Biography
"Mostly I draw."
Through painting and drawing I fold and unfold the myths that surround us like a cosmic origami.
Capturing the frenetic nature of the ether through lines and colours borrowed and blended from a hybrid of cultures.
Our commonality as humans is essential in my dialogue as I push through aesthetic norms of acceptability and taste. Memories, myths and shared emotions weave through my paintings, abstracted and reshaped again and again until we come to see that our humanity is what humbles us and sustains us. Capturing the constant oceanic movement of what it means to move through a life. To capture the ineffable in paint and graphite. To resonate with a truth that lies beneath all our embellishments. My work is more than a representation of a thing, it is the thing, and it continues to evolve long after I am finished with it, because the viewer then takes it to their own place of understanding and experience. For it is then that the painting becomes the relationship and the journey.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Prolepsis of the Archetype, House of Wren, Artsy.net
2016
Art in the Sky, Ritz Carlton, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Floating Worlds, Wangaratta Gallery, AUS
Fluids 液体, Gasworks, Melbourne, AUS
2011
Kingdom, Gallery 775, AUS
Floating Worlds, Frankston Arts Centre, AUS
2009
Falling Sky, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Falling Sky, Wodonga Art Space, AUS
Art At Work, Wodonga Council Chambers, AUS
2002
Tokyo Disney Death Mask, TAP Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2001
Kaye Freeman, TAP Gallery, Sydney, AUS
1996
The Tribe, ARDT Gallery Sydney, AUS
Group Exhibitions
2018
Berlin Art Week, Enter Art Foundation permanent Collection, Berlin DE
Clay Contemporary, Norfolk, UK
16 Contemporary Artists, Fabrik & Enter Art Foundation, Bonn, DE
2017
Art Palm Springs, Cassera Arts Premiers, Palm Springs, USA
LA Art Show, BG Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Art Palm Springs, Cassera Arts Premiers, Palm Springs, USA
2015
New Anatomy, House of Wren, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, USA
Rogue, House of Wren, Los Angeles, USA
2014
2013
2011
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
At_Salon2, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Words that Matter, Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery, AUS
Venice Art Walk, Los Angeles, USA
2010
“the rest is silence,” Death Be Kind, Melbourne, AUS
Gallery 775, AUS
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2009
Gallery 775, AUS
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Red Box Charity Auction, Melbourne, AUS
2008
2007
2006
Art@Work, City of Wodonga, AUS
Small Works, Brunswick St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Charity Auction for Refugees, Beechworth, Victoria, AUS
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2002
Albury Regional Art Gallery, AUS
9x5 Show, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2001
1997
1996
1995
Fresh & Unframed, Yackandandah Gallery, Victoria, AUS
Two Woman Show, TAP Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Fluro Show, TAP Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Buiten, Chiba Municipal Gallery, Japan
Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, AUS 1996 Leichardt Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Tamworth Art Gallery, AUS
Four Women, ARDT Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Temple of The Third Millennium, Urban Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Christmas Show, ARDT Sydney Elemental
Juried Exhibitions & Awards
2017
2012
Brand 45: Works on Paper, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, USA
Mount Eyer Art Prize, David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, AUS
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Sydney, AUS
2011
She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Mount Eyer Art Prize, David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2010
Winner, She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery, AUS
Mount Eyer Art Prize, David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2007
2006
1996
1991
1988
Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne, AUS
St. Michael’s Archangel Prize, Melbourne, AUS
Works On Paper, Brunswick St. Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
She Prize, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Winner, Chroma Art Award For Outstanding Student Work, NSW, AUS
Winner, John Olsen Scholarship, Julian Ashton, Sydney, AUS
Winner, Best Female Performer, Festival of New Australian Theatre, Sydney, AUS
Education
2008
2006
1993-96
1990-92
Diploma of Education, Victoria University, Fine Art and Japanese, AUS
Monash University, Japanese Linguistic Equivalency Examination, High Distinction, AUS
Tamworth TAFE, Painting & Printmaking, AUS
Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, AUS