EDUCATION
2011
Master of Fine Art, HD, RMIT University
2001
Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, Monash University
1998
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University
RELATED ACTIVITIES
2009
Organised Creative Warehouse Network, Brunswick/Northcote
2008
Established ‘Pigeon Hole Studios’, Brunswick
2007
10 month artist residency, SKAM, Hamburg.
2005
Travelled, taught and researched: India, Egypt and Europe
2002 – 2009
Art/English teacher, secondary school and adult education. Australia/ U.K / Germany
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2012
Metro Award, Finalist
2012
Doug Moran, Shortlisted
2012
RMIT Vice chancellors List Award for academic excellence
2011
Dark Horse MFA Award
2011
Metro Award, Finalist
2009
Window Frames, Winner
2009
Melbourne stencil festival, emerging artist Award
2008
I Art Sydney Road, 1st prize
2008
Small works 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Highly commended
INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2013
Stonnington Leader, Fitting Together Pieces of Humanity, Susan Windmiller, 23 April
2013
Three Thousand, Ben Howe, The Sum of its Parts, Toby Fehlly, 22 April
2012
Nortcote Leader, Thornbury painter's hyper-real creations receive recognition, Michael Gleeson, 24 July
2012
theconversation.edu.au, Can art change minds where science can’t? ProfessorAnn McCulloch, 11 Feb
2012
Aesthetic Perceptions of Climate Change. Alan Woodruff, ProfessorAnn McCulloch
2009
Moreland leader, Pigeon Artists Fire Up Coop, Brigid O’Connell, 25 March
2009
Art Catalyst, Interview with Paul Ruiz, 10 March
2009
Creative Brunswick Documentary, Interview with Darcy Gladwin,
2008
Mornington Leader, Graffiti artist Defends his Work, Dec
2008
Pedro Tv, Interview with Peter Mcguiness, 11 August
2007
SBS Radio, Feuilleton für die Ohren, Interviewed on 11 Dec
2004
Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia. Michael Berry. Published by Krispin Pty Ltd.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
The Sum of its Parts, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2012
Signs, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Exploring Transience: locating meaning within the urban crowd. First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Schism Overwrite, As Soon As Gallery, Hamburg
2009
Graffscapes, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Urban Fractures 2, 5-502, Sydney
2007
Once Upon a Space, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007
Raumatisiert, Wir sind Woanders, Europien art festival, Hamburg
2007
Urban Fractures, SKAMraum, Hamburg
2006
Surface Variations, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Forms and shadows, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Selected works, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
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Your Old Self, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne
Exploration 12. Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Matter and Space. Ne Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Possibilities, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
Dark Horse. The Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
It’s Not You, It’s Me, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
Climate Change. Metro Gallery, Melbourne
RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition. Gossard Project Space, Melbourne
The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
Space and the city, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery. Melbourne
Surface: Texture, Materiality and Conceptual Plasticity, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne.
SoBright, Prague, Melbourne
New, Used and Abused, Loft Gallery, Melbourne
The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
Irenes Street art festival, Irene, Melbourne
Out of Nowhere, 696 INK, Melbourne
Grand Opening Show, 696 INK, Melbourne
Urban Art 10A, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
Gaengeviertel, Hamburg
Melbourne stencil festival, Collingwood, Melbourne
Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Painting 09A, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Stencil and Freeform Combinations, A.S.A, Hamburg
Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003
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CURATORIAL
2009
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2008
Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
Contingency, RMIT Graduate Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Pigeon hole 4, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
Pigeon hole 3, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
Conduit, Brunswick street gallery, Melbourne
Pigeon hole 2, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
Pigeon hole 1, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne