Artist Curriculum Vitae

Imagining Antarctica, ArtsPost, 2011
Solo Exhibitions
·       Imagining Antarctica, ArtsPost, Hamilton  August 2011
·       Punctuated Equilibrium, Waikato Museum, August 2010
·       Membranes, Ignition Fringe Festival, Hamilton, June 2009
·       Domestic Pilgrimage, Yvonne Rust Gallery, Whangarei,  Nov 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
·       Interlocked, Northart, