I adore the Dobell Drawing Prize. So it is an absolute pleasure to be included among the 56 finalists (from 965 entries) for 2025. Thank you to the judging panel Vernon Ah Kee, Dr Yolunda Hickman and Paula Latos-Valier AM.
The Dobell will run from Friday 11 April to Saturday 21 June, Monday to Saturday, 11am–5pm in the National Art School Gallery. If you are in, or around Darlinghurst, please drop in.
Céleste’s Frontyard (red brick and bougainvillea), watercolour on Yupo.
After three years of intense work, I’m super excited to be part of the NAS Grad Show! Please come by to check it all out. Don’t forget to wander through the whole uni - there are works on display in the main gallery, the hoff space, the drawing gallery and the artists studios (especially upstairs of building 5, which is where my body of work will be). Plus if the library is open, you can drop into the Stairwell Gallery to see NASLABA. Sooooooo much brilliant art from emerging artists to check out!
National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney. From 6 to 15 December 2024.
Pleased to announce that my book series has won first prize in the BFA category of NASLABA. Diary of Watercolour March to October has been acquired by the NAS Library and will become part of their collection.
Original text: As part of my practice this year, I utilised the discarded elements in my studio – the finished watercolour tubes and my paint swatches – to create a three part book series, a record of my process. I am super happy that Diary of Watercolour March to October will be shown as part of the second National Art School Library Artist’s Book Award.
NASLABA will be on from 11th of November until the 30th January. If you pop into NAS for any of the grad shows, the library stairwell gallery is open weekdays 10-3pm over most of the Christmas break. Please drop by the library to check it out, it’s a pretty stellar line-up of talented bookmaking artists!
Back in March, to celebrate my Pop turning 100, I spent a day painting him. Absolutely stoked that his portrait has been chosen for the alternative Archie selection – the Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S. H. Ervin Gallery. Thank you to Brad Hammond, director Orange Regional Gallery and Jane Watters, director, S.H. Ervin Gallery for selecting my painting.
Please pop in to see it, as it is always a brilliant show! Running from the 8 June to 25 August at the S. H Ervin Gallery Sydney. Then from the 9 October to 11 December at the David Roche Foundation. And finally completing its tour in Bowral, at Retford Park from the 30 November to 27 January 2025. The showing at Retford Park is extra special, as it is walking distance to Ngununggula which is hosting the Archibald! The first time the two shows have been held in conjunction with each other. BUY TICKETS HERE.
Pop, watercolour on yupo, 80x110cm
Hanging in some good company in Amber Cresswell Bell’s ‘ACB Selects’ curation, an off-shoot of the National Emerging Art Prize.
Bundanon, 2023, oil on board, custom framed
Super delighted to have been chosen to exhibit in The Inaugural NAS Library Artists’ Book Award, with my tiny, hand-sewn, sculptural book.
The exhibition opening will coincide with the opening of the NAS Grad Show, on the evening of 30th of November.
The exhibition will run from the 9th of November until the 30th of January 2024. If you are in or around NAS, please pop into the Stairwell Gallery to check it out!
Happy to be hanging in the wonderful, local, inclusive (non-selective) Glebe Art Show from the 19 to the 22 October. Check it out at the Tramsheds, Forest Lodge.
Domnhall’s Place, 2023, oil on canvas, custom framed.
Super proud to be included in ‘Grounded’, a group show at t and cc’s in Surry Hills, opening Saturday 23 September, 2023
I’ll have five small works, hanging alongisde eight other, spectacular ‘up and coming’ artists, who work across a multitude of mediums, including painting, photography, video, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. All the works explore ideas relating to the theme Grounded, with interpretations ranging from personal and cultural relationships with places and family histories, to the emotive and physical experiences of their art-making processes.
Curated by Gabriella Boyd. Artists include rachel ramsis farag, Elena Larkin, Katie Barbarie Stewart, Saluki, Mia van Dort-Gilmore, Georgia Wilkinson and Bryden Williams
Please check it out at t and cc’s salon, 54 Waterloo St, Surry Hills, Gadigal Country
Absolutely chuffed to be hung in FLOW Contemporary Watercolour Prize at Wollongong Art Gallery for the 3rd time.
This en plein air work was created on a beautiful Summer’s day beside the Turon River, it was an absolute joy to paint!
Surprise! I have a mini-solo of my watercolours hanging at the lovely Weswal Gallery in Tamworth. If you’re in or around town, please pop in to check it out. Or have a squizz online on the Weswal Gallery website.
Daily Quiet, hanging insitu in Weswal Gallery, Tamworth.
Flannies II, oil on mdf board, custom framed.
Super chuffed to hang alongside some gorgeous small artworks in Orange’s The Corner Store Gallery’s Inside This Box Exhibition, featuring 88 artworks on display from all over Australia. Artists were invited to submit wall-mountable artworks of any style, size, genre, medium and subject matter that fit within a 30x30cm size limit.
Exhibition Dates: February 15 - 25
Online Sales Launch: 8pm February 14
Opening Drinks: 6pm February 17
Stoked to be hanging again in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, with my little oil painting Botanic Gardens’ Palms. It’s a truly spectacular show, so if you are near Campbelltown, please check it out!
To view the catalogue check the Campbelltown Art Centre website – here.
