Born in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand and raised in New Zealand, I have a great appreciation for expansive rural landscapes, which have come to represent life experiences and lessons to me. This has inspired my art; where landscapes became stylised to their purist forms; rendered with highly textured, broken strokes in bright/neutral colour schemes symbolising an emotion, a journey, an experience and an idea. Further experimentation, juxtaposing clean smoothly rendered objects with texture and space, coupled with studies in design and architecture has brought out more direct messages and storytelling in my works. This is most apparent in my current series ‘Sacrosanct’ where my passion for art, wine and awareness of life’s ambiguity combine.

I have been painting and experimenting with artworks all my life and am self-taught, although I studied design and architecture. I began exhibiting in 2010; my first exhibit was a success with two sales on opening night. I have exhibited in numerous group shows and have had several solo shows, my work is also currently on display in New Zealand. My works have been purchased for private and corporate collections and I have undertaken artwork commissions. My art has also received positive press in New Zealand and has been featured in blogs/email newsletters. I currently work out of my studio at home where I create works to exhibit in Melbourne galleries and shows and work on commissioned pieces.

I also create handmade jewelry, home wares and other Objets D'Art, using prints of my artworks or along the theme of my artworks. I have sold these in an art market that I organised (in future I'm just going to have a stall, not organise a whole market!), online and they are also available in retail stores around Melbourne, as well as a few stores and markets in New Zealand.

CURRICIULUM VITAE (August 2016)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Sacrosanct Wine Fairies, 69 Smith St, Fitzroy 2012 New Works, M1ng Gallery, North Fitzroy 2012 Sacrosanct, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2010 Introspect, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda 2015 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne 2015 69 Steps Forward, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford 2014 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda 2014 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne 2013 69 Fifteen, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2013 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne 2013 Likeness 3, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2013 On The Level, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2013 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda 2013 Workers Exhibit, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2013 Summer Stories, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2012 40x40, Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick 2012 Secret Life Of Space, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2012 Bottoms Up, Upstairs At The Napier, Fitzroy 2012 Home: A Place Of Origin Or Belonging, World Trade Centre Atrium Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Art Of The Cuff, Lord Coconut, Melbourne 2012 Likeness 2, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2012 Members Exhibition. 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2012 Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn 2012 Linden Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda 2011 Recipe, 69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2011 Beauty, Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood 2011 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda 2010 Art At Burnley Harbour, McConchie Reserve, Richmond 2010 Birchip Friends Of The Library Art Exhibition, Birchip, VIC 2010 Greed, Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood 2010 Brooch – The Subject... IV, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, Travelling Show, VIC 2010 Group Exhibit, Galerie Tara, Kew 2010 Art With Heart, Galerie Tara, Kew

OTHER EVENTS 2016 Live Art events, 18 Dawson St, Brunswick 2015 (ongoing) Imago Mundi, global touring exhibition by The Benneton Foundation, starting in Milan 2013-2014 Works on display at Amo La Vida stores in Glen Iris and South Melbourne 2013-2014 Sketches displayed collaboratively at Brazil Lifestyle Coffee, South Melbourne 2013 Works displayed at Australian Art Show, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton 2012 Organised the ‘Spring Art Market’ at Sidecar/69 Smith St Gallery, Fitzroy 2012 Works on display at Vesta’s Circle, Napier NZ

EDUCATION National Certificate of Design, 2003, Palmerston North School of Design, New Zealand Studies in Architecture, 2007, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS 2016 LOOKING DOWN UNDER: Contemporary Artists from Australia, book, Imago Mundi; Benetton Collection (Italy) 2013 69 Fifteen limited edition publication, 69 Smith St Gallery June 2012 article CHB Mail (New Zealand) July & August 2012 Onlymelbourne.com.au, featured in email newsletter September 2012, Beat Magazine, interviewed about 69 Smith Street Gallery