About
Both as a printmaker and a poet I make work that critically engages in the post 400 parts of carbon world, endeavouring through beauty, to bridge the distance between the inaction of despair and the possibilities of hope. Since 2016 my ongoing umbrella project, The Now Solid Air, looks at a climate changed world using an iterative process, between the written and the visual, to fully explore this subject matter.
The Weight of Clouds, 2020
(Highly commended Milburn National Landscape Art Prize, Australia, 2021)
Solo Exhibitions
Vanitas, Brisbane Institute of Art, forthcoming August/September 2026
The Weight of Clouds, Brisbane Institute of Art, March 2021
Calligraphy Cunningham Library, CSIRO St Lucia QLD 8-26 August 2005
What are the 38 words, Soapbox Gallery Fortitude Valley May-Jun 2004
Touching Darkness Gallery9, 9 Duncan St, Fortitude Valley 8-29 Nov2002
Public Collections
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium (the weight of clouds, cloudscape, flat flooded fields), Brooklyn Art Library (4 collaborative sketchbooks with NightLadder Collective); National Gallery of Australia (part of a folio On A Roll and Vario); National Library of Australia; National Library of Wales, UK; National Museum & Gallery of Wales, UK; Queensland State Library, National Art Library Collection; State Library of Victoria; Resim ve Heykel Müzesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol UK; James Cook University Queensland; University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA; National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK; State Library New South Wales; Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection; Caloundra Regional Gallery; Artspace Mackay; Fryer Library, University of Queensland; Biblioteca Liborum Apud Artificem, Sydney; Australian National University, PM&D Book Studio, Canberra, Australia; International Drawing Research Institute, University of New South Wales; Rockhampton Regional Gallery (part of a folio Vario); Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
Movable Type: new artworks in letterpress, Cork Public Museum, Cork, Ireland, 2024
Small Talk, (NightLadder Group Exhibition) Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane 2023
Contested Spaces: Rights of Soil at State of Print, IMPACT Bristol 2022Contested Spaces: Rights of Soil at State of Print, IMPACT Bristol 2022
Libris National Artist Book Awards, ArtSpace Mackay, Australia, ‘Not Thinking about the Circus
Sway, (NightLadder Group Exhibition) Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane November 2021
Milburn Landscape Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane 2021
In the Works – Nightladder Collective, Webb Gallery, QCA, Southbank July 2019
Palacete Sala, 10th Impact International Printmaking conference, Santander Spain
Paper Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks Sydney, 2018 then Impress Brisbane
Libris National Artist Book Awards, ArtSpace Mackay, Australia, 2018
Rivers of Gold, 2018-2020 Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Australia, Art at Wharepuke Kerikeri, New Zealand, 10th Impact International Printmaking conference, Santander Spain, QCA Gallery Australia, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, Lakes District Museum & Gallery, Arrowtown New Zealand, La Trobe University, Australia, The Post Office Gallery Ballarat, Australia
Connect-ed – Nightladder Collective, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, 2017
Reading Spaces, Caren Florance etc, East Space, Canberra Australia, 2017
Inflection, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, UK 2016 (Nightladder Collective)
Mythscapes in the Watery Realm a Wales Australia print exchange at Project Gallery QCA Brisbane 2015, then touring to Gympie Regional Gallery 2016 and venues in Wales, UK.
'Please Turn Over’, HEARTSPACE Cardiff Met University, 2015
‘Scape – a visual response to the poems of Angela Gardner, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane 2015
The Spaces Between – Nightladder Collective, 2015, WEBB Gallery, South Bank QLD
Manly Library Artist’s Book Award, Manly NSW Australia, 2015
Small Publishers: Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Interference with Caren Florance
Wales Australia Print Exchange, Aberystwyth University Gallery, Project Gallery Brisbane
Vario+ Impress Printmaker’s Gallery, Kedron Substation, QLD 4-17 April 2014
Open Books Plus 2013-2021 The Godown Arts Centre, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi Jaipur, India, Ravindra Manch Art Gallery, Jaipur, India; Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Sanshang Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou PRC, Hong Kong, Logan Regional Gallery, UNSW Library, Canberra, Australia, Museum of Arts in CUHK, Hong Kong.