Profile
Co-owner of NMH Metalworks
Co-ordinator and a founding member of Blacksmith Doris (Women’s Blacksmithing Group)
Qualifications
2011 MFA with Distinction, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2009 Advanced Diploma in Engineering (Jewellery), NMIT, Northern Melbourne Institue of TAFE,
1989 Bachelor of Visual Art (Metalsmithing), University of Tasmania
1987 Diploma Visual Art (Metalsmithing), University of Tasmania
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 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, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Space and the City, Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
In Conversation, First Site, 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
Reproduction, 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
2011Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence in 2011
Master of Fine Art Graduate Award
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
2011 Love Lace, Sydney
2010 Objects of the Everyday, Site of Enquiry Rapid ?re presentation, Melbourne
Collections
Private collections in Australia, Britain, China and USA