the story so far...

  

 

Education

1977-78 studies at University of Adelaide (Architecture)

1979-80 studies at South Australian Institute of Technology (Architecture)

1981 Garment Design & Construction, Panorama College

2001 Master of Visual Arts, University of South Australia

  

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 

 

Costume Commissions

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

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

 

 

Group exhibitions

2010

'planeta' Møstings Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

'following threads' , Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia

'neofelt' , Churro Gallery, Creamery Arts Centre, Hotchkiss, CO, USA

'sculptured packages - reshaped' , Von Haus, Melbourne, Australia

'planeta' , Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, Victoria, 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

'benedictus & ascendance', St Mark's church, Woodside 

'After Fashion', National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria 

2004 

'A Matter of Time', Tamworth Regional Gallery 

'Tyranny of Distance', U.K., Korea, Japan 

'Seven Sisters', Central TAFE Art Gallery, Perth, 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 

'The Immigrant Garden', site specific installation, Art Gallery of South Australia

'The Immigrant's Garden', Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre

 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, News 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