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1946 Born Adelaide, South Australia.

1956 Moved to Melbourne, Victoria.

1962-63 Studied life drawing under John Brack and Ian Armstrong at National Gallery Art School night classes.

1975 Attended TOP year (tertiary orientation) at Brighton Technical School .

1976-79 Studied Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at Prahran College of Advanced Education. Lecturers included Jeff Makin, Vic Mazjner, Helen Geier, Sandra Leveson and Danny Moynihan.

1979-83 Employed as art critic for "Melbourne Times" newspaper; also wrote articles for "Imprint" magazine.

1980-82 Studied for part-time Arts degree at Swinburne Institute of Technology. Subjects included sociology and media studies.

1981-88 Lecturer in Art History at the Council of Adult Education.

1986-88 Gallery director of "l'estampe originale", Hawthorn, specialising in European antique prints.

1989–2009 Self-employed marketing co-ordinator, graphic artist and web designer.
Various private and corporate art commissions, including the Melbourne Football Club.

1992-09 Exhibitions:

2009 Linden Gallery, St Kilda, 'Postcard' Exhibition, Group Exhibition ('Climate Change: Thunderstorm' 1 & 2).

2008 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, ‘9 x 5' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Climate Change: Duststorm').

2008 Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham, 'Nillumbik Prize' Show, (Selected finalist) Group Exhibition, (‘Climate Change 1: Thunderstorm', ‘Climate Change 2: Duststorm', ‘Climate Change 3: Hailstorm').

2008 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, 'She Who Explores' Show, (National finalist) Group Exhibition, ('Footprints in the Centre').

2008 Linden Gallery, St Kilda, 'Postcard' Exhibition, Group Exhibition ('Terra Australis Incognita' 1 & 2).

2007 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, ‘9 x 5' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Terra Australis Incognita').

2007 Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham, 'Nillumbik Prize' Show, Group Exhibition, (‘Portrait of the Artist, Joy Peck', 'Waiting for Enlightenment').

2007 Linden Gallery, St Kilda, 'Postcard' Exhibition, Group Exhibition ('Desert Odyssey' 1 & 2).

2006/7 Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham, 'Salon de Montsalvat 3' Show, Group Exhibition, (‘Red Heart, Dark Heart' 1, 2 & 3).
(Runner-up for 'People's Choice Artist Prize).

2006 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, ‘9 x 5' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Desert Nude' 1 & 2).

2006 Intrude Gallery, Fitzroy, 'Summer Samples' Show, Group Exhibition ('Desert Contemplation' 1 & 2).

2006 Linden Gallery, St Kilda, 'Postcard' Exhibition, Group Exhibition ('Pelicans').

2006 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, 'She Who Belongs' Show, (National finalist) Group Exhibition, ('Self-Portrait').

2005/6 Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham, 'Salon de Montsalvat 2' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Portrait of Neil Wallace' and 'Self-Portrait').

2005 Linden Gallery, St Kilda, 'Postcard' Exhibition, Group Exhibition ('Seagulls').

2004 Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham, 'Salon de Montsalvat 1' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Portrait of Mariana Hardwick: Her Own Label'
and ‘Walking Through the Storm 2').

2004 Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy, 'Boots and Panties' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Football Landscapes').

2004 Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy, 'The Heidelberg Fine Artists' Show, Group Exhibition, ('Subaqua Figures' 1 & 2 and 'Horses Racing').

2004 Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy, ‘Women's Salon' Show, Group Exhibition ('Female Fascination with Horses').

2004 Linden Gallery, St Kilda, ‘Postcard' Exhibition, Group Exhibition (‘Horse Racing').

2003 Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy ‘Self-Portrait' Show, Group Exhibition, (‘Cloud Self-Portrait').

2003 Linden Postcard' Exhibition, St Kilda, Group Exhibition (‘Divers').

2003 Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy, Solo Exhibition, (‘Coldscape').

2000 Noel's Gallery, Red Hill, Solo Exhibition, (‘A Day Around the Mornington Peninsula').

1992 Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham, ‘Small and Precious', Group Show (‘Glimpses from a Train').

1992–2009 Paintings also exhibited at other venues on an ongoing basis.

1992-09 Self-employed marketing co-ordinator, graphic artist and web designer.
Various private and corporate art commissions, including the Melbourne Football Club.

Early Paintings and Commissions
These works are from the 1970s at Prahran CAE (now Swinburne University, Prahran, Victoria)

These two works explored the mediums of photography and painting, using paper patterns to unify the work. In both cases, the actual garment was incorporated into the painting.

Matchbox Aim: To present the box in terms of reduction and spatial ambiguity. It is reduced in colour and dimension - spatial ambiguity is achieved through presentation. The box allows one to look into it, to see the various layers, to see what the layers contain, or to simply acknowledge the box as a complete form. Each piece is a part of the whole, yet may be regarded as a complete unit in itself.

This work was commissioned for Easter by the Sacred Heart Church at Diamond Creek, Victoria, in 1997.

These two works were hung in the church during the season of Lent. The colours present in the painting are sombre tonings of purple merging with black, to reflect the darkness of Lent. The wall hanging on the left was hand-knitted; the fabric symbolising the Shroud which was attached to wire netting, symbolic of the Crown of Thorns. The shroud was attached with forty black pegs, representing the forty days of Lent. The works were designed for the viewer to reflect on what Lent meant to each personally; as the visual aspects were reduced with only a dark form to observe, it was intended to provide a source of Lenten meditation.

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