Exhibitions
2024 OSA Group Exhibition St Hildas, WA
2024 Finalist Kennedy Art Prize, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2024 Finalist Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Prize, Goldfields Arts Centre, WA. The Last of the Dryblowers Oil on canvas, 1500mm x 1210mm. City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder acquired the work.
2023 Old Customs House, Artsource Exhibition Level 2
2023 Aspire OSA Group Exhibition St Hildas
2023 Reception Gallery, St Hildas Solo Exhibition
2021 Artex, Assembly Yard – Group Exhibition
2020 Perth Town Hall for Kuraree – 150 Years of the Perth Town Hall
2019 State Theatre Centre WA – Studio Underground- Solo Painting Exhibition ACT 1 ; Portraits and Abstract Landscapes
2018 Old Customs House, Frankenstone, Mary Shelley’s Lounge Room Installation; 5 x oil portraits and 3D sculptural portrait
2018 PSAS Dark Swan; Contemporary tales of the Antipodes Group exhibition, Live painting performance installation; Mary Shelley’s Heart with soprano, Caitlin Cassidy. Photographic print series, Portrait of a Lady collaboration with Liz Looker, Marie Cain.
2018 Fremantle Prison – Exhibiting of painting ‘Moondyne in the landscape of my ancestor, Richard Morrell of 1832’ Acrylic on Canvas
2017 Fremantle Biennale, The Roundhouse. High Tide Genrefonix Production. Time-lapse painting film on Paul Rowe as Moondyne Joe in the landscape of ancestor, Richard Morrell, ‘View of Fremantle 1832’ projected on Roundhouse walls. Resin, limestone, ice sculptures inspired by Moondyne’s escape.
Awards
2024 d’Arenburg Hanger’s Choice Award – Kennedy Art Prize, ‘The Shapeshifter’ Portrait of Talitha Maslin oil on canvas 1800mm x 1200mm at Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery,
2022 Winner of WA Screenculture Awards; Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for Pieces
2022 Nominated for AACTA ‘Best Costume Design in a Film’ Pieces
Projects
2023 Signals Sound Lab, Old Customs House, NASA Installation ‘Twang-quility Console’ collaboration with Will Axten interactive visual art / set concept inspired by NASA Mission Control 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.
2020 – 2022 WA Film Pieces – Helping Minds Mental Health/ Screenwest. Production/ Set & Art Costumes. Life sized oil portrait of actor, Monique Wilson.
2021 – 2023 Siren – Perth Fringe Festival – Scarborough Beach / Red Earth Arts Festival – Karratha Sculptural costumes and Art Direction Collaboration – Contemporary Dancers/ Choreography Talitha Maslin & Ashleigh White, Gogi Dance Collective with group of 6 dancers and sculpture artist Mimi Dennett.
2021 WA Shipwreck Museum – ‘Lucretia’s Lament’ Batavia Gallery, After Dark Performance activation – cutwork shadow theatre sculpture costume created over a year and a half. Activated with 18 min original script voiceover.
2021 WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle Ports Tour, Roving theatre performance ‘Harbouring Secrets’ produced by Paul Rowe exploring the characters and historical stories around Fremantle Port. Art costumes, props, including the finale sculptural set costume worn by soprano, Caitlin Cassidy.
2020 Strut Dance SITU8 State Theatre Centre costumes created for dancer, Talitha Maslin. Giant crinoline cage dress inspired by the wetlands Western Swamp Tortoise shell pattern, LED lit skirt. Also, ‘Ophelia’ dancer costumes – silk crinoline dresses with hand-crafted polymer clay gilgies and swamp debris.
2020 City of Perth Curation of Installation Exhibition for ‘Kuraree – 150 Years of the Perth Town Hall’; Short Film created ‘Hall Fashions; Through the artist’s eye’ for Online Exhibition and 11 gouache artworks (acquired by City of Perth) made during the film in response to the historical stories of the Perth Town Hall.
2021 The Old Mill, South Perth – Genrefonix production ‘Satan’s Last Resort’ live activation ; featuring Victorian ‘snuggery’ set and props, costumes, and live painting performance on free-standing prop.
2020 Fringe Festival – East Perth Cemetery ‘Ghosts of Perth’ Genrefonix Production. Sculpture ‘Hesperia Heights’ made from wood, resin, LED lighting, wax and cardboard. Created for activation during performances inspired by original script by historian, Mike Lefroy and Will Axten.
2019 The Giovanni Consort, St George’s Collage, UWA. Performance ‘Cenere’ sculptural costume canvas sets animated by Brianna Lowen as the voices of 8 madrigal choir members and live paint to represent concepts of the Italian baroque music. Moving set parts were activated during performance.
2018 The Round House Fundraiser & Old Customs House Genrefonix Production, ‘Frankenstone’ , ‘Mary Shelley’s Lounge Room’ Installation; 5 oil portraits and 3D sculptural portrait featured William Godwin, Mary Wolstonecraft, Henry Willey Reveley, Mary Shelley.
2018 Gravity Discovery Centre, Gin Gin ‘Walbrininy’ Genrefonix SCI-FI production activating the Observatory. Original hand-made optic fibre costume/ helmet and character development for Genrefonix Sci-fi multimedia live show and film. Sculptures, art concepts and props and short films.
2018 Pakenham Street Art Space (PSAS) “Dark Swan; Contemporary tales of the Antipodes” Live painting performance installation; ‘Mary Shelley’s Heart’ with soprano, Caitlin Cassidy.
2018 Festival of Perth – ‘Ghosts of Fremantle’ Fremantle Prison Genrefonix production – Costumes for Genrefonix Arts Collective.
Residencies & Workshops
2024 Artist Residency – East Fremantle Primary School in Sept – Oct 2024 – Evolve Puppets – with Yr 5’s.
2024 St Hildas Yr11s Abstract Painting workshop
2021 City of Perth – Perth Heritage Festival, Workshop Facilitator 2 x Community Workshops held in the foyer of the Perth Town Hall; Vintage Hat & Leather Bag making workshops for all ages.
2020 – 2021 Co3 Australia Dance Company Community Workshop Facilitator for ‘Archives of Humanity’ ; Bird Making Sculpture Workshop facilitator with migrant, Indigenous and art groups, including at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and WAAPA. Also making of 150 individual bird sculptures for the set installed at State Theatre Centre for Perth Festival 2021.
Collaboration Projects
2023 – ongoing Collaboration with Kate Ceberano on an original Kimono Collection featuring Kate’s Original Unsung Songs artwork developed into silk textiles. First piece made was worn by Kate on receiving her Lifetime Award at the Women’s Music Awards 2023.
Collections
Works are in private collections Nationally and Internationally and public collections;
City of Perth Collection, 9 x goauche on paper works made for Hall Fashions historical animation film and exhibition to celebrate Kuraree : 150 Years of Perth Town Hall.
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Collection ‘The Last of the Dryblowers’ 2024 Oil on canvas 1500mm x 1190mm