CURRICULUM VITAE ART & MEDIA
2016 - 2021 Painting/photography/video art, Wimmera Victoria
2016 - 2020 Music /art therapy for people living
with dementia, Regional Victoria
2016 Collaboration with Writing Through Fences, Rose Turtle
Ertler.
2016 Art/Music coordinator, Dimboola Food
Festival – RAV funded
2015 Group exhibition, “Imagining Ned”,
Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic.
2014 Artist: Aiming for Independence,Wimmera Uniting Care, Horsham,
Vic.
2013 “Wow Project, SFYS /HRCC funded,
CALD Public Art, Horsham, Vic.
2013 Solo
Exhibition, "New and Past Works", Goat Gallery, Natimuk, Vic.
2012 Public
Art, “Future/Present
- Art Is Nature”, RAV funded, Horsham, Vic.
2011 Co-Producer/Artist “Extremely”, RAV funded, Natifrinj, Vic.
2011 Solo
Exhibition, “Beyond the Burka”, Arthur Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.
2011 Owner
Director, "Writing
Time", Girls weekly writing club,Carlton, Vic.
2010 Solo
Artist, “In
Habit” , Lab X Gallery, St Kilda, Vic.
2007 - 2011 Owner Director, "Drawing
Time", Weekly drawing clubs,Carlton, Vic.
2008 Solo Exhibition “Mask”, C3 Abbotsford
Convent, Vic.
2008 Resident
Artist/Video Producer, Sacred Fire / Boom Festival, Portugal
2005 - 2006 Owner
Director, Drawing
Time, Maze Studios, Brunswick, Vic.
2003 Artist / Facilitator, DrawingTime , Carlton North Learning Centre, Vic.
2001- current The True History of Ned Kelly and Burka
Woman: ongoing art series.
2001 Fight Slavery - City Lights Gallery - Hosier Lane, performance program.
2001 Fight Slavery - City Lights Gallery - Hosier Lane, performance program.
2000 Artist- social investigation: 1 year No money Just Art, Amsterdam, NL.
2000 Arts
Video documentation, Vrie Keyser TV, Zaal 100, Amsterdam, NL.
1999 Resident
Artist / video, Centrum Pro Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Rep.
1998 Video
documentation / resident artist, C.I.P. VI:
The Bridge, Vic.
1997 Resident
Artist, Fortunate Boat Studios, Abbotsford Convent, Vic.
1994 - 1995 Dear Marias Theatre Co, production assistant, St.
Kilda, Vic.
1994 - 1996 Co-producer / director: “The Move”,
Channel 31, Melbourne, Vic.
1993 Arts/cultural research: 6
months: Turkey, Ireland, India and Thailand
1992 Arts/cultural research: 1 yr Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, India
1988 - 1990 Arts/cultural research: 2 yrs: Ireland,
UK, Spain, Greece, Turkey, NL
SKILLS / EXPERIENCE IN ART EDUCATION
Music:
1973 – 81 AMEB classical piano training
1994 – 96 Afro-Cuban conga training
2012 – 14 Years Prep to 6 Music teacher, Natimuk PS.
2014 – 15 Simply Music Piano teacher training program, teaching private students
2016 - 20 Music therapy for aged care / people living with dementia, Regional Victoria
2003 - Self-taught ukulele, theremin. Experimental soundtracks for video art.
Fine Arts:
1983 – 85 I.C.E. Dip.Teaching: Curriculum area major: Drawing and Painting
2003 Artist / Facilitator, Drawing Club , Carlton North Learning Centre, Vic
2005 – 06 Owner Director, Drawing Time, Maze Studios, Brunswick, Vic
2007 – 12 Owner Director, Drawing Time, Carlton North Learning Centre, Vic
2001 – Ongoing visual art series: The True History of Ned Kelly and Burka Woman
Video / Performing Arts:
1994 –
96 Directing, videoing, editing, co-producing The Move, Channel 31,
Melbourne
1994 – 95 Production assistant: Dear Marias Theatre co. Melbourne
1998 3 months video / resident artist, C.I.P. VI: The Bridge, Melbourne
1999 6 months video documentation / resident artist, Centre for Metamedia, Cz
2000 1 year documenting live jazz improvisation, Zaal 100, NL
2000 1 year video documentation, Vrie Keyser Television, Amsterdam, NL
2001 1 year weekly performance – Fight Slavery, Hosier Lane gallery, Melbourne
2008 4 months video production / resident artist, Boom Festival, Portugal
2011 Co-producer/artist: “Extremely” intergenerational arts program, Natifrinj, Vic
2014 Video production / educator, Wimmera Uniting Care, Horsham, Vic
2016 Art/Music coordinator, Dimboola Food Festival – RAV funded, Vic
2017 – 19 Producing CDs of piano singalongs, WHCG, Horsham, Vic
1994 – 95 Production assistant: Dear Marias Theatre co. Melbourne
1998 3 months video / resident artist, C.I.P. VI: The Bridge, Melbourne
1999 6 months video documentation / resident artist, Centre for Metamedia, Cz
2000 1 year documenting live jazz improvisation, Zaal 100, NL
2000 1 year video documentation, Vrie Keyser Television, Amsterdam, NL
2001 1 year weekly performance – Fight Slavery, Hosier Lane gallery, Melbourne
2008 4 months video production / resident artist, Boom Festival, Portugal
2011 Co-producer/artist: “Extremely” intergenerational arts program, Natifrinj, Vic
2014 Video production / educator, Wimmera Uniting Care, Horsham, Vic
2016 Art/Music coordinator, Dimboola Food Festival – RAV funded, Vic
2017 – 19 Producing CDs of piano singalongs, WHCG, Horsham, Vic
Writing:
2011 Owner Director, "Writing Time", Girls weekly writing club, Carlton North
Learning Centre, Vic2013 “Writing on the Walls”, CALD Public Art program, SFYS /HRCC, Horsham, Vic
MEDIA LINKS:
* The Age: Imagining Ned, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2015
* Sydney Morning Herald:Ned Kelly:Terrorist or freedom fighter, Bendigo exhibition 2015
* Bendigo Advertiser:Bendigo Art Gallery -Artists still drawn to Ned 2015
* Sydney Morning Herald:Ned Kelly:Terrorist or freedom fighter, Bendigo exhibition 2015
* Bendigo Advertiser:Bendigo Art Gallery -Artists still drawn to Ned 2015
SOME MEDIA IMAGES
Regional Arts Australia, "Belonging" 2014
"Ban Sweatshops in Australia" - Melbourne city weekly performances, 2001
City Light Gallery, Hosier Lane 2002
Fortunate Boat Studios: "Saving Abbotsford Convent" - The Melbourne Times 1999
Construction in Process VI, The Bridge, Melbourne 1998
A visual essay of selected women artists' public art actions in Melbourne in the 1980s and 1990s.