2006 Master of Visual Arts, Monash University including Studio Residency – Prato Italy
2019 Masterclass Botanical Contact Printing – Irit Dulmand (Israel)( Reg. Arts NSW grant)
2008 shibori and natural dyes in Provence and Paris France (self funded)
2012 Certificate 4 Small Bus. Man. (self funded)
2010 rozome and shibori in Kyoto and Arimatsu Japan (self funded)
2008 rozome. batik – Wax Eloquent – Mass Art Boston Massachutis USA (self funded)
2014 natural dyes and eco fibres Taiwan – Funded by host Conference
2005 Batik Practice of Indigenous Australians. Ernabella Central Australia. (invitated research)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Gondwana Colour: Eucalyptus Colour Lismore Regional Gallery
2018 House of Hope Redland Art Gallery
2012 Timeless Textiles Newcastle
2010 ‘Multiplicity ‘ Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery
2009 ’Six Memos’ Shepparton Regional Art Museum
Recent Group Exhibitions
2020 World Shibori Network [Aust/NZ] Rockingham Arts Centre WA
2018 BAM Award – shortlisted / exhibition. Petite Wangaratta Art Gallery
2017 International Festival of Plants Ecology and Colour (UNESCO) Madagascar
2014 international artists exhibition at Taiwan international Craft Research and Dev. Inst. For ISEND WEFT (UNESCO/World Craft Council)
2014 World Eco Fibres, Textiles Exhibition, Nantong, China
2013 Brunei Gallery School of Oriental/African Studies University of London
Regularly exhibits, World Shibori Network Aust/NZ in Australia and internationally including Hong Kong and Paris
2011 “Out of the Box” World Shibori Network Aust & NZ” exhibition Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre.
‘Australia Naturally’ touring nationally ‘Scarf – World Shibori Network Aust & NZ” exhibition touring nationally and internationally throughout 2010/11
2009 /10 Art Cloth Engaging New Visions’ (international, invitational) Fairfiled Gallery Sydney, Orange Regional Gallery, Wangaratta Art Gallery
2008 Paris France – International Shibori Symposium, Musee du Quai Branly – cinema screening ‘Gooram Gooram Gong Waterfall Palimpsests’, ‘Sculpted Packages’ L’Eclaireur, Paris sponsored by Woolmark, ‘Australia Naturally’ Paris American Academy
2006 Cultural Collaborations: Site/Context/Difference – Palazzo Vaj Monash Study Centre Prato Italy
Community
Tutor – Byron Bay Community College.
Facilitator master dyer for Mood indigo a 10 week community project to produce two indigo shibori installations for the Byron Writers’ Festival 2019
Creative Mullumbimby, CALDERA Contemporary Textile Collective, cultural mapping and the Mullumbimby Sculpture Walk.
Awards & international engagements
2018 Artist in Residence Lismore Regional Gallery, Science Week presentation
2017 Plant dye research in Madagascar: Presenter – International Festival of Plants Ecology and Colour (UNESCO) Antananarivo, Forest dyes with Malagasy weavers Women Entrepreneurs for Environment Mahajunga. Arts NSW Artists Support grant
2017 Weaving and culture workshop with Kunwinjku women Northern Territory. Quick Response Grant RANSW
2016 Professional Development with African master indigo dyer Ababouka Forfana Quick Response Grant RANSW
2014 Taiwan WEFT conference presentation and wearable art presentation. Host funded
2012 Research – Mordanting ceremony remote Borneo Indigenous Iban women weavers, Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Presenter WEFT World Eco Fibres & Textiles conference Kuching Malaysia
2010 Research – Rozome and Shibori in Kyoto, Arimatsu – self funded
2008 Research – Shibori and Natural Dyes in Provence and Paris, – self funded
2008/14 Research – Indigo – Thailand and Taiwan – self funded
2007/9/11 World Batik Conference, guest speaker /exhibitor – Malaysia Host funded
2006 Residency – Palazzo Vaj Monash Study Centre Prato Italy. Post Graduate presentation Monash auditorium Caulfield Campus. Post Graduate scholarship
2005 World Batik Conference MASS Art Boston USA, presenter – self funded
Contacts
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