Visual Arts Practice

I have worked with houses all my life in one form or another.  As a child, I often explored derelict houses, or visited historic homes and places throughout New Zealand with my family.

As a contract museum curator, I began to look at the kind of objects we put into our homes, and how they affect not just us, but also the character of the house.

As an artist, the house in painted form appears as humanist in my work - interpreting my observations on New Zealand’s social scene, and theories and thoughts of life in New Zealand.
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Selected Exhibitions 
2014
Gallery Outlets: Soul Gallery Hamilton; Red Gallery Nelson

2013
Exhibition: Sub-Urbia, Red Art Gallery Nelson

2012
Lavinia Fellow - Artist in Residence, Mt Bruce

2010

Group exhibition: Small Town, Selwyn Gallery Canterbury
 
2009
Group exhibition: Mind Games Hastings City Art Gallery

2008 
Gold Award: Taranaki Art Awards - Opunake
Solo exhibition: Colonial Goose. Millennium Gallery, Blenheim

2007
Solo exhibition: The Great Leviathan. Oedipus Rex Gallery Auckland
Solo exhibition: The Bishop’s See. Red Gallery, Nelson

2006
Solo exhibition: Greetings from New Zealand. Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
Installation: House, animated. The Suter, Nelson

2005
Solo exhibition: A Blinkered Existence. Red Gallery, Nelson
Solo exhibition: Due Notice. Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
Group exhibition: Shades of Gray. Jam Factory, Adelaide Australia

2004
Solo exhibition: Genesis. Red Gallery, Nelson
Solo exhibition: Souvenir Hunter. Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
Finalist: Goldwater Art Awards Waiheke Community Gallery

2003
Solo exhibition: Hoarder. Oedipus Rex, Auckland
Solo exhibition: Paranoia. Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton

2001
Finalist: Goldwater Art Awards, Waiheke Community Gallery
Solo exhibition: Forty-Nine Yards. Oedipus Rex, Auckland
1998
Highly commended: Lake Taupo Open Art Awards

1995
Regional Award winner: Telecom Art Awards, Nelson

1993
Highly commended: Mainland Art Awards, Dunedin