CV

Profile

Co-owner of NMH Metalworks

Co-ordinator and a founding member of Blacksmith Doris (Women’s Blacksmithing Group)
Casual Teacher at NMIT

Qualifications

2011 MFA with Distinction, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

2009 Advanced Diploma in Engineering (Jewellery), NMIT, Melbourne

1989 Bachelor of Visual Art (Metalsmithing), University of Tasmania

1987 Diploma Visual Art (Metalsmithing), University of Tasmania

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Transgression , Off The Kerb, Melbourne 

          Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, representing RMIT, Melbourne

          Oh! Opal, Redox Jewellery Studio, Geelong

           Interventions - Rejecting the Spectrum, Curtin House, Melbourne

          Dark Horse Choice, Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne

          Possibilities, Metro Gallery, Armadale

          It’s Not You, It’s Me, Open Space Gallery, Melbourne

          ManJewellery, Crafthaus online exhibition

2011 Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne

          Manjewellery, Beer Deluxe, Melbourne

          Close at Hand, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne

          Love Lace, International Lace Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

          Space and the City, Open Space Gallery, Melbourne

          The Seven Visible Signs of Aging, Open Space Gallery, Melbourne

          Lend Me Your Ears, Mailbox 141, Melbourne

2010 Steal This!, Hosier Lane, Melbourne

          Everyday Objects, Loft Gallery, Abbotsford

          Re:production, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2009 FRESH! Awards, Craft Victoria

Collaboration

2011 In Conversation, First Site, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Redox Jewellery Studio, Geelong

1989 Square Peg in a Round Hole, Launceston, Tasmania

Awards

2011 Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence in 2011, RMIT

           Master of Fine Art Graduate Award, RMIT

           Dark Horse Choice, Dark Horse Experiment

           Love Lace Finalist, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2009 Fresh! Finalist, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

Relevant Short courses

2011 Manon Van Kouswijk, Longings and Belongings, RMIT

2010 Dr Shelly Sacks and Dr Wolfgang Zuimdick, Social Sculpture, RMIT

2009 Bettina Speckner, Black Night, RMIT

Publications and PresentationS

2012  Striking Women, Mild as Steel, Latifa Sayadi (upcoming)

2011 Love Lace, Sydney

2010 Objects of the Everyday, Site of Enquiry Rapid Fire Presentation, Melbourne

Collections

Private collections in Australia, Britain, China and USA 

Stockists

Redox Jewellery Studio, Geelong
Studio 20/17, Sydney