education
	1998		Master of Arts (Res.) Visual Arts	Queensland University of Technology
			Thesis title: 'The becoming self'. A study of the reception of abstraction in art. This was made through an analysis of the writing on the work of the artist Judith Wright. The particular focus being on received notions of what makes up an "inner" self and how these have their applications in the construction and reception of abstract art.
	1992		Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) Visual Arts	Queensland University of Technology
			Thesis title: Dramatic Connections: Politics, Art and Theater in Russia 1860 to 1913. A historical study that prepared the ground for the appearance of the first abstract paintings of Malevich and the later Constructivists.
solo exhibitions
	2006		EUROPA	bellas milani gallery	Brisbane
	2005		LUMINOUS	bellas milani gallery	Brisbane
			"I am in a house in a Japanese print  The sun is everywhere, for everything is transparent."  Annie Duthil, La Pecheuse d'absolou. Seghers. Paris
	2004		BREATH	bellas milani gallery	Brisbane
			BREATH is part of a collaborative enterprise with the shakuhaci player Carl Rathus. The abstract paintings in this exhibition take the deeply resonant sound of the bamboo instrument, as their departure point, to make some quite evocative references of their own. Through the use of the gestural mark, these paintings can be see to refer to the calligraphic methods of traditional Chinese landscape painting. In their format and devices they also acknowledge the traditional screens and scrolls of early Japan and China. However now, in a more contemporaneous sense, the paintings here can be seen to gesture towards both early impressionism and much more recent paintings of contemporary abstraction.
	2002		SCARLET LAKE	Studio Show	Brisbane
			Small works on paper in the studio. This show was intended to give an appreciation of how physical presence in the architectural space of the studio impacts on works of abstraction in painting.
	2002		SWEDEN: The Ice Paintings	Bellas Gallery	Brisbane
			The paintings in this exhibition, almost most exclusively blue and intentionally dramatic, refer to the romantic tradition of epic landscape painting. Their music: Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3.
	2001		RED SHIFT	Bellas Gallery	Brisbane
			This exhibition of oil paintings and small watercolours has, as its motif, the diablo on the shutters on traditional Dutch buildings. The paintings, with the use of post cards as referent points, indicate how the geometry found in the landscape in Holland has had an impact on both painting and architecture. The work in RED SHIFT uses traditional Dutch oil painting techniques and colours.
	2000		PRESENCE and Jazz in the Moon Viewing Room.	Bellas Gallery	Brisbane
			The PRESENCE work is a group of large, predominantly black paintings, installed to simulate a 'charged' architectural space at night. The Jazz..... in the Moon Viewing Room work is also a response to a particular architectural space and uses the geometry of traditional Japanese woodcut prints. The form of the kimono is used as motif and double for the body.
	1999		BLUEPRINT	Bellas Gallery	Brisbane
			This was the first solo painting show with Bellas. The paintings here being the work of the graduating Masters exhibition. This show, entirely in the colour blue, examined the impact of colour and spatial memory in the reception of geometric abstraction.
	1997		TO LIVE WITHIN / with Donovan Hill architects	The Taringa House	Brisbane
			An installation of small works on paper. A collaboration with the architect Tim Hill. A project which examined the nature of reception of abstraction within a domestic architectural space. To live within the space of architecture / to live within the space of the abstract image.
	1995		NATURAL GEOMETRY Painting within a History	Palace Gallery	Brisbane
			Large paintings with referents to the history of geometric abstraction in painting. Some reference is made to the dominance of the male artist in this history.
	1993		LOCATING THE MYTH	Savode Gallery	Brisbane
			Small paintings of flags with referents to the history of black paintings in abstraction.
selected group exhibitions
	2004		Towards Beauty's end. Travelling exhibition through Australia and Asia.	University of Queensland Art Museum	Brisbane
	2001		Paperworks: Australian artists exploring drawing and the printed image.	Queensland Art Gallery	Brisbane
collections
			Queensland Art Gallery Queensland University Art Museum Queensland State Government. Department of Industrial Relations State Library of Queensland High Court of Australia Federal Court of Australia Australian Embassy. Beijing Brisbane Airport Corporation Mater Hospital Downlands College Robert Riddel Architects Donovan Hill Architects Codd Stenders Architects John Mainwaring Architects

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