Born in Melbourne. Lives and works in Sydney as a practising artist and drawing teacher.
She was a former museum educator with the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Educated with Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts and Master of Art Administration.
Selected exhibitions & events

2011
  • The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong group exhibition - Wattle: Australian Contemporary Art
  • Not The Way Home - 13 Australian artists travel to Far West NSW for a 14 day arts laboratory. Facilitated by ABC Open Illawarra, Artists Profile magazine and Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station
  • National Art School, Art Works and Art Words, group exhibition

2010
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition
  • Tim Olsen Gallery group exhibition - Miscellanea
  • Adelaide Perry Drawing prize exhibition

2009
  • Tim Olsen Gallery solo exhibition - Drawings 2009

2008
  • Tim Olsen Gallery solo exhibition - Illuminations
  • Tim Olsen Gallery group exhibition - 2x2

2007
  • Tim Olsen Gallery solo exhibition - La Ville des Lumieres

2006
  • Florieau Penninsula Art Prize exhibition
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition
  • Awarded residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris

2005
  • Tim Olsen Gallery solo exhibition - Muse: Old and New (opened by Edmund Capon)
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition
  • Ivan Dougherty Gallery (University of New South Wales) group exhibition - Going Out There

2004
  • Melbourne Art Fair

2003
  • Tim Olsen Gallery solo exhibition - Night's Journey
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Prize for Drawing: The First Ten Years

2001
  • S.H. Ervin Gallery, A Studio in Paris: Australian Artists at the Cite
  • King Street Gallery solo exhibition - Conversations with Clouds
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition

2000
  • Kedumba Drawing Prize exhibition
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition
  • King Street Gallery group exhibition

1999
  • King Street Gallery solo exhibition - Firmament
  • The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dobell Drawing prize exhibition
  • Awarded residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris - Art Gallery of New South Wales atelier

1998
  • King Street Gallery solo exhibition - Southdown
  • King Street Gallery group exhibition
  • Victorian College of the Arts group exhibition - 25 year Anniversary
  • Casula Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre group exhibition - Girlfriends
  • Ivan Dougherty Gallery (University of New South Wales) group exhibition - Desert Painters

1997
  • King Street Gallery group exhibition
  • University of Sydney group exhibition - VAST
  • Westspace Melbourne group exhibition - Outwest

1991
  • Awarded the Fred Williams Family Prize
  • Victorian College of the Arts group exhibition - Award Show
Collections

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Kedumba Drawing Collection
  • Artbank
  • Victorian College of the Arts
  • Private collectors: London; New York; San Francisco; Paris; Sydney; Melbourne


Bibliography

  • Sydney Morning Herald, Courtney Kidd
    Exhibitions critics picks Metro, pp.27, 25 May 2001
  • King Street Gallery on Burton:
    Catalogue essay, George Alexander 'Conversations with clouds', May 2001
  • Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Look Magazine, Anne Ryan,
    'Paper Collection', pp12-13, July 2001
  • Sydney Morning Herald, Sebastian Smee
    Review of Kedumba Drawing Award, October 28, 2000
  • The Glebe & Inner Western Weekly, Emily Tinson,
    "Artist reaches for the skies' review of solo exhibition, July 21,1999
Publications for children

  • My Big Art Adventure: What colour is that? The Art Gallery of New South Wales

  • My Big Art Adventure: What number is that? The Art Gallery of New South Wales

Received a Notable Award from the Children's Book Council of Australia
Selected for the NSW Premier's reading list

Photograph by Ella Dreyfus