ART EDUCATION
2019 Graduate Certificate of Museum Studies, Deakin University, VIC
2008 Bachelor of Photography, Photographic Arts Practice Major, Qld College of Art, Griffith University, QLD
2005 Diploma of Photography, Southbank Institute, QLD
2003 Certificate III in Arts, Bremer Institute of TAFE, QLD
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017 Photo District News PhotoPlus Conference, Manhattan, NY
2017 Photoshop retouching workshop with Carrie Beane, renowned NY Digital Photographic Retoucher.
2017 Photo Composite workshop with Karen Alsop, International Award Winning Photographic Digital Artist, NY
SELECTED PRIZES
2023 Finalist STILL: national still life award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2023 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Paddington, QLD
2023 Finalist John Villiers Outback Prize, Winton, QLD
2022 Finalist BAM Art Prize, Byron shire, NSW
2021 Winner Photography Award, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards, QLD
2021 Finalist Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane QLD
2021 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2020 Winner Holding Redlich ‘Art for Life’ Award and Spotlight Award, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards, QLD
2018 Finalist Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Sydney NSW
2017 Winner printmaking award, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2016 Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Art Gallery, QLD
2016 Finalist Moreton Bay Art Awards, Pine Rivers Gallery, QLD
2016 Winner Best in show, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2015 Winner Best in show, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2015 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2014 Finalist Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Art Gallery, TAS
2014 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD
2013 Finalist Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens TAS
2012 Finalist BSG $10,000 picture this photography prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2013 Winner 2nd prize Just Nudes Art Prize, Old Courthouse Gallery, Ipswich QLD
2011 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards QLD
2010 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards QLD
2009 Limestone Dental Group Acquisition Prize, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2008 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in the Bachelor of Photography, QLD
2007 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in the Bachelor of Photography, QLD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Coastal biomes, NRCG, Ballina NSW
2021 Garden City, Clifford Gouldson, Toowoomba QLD
2016 Outlander, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Finding ness, Drawing Point Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2013 Screen Culture, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2013 The Gorge: a natural language, Cataract Gorge Basin Cottage, Launceston, TAS
2011 Works, the SWICH Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich, QLD
2010 Ways of seeing, the SWICH Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich, QLD
2009 Ipswich: historical, contemporary, vibrant, Cactus, Ipswich, QLD
TOURING EXHIBITIONS
2022 Paint the town, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2021 Decadence, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2016 Cream of the Crop, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2015 Vital Signs, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2012 Sketchbook Project, Housed at the Brooklyn Art Library USA to 2022 + touring exhibition: various locations across the USA,
and the Victorian College of the Arts - The University of Melbourne, VIC
2011 Our Place, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 deLight projections: Ipswich Spark Festival, Ipswich Qld
2023 Emergence: artistic exploration of quantum science, M2 Gallery, Surry Hills NSW
2021 The Cyanotype in Australia, Kepk Gallery, Brisbane QLD
2019 Land. Sea. Sky, A Smith Gallery, Texas, USA
2019 Under the Southern Sun, Maud Street Photo Gallery, Brisbane QLD
2018 In Anna's Garden, Museum of Australian Photography, VIC
2016 People Place, Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2015 Local Now, Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2015 Embrace, Studio 188, Ipswich, QLD
2013 Homegrown 2013, curated By Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2013 A Book About Death, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
2013 Once Upon A Time, Art & Design Precinct, West End, QLD
2013 Techknotopia, The Cache Collective, Salerno Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 Dialogue: Aesthetic Conversations In Contemporary Art Photography, The SWICH Contemporary Art Space,
Ipswich, QLD
2011 Curious Colours, Drawing Point Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2011 Black & White, Drawing Point Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2010 The Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC
