the story so far...
Education
2001 Master of Visual Arts, University of South Australia
1981 Garment Design & Construction, Panorama College
1979-80 studies at South Australian Institute of Technology (Architecture)
1977-78 studies at University of Adelaide (Architecture)
Collections
Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany
Museum of Decorative & Applied Arts, Riga, Latvia
Zvartava Castle Collection, Latvia
Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
The de Boer Costume Collection, Brisbane, Australia
The West Australian Museum
The Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Cowra Regional Art Gallery
The National Wool Museum, Geelong, Australia
Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW, Australia
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Costume Commissions
2011 Costumes for 'Breathe', Leigh Warren & Dancers
2009 costumes for 'Reliquary', Company Miji
2008 Costumes for 'Seven', Leigh Warren & Dancers
2007 Costumes for 'Debris' West Australian Ballet (Perth Festival Production at Quarry)
2006 Costumes for 'Wanderlust', Leigh Warren & Dancers with Yamaguchi Centre for Arts & Media, Japan
2005 Costumes for 'Petroglyphs', Leigh Warren & Dancers
Individual exhibitions
2013
'muddy waters', Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Murray Bridge, South Australia
2012
'muddy waters' Riverside Gallery, NOCCA, New Orleans
2011
'mapping country', Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada
'the windFallMaps', Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis MN, USA
'the windFallMaps', Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
2009
'nine patch', Schoolhouse Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2008
'watermarks' Nob Hill Masonic Centre, San Francisco, USA
'watermarks', Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
'watermarks', Planet, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006
'wanderlust', Yamaguchi Centre for Arts & Media, Japan
'spellbound', spectrum project space, Perth, West Australia
'enfoldments', JamFactory, Adelaide, South Australia
2005
'benedictus eXdress', 45downstairs, Flinders lane, Melbourne, Victoria
2004
'Subverted Gothik', Rose Chong, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria
2002
'Shades of Eucalyptus', Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, Australia
2001-2002
'Arcadian Alchemy', Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, South Australia
1999
'Woolmark', coastal installation, Jurmala, Latvia
1998
'Fragmenti', Gallery Alliance Francaise de Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
'Songs from an Inland Sea', Red Ochre Grill, Adelaide, South Australia
1997
'Twisted Tangled and Matted', North Adelaide School of Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
1990
'Forest of Dreams', Textile Gallery, Aldgate, South Australia
Joint exhibitions
2012
'marking time and mapping the spirit', Judson Gallery, Cleveland
2010
'planeta' Møstings Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark [2 person show with Anette Blaesberg Ørom]
2009
'planeta' , Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, Victoria, Australia [2 person show with Anette Blaesberg Ørom]
2005
'benedictus & ascendance', St Mark's church, Woodside
2002
'The Immigrant Garden', site specific installation, Art Gallery of South Australia [2 person work with Stephanie Radok]
'The Immigrant's Garden', Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre [2 person exhibition with Stephanie Radok]
Group exhibitions
2012
'landscape of the mind', Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
Heysen Sculpture Biennial, 'The Cedars', Hahndorf, South Australia
'bloom, une vision vegetale', Fondation pour l'art contemporain, Toulouse, France
2011
exhibition for 'Pasarela Fashion Festival', French Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania
'Art & Fashion' exhibition, ISEND, La Rochelle, France
2010
'natural pigments', Trend Union, Paris, France
'earthwaulks' with the Aotearoa Feltsisters, Blenheim, Tauranga, Porirua NZ
'faculty exhibition', Shakerag, St Andrews-Sewannee, TN, USA
2009
'following threads' , Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia
'neofelt' , Churro Gallery, Creamery Arts Centre, Hotchkiss, CO, USA
'sculpted packages - reshaped' , Von Haus, Melbourne, Australia
2008
'sculpted packages', World Shibori Symposium, Paris, France
'perspectives' Bunbury Regional Gallery, WA
'Expressions Wool Quilts', National Wool Museum, Geelong, Australia
'botanicals' Object Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2007
'Pattern' Lumina, Melbourne, Victoria
2006
'Blurring the Boundaries', Fairfield City Gallery & Museum, NSW
2005
'Wishlist' Craftsouth Members exhibition
'After Fashion', National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria
2004
'A Matter of Time', Tamworth Regional Gallery [toured nationally]
'Tyranny of Distance', U.K., Korea, Japan
'Seven Sisters', Central TAFE Art Gallery, Perth, WA [toured WA]
2003
'Haven't a thing to Wear', Gallery 159, Brisbane, Queensland
'Built! Ephemeral art project', Adelaide Festival Centre
'Friends of Iceland' touring exhibition, Iceland
2002
Staff Exhibition for SALA Festival, J111 Gallery, Underdale Campus, UniSA
'Europäische Filzkunst', Craft Museum of Finland
'Crossings', Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
2001-2002
'Friends of Iceland' touring exhibition in ten Icelandic Museums
2001
'Europäische Filzkunst', Hirtenmuseum, Germany
'Europäische Filzkunst', Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Dresden, Germany
'Leaf', 220 Hindley Street, for SALA Festival, Adelaide, South Australia
'Tradition & Innovation', Arsenals Muzejs, Riga, Latvia
'Tradition & Innovation', Zvartava Castle, Zvartava, Latvia
'Europäische Filzkunst', Deutches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany
'Winterbodies - 7 installations at the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds', Adelaide
'Masters Project', Shop@rt, Leigh Street, Adelaide
2000
'Europäische Filzkunst', Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
'10th Exhibition of Natural Dyeing Craft Arts' Taegu Textile Festival, Korea
'Mildura 'Palimpsest#3', Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
1999
'Textile 21', Voirrey Embroidery Centre, U.K.
'Alice Craft Acquisition', Araluen Arts Centre, Northern Territory, Australia
'Pantheist', New Land Gallery, Adelaide
1998
'Ways with Wool', National Textile Museum of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
1995
'Dame Nancy Buttfield Embroidery Award Exhibition', Carrick Hill, South Australia
1994
'Knitterarti', Kensington Galleries, Kensington, South Australia
1993
'Dame Nancy Buttfield Embroidery Award Exhibition', Carrick Hill, South Australia
'Sanctum', North Adelaide School of Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
'On the Other Hand', S.H. Irvine Gallery, New South Wales
1992
Mornington Peninsula Craft Event, Victoria
1991
'Dame Nancy Buttfield Embroidery Award Exhibition', Carrick Hill, South Australia
1984
'Artgarb', Women's Art Movement
1982
Designer's Collective Performance, Adelaide, South Australia
Artist residencies
2012 New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
2011 NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2011 Leafy Sea Dragon Festival, Yankalilla, South Australia
2006 Edith Cowan University, Perth, West Australia
2003 Mount Lofty Botanic Garden, South Australia