History

QUALIFICATIONS
2001 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Manukau School of Visual Arts, Auckland.
 
AWARDS
2010 Merit award, Carey Smith & Co. Whanganui Art Review.
2009 Bronze award, Podravski Salon Collection of Art Photography, Durdevac.
2007 Carey Smith & Co. Open Award Winner, Whanganui Art Review.
1999 Robert Willyams Scholarship, Manukau School of Visual Art, Auckland.
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 American Dream, Thermostat Art Gallery, Palmerston North.
2008 Roses are Blue, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2008 Flirtation Device, Edith Gallery, Whanganui
2007 Games for Grown-ups, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2004 Portraits from the Urban Jungle. Thermostat Art Gallery.
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 LookSee, Small Works Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2011 Day of the Dead juried exhibition, Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, USA.
2011 Dia de Los Muertos, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA.
2011 From Abroad, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2010 Zombie Apocalypse, Blackbird Studios, Las Vegas, USA.
2010 All about Eve, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui.
2010 I go where the party takes me, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui
2009 This is not a rock shop, Ladyfest, DAF106, Wellington.
2009 I go where the party takes me, Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland.
2009 I go where the party takes me, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2008 Skullduggery, Rayner Brothers Gallery.
2008 2 Degrees, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne.
2007 Collecting Photographers, New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington.
2007 Sexhibition: a visual conversation about sex, Whanganui.
2006 Prologue: The Matthew Couper and Jo Russ Collection, Sarjeant Gallery.
2006 Vent (5), Thermostat Art Gallery.
2005 The Return of the Hand: the hand in art and culture, Sarjeant Gallery.
2004 Red-light Vrortmantik Architecture Death, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki.
2003 Looking for Love, Thistle Hall, (Fringe Festival), Wellington.
2003 Vent (1) Thermostat Art Gallery.
2002 Boganville, One Eye Gallery.
2002 Vista. Nine Wellington Artists, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae.
2002 Unleashing the Bogan, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2001 Gender Tasting, ASA Gallery, Auckland.
2001 XXX, Lightbox Gallery, Auckland.
 

SELECTED MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS
‘Loving Las Vegas: artists return to show pop culture’ Wanganui Chronicle, 18 May 2011
‘Fun times caught on camera make quirky show’ Wanganui Chronicle, 16 Sept 2009
<Games for Grown-Ups> <Flirtation Device> (catalogue) 2008
Sexhibition: a visual conversation about sex (catalogue) 2007
‘Winning Sculpture’, Wanganui Chronicle, 8 August 2007
New Zealand Centre for Photography: Collecting Photographers (catalogue) 2007
‘Visual Arts: How we reveal ourselves’, Dominion Post, 1 August 2007
‘We’re doing it here too’ Wanganui Chronicle, 21 March 2007

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