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| Nationality: Australian
Qualifications: |
| 1992-1994 |
Master
of Arts (by Research) (Visual Arts), Monash University,
Victoria, Australia |
| 1982-1983 |
Post-Graduate
Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture), Victorian College of
the Arts, Australia |
| 1979-1981 |
Diploma
of Arts (Visual), Canberra School Art, ACT, Australia |
| 2007 |
Diploma
in Adult Education and Training, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin,
New Zealand |

Professional
Experience: |
2006-2009 |
Full Research
Position, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin,
New Zealand |
2005-2009 |
Program Manager,
School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand |
| 1998 -
present |
Principal
Lecturer, Academic Leader of Painting, Otago School of
Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand |
2003 |
Worked with
Elcho Island Art & Craft Centre and video documentation
of Aboriginal event, Galiwin’ku, Elcho Island,
Homelands of the Yolngu, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern
Territory, Australia |
| 2001 |
Artist-in-Residence,
Monash University Melbourne, Fine Arts Sculpture, Faculty
of Art & Design, Melbourne, Australia |
1999 |
Coordinated exhibition:
by contemporary Australian women artists from Queensland,
Australia, Transmaterial, Funded by University of Southern
Queensland School of Visual & Performing Arts and
the School of Art Otago Polytechnic, Foyer Gallery, School
of Art Dunedin, New Zealand |
| 1985-1997 |
Lecturer
in 2D and 3D Studies, School of Visual & Performing
Arts, Charles Sturt University, Murray Campus, Albury,
NSW, Australia |
| 1997 |
Established
Artists-in-Schools program involving final year art students
in three week residencies in six high schools, Albury,
NSW, Australia |
| 1996 |
Initiated
and executed visiting lecture program on visual art for
outer regional high schools, North-East Victoria and
Southern NSW, Australia |
1996 |
Artist workshops for
1996 Fine Arts Festival, The Scots School, Albury, NSW,
Australia |
| 1996 |
Visiting Artist Installation
Project, Goulburn College of TAFE, Shepparton, Victoria,
Australia |
1989-95 |
Co-ordinator of art
related activities for Alumni group The Friends of the
Centre for Visual Art, Charles Sturt University, Albury,
NSW, Australia |
| 1994 |
Founder
and Curator of artspace: joint gallery space for Charles
Sturt University students and Friends of the Centre for
Visual Arts, Albury, NSW, Australia |
| 1993 |
Initiated
exchange lecturer program between regional and city art
schools. Initial exchange with University of Western
Sydney, Nepean, NSW, Australia |
1993 |
Visiting Lecturer, School
of Art, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
| 1993 |
Visiting
Lecturer, Southern Cross University, Lismore Campus,
NSW, Australia |
| 1990-1992 |
Co-Founder
(and partner with Director Rodney Browne) of Artel
Studio Workshop: Contemporary Art Gallery and studios, Albury,
NSW, Australia |
| 1985-1991 |
Founder
and Chairperson of Link
Artist Access Studios: artist run studio
spaces, Lincoln Causeway, Albury/Wodonga, Victoria, Australia |
1990 |
Visiting Lecturer, Victorian
College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
1990 |
Initiated and organized
a twelve-month residency for U.K. Artists, funded by
The British Council, at Link Artist Access Studios, Including
short residencies at Monash, Charles Sturt and Charles
Darwin Universities as well as Beechworth Senior High
School and a solo exhibition at the Albury Regional Art
Gallery |
1988 |
Artist in Residence,
(6 month residency) Cheltenham School of Art, England |
1988 |
Visiting Lecturer, Wolverhampton,
England |
1988 |
Visiting Lecturer, University
of Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
1988 |
Visiting Lecturer, Southdowns,
Portsmouth, England |
1988 |
Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow
School of Art, Scotland |
1987 |
Established Research
Centre at The School of Visual Art, Charles Sturt University,
with data files on contemporary artists and current exhibitions,
Albury, NSW, Australia |
1987 |
