Exhibitions - group

SHARING STORIES ART EXCHANGE 2022 - PARTICIPANT EXHIBITION

11 - 26 October 2022, Photospace Gallery, ANU School of Art and Design

I was fortunate to participate in the 2022 Sharing Stories Art Exchange through the ANU School of Art and Design. The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange (previously known as the Bundian Way Arts Exchange) is a creative participatory project focussed on building positive reciprocal relationships between the Canberra community and local regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. Generously and thoughtfully facilitated by Dr Amanda Stuart and Dr Amelia Zaraftis, the program offered a supported environment to explore alongside and with a peer group of artists from a wide variety of disciplines. For our exhibition at the completion of the program, I showed work related to native flat oysters, ostrea angasi, also known as mud or drift oysters - a wall piece made of paper, a video work and a zine with poetic writing. This work feels like the first steps in a new exploration - expect more oystery work in future.

PLATE SHOW - JUST DESSERTS

5-21 November 2021. M16 Artspace, Narrabundah, ACT.

The Plate Show is a contemporary take on traditional decorative collectible plates. At times humorous, often highly topical, this exhibition holds something for everyone, made by a diverse range of fabulous Canberra creatives. 2021 artists were: Alyssa Bagley, byrd, Michele England, Kirsten Farrell, Caren Florance, UK Frederick, Nicci Haynes, Michelle Hallinan, Katie Hayne, Fiona Edge, Stephanie Jones, Jacqui Malins, Peter McLean, Jo Rendle-Short, Sarah Rice, Joanne Searle & Megan Watson.

Sweets for the only-human: Fudge, Trifle, Flummery, Fool, Crumble, Brittle. Watercolour and paper doilies on paper plate.

Promised the moon

27 June - 25 July 2019. ANU School of Art and Design Gallery.

Fifty years after the Apollo 11 Mission, fourteen artists reflect on the Australian Capital Territory’s unique space heritage and the region’s connections to the lunar landings.

Curated by Dr Ursula Frederick, supported by the ACT Government's Heritage Grant Program and the Australian National University. Bec Bigg-Wither, Tom Buckland, Heather Burness, Susan Chancellor, Dean Cross, Deirdre Feeney, UK Frederick, Lee Grant, Ellis Hutch, Julian Laffan, Jacqui Malins, Rose Montebello, Macdonald Nichols, and Erica Seccombe.
Honeybilla Moon Quartet - print on porcelain and stoneware. Dimensions variable.

PLATE SHOW – THIRD COURSE

24 October – 2 November 2018. ANU School of Art and Design Gallery.

Group exhibition - 22 artists serve up plates.

Print on porcelain. L-R: Awash (25 x 17.5 x 3 cm), Backwash (25 x 23 x 4 cm), Dissolve (26 x 21 x 3 cm), Wash away (28 x 20.5 x 3 cm).

Canberra Potters’ Society Annual Members Exhibition 2018

L: Land bathysphere here (five pieces) - Winner - Brian Privett Memorial Surface Decoration Award.

R: Below the sunlight zone(L), Tides and currents (R).

MACKAY Artspace Libris Award 2018

Finalists’ exhibition 26 May – Sunday 19 August 2018. Mackay Artspace (QLD)

‘Under his eye’ artist book selected for exhibition and acquired by Artspace Mackay (QLD).

Digital print on paper, acetate slip cover, edition 1/4, 16.4 x 12 x 1 cm.

This book stems from an intense period in 2017 when my father was hospitalised with endocarditis, suddenly close to death. We, his family, paced the corridors. Mirrors watched us like eyes. We and the medical staff watched him.

Reminded of ‘Under his eye’, the ritual greeting from Margaret Atwood’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’, I plundered that book and found text that vividly evoked his (literal) overnight displacement, delirium, disorientation and confusion. I placed her words as a fine beam of light along the corridor of the book, illuminating the experience, perhaps the way out.

Maria Crinigan’s Tragedy

27 April – 13 May 2012, Belconnen Arts Centre Gallery

Joint exhibition with sculptor Rosina Wainwright. Charcoal and pastel drawings to accompany Wainwright’s large scale sculptures about the life of early settler Maria Crinigan.