About
I grew up in the sickly-sweet south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, drawing to fill in the time until the time came to take it more seriously.
While at the very serious RMIT I dabbled in a variety of mediums. I did black-and-white photography, all the while dreaming of the day it could be done digitally; and sculpture until I realised that power tools were quite heavy.
After a brief ordeal working as a secondary school art teacher where, despite my protestations, the students insisted upon spelling art with a silent f, I abandoned teaching in favour of a career that truly reflected my passions: garbage truck driving.
I now live in tropical Ballarat where I continue to hone my skills as a painter and drawer, dedicating myself to being one of Australia’s hardest working part-time artists.
Artist CV
EDUCATION
2001 Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne.
1999-2000 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), University of Ballarat.
1995-1996 Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts), RMIT University.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Finalist for the Flanagan Art Prize and University of Ballarat Emerging Artist Prize, St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, Ballarat.
2011 The Lucato Peace Prize, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat.
2010 ‘In Your Face! Cartoons about politics and society 1760 - 2010’. Art Gallery of Ballarat.
2009 Finalist for The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Brisbane.
Finalist for the Flanagan Art Prize and University of Ballarat Emerging Artist Prize, St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, Ballarat.
2008 ‘Eye to “i” – The Self In Recent Art’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Touring Exhibition: Warnambool Art Gallery and Hamilton Art Gallery.
2007 ‘Eye to “i” – The Self In Recent Art’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
2007 Finalist for the ‘Off The Wall’ Exhibition, Art Melbourne 07.
2007 Finalist for the Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival.
2007 Finalist for the Prospect Portrait Prize, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide.
2006 Finalist for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney.
2006 Finalist for the Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 ‘Young, dumb and full of ambition!’, Art Gallery of Ballarat.
2010 ‘Surround Unsound Stereo Types’ Pigment Gallery, Melbourne
2008 ‘The Black Annie Affair: Part 1’, Art Gallery of Ballarat.
2006 ‘Interior Brooding’, Azeno, 420 Sturt Street Ballarat.
2004 ‘Colourful Inebriations’, Mulkearns Gallery, ACU National Aquinas Campus, Ballarat.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Federation University Australia.
Various Private Collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany.
PRIZES
2010 Eureka Art Award, Ballarat Arts Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Published illustrations in ‘One Stop The Lot’ – A 160 Year History of the Fagg Family Business in Geelong 1854– 2014,
written by Richard Everist.
2007 Eye to “i” – The Self In Recent Art, written by Geoffrey J Wallis.
2001 Published artwork in the biography of Francis Adams titled Struggle and Storm – The Life and Death of Francis Adams,
written by Meg Tasker.