CURRICULUM VITAE
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
- Portrait Society of America, Signature Status – 2025
- Portia Geach Portrait Prize – Finalist 2025, 2017, 2012
- Urunga Small Sculpture Prize – Finalist 2025
- National Portrait Gallery of Australia’s Darling Portrait Prize – Winner 2022
- Archibald Portrait Prize – Winner People’s Choice 2023; Finalist 2024, 2025
- Kennedy Prize – Winner 2019; People’s Choice 2024; Hanger Prize 2021; Finalist 2025, 2023
- FiKVA International Award for Painters – Honourable Mention 2025, 2023
- Sorrento Art Prize – Finalist 2025
- American Art Awards – Best in Show 2022
- Lester Portrait Prize – Winner People’s Choice 2018, 2013; Finalist 2015, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008
- Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize – Winner People’s Choice 2016; Finalist 2014
- Cliftons Art Prize – Winner Melbourne Prize 2016
- Portrait Society of America’s Members Portrait Prize – Winning place 2021, 2018, 2017; Finalist 2020
- NDT International Figure Painting Competition, New York – Honourable Mention 2024; Finalist 2025, 2019
- Master of Art International exhibition, Architecture Award, London – Winner 2016
- Portrait Society of America open international competition – Certificate of Excellence
- Mod Portrait Prize – Finalist 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2019
- Doug Moran Portrait Prize – Finalist 2022; Semifinalist 2017, 2016, 2014
- SBS Portrait Prize – Highly Commended 2021
- ARC Salon, Sotheby’s NY – Runner Up Best Nude 2020; Finalist 2025, 2024, 2019, 2018
- European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barcelona Spain – Acquisition of portrait of Elena Kats-Chernin 2021
- Luna Codex – work in a time capsule to the moon www. Lunarcodex.com 2021
- Sotheby’s NY – First Australian painter in the inaugural auction of Contemporary Realism 2021
- Mortimore Art Prize – Winner Surrealism prize 2012; Finalist 2013, 2011
- Park Art Fair International, Germany – Honourable Mention 2016
- Artavita International Art Prize – Certificate of Excellence 2015
- Black Swan Heritage Prize – Highly Commended 2013; People’s Choice 2014
- Newstead Small World Sculpture Prize – Finalist 2025
- European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barcelona Spain – Selected for Women Painting 2021
- Clayton Utz Award – Finalist 2020
- Brisbane Portrait Prize – Finalist 2020
- Art Renewal Centre – ARC Associate Living Artist status 2020
- Hidden Faces – Winner People’s Choice 2018, 2009
- Fomenar Art Prize, Rome, Italy – Finalist 2017
- Hornsby Art Prize – Finalist 2017
- Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Sculpture Prize – Finalist 2014
- International Artist Magazine, Landscape Prize- Winner third place
- Can Serrat residency, Spain – Support stipend 2014
- Arte Laguna Prize in Venice – Semi-finalist 2014
- Australian Guild of Realist Artists – Winner of the Presidents Challenge 2013
- S.H. Ervin Gallery, Salon de Refuse 2013
- Cricket Art Prize – Finalist 2012
- Waverley Art Prize – Finalist 2012
- Xstrata Percival Portrait Award – Finalist 2012
- Charlatan Ink Art Prize in New York – Semi-finalist 2011
- Corangamarah Art Prize – Finalist 2011
- Waverley Art Prize – Finalist 2010
- ANL Mariners Art Prize – Finalist 2009
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 The Human Spirit, Frankston Southside Festival
- 2023 Human, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
- 2020 Awarded TransCultural Exchange Art Residency Portugal. Cancelled due to COVID 19
- 2019 ‘People’, The Button Factory, Victoria
- 2015 ‘Eclectic Synergy, G3 Artspace, Parkdale
- 2012 ‘A Show of Hands’, Chapel off Chapel, Prahran, VIC
- 2010 ‘Nancy Bentleigh’, Dromkeen Museum of Children’s Literature, Riddell’s Creek, VIC
- 2008 ‘A True Person’, Dromkeen Museum of Children’s Literature, Riddell’s Creek, VIC
- 2005 Children’s illustrations, Dromkeen Museum of Children’s Literature, Riddell’s Creek
- 2004 ‘Shoes News’, Dromkeen Museum of Children’s Literature, Riddell’s Creek, VIC
- 2003 ‘Various Faerious’, Chisholm Institute, Dandenong, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 Women Painting Women, Burringa Cultural Centre
- 2024 Antipodes, Biennart Gallery, Melbourne
- 2021 Women Painting, European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barcelona Spain
- 2021 ARC Salon, Sotheby’s NY, and European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM)
- 2021 Women Painting Women, Burrinja Cultural Centre
- 2016 Women Painting Women, Burrinja Cultural Centre
- 2015 Outstanding Women Artists, Media House Gallery
- 2014 Can Serrat artists, El Bruc, Spain
- 2007 Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Slovakia
- 2007 Ilustrarte Biennial International Exhibition of Children’s book Illustration Portugal
- 2007 Warnabool Art Gallery
- 2004 Frankston International Music Festival
- 2003 Wyreena Community Arts Centre Exhibition
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barcelona Spain
- National Portrait Gallery, Australia
- Parliament of Victoria
- Kennedy Arts Foundation, South Australia
- National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
- Can Serrat, Spain
- Cliftons, Melbourne, Australia
- Melbourne University
- Dromkeen Museum Children’s Literature Trust Collection, Victoria, Australia
RESIDENCIES AWARDED:
- Can Serrat, Spain, 2014
- Nes Residency, Iceland, 2019
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Artists Magazine, May 2022
- The Guide Artists, Feb 2022, cover and feature
- Fine Art Connoisseur, May 2021
- Fine Art Connoisseur, Nov 2020
- Through the Artists’ Eyes, A History of the Black Swan Prize, 2019
- Art Renewal Center, International Realism
- International Artist, Feature, Master Artists of the World, Issue 113 Pg 94 to 97
- American Art Collector, January 2015, pg 125
- International Artist, Edition 97, pg 7
- Artist’s Palette, Edition 112, cover and pg 20 to 28
- The Art of the Portrait, Issue 60, pg 15
- American Art Collector, Issue 106, pg 83
- Black Swan Heritage and Portrait Prize, 2013, featured in catalogue and image used on the front of a bus
- 3 x 3 Illustration Directory, pg 250
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Music, Melbourne University
- Diploma Graphic Design, Chisholm