2010 Homegrown 2010, curated by Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2010 24/7: Perpetual Flux, Changing Perceptions, Ipswich Community Gallery, QLD
2009 Transforming Spaces Project Gallery No.1, 175 Brisbane St, Ipswich, QLD
2009 Changing Perceptions, Ipswich Community Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2009 The Chapman & Bailey Artworkers Award, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Children of the Resolution, QCA Graduating Exhibition, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Snap Exhibition, White Box Gallery, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Growing Extra Ears: Installations of Sight and Sound, Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
RESIDENCIES
2021 Clifford Gouldson artist-in-residence, Toowoomba QLD
2021 Flying Arts Charleville Schools residency, Charleville QLD
2019 The Old School Mt Wilson Artist Residency Scholarship, Mt Wilson NSW
2015 The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre NSW
2013 Gunyah artist-in-residence program, Port Stephens NSW
2013 Cataract Gorge artist-in-residence, Launceston City Council TAS
COLLECTIONS
West Moreton Health, Ipswich Mental Health Unit, QLD
Mater Private Hospital, Public Art Commission, Springfield QLD
Taube Museum of Art, ND, USA
Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich QLD
Launceston City Council, TAS
The Limestone Dental Group, Ipswich QLD
Stocklands, Brisbane QLD
+ various private collections
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/COMMITTEES
The Golden Key International Honour Society – Griffith Chapter
NAVA (National Association for Visual Arts)
Flying Arts Alliance - accredited member
Qld Government Children Check - current Blue card holder
PUBLICATIONS + PRESS
2020 Decadence, catalogue essay by Louise Martin-Chew, Artwords
2020 In Focus: Ipswich Visual Artists 2010-2019, Smith, G, Qld Government and Ipswich City Council, 2020
2010 Inner-city beauty shown in photos, Queensland Times, 18 December 2010, p.6
2009 Town in transit, Ipswich News,19 November 2009, p.36
2009 Artist aiming to alter perception of Ipswich, Ipswich News,19 November, Gillespie, J, 2009, p.36
2008 Children of the Resolution, Exhibition Catalogue, QCA, Griffith University, 2008, p. 78-79
2004 The extraordinary in the everyday, The Ipswich Advertiser, 6 January 2004, p. 10.
SELECTED CURATORIAL/ARTS PROJECT MANANGEMENT
2013 - Gallery Officer - Toowoomba Region Galleries - Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery. Designed and delivered the yearly exhibition
2020 programs of 11 exhibitions per year, including supporting public programs.
2019 Event Manager/Awards Curator - Somerset Bendigo Bank Art Awards 2019
2019 Experience Somerset, The Somerset Regional Art Gallery - The Condensery. Curated the tourism photographic exhibition and
historical photographs and objects.
2018 An End to Conflict exhibition at The Somerset Regional Art Gallery - The Condensery. Researched, curated and installed the exhibition
for the Toogoolawah History Museum.
2018 Somerset Seniors exhibition at The Somerset Regional Art Gallery - The Condensery. Curated the exhibition and presented curatorial and art presentation workshops at each high school.
2017 Event Manager - Somerset Bendigo Bank Art Awards 2017
2017 Toogoolawah Museum Photographic exhibition - Researched and curated photography exhibition with the Toogoolawah & District
History Group.
2012 Inaugural Ipswich Arts Dinner at Studio 188 for the Ipswich Arts Corps
2012 Ipswich Arts Guide, printed arts guides showcasing diverse art groups in the region
2012 Emerging artist solo series - staged 6 exhibitions, opening night events and mentoring for each artist, partly funded by an Ipswich
RADF grant
2012 Exhibition mentoring, Ipswich Art Awards exhibition prize winner
2011 Exhibition mentoring, Ipswich Art Awards exhibition prize winner
2011 EKKA day live street entertainment, Top of Town, Ipswich
2011 Art for Ipswich, Flood Charity Art Auction, Proceeds donated to the Ipswich Mayor's Fund
2011 Transforming Spaces II - Animated Spaces, Ipswich Festival, Community partner with Ipswich Events Corp
2010/12 Staged 42 group and solo exhibitions at the SWICH Contemporary Art Space + 17 ARTalk philosophy cafes, Top of Town cafes, Ipswich
2010 ARTrelay project, Rockton Art Bazaar, Ipswich
2009 Established the SWICH Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich
2009 Established ICAN (Ipswich contemporary arts network)
2009 Transforming Spaces I, Vacant space, 175 Brisbane St, Ipswich
2009 Changing Perceptions, group exhibition of 4 Ipswich artists, Ipswich community gallery – Lyne Marshall, Donna Davis, Andrew
Spark and LeAnne Vincent
2019 Graduate Certificate of Museum Studies, Deakin University, VIC
2008 Bachelor of Photography, Photographic Arts Practice Major, Qld College of Art, Griffith University, QLD
2005 Diploma of Photography, Southbank Institute, QLD
2003 Certificate III in Arts, Bremer Institute of TAFE, QLD
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017 Photo District News PhotoPlus Conference, Manhattan, NY
