EDUCATION
2011-2012 Master of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney).
2010 Master of Studio Art, Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney).
1993-1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts (University of New South Wales), Sydney.
1989-1992 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney.
1977-1979 Dress Design Certificate, East Sydney Technical College, Sydney.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Invisible Structures, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney.
2021 Timepiece, AIRspace Projects, Sydney.
2020 Equivalence, AIRspace Projects, Sydney.
2019 Readings, Intransit Art Space, Sydney.
2018 Stories We Tell Ourselves, 541 Art Space, Sydney.
Reminders, Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth, Civic Park, North Sydney.
2015 Placemarking, Willoughby Historical Museum, Sydney.
2014 Lines of Communication, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, Sydney.
2012 Lost Property, Graduate School Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney.
SELECTED GROUP/JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2023 forage: symbiotic (trans)formations, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney.
2022 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley Hall, Kangaroo Valley, NSW.
Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
North Sydney Art Prize, finalist, The Coal Loader, Sydney.
2021 Grace Cossington Smith Art Prize, finalist, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney.
Mix Tape, inTransit Art Space, North Sydney Council, Sydney.
2021 Regenerate, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, online exhibition.
Project 2060, The Coal Loader, Sydney.
2020 Tempering, with Kathie Najar, Barometer Gallery, Sydney.
Retracing, Willoughby Emerge Festival 2020, Art Space on the Concourse and Foyer Gallery, Willoughby City Council, Sydney.
Art in Iso, Art Est Gallery, Sydney.
Emergence, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney.
Shelter Domestics, online exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney.
2019 Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize 2019, finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Things I wanted to say but never did, Contact Sheet, Sydney.
Twelve, Art Est, Sydney.
Deliberations: Time and Light, Gallery East, Sydney.
North Sydney Art Prize, finalist, Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Sydney.
Artist. Mentor. Master., Ewart Gallery, Sydney
2018 Confluence, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney.
Blacktown City Art Prize, finalist, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Art Est Tutor Exhibition, Art Est, Sydney.
Tutor Showcase, Ku-ring-gai Arts Centre, Sydney.
Annual Tutors Show, Ku-ring-gai Arts Centre, Sydney.
2017 Blacktown City Art Prize, finalist, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney.
It’s Time, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney.
Annual Tutors Show, Ku-ring-gai Arts Centre, Sydney.
Sighting Memory, Gaffa, Sydney.
2016 Makers Matter, Gaffa, Sydney.
Chain of Events, Studio 20/17, Sydney.
Colour: Tints, Hues & Tones, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney.
2015 Celebration Show, North Contemporary Art Space, Sydney.
CH2, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney.
City of Ryde Women’s Art Prize, finalist, See Street Gallery, Sydney.
2014 Harbour Sculpture 2014, finalist, Clarke’s Point Reserve, Sydney.
International Women’s Day Art Prize, finalist & winner, See Street Gallery, Sydney.
2013 Hidden Sculpture Walk, finalist, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.
Willoughby Sculpture Prize, finalist, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney.
North Sydney Art Prize, finalist, The Coal Loader, Sydney.
2012 2012 Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney.
Print Stitch Staple, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney.
Transitory States, Visual Arts Centre, La Trobe University, Bendigo.
Trace Makers, Paper Plane, Sydney.
2010 2010 Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney.
COLLABORATIONS
2015-2017 The Way of the River, with Kath Fries and Architects Johannsen & Associates, public art installation, 65-71 Cowper Street Granville NSW.
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018 The Coal Loader Artist Studio Residency, Waverton, Sydney (North Sydney Council).
2016 Japanese Textiles Workshop residency, Fujino, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Australia Council for the Arts Development Grant.
Copyright Agency Creative Individuals Career Fund Grant.
2015 Residency at Willoughby Historical Museum, Sydney (part of the Willoughby City Council inaugural Willoughby Biennial).
Gunyah Artist Residency, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
2014 Winner – International Women’s Day Art Prize, See Street Gallery, Sydney.
2006 Commended – Lane Cove 43rd Annual Art Award (Contemporary section), Sydney.
2000 Studio residency, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, NSW.
1995 Winner – Alfred Altshuler Memorial Award for Painting (UNSW College of Fine Arts).
COLLECTIONS
Willoughby City Council, Bundanon Trust, Towers Perrin, Royal North Shore Private Hospital, Private collections in Australia and South America.
TEXTS
ESSAYS
Anne Ferran ‘Never Easy’, exhibition catalogue for Placemarking exhibition, August 2014.
PUBLICATIONS
Rose Niland ‘Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial, 2015 – Imagining Place’, The Culture Concept Circle, 21 September 2015.
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Chloe Wolifson ‘Imagining Place: The Inaugural Willoughby Biennial’, Arts Hub, 18 August 2015, http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/special-reports/visual-arts/chloe-wolifson/imagining-place-the-inaugural- willoughby-biennial-248995
Lauren Murada ‘War shot in words’, North Shore Times, 5 November 2014, p. 17.
Nerida Olson (ed.) Sydney College of the Arts Degree Show 2012, Sydney College of the Arts, 2012, p. 169.
Hannah Knight ‘Human and nature combined in exhibition’, Bendigo Advertiser, 2 April 2012, p. 8.
Nerida Olson (ed.) Sydney College of the Arts Degree Show 2010, Sydney College of the Arts, 2010, p. 179.
Brendan Moar ‘Bridging the gap’, Inside Out, June 2001, p. 68.
P. Barker ‘Raw silk’, Domain supplement, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 July 1998, p. 10, 11.