Momentum-18th Tamworth Fibre & Textile Biennale, NSW 2008. Curator Valerie Kirk. Travelling throughout Australia 2008-2010
Led Zepplin Exhibition S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2008 Mornington Peninsular, Regional Gallery, Victoria,2008
Lismore Regional Gallery, 2007– Curator/Director: Steven Alderton
Naturally Selected Solo Exhibition- Lismore Regional Gallery 2007/2008
Threaded Connections Conceptual Artist/Designer/Co-ordinator Major Installation Lismore Embroidery Guild
Threaded Connections Video – Producer, Conceptual Artist
Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition Lismore Regional Gallery 2007
Chrysalis Curatorial Exhibition, Melitta Firth, Lismore Regional Art Gallery,. NSW Australia 2006
Awarded NSW Ministry for Arts Residency, The Gunnery 2005, Sydney Australia
Winner, Border Art Prize Collateral Damage Tweed River Art Gallery 2005
12/10 Commemorative Exhibition - Berapa Artwork. Fundraiser with Dr Fiona Hall, For Bali Burns Unit, Sir Claude Hotchin Art Gallery, Perth 2004
Solo Exhibition Berapa Exhibition & Publication, Fox Galleries, Brisbane, Australia 2003
Awarded Creative Fellowship, Ministry for the Arts 1996
Awarded Creative Fellowship Residency with the Jardnu Yawru Aboriginal Women's Group North Western Australia,1996
Selected Artist, Expose:Three Stories from Tokyo, Festival of Perth Program, 1995
International Women's Year Representative, 1995.
Awarded Australia Council Visual Arts Grant, Tokyo Residency 1994
Collections
Artbank; The Art Gallery Of Western Australia; The Kerry Stokes Collection. Australia, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia; Lismore Regional Gallery, The Cruthers Collection. WA,
Private Collections.
Awards
2009 Australia Council-Professional Development Award –Selected for SOFA-New York 2009 and
Residency New York, Los Angeles
2009 Prometheus Visual Art Biennale Award – Highly Commended. Merrimac, Queensland
2005 Prometheus Visual Art Award Biennale – Highly Commended. Merrimac, Queensland
2005 NSW Ministry for Arts, Awarded Residency. The Gunnery 2005, Sydney Australia
2004 Winner Border Art Prize “ Collateral Damage “ Gold Coast Art Gallery, Tweed River Art Gallery
1996 Western Australia Creative Fellowship Award . Ministry for the Arts, Western Australia
1994 Australia Council Visual Arts Board- Overseas Studio Residency –Tokyo, Japan
1994 Canon ArtLab Award. Artist in Residence at Canon, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Perth Festival Fringe - Western Australian Department for the Arts -Project Grant.
1988 Australia Council Visual Arts Board - Project Grant. Sydney Australia
Education
1996 Master of Arts - University Of New South Wales College Of Fine Arts Sydney. Australia
1987 Diploma Production Design-Australian Film Television & Radio School, Sydney Australia
1980 Diploma Design/Fine Art- James Street Technical College, Perth Western Australia
Freelance Designer, Art Director - Advertising and Magazine Publications
Group Exhibitions
2009 18th Fibre & Textile Biennal, Tamworth NSW Australia, Touring Australia
2007 Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition,
May 2008 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Victoria
January 2008 EH Ervin Gallery Sydney
April 2007 Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia
2007 Prometheus Visual Arts Award
2006 Alice Art Prize – Selected Award Exhibition
2006 Chrysalis- Lismore Regional Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia
2006 20x, C.A.S.E Gallery, Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia
2006 Oceans 11 Lismore Regional Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia
2005 Arts cape Sculpture Award Exhibition – Cape Byron Bay
Prometheus Visual Arts Award - Inaugural Award Exhibition
2004 Berapa Exhibition, 2nd Anniversary Tweed River Art Gallery
2002 Caldera - Lismore Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
1998 Material Perfection - Curator John Stringer –Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth WA
1996/7 Domestic Disturbance MIMA, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne -Touring Program-
Real to Reel - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art & Art On the Move Touring Program.