2017 Photoshop retouching workshop with Carrie Beane, renowned NY Digital Photographic Retoucher.
2017 Photo Composite workshop with Karen Alsop, International Award Winning Photographic Digital Artist, NY
SELECTED PRIZES
2023 Finalist STILL: national still life award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2023 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Paddington, QLD
2023 Finalist John Villiers Outback Prize, Winton, QLD
2022 Finalist BAM Art Prize, Byron shire, NSW
2021 Winner Photography Award, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards, QLD
2021 Finalist Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane QLD
2021 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2020 Winner Holding Redlich ‘Art for Life’ Award and Spotlight Award, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards, QLD
2018 Finalist Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Sydney NSW
2017 Winner printmaking award, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2016 Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Art Gallery, QLD
2016 Finalist Moreton Bay Art Awards, Pine Rivers Gallery, QLD
2016 Winner Best in show, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2015 Winner Best in show, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2015 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2014 Finalist Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Art Gallery, TAS
2014 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD
2013 Finalist Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens TAS
2012 Finalist BSG $10,000 picture this photography prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2013 Winner 2nd prize Just Nudes Art Prize, Old Courthouse Gallery, Ipswich QLD
2011 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards QLD
2010 Acquisition Prize Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Awards QLD
2009 Limestone Dental Group Acquisition Prize, Ipswich Art Awards, QLD
2008 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in the Bachelor of Photography, QLD
2007 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in the Bachelor of Photography, QLD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Coastal biomes, NRCG, Ballina NSW
2021 Garden City, Clifford Gouldson, Toowoomba QLD
2016 Outlander, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Finding ness, Drawing Point Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2013 Screen Culture, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2013 The Gorge: a natural language, Cataract Gorge Basin Cottage, Launceston, TAS
2011 Works, the SWICH Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich, QLD
2010 Ways of seeing, the SWICH Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich, QLD
2009 Ipswich: historical, contemporary, vibrant, Cactus, Ipswich, QLD
TOURING EXHIBITIONS
2022 Paint the town, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2021 Decadence, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2016 Cream of the Crop, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2015 Vital Signs, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
2012 Sketchbook Project, Housed at the Brooklyn Art Library USA to 2022 + touring exhibition: various locations across the USA,
and the Victorian College of the Arts - The University of Melbourne, VIC
2011 Our Place, Flying Arts Qld Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 deLight projections: Ipswich Spark Festival, Ipswich Qld
2023 Emergence: artistic exploration of quantum science, M2 Gallery, Surry Hills NSW
2021 The Cyanotype in Australia, Kepk Gallery, Brisbane QLD
2019 Land. Sea. Sky, A Smith Gallery, Texas, USA
2019 Under the Southern Sun, Maud Street Photo Gallery, Brisbane QLD
2018 In Anna's Garden, Museum of Australian Photography, VIC
2016 People Place, Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2015 Local Now, Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2015 Embrace, Studio 188, Ipswich, QLD
2013 Homegrown 2013, curated By Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2013 A Book About Death, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
2013 Once Upon A Time, Art & Design Precinct, West End, QLD
2013 Techknotopia, The Cache Collective, Salerno Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 Dialogue: Aesthetic Conversations In Contemporary Art Photography, The SWICH Contemporary Art Space,
Ipswich, QLD
2011 Curious Colours, Drawing Point Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2011 Black & White, Drawing Point Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2010 The Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC
