industries: Two workshops, Flying Arts
Permanent member: ARI at Seaview Artists Gallery, Moffat Beach
Creative Community Development: Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance Secretary
2022
2024
2025
Public Art Commission: Video Projection Nicolas Street Precinct, Ipswich 8 Metre video screen.
Public Art Commission : Video Projection Caloundra Regional Gallery
Public Art Commission : Video Projection Judith Wright Centre
Finalist: Local Contemporary Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
Permanent member: ARI at Peace of Green, Maleny
Creative Community Development: Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance Secretary
Public Art Commission: The MET Digital Artwork on hoardings, Maroochydore City Centre
Book commission: My 2 abstract comics books on sale at Printed Matter, Chelsea NY
Participant : The Path Programme - Kellie O'Dempsey. Sub Tropic Studio, Caloundra
Participant: Software Workshop - Isadora Program With Tim Gruchy, Lapunyah Art Gallery, Chinchilla
Participant: Flying Arts Intensive Workshop: Light Waves - Creative Portrait Photography, Lantana, Moffat Beach
Participant: Flying Arts Workshop: Using Text as a Visual Medium, Sebastian Mooney, on-line
Participant: International Symposium of Electronic Art, 3 days in person, Brisbane
Participant: NYCxDesign Conference 5 days in person, New York City
Support Staff and Participant: USC K’gari Sound Field Trip 4 days/3 nights
Permanent member: ARI at Seaview Artists Gallery, Moffat Beach
Creative Community Development: Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance Secretary
2026
Group Exhibition: In Motion, Festival House Gallery, Brisbane, Flying Arts Alliance
Touring Group Exhibition: The Merv Touring Exhibition of Landscape Artworks, Queensland
Permanent member: ARI at Peace of Green, Maleny
Creative Community Development: Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance Secretary
2023
2021
2020
Public Art Group Exhibition: Constructing landscape: urban visions, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Caloundra
Public Art Group Exhibition: Harmony, Harmony Art Space, Sippy Downs
Group Exhibition: Dynamic Duo #2, Brick Lane Gallery, London. Postponed due to covid 19
Exhibition booth: Abstract Artifice 1, International Art Fair, Barcelona Maritime Museum. Postponed due to covid 19
Group Exhibition: A Changing Landscape and the Female I, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
Solo Exhibition: Abstract Comics #4, Dogwood Crossing Regional Gallery, Miles.
Artist-in-Residence: 1 year, Pacific Lutheran College, Meridan Plains
Group Exhibition: Squeeze, Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy
Winter School Workshop Presenter: Buderim Craft Cottage, Buderim
Public Art Solo Exhibition: Natural Wonders, Digital Light boxes, Gallery Seventy 7, Caloundra
Solo Exhibition: Abstract Sequential, Wardle and Partners, Caloundra
Publication: Inverse Order, comics book in AUTOFAGIA anthology, Ricso Impresso, Brazil
Public Art Commission: RBH Herston Quarter outdoor art installation, Brisbane
Group Exhibition: Reality Check ,Black Cat Gallery, Melbourne
Commission for Lourdes Hill College Science Department, Brisbane
Artist-in-Residence: Arts and Ecology Centre, Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens
Solo Exhibition: Look at Me, Arts and Ecology Centre, Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens
Participant in the Open Studios Sunshine Coast 2022: Arts and Ecology Centre, Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens
Creative Community Development: Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance Secretary
2019
Publication: My 16 page abstract comics What Would Paul Klee Say? published in Sequentials Issue 3, Florida, USA
Group Exhibition: Abstract Artifice, Brick Lane Gallery, London
Publication: My chapter and my images in the international textbook. Abstract Comics: Comics and Abstraction, Aarnoud Rommens (ed)
Invited Artist Participant: Creative Product Development Participant, Sunshine Coast Council, weekend workshop with Abi Crompton, CEO of Third Drawer Down and Creative Alliance Queensland, The Refinery, Maroochydore
Group Exhibition: Women’s Work, USC Gallery, Sippy Downs
Solo Lecture/Workshop: Abstract Art and Abstract Comics, Regional Art Teachers Association
Solo Exhibition: Abstract Comics #3, Pacific Gallery
2018
Finalist: Kenilworth Art Prize – 2nd prize acrylic painting, Kenilworth Art Society
Finalist: Lethbridge 10,000 small-scale art award, Lethbridge Gallery online
Solo Exhibition: Abstract Comics #2, Maroochydore Library Artspace
Public Art Group Exhibition: Exchange, King George Sq., Lightboxes, BCC
Group Exhibition: Squeeze, Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre
Group Exhibition: Connect 3, Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre
Invited Participant: Not of this Earth: The Smithson exhibition - zine, artist and comic book event. University of Queensland Art Museum
2017
Finalist: Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosaville
Finalist: Obi Art Prize, Maleny Community Centre, Maleny
Finalist: Local Art Local Content, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra
Solo Exhibition: Abstract Comics #1, 88-Gallery, Redcliffe
2016
2015
Conference Paper: Abstract Artists Book, ABBE Conference, QCA, Brisbane
Residency: Margaret Ellen Turner Scholarship, Old Ambulance Gallery, Nambour
Group Exhibition: Part of the Process, Old Ambulance Gallery, Nambour
Group Exhibition: Squeeze, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosaville
Group Exhibition: Lamkin Lane pop-up Paisley Park, Caloundra
Solo Exhibition: The Drift of Impure Thoughts, USC Gallery, Sippy Downs
Invited Participant: Pecha Kucha and pop-up exhibition, Noosa Regional Gallery
Group Exhibition: OH! There It is!, Axis Gallery, Maroochydore
Group Exhibition: Squeeze, Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre
Published Abstract Comics: What Will Paul Klee Say? Self-published on Blurb
2014
Conference Papers: Abstract Comics and Abstract Art, 4th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art, Melbourne
Published Abstract Comics: The Drift of Impure Thoughts, Self-published on Blurb
Published journal article: Abstract Sequential Art, The Journal of Abstract Graphic Novels and Comics. Vol 5. Issue 1
Group Exhibition: Squeeze, Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre