QUALIFICATIONS 

Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2004) 
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School (Sculpture) (1999)
Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class) (Fine Art) Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney (1991) 
Postgraduate Certificate in Education ‘Preparing to teach’ Module, University Campus Suffolk, UK (2009) 

AWARDS 

Dobell Drawing Prize #23 Finalist National Art School touring exhibition 2023-2024
Woollahra Small Sculpture Award Finalist 2023
Greenway Small Sculpture Award 2022 (finalist)
Infini-D dress design team World of Wearable Art 2019 New Zealand 2019 (3rd Prize)
Greenway Small Sculpture Award 2021 (finalist)
Greenway Small Sculpture Award 2019 (finalist)
Greenway Photographic Award 2019 (finalist)
UWS Sculpture Award & Exhibition 2014
Kooindah Acquisitive Sculpture Prize & Exhibition (finalist) March 2011
Fauvette Laureiro Memorial Award finalist, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2006)
Fauvette Laureiro Memorial Award finalist, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2005)
University of Sydney Postgraduate Award PhD Scholarship 2000-mid 2003 

SELECT EXHIBITIONS – SOLO 

Double portrait RR/JJ FRONTSPACE/BACKSPACE National Art School 2025
Small town boy Gaffa Gallery Sydney February 24-March 7 2022
Inheritance Gaffa Gallery Sydney November 12-23 2020
Double take and Smalltown boy, Fitzroy The Clear Box, Testing Grounds Melbourne 2018
You make me feel mighty real The Black Box, Testing Grounds Melbourne 2017 
Ghost St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich Suffolk UK 2008
Archive Fever Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney 2003 
Writing Machines Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney 2001 

RECENT CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Curator Chaosophy Queer Contemporaries National Art School 2025 
Lead Curator Qtopia Sydney the largest queer museum in the world opening exhibitions February 2024
Curator Ward 17 South Qtopia Sydney National Art School 2023
Curator A Thousand Beautiful Things Clifford Chance ARCUS Pride Program Brookfield Place 2023
Curator I want a future that lives up to my past Queer Contemporaries National Art School 2022

SELECT EXHIBITIONS – GROUP 

I can smell death from here Invited Artist Power Up Festival White Bay Power Station 2024
‘End of days’ artists respond to ‘End of Days’ and ‘Red Riot’ exhibition by @missingenuous Sydney 2020 
Lockdown and Light International Projection Festival @lockdownandlight 2020 
Rockabetty Paper on Skin Burnie Regional Art Gallery 2020
Exit Freeze Frolic Articulate Project Space Sydney 2020
Moon tunnel Edge Festival Sydney 2019 
Infini-D dress design team World of Wearable Art 2019 New Zealand 2019 (3rd Prize)
Small town boy Leichhardt, Ferment Articulate Project Space Sydney 2019
Shrine Lake Light Sculpture Exhibition Jindabyne 2019
sARTorial VIVID Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2018 
Inheritance Sculpture in the Vineyards, Hunter Valley 2018
Swallow twins Surry Hills Project Festival, Sydney 2017
Smalltown Boy, Darlinghurst The Drawing Exchange, National Art School, Sydney 2017
‘Mapping Memory’ Unfold British Art Show Fringe, Leeds UK 2015
UWS Sculpture Award & Exhibition Sydney 2014
Limited edition book project New York 2014
Sculpture in the Vineyards NSW Hunter Valley 2013
Limited edition book project New York 2013
Urban Artists Home Brussels 2013
21st Century Queer Artists #4 Los Angeles 2012
POST POST POST Peleton Sydney 2012
Postcards from the Edge New York 2012
A Book about Death the ties that bind New York 2011
Kooinda acquisitive sculpture prize & exhibition Central Coast NSW Australia 2011
Papergirl Hamburg Germany August 2011 Papergirl Newcastle UK August 2011 Papergirl Leeds UK April 2011
Papergirl Glasgow UK March 2011
Bad Romance Edinburgh, New York 2011
Cutclick Merseyside 2011 Cutclick Cleethorpes 2011
‘Postcards from the edge’ Visual Aids New York 2011
Paris Correspondence School, Birmingham, London 2011
Sculpture in the Vineyards NSW Hunter Valley Australia 2010
Print exchange Brooklyn Art Library New York 2010
‘Another time, another place’ Frailty in thought, venues in Suffolk Summer 2010
Ray Johnson & A Book about Death New York US 2010
A Book about Death RNG Nebraska US 2010 A Book about Death MOMA Wales 2010 A Book about Death MUBE Sao Paolo Brazil 2010
POST II Coexist Southend UK, POST I Trove Birmingham UK 2010
‘Rebus II’ Sculpture in the Vineyards (& Curatorial Consultant) NSW Hunter Valley (2006)
COFA staff exhibition Ivan Dougherty Gallery COFA UNSW Paddington (2004)
and previously in Sculpture by the Sea, the ABC Studios, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, First Draft & The Tin Sheds Gallery.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSTS
Lecturer Sculpture National Art School Sydney 2018-present
Lecturer Masters of Design, University of NSW Art Design & Architecture 2019-present
Lecturer, Drawing National Art School Sydney 2017-2018; Teacher Professional Development Workshop in experimental drawing/animation; 
Learning Co-ordinator Biennale of Sydney 2017-2018
Education designer dLux MediaArts 2015-2017; teacher professional development workshop in moving image/aurasma/animation
Strategy/Content Developer and Lecturer professional development program University of the Arts London Awarding Body 2014-2015 
Lead External Moderator University of the Arts London Awarding Body 2012-2015 
Lecturer and Course Leader in Art and Design, School of Creative Arts & Media, Suffolk New College, UK 2007-2015
Lecturer Fine Art Suffolk School of Arts, University Campus Suffolk 2009-2011 
Lecturer Sculpture, Performance and Installation and Theories of Art Practice, Sydney College of the Arts,
University of Sydney 2003-2006 
Lecturer Interdisciplinary Studio, School of Design, University of NSW Art & Design 2004-2006
Studio Tutor Tin Sheds Art Workshops, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney 2003-2006 
Art and technology researcher Sydney College of the Arts 2003 
Curatorial Researcher Department of State Records NSW 2002-2004 
Personal research assistant to Anne Deveson 2000-2003

SELECT PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS 

Review of Rogue Archives by De Kosnik, AFS Technology issue 2017 
Re-imagining regional Realtime Arts No 136 December 2016
How can quality creative education change lives? ARTLANDS 2016 Dubbo 
Reverse the trend, champion creative education Realtime Arts No 134 August- September 2016 
‘UAL Professional Development program presentation’ Central Saint Martins UAL Awarding Body 2015 
‘Strategy for art & design lecturer CPD’ UAL Awarding Body presentation London College of Fashion 2014 
Photography contra sublime Edgar Wind Journal, University of Oxford, 2013 
‘Teaching’ research in art & design FAD Conference Chelsea School of Art & Design, UAL Awarding Body January 2013
Bad Romancer Collective Gallery Publications Edinburgh Scotland (2011)
Making Ghost (Interview) BBC Radio 2008
Less talk more action Eyesight: situating theory and practice in the visual arts, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference November 30 – December 02 2005 University of Sydney
Articles for Realtime various issues 49-65 2001-2004
Interview: Professor Dennis Altman, Department of State Records (NSW) magazine Vital Signs 2004
Derrida Lite Department of State Records (NSW) magazine Vital Signs 2002
Artist’s page VER Art Quarterly Namdee Publishing Bangkok Thailand 2001
The Mystic Turn 6th International Religion, Literature and Art Conference University of Sydney 2000
I have also been published in: Art/Text, the National AIDS Bulletin, Law/Text/Culture, and Refractory Girl; and have given papers at the Australian Women’s Studies Association, Australia Culture Workshop, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, and VADEA conferences.

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH PROJECTS 

University of the Arts London Awarding Body, Art and Design Lecturer Continuing Professional Development Strategy;
and Module development (2014-2015) 
Research assistant Multiple Modalities Project, Sydney College of the Arts (2004) 
Curatorial researcher In the Realm of the Censors Exhibition program, Department of State Records, NSW (2002-2004)
Research assistant to Anne Deveson, non fiction book Resilience (2000-2002)