Visiting Lecturer School
of Art, Bendigo Campus, Latrobe University, Victoria,
Australia |
1986 |
Visiting Lecturer Victorian
College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
1986 |
Visiting Artist (one
month residency) at the Gippsland School of Art, Monash
University, Churchill, Victoria, Australia |
1985 |
Visiting Lecturer Victorian
College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| 1985 |
Established
Charles Sturt University’s Student Art Supplies
Shop, Albury, NSW, Australia |
| 1984 |
Lecturer,
Part time, Sculpture & Drawing, Victorian College
of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| 1981 |
Teacher
in visual art, Port Moresby International High School,
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| 1974-1977 |
Founder,
Coordinator and Curator, Arts Council of Port Moresby
Cultural Centre Gallery, Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua
New Guinea |

Research
Funding / Awards and Prizes: |
2007 |
Research Grant: with
Rodney Browne, (digital Media Artist), & Mark Finsterer,
(composer, musician), Otago Polytechnic Research & Development
Grant, 2008, towards video installation development and
production, production of score and recording, for forthcoming
traveling exhibition, Australia |
2007 |
Funding Grant: Ashburton
Art Gallery, towards costs of touring exhibition, New
Zealand. |
2007 |
Funding Grant: Creative
New Zealand, Communities NZ, towards publication of Posters
for Modulations: Cantata Reconfigured, Series of traveling
Installations |
2007 |
Research Grant: Otago
Polytechnic Research & Development Grant, towards
catalogue design, printing, initial concept for music
score for forthcoming traveling exhibition, Australia |
2006 |
Operational Grant: Otago
Polytechnic Research & Development Grant, towards
the construction of crates for exhibition traveling around
New Zealand and to Australia |
2005 |
Research Grant: Otago
Polytechnic Research & Development Grant, to travel
to Andalusia, Spain to carry out research into the articulated
sculptures and their costumes, prepared and paraded during
the Holy Week processions and ceremonies |
2004 |
Staff Development Grant,
Otago Polytechnic School of Art, to attend the Art
Association of Australia and New Zealand, Annual Conference, Present
Pasts - Present Futures Auckland 1-3 Dec including
a presentation by Art Historian, Domingo Córdoba,
on my research / art production over the past 15 years |
2004 |
Research Grant: Otago
Polytechnic Research & Development Grant, to publish
a catalogue discussing the work Cantata: a play of the
trace II at the Hocken Gallery, University of Otago,
Dunedin, New Zealand |
2003 |
Research Grant: Faculty
of Technology and the Arts, Otago Polytechnic, To visit
Galiwin’ku, Elcho Island, Homelands of the Yolngu,
Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia |
2001 |
Invitation as Artist-in-Residence,
Fine Arts Sculpture, Faculty of Art & Design, Funded
by Monash University Melbourne, Australia |
| 1993 |
Pat Corrigan
Artist Grant, managed by NAVA with financial assistance
from The Australia Council |
| 1991,92,94 |
Research
Grants: Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia |
| 1993 |
Special
Studies Program, Charles Sturt University: six months
leave to develop major work and present lecture series |
| 1988 |
Professional
Experience Program, Charles Sturt University, NSW: six
months for Artist in Residency in England and lecture
tour in travel in England and Scotland and travel in
Europe and America |
| 1986 |
Visual
Arts Board Grant for upgrade to facilities at Link
Artist Access Studios, Albury/Wodonga, Victoria, Australia |
| 1983 |
Maude Glover
Fleay Scholarship, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia |
| 1983 |
The Australia
Council, Visual Arts Board Grant for personal studio
development |
| 1976 |
Papua New
Guinea Biennial Art Prize |
| 1976 |
Rabaul
Art Prize, Papua New Guinea (judge: Geoffrey Musawadoga) |
| 1974 |
Papua New
Guinea Biennial Art Prize (judge: Donald Laycock) |
| 1974 |
Rabaul
Art Prize, Papua New Guinea (judge: John Olsen) |
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