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Education
2005 PhD in History, University of Melbourne
1999 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne
1998 Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT
Curated Exhibitions
2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2024 Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum
2024 Salon des Refusés (Archibald Prize), S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2023 Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Griffith University Queensland College of Art
2023 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2022 Semi-finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2022 A.M.E. Bale Art Prize, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2022 The Lester Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2022 Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Montsalvat
2022 Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2022 Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum
2022 Drawing exhibition, Hill End Art Gallery, NSW
2021 The Lester Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2021 FLOW Contemporary Watercolour Prize, Wollongong Art Gallery
2021 9 x 5, Hill End Art Gallery, NSW
2020 Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Griffith University Queensland College of Art
2020 Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery
2020 Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2019 Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Montsalvat
2017 Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Montsalvat
2017 Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Griffith University Queensland College of Art
2016 Verdant Garden, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
2016 Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2016 arc Yinnar Drawing Prize, Gippsland, Vic
2014 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2011 Archangel Prize, St Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne
2011 Grouped, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Re-imagining Land, Wyndham Cultural Centre
2010 Re-invent, Re-interpret, Re-make, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Archangel Prize, St Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne
2009 Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, Banyule Arts Centre, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Edge of the Garden, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2018 A Midsummer Day's Dream, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2018 Edge of the Studio, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst (with Mark Dober)
2018 Past and Present, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney (with Mark Dober)
2017 Solstice, Arnold St Gallery, Bendigo
2016 Luxuriant, Wide Open Road Art Space, Castlemaine
2015 Verdant, Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne
2014 Intimate Grandeur, Tacit Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Residencies and research
2022 London research trip: Lucian Freud: New Perspectives (The National Gallery) and Cézanne (Tate Modern)
2022 Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
2022 BigCi residency, Blue Mountains, NSW
2019 London research trip: National Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Courtauld Institute, National Portrait Gallery,
Royal Academy.
2018 Eramboo Artist Environment, NSW, residency
2017 Hill End Artists in Residence Program, NSW
Grants
2020 Myer Foundation: National Assistance for the Arts grant
Reviews and mentions
2023 Portia, Victorian Women Lawyers' Association, p. 44.
2022 'Elizabeth Nelson' in Lester, The Lester Prize and Mess Books, Perth, 2022, pp. 118-21.
2022 'Self portrait a prize finalist', Midland Express, 13 September 2022, p. 5.
2020 Mark Dober, 'Collaboration', Castlemaine Art, Issue 10, Nov/Dec 2020
2020 Mark Dober, 'Castlemaine Artists in the 2019 Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize', Castlemaine Art, Issue 5, Jan/Feb 2020
2016 'Notes from the judging panel', arc Yinnar Drawing Prize 2016
2016 Alexandra Sasse, 'Art's Alive at Arc', artist blog, 17 November
2011 Interview with Mardi Nowak, Town Hall Gallery Curator, Town Hall Gallery website
2011 Collage on paper featured in Creative Brunswick, documentary by Darcy Gladwin