Born & Lives Melbourne, Australia

Education
2007 Ph.D (Fine Art) Victorian College of the Arts, Uni. of Melbourne
2003/4 Specialist Research Development Programme, The Slade, London.
2002 BFA (Hons), VCA
2000 The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2001 Bachelor Fine Art (Drawing), VCA
Earlier degrees in Economics (B.Ec.) and Law (LL.B.) (Monash Uni.)

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Dogwhistling, Woodbine Gallery
[MARS] Billboard Project.
2007 Pretty Bad, Margaret Lawrence Gall,
no gods past this point, [MARS] Gall.
2006 GORGEOUS but…, Linden St. Kilda Contemporary Art Gallery
2005 Troy, Postgraduate Gallery, VCA
2004 Perfidy, Woburn Square, London
Perfidy, The Hero Records Club, Canterbury, UK
2003 Sunyata, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Kilda
2002 West Meets West, The Black Hole, VCA
2001 Projected Importance, Gipps Street Gallery, Richmond
2000 Flag Waving, The Cruciform Building, UCL, London

Selected Group Exhibitions from 2001
2008 Splat, Albury Regional Gallery, NSW
Ecoforum 08, Brisbane, Qld.
2007 Linden Postcard Exhibition;
2006 On., Cover Up Gallery, London
Blurrings, Mars Gallery, Port Melbourne
Southside Art Project, Office Hon. John Thwaites, Treasury Place
Assorted Dumplings, Printmaking Dept., VCA
2005 Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Sth. Yarra
Territorial Paranoia, VCA Gallery
10 x 8, Latrobe Street College of Art & New Media, Melbourne
Museum of Bad Art (finalist), Prahran
Linden Post Card Show, St. Kilda
2004 PROUD, VCA Gallery.
Post Graduate Exhibition, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2003 Selected Graduates from VCA, RMIT & Monash, Dickerson Gallery
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Kilda
The Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, VCA Gallery
Motor Works 2003, Motor Works, Melbourne
Bernhard, video screening, TV Channel 31, Melbourne
Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
Honours Graduate Exhibition, VCA Gallery
PROUD, VCA Gallery
Transit Narratives, “Le Venezie” Treviso, Italy
Noxious Laughing Gas, Forum & Exhibition, VCA Gallery
Post Card Show, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery
The Honours Show, and 8 May, VCA
2001 VCA Graduate Exhibition
Wallara Travelling Fellowship and Exhibition, shortlisted, VCA Gallery

Collections
Artbank
National Australia Banking Corporation Ltd
Mahlab Recruitment Collection. Melbourne
Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
Dawson & McDonald Collection, Melbourne
Hallis Collection, Melbourne and Sydney
Rusden College, Monash University
Scott & Susie Livesey Collection, Melbourne
The First State Collection, Melbourne
Victorian College of the Arts Collection
Western Mining Corporation Ltd,
Private collections in Australia, NZ, UK and Germany.

Awards
2006 Vulcan Steel Art Award
2005 UMPA Art Prize
The Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
APA scholarship and a Research Training Place to undertake
Masters of Fine Art (and now Ph.D) (ongoing).
2002 Athenaeum Club Visual Art Award
2002 PROUD, College Collection.
The Gary Fell Award.

Bibliography
Bill Sampson, pub, co-ed and contributor, A VOM POW DT POI: another incomplete compendium of the contemporary vocabulary of art, Melb, Oct 08
P Ashton & Oths. (eds.), The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking, re. press, Melb, 08, book cover;
Bill Sampson, pub, co-ed and contributor, it’s (sic): an incomplete compendium of the contemporary vocabulary of art, Melb, 07
Dr. Justin Clemens, Banging on about nothing, Catal. for Prettybad, 24 May 2007
Dr. Alison Inglis, Prettybad, Catalogue for Prettybad, 24 May 2007
Edward Colless, Undiscovered, Art Collector, April 2007
Dr. Alison Inglis, Gorgeous But…, Catalogue, 17 August 2006
David O’Halloran, Politics of Picturing, www.artinfo.com.au/articles/read/
Megan Backhouse, The Critics, The Age, 22 April 2006
Mischa Merz, Teaching the suits to suit themselves, Herald Sun, 25 April ‘05
Cet. Par., joint editor and contributor, 2004
www.inthebeginning.com.au “Interviews”, Sara Harvey, Winter Edition 2003
Lucinda Strahan, Art history’s op-shop, The Age, 1 May 2003
Helen Crowe, Stonnington Leader, 21 April, 2003
Love ya Work, The Australian, 17 April, 2003
Megan Backhouse, The Age, 16 April, 2003
Georgina Safe, The Australian, 11 April, 2003
Alison Barclay, Angels win for artist, Herald Sun, 11 April 2003
Gosia Kaszubska, Port Phillip Leader, 1 July 2002
MX, 4 July 2002

Other
03, 07 & 08 Critical & Theoretical Studies tutor and lecturer, VCA, Uni. Melbourne
03 Drawing tutor, VCA and at LaTrobe Street School of Art;
95, 96, 98 & 02 – Short term Aid worker Kokoda, Mt. Hagen, WNB in PNG & West Samoa.