Awards and Experience

 

  • 2023 Finalist Brisbane Portrait Prize
  • 2023 Finalist Du Reitz Art Prize
  • 2018 Shortlisted for Du Reitz Art Prize
  • 2018 Illustrated children’s book Chandani and the Ghost of the Forest by Lenore Penner and Rosanne Hawke.
  • July 2017, Selected for Obi Art Prize, Maleny, QLD, February 2017
  • Painting Workshop Leader for young adult prisoners at Kerokoban Prison in Bali, in a supervised situation with Dr. Tina Bailey, Bali, Narwastu Community.
  • 2014-2016 Professional Artist, full-time member of Art @ Auburn Gallery, Auburn SA.
  • 2015, Held third Solo Exhibition, “Stories of Water”, in Moonta SA.
  •  2015, Featured on ICSA, Inspire website.
  • 2015, started Copper Coast Creatives, mentorship program with young female artists.
  • Highly Commended “Faces of Hoss”, Balco Balaklava Art Prize Exhibition, SA, 2014.
  • Received “Special Recognition” in Upstream People Gallery’s Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, July 2014.
  • Selected for Upstream People Gallery’s Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, June 2014.
  • Judges Mention “Faces of Hoss” Yorke Peninsula Art Show, Ardrossan SA 2014
  • Judges Mention “Innocence – An Endangered Species”, Yorke Peninsula Art Show, Ardrossan SA 2014
  • Winner Kernewek Lowender Art Prize, “Il Pagliachi”, Kadina SA , 2013
  • “Responses to Different and Ordinary” Solo Exhibition Jan 2013 – Kadina SA
  • Commendation- Clare Rotary Art Show 2012
  • “Life in any Language”  Solo Exhibition Feb 2012- Moonta, SA
  • People’s Choice Award – “Zella of Florentinos”, Kerneweck Lowender 2011- Kadina SA
  • Commendation-  Clare Rotary Art Show 2011
  • Dappled cities album launch, Melbourne, 2009
  • Winner Section 2 Watercolour, King Valley Art Show 2009
  • Highly Commended, Corowa Art Show 2009
  • Highly Commended, Wangaratta Art Show 2008
  • Highly Commended, Cobram Art Show 2007
  • Highly Commended, Cobram Art Show 2007
  • Highly Commended, Wangaratta Art Show 2007