CV
(selected)
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘pretty white silk’, Unassigned gallery, Brunswick
2022 ‘night travels’, Black Cat Fitzroy, Melbourne
2019 ‘passage’, Residents gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham
Group Exhibitions
2021 Stages:Life in Lockdown, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2020 #ICPconcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, ICP, New York (October)
2019 CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney.
2018 Portrait Prize, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melb.
2017-18 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2017 The Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat, Melbourne
2016 memory_archive, Photobook Melbourne, Melbourne
2015 Head On Portrait Prize (semi-finalist screening), Head On Photo Festival, Sydney
Selected Awards / Publications
2018 Finalist, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney.
2017 Awarded - Elwood Community Bank Artist Encouragement Award, Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne.
2017 Finalist, Nillumbik prize, Montsalvat, Melbourne
2017 Top Ten, Documentary category Emerging Photographers, Capture magazine
2016 Folio of the Year, artists' book 'fragments', Melbourne Polytechnic Graduation Show
2016 Finalist, ‘Family’ Award, January edition, Womankind Magazine
2015 Semi-finalist, Head On Portrait Prize
2012 Highly Commended, Photonet Student Prize
Collections
Private Collections
State Library of Victoria – artist book, ‘fragments i’
Media Release LINKS
Linden New Art Postcard Show 2017
About me
I am a photographic artist, living and working in Melbourne, Australia.
I am intrigued by people's complex thoughts and emotions, in particular those unspoken words and the complexities of the human mind.
I am motivated and inspired to create by nature and am often drawn to light and the way it can transform a scene in an instant.
Whether I am documenting family or friends, exploring the streets, or turning the camera on myself, the need to create often comes from a place of curiosity in the scene, connection in the moment and/or a need to record an emotion or thought.
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