I love our local art prize – and am super happy to be involved again this year. It takes on issues close to my heart, relating to environment, access to open space and transportation. I’m happy to be featured in both the local and open categories with my two works, both exploring the Gumbramorra Swampland.
In my little stop motion Ibis, I have observed and drawn in willow charcoal an Ibis foraging in an puddle – a little ephemeral habitat that only appeared with La Niña, a reminder of the Gumbramorra Swampland that was once a rich and biodiverse part of the Goolay’yari / Cooks River ecosystem.
I then created this large companion piece for the stop motion, Once was Gumbramorra Swampland, an ink, watercolour and charcoal drawing, also of Ibis, wading through a large puddle (small body of water really!) on the oval of Marrickville High School. They looked so peaceful, majestic. As a 'fairytale' border for these Ibis, I have included a small selection of just some of the locally native flora that would have originally grown here. The lost biodiversity. A glimpse of a magical world decimated by development, canal systems and drainage.
Once was Gumbramorra Swampland, ink, charcoal and watercolour
Ibis, a 34 second stop motion animation with sound, using willow charcoal.
Donating this little flannies oil painting to a fundraiser for my beautiful drawing teacher Rachel Fairfax. Hope it helps.
Super, super stoked to have these two watercolours (on ridiculously thick arches paper) hanging in Weswal Gallery’s annual Bloom exhibition, alongside the uber talented Jules Harris, Emily Heath, Mignon Parker and Tym Yee.
The exhibition runs from Wednesday August 3rd to Saturday August 20th. For more information and or to view the exhibition online please check the Weswal Gallery website.
A small donation, in hope that it helps with all the devastation that has recently occurred and is still occurring. Available for purchase this weekend, directly from me for $360 (preferably via insta message) – 100% will go to your choice of the three Art for Floods charities – Givit, Arts Northern Rivers or Norpa. Please check out Art For Floods for more info and to view all the beautiful works available.
Pleased to again be involved in a pop-up exhibition that will be hanging FOR THIS WEEKEND ONLY at The Watch House Balmain featuring a great group of local artists, including Fleur Stevenson, Jane Sankey, Patrice Wills, Skye Andrew and Kati Wilson. It is always a pleasure to see the works against the historic sandstone blocks of this venue!
Drop in to have a squizz, open 9am to 5pm, 179 Darling St Balmain SATURDAY THE 26th and SUNDAY THE 27th February 2022.
I’m super excited to have been chosen by Amber Creswell Bell, one of Australia’s most passionate emerging art advocates, for her online show, ‘ACB Selects’, an offshoot of the National Emerging Art Prize.
More info about this amazing opportunity –
“In the inaugural year of the National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP) 2021, no one could have predicted the volume, nor the extremely high calibre of entries received.
And while the finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges, the gallery’s Creative Director, Amber Creswell Bell, had the great pleasure of viewing each and every one of the 1498 entries received.
“I was floored by the quality of entries – truly my heart was racing as I viewed the entries prior to judging. How thrilling to see the emerging art world producing such exciting works – both painted and ceramic. This “ACB Selects” exhibition is a presentation of works that I personally identified as worthy of your attention!”
ACB Selects will open online Thursday 17th February 2022, and all works will be available for purchase, with affordable flat rate of $90 shipping Australia-wide on all pieces. You will be able to read about each of the artists, as well as their individual artist statements.
This is a fabulous opportunity to discover some great emerging talent from right across the country.”
The watercolour, gouache and pencil artwork on 850gsm arches ‘Holding it all together’ was chosen for the exhibition. It was completed on the only table in our small house, while schooling my three primary aged kids. The flowers were a gift from my sister's garden, a reminder of the importance of connection and a celebration of nature and community – elements that all proved to be crucial as our world shrank. The shadows are indistinct and not quite sensible, referencing the ever-changing light as I stopped and started, time not quite feeling the same.
Pleased to again be involved with the Inner West Artists’ collective ‘Mamas with Easels’. A pop-up exhibition will be hanging FOR THIS WEEKEND ONLY at The Watch House Balmain featuring a great group of local artists, including Fleur Stevenson, Jane Sankey, Patrice Wills, Skye Andrew and Kati Wilson. It is always a pleasure to see the works against the historic sandstone blocks of this venue!
Drop in to have a squizz, open 9am to 5pm, 179 Darling St Balmain SATURDAY THE 20th and SUNDAY THE 21st.
Completely honoured to be selected as local artist finalist in the 2021 The Greenway Art Prize, for my large watercolour painting Bleeding Heart. Thank you to the curators and congratulations to all the other finalists.
The opening will most likely be the evening of the 3rd of December (numbers may be COVID-limted - we shall see). And the exhibition will run from the 3rd to the 19th of December. Level 4, Mungo Scott Building,2-32 Smith Street Summer Hill. Hope to see you there!
A little bit about my artwork, Bleeding Heart which is available for purchase through the prize:
“During the lockdown I missed access to true virgin bushland dearly. I found myself scouring vistas on our park crawls for the biodiversity that existed before colonisation. This little vignette along the Hawthorne Canal of native bleeding heart with a peek of a palm leaf and an understorey of native geranium, dianella, lomandra and scurvy weed, could, at a squint, transport me to a subtropical rainforest. A mini-holiday in our urban gaol.”