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NEW WORK
Rename: It is the name you speak that I want to say.
Digital Collage (2022) 52 cm h x 110 cm w
The subject matter depicts the nine floral emblems used across the nation by the wider community. The only indigenous language plant name chosen is Waratah-NSW. Others I discovered are Karrabnk-AUS, Malukuru-SA and Ballok-TAS. As a small act of reconciliation, if you know more please Insta-DM me.
COMMISSIONED WORK TBA
Heartbeat
Digital Collage (2022) 200 cm h x 50 cm w x three panels.
I can say more once the sitespecific work has been launched.
ABSTRACT COMICS CANVAS
WHAT NEXT
Digital Collage (2021) 25 cm h x 135 cm w.
Covid-19 has hit poor and vulnerable countries the hardest, threatening decades of hard-won gains while exacerbating existing inequalities in the poorest countries. Areas at the greatest risk of crises can be seen in my work. Covid-19 is a deeper, more synchronized, and widespread shock in human memory. We must work together now to assist the survival of the most affected countries.
To convey this theme, I use the compositional device of Abstract Comics to entice others to view the subject matter, which generates a rhythmic narrative. By the end I hope they have taken the time to consider its meaning. To do this I create a digital collage by using hand drawn and painted comics page layouts with readymade images. I combine these digitally using an XP–Pen drawing tablet, Photoshop, and filters to blend several layers into a final image.
HIGHLIGHTS 2022-2013
2022
Public Art Commission: to be announced
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.
2021
Artist-in-Residence @ 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 @ Gallery Seventy 7, Caloundra.
Solo Exhibition: Abstract Sequential @ ArtWardle and Partners, Caloundra.
Publication: Inverse Order, comics book in AUTOFAGIA anthology, Ricso Impresso, Brazil.
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.
Exhibition booth: Abstract Artifice 1 @ International Art Fair, Barcelona Maritime Museum. Postponed.
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.
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
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.
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.
2014-2013
Conference Papers: Abstract Comics and Abstract Art, 4th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art, MCG, 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.
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.
