Education
2008 – Masters of Fine Art by Research, Faculty of the VCA, Melbourne University
2004 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, Otago School of Art, Dunedin, NZ
Related Arts Employment
Current – Lecturer at RMIT University, Interior Design
Current – Lecturer at Swinburne University, Fine Art, Media
2012-16 – Community Cultural Development Artist at Artful Dodgers Studios
Selected Group Shows
2017 – SCORE:for film, with T.R Carter, Avant Whatever sound performance, The Alderman Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne
2015 – A Time Based Exhibition, All Press Studio, Melbourne
2015 – Re::SET, Laughing Waters Artists Residency Program
2015 – Listening to Stones II, Love City Festival, Melbourne
2014 – Listening to Stones I, Love/City Festival, Melbourne
2013 – Digital Outlawed, Melbourne Fringe Festival
2013 – Material World, Dunedin School of Art, NZ
2013 – OUTSIDE: Reasons for Leaving Your Backdoor Unlocked, Melbourne
2011 – The Women’s Salon, curated by Mellissa Kavanagh, Counihan Gallery
2011 – Suburbia; a group show, curated by Jessica Obrien, Window 99, Melbourne
2010 – Format Festival, curated by Brigid Noone, Adelaide
2010 – Stop Collaborate and Listen, artists exchange with BOXCOPY, Brisbane
2010 – Respond, curated by Kim Jaeger, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2010 – We Don’t Need Another Hero, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2009 – Seventh Up, artists exchange with FELTspace, Adelaide
2008 – Getting to Know You, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2008 – UNEASY, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2008 – MFA, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2005 – Compelled; Emerging New Zealand Artists Show, ARTSPACE, Auckland, NZ, curated by Rhana Devenport
2005 – B Grade, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, NZ
2005 – The Graduate Show, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, NZ
2004 – Really nice art! The Manhattan Space, Dunedin, NZ
2004 – The First Debacle; Destructible Art, Segue Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2003 – Corpus, Bond Street Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
Solo Shows
2018 – SCORE:for piano, with T.R Carter, Testing Grounds, Melbourne
2011 – Down by the River Series, Part I, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2009 – Carpark, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2009 – Dreamworld, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2008 – Estranged, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2007 – Suburban Nights, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2007 – Subdivision, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, New Zealand
2004 – Welcome to Shearfalls, Otago School of Art, Dunedin, NZ
Curation
2012-2016 – Program Director/Curator at Little Woods Gallery, Melbourne
2013 – OUTSIDE: Reasons for Leaving Your Backdoor Unlocked, co-curated with Yandell Walton and Lauren Dunn
2010 – We Don’t Need Another Hero, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2010 – International Artist in Residence – Chris Lawrence, Philadelphia USA, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2008 – Re:Activity, SEVENTH, Melbourne
2007 – Grad 07, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, NZ
Board of Directors/Collectives
2015 – Re::SET Experimental Sound and Performance Collective
2007-2010 – Board of Directors, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006-2007 – Board of Directors, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, NZ
Guest/Panel Speaker
2018 – Panel Conversation as Part of Signal Summer Program, MPavilion, Melbourne
2013 – Guest speaker at the Material World Sculpture Symposium, Dunedin School of Art, NZ
2011 – Cherchez La Femme ‘Women and Public Space’ panel with Sophie Cunningham and Lyndal Walker
Scholarships and Prizes
2008 – Victorian College of the Arts Vulcan Steel Acquisitive Award
2008 – Melbourne Research Scholarship for Postgraduate Study
2004 – David Con Hutton Scholarship for Postgraduate Study
2000 – South Otago Art Society Award for Undergraduate Study
Bibliography
2015 – Reading Foucault with Dislocated Bones: eternally excavating and ontology of the self, towards and ontology of resistence, Scope: Contemporary Research Topics, New Zealand
2013 – OUTSIDE: Reasons for Leaving Your Backdoor Unlocked, essay by Amy-Jo Jory
2012 – Co-respond. A collaboration between artists and writers at SEVENTH, Melbourne
2011 – You Gesyir Crazy, by Kim Jaeger, SEVENTH, catalogue essay by Amy-Jo Jory
2009 – ARTLINK, Ghosts in the Backyard, feature article by Kate Sandford, March Issue, Australia
2008 – Estranged, Faculty of the VCA, University of Melbourne, research exegesis by Amy-Jo Jory
2008 – The Age ‘M’ magazine, Melbourne, March 23 2008, pg 30
2008 – Uneasy catalogue, SEVENTH, Melbourne, Australia
2007 – Art Monthly Australia, Issue 105, November 2007
2005 – Compelled exhibition catalogue, ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand, essay by Alison Stoddart
Community Workshops/Projects
2018 – Workshops with Yandell Walton as part of Signal Summer Program, Testing Grounds,
2016 – Co-Producer of a series of workshops run by Deborah Kelly as part of Signal x Artful Dodgers Spectrum of Practice, City of Melbourne Public Banner Program
2016 – Workshop Series with Yandell Walton as part of Signal Summer Program, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2015 – Alex Zine Project Editor and Producer, workshops at Artful Dodgers Studio, launched at Hares and Hyenas for Midsumma
2015 – Workshops with Maree Clarke as part of Spectrum of Practice, Artful Dodgers Studios, Melbourne’s Federation Square
2014 – Workshops with young First Nations People from Charcoal Lane, Artful Dodgers Studios
2013 – Workshops with people seeking asylum in Australia as part of What I Bring, What I Find, Artful Dodgers Studios
2010 – Director of the Hillside Film Festival, Dandenong Ranges
2009/11 – Dandenong Ranges Open Studios Program Producer