CURRICULUM VITAE
“Portia Geach Memorial Art Award for Women" opening 2014
Carrington Hotel, Katoomba NSW
“Portia Geach Memorial Art Award for Women" opening 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Selected Finalist Calleen Art Award Cowra
2018
KAB Gallery Terrigal
Petals & Pods Rochfort Gallery North Sydney
Collectors’ Edition #5 BM City Art Gallery Katoomba
Blue Mountains Portraits BM City Art Gallery Katoomba
2017
Collectors’ Edition #4 Blue Mtns City Art Gallery Katoomba
2014
Day Fine Art Blackheath
Selected Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Art Award Sydney
Selected Finalist Fisher's Ghost Art Award Campbelltown
2013 – 2015
Selected Finalist Blacktown City Art Prize Blacktown
Selected Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Art Award S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
The Milk Factory Gallery Bowral
2012
CoCo’s 2012 Contemporary Colourists Blackheath
Invited “The Idea of Water” Blacktown City Arts Centre
2011
Selected Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Art Award - S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
Invited “Lay of the Land” University of Western Sydney Sydney
Selected Finalist Calleen Art Award Cowra
2009
Selected Finalist Liverpool Art Prize Liverpool
Muswellbrook Open Art Prize Muswellbrook
2008
TAFE 2008 Student Painting Acquisition Prize Kingswood
CoCo’s 2008 Contemporary Colourists Blackheath
2006 – 2009
Selected Finalist Blacktown City Art Prize Exhibition
1992
Cornell Medical Center Library New York USA
1988 – 1992
Lenox Hill Artists Forum New York USA
EDUCATION
2011
Diploma Fine Arts TAFE Western Sydney Institute Sydney
2003
Expressive Abstract Painting Summer School CSU Bathurst
1986-1990
Art Students’ League NYC William Scharf
New York USA
1965-1969
John Ogburn Studio; Joe Rose Studio Sydney
1963-1965
Studies with Prof. Maximillian Feuerring Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
“Enduring Beauty” June 2020 Blackheath
2017
“intensely floral” Day Fine Art Blackheath
2016
“In Bloom” Day Fine Art Blackheath
2015
"Illumination" Day Fine Art Blackheath
2012
Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick
2010
Sara Roney Gallery Sydney
2009
Event Horizon Gallery Katoomba
1997
“Carousels I” Australian Consulate-General
New York USA
1996
“Portraits & Poses” ACG New York USA
1995
“Stillness & Movement” ACG New York USA
1994
“Mostly Faces” ACG New York USA
PRIZES, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2015
First Prize Blackheath Art Society Easter Art Exhibition
- Judge Jane Raffan
2013
Acquisition by Blacktown City Council Blacktown
2013
First Prize Blackheath Art Society Winter Exhibition
2010
Front Cover - Narrator Magazine Blue Mountains
2010
ArtSMART Workshops Parramatta Artists Studios Parramatta
2010
Launceston City Council Artist Residency Cataract Gorge Tasmania
2009
Euan MacLeod - Judge’s Prize B.Art Exhibition Katoomba
2008
Winner TAFE 2008 Student Painting Acquisitive Prize Kingswood
2007
West MacDonnell Ranges Painting Safari Central Australia
2006
First Prize Blackheath Art Society Easter Art Exhibition
- Judge Tony Bond, AGNSW
1989
Artist Residency Cummington Mass. USA
Collections
Public, corporate and private collections USA, Europe, Asia, Australia