2010 Homegrown 2010, curated by Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
2010 24/7: Perpetual Flux, Changing Perceptions, Ipswich Community Gallery, QLD
2009 Transforming Spaces Project Gallery No.1, 175 Brisbane St, Ipswich, QLD
2009 Changing Perceptions, Ipswich Community Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
2009 The Chapman & Bailey Artworkers Award, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Children of the Resolution, QCA Graduating Exhibition, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Snap Exhibition, White Box Gallery, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Growing Extra Ears: Installations of Sight and Sound, Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
RESIDENCIES
2021 Clifford Gouldson artist-in-residence, Toowoomba QLD
2021 Flying Arts Charleville Schools residency, Charleville QLD
2019 The Old School Mt Wilson Artist Residency Scholarship, Mt Wilson NSW
2015 The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre NSW
2013 Gunyah artist-in-residence program, Port Stephens NSW
2013 Cataract Gorge artist-in-residence, Launceston City Council TAS
COLLECTIONS
West Moreton Health, Ipswich Mental Health Unit, QLD
Mater Private Hospital, Public Art Commission, Springfield QLD
Taube Museum of Art, ND, USA
Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich QLD
Launceston City Council, TAS
The Limestone Dental Group, Ipswich QLD
Stocklands, Brisbane QLD
+ various private collections
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/COMMITTEES
The Golden Key International Honour Society – Griffith Chapter
NAVA (National Association for Visual Arts)
Flying Arts Alliance - accredited member
Qld Government Children Check - current Blue card holder
PUBLICATIONS + PRESS
2020 Decadence, catalogue essay by Louise Martin-Chew, Artwords
2020 In Focus: Ipswich Visual Artists 2010-2019, Smith, G, Qld Government and Ipswich City Council, 2020
2010 Inner-city beauty shown in photos, Queensland Times, 18 December 2010, p.6
2009 Town in transit, Ipswich News,19 November 2009, p.36
2009 Artist aiming to alter perception of Ipswich, Ipswich News,19 November, Gillespie, J, 2009, p.36
2008 Children of the Resolution, Exhibition Catalogue, QCA, Griffith University, 2008, p. 78-79
2004 The extraordinary in the everyday, The Ipswich Advertiser, 6 January 2004, p. 10.
SELECTED CURATORIAL/ARTS PROJECT MANANGEMENT
2013 - Gallery Officer - Toowoomba Region Galleries - Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery. Designed and delivered the yearly exhibition
2020 programs of 11 exhibitions per year, including supporting public programs.
2019 Event Manager/Awards Curator - Somerset Bendigo Bank Art Awards 2019
2019 Experience Somerset, The Somerset Regional Art Gallery - The Condensery. Curated the tourism photographic exhibition and
historical photographs and objects.
2018 An End to Conflict exhibition at The Somerset Regional Art Gallery - The Condensery. Researched, curated and installed the exhibition
for the Toogoolawah History Museum.
2018 Somerset Seniors exhibition at The Somerset Regional Art Gallery - The Condensery. Curated the exhibition and presented curatorial and art presentation workshops at each high school.
2017 Event Manager - Somerset Bendigo Bank Art Awards 2017
2017 Toogoolawah Museum Photographic exhibition - Researched and curated photography exhibition with the Toogoolawah & District
History Group.
2012 Inaugural Ipswich Arts Dinner at Studio 188 for the Ipswich Arts Corps
2012 Ipswich Arts Guide, printed arts guides showcasing diverse art groups in the region
2012 Emerging artist solo series - staged 6 exhibitions, opening night events and mentoring for each artist, partly funded by an Ipswich
RADF grant
2012 Exhibition mentoring, Ipswich Art Awards exhibition prize winner
2011 Exhibition mentoring, Ipswich Art Awards exhibition prize winner
2011 EKKA day live street entertainment, Top of Town, Ipswich
2011 Art for Ipswich, Flood Charity Art Auction, Proceeds donated to the Ipswich Mayor's Fund
2011 Transforming Spaces II - Animated Spaces, Ipswich Festival, Community partner with Ipswich Events Corp
2010/12 Staged 42 group and solo exhibitions at the SWICH Contemporary Art Space + 17 ARTalk philosophy cafes, Top of Town cafes, Ipswich
2010 ARTrelay project, Rockton Art Bazaar, Ipswich
2009 Established the SWICH Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich
2009 Established ICAN (Ipswich contemporary arts network)
2009 Transforming Spaces I, Vacant space, 175 Brisbane St, Ipswich
2009 Changing Perceptions, group exhibition of 4 Ipswich artists, Ipswich community gallery – Lyne Marshall, Donna Davis, Andrew
Spark and LeAnne Vincent