about

The lines between art, life and work are blurred - art connects to life experiences. My work is influenced by previous ‘lives’ I’ve had, places I’ve been to and people I’ve met.

I like the fact that all aspects of my life are inter-related and I realize that this blurring is essential for my well being. Making art and teaching are closely connected. One feeds the other, so that I still enjoy teaching workshops as ideas can be developed through the teaching process.

The studio is a place of refuge (and often chaos), but there is always a place to go, a place where I can expand, invent or follow through ideas that have emerged in the night...

Travel, which includes artists’ residencies, is important to me. Being exposed to other cultures and environments has influenced me to see and to respond in different ways.

 

recent / currently showing / coming soon

exhibitions coming soon or currently showing that include my work:

Breathing Spaces
with  Diana Wood Conroy
13 March - 25 April 2010
Wollongong City Gallery see images HERE

RECYCLED LIBRARY : Altered Books
17 March – 25 April 2010
Grafton Regional Gallery

12 May – 27 June 2010
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

3 July – 8 August 2010
Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo

September – October 2010
Country Arts SA

27 November 2010 – 30 January 2011
Riddoch Art Gallery, SA

1 March – 30 May 2011
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

24 June – 7 August 2011
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

September 2011 (dates tbc)
Noosa Regional Gallery

3 October – 14 November 2011
Hervey Bay Regional Gallery

Shapes of Longing : Returning to the Mediterranean
25 June – 14 July 2009
Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney

A Way of Remembering
artist's books, water colours & prints
23 July - 16 August
Long Gallery FCA, University of Wollongong

In Your Dreams
27 November 2009 - 17 January  2010
Maitland Regional Art Gallery

26th March – 27th June 2010
New England Regional Art Museum

Momentum:18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
21 October until 29 November 2009
Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery

11 December 2009 until 22 January 2010
Geraldton Regional Gallery

Spinifex Sanctuary
as seen in Breathing Spaces 2010

Tea Party 2007

Lucca Walls 2005

Arctic 2004

Tea Party
as seen in Monentum 2009