Curator: Poala Anselmi ,Art on the Move. Perth, Western Australia
1995 Generation - Curator John Stringer - Delaney Galleries Perth, Western Australia
1992 Young Romantics - Art Gallery Of Western Australia
1989 Inside the Greenhouse - The Tin Sheds, Sydney. Australia
Solo Exhibitions
Currently being unpdated
Video/ Video Installation
2007 Threaded Connections – Producer, Conceptual Artist/Designer
1995 Expose: Three Stories from Tokyo. Part I –Director/Designer, Sound-Peter Westheimer
1994 Experimenta, MIMA Metaphors for Memory Part IV - Paradox of Ordering, Director/Designer
Selected Reviews / Publications
2007 Rosemary Sorrenson, The Australian Newspaper Arts Section
”Heaven, After All These Years” April 5th 2007
2006 Melitta Firth, Chrysalis, The Emergence of Northern Rivers Artists, Arts Northern Rivers, pg 6
2004 Christina Khumari, The Arts: Creating jobs that people value. Byron Shire Echo 3.8.04
2003 Lucille Martin & Michael Fox: Berapa & Retrospective Works, Fox Galleries, 2003
Debra Aldred, Bali’s threads of war, The Courier Mail, Arts Section
2002 Alix Johnson, “The Life of Byron” Artists Profile,. Australian Coastal Style Magazine, April 2001 Material Perfection Minimal Art and its Aftermath.
Publication by Curator John Stringer,
Kerry Stokes Collection
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
Nikki Miller, Gotham Times Ten - Ten Years of Gotham Studios ’88-98, Picton Press pg 36
1995 Paola Anselmi, Expose - Three Stories From Tokyo, Catalogue, Australia Council
Nadine Amardio, New Visions, New Perspectives - Profile of 20 contemporary
Australian Women Artists, Craftsman House
Myer Festival of Perth Critics Conference, The West Australian Newspaper
Karen Pakula, Arts Profile HQ Magazine, September 95
1994 Dr.David Bromfield, Images Reflect the Fragments of Life, The West Australian Newspaper
1993 Ron Banks, Video films add to artists range, The West Australian - Arts Section
David Bromfield - Metaphors for Memory, The West Australian Newspaper
1993 Nadine Amardio, 12 Australian Artists, Craftsman House
1992 Neville Drury, “New Art 7- Profiling Contemporary Australian Artists, Craftsman House
1992 Oz Arts Magazine “Sound and Images”
1990 David Bromfield, Other Worlds, The West Australian Arts Section
1989 David Bromfield, Origins, The West Australian Newspaper Arts Section
Gotham Goes Shopping” Praxis M. Arts Magazine“
1988 Eclectic- Follow Me Magazine
Selected Media
2008 FEHVA Byron Bay – Forum panelist –Threaded connections
2005 FEHVA Byron Bay – Forum panelist – Socially Conscious Artists
2003 Profile of Artist and Berapa Exhibition, Sunday Arts Program, ABC
1995 Festival of Perth Critics Conference, Radio Interviews - RTR-FM, ABC Radio, 6WF Television,
Channel 9 -Perth, ABC-TV
1990 Radio JJJ , Tony Biggs, Myopia and Origins,
Radio JJJ , Gayle Austin, Art Attack-Myopia
Radio JJJ - Art Attack National - Myopia,
ABC National , Martin Portus & Robyn Johnston, Arts Review Myopia
Ministry of Education, Documentary, Myopia
Travel / Influences
2009 - USA, New York, Los Angeles
2008 – New Zealand, South Region
2006 – Kakadu, N.T. Australia
2005 – Alice Springs, Australia
2004 – Vietnam, Hong Kong
2002 – Bali - Residency
1996 – North Western Australia - Residency
1994 – Tokyo - Residency
1992 - Bali
1990 – Europe, India, USA – Residency Taos
1988 - Japan
1986 – Residencies in Bali & Java
1984 – South Africa, Israel, Egypt, Greece. Lived in London and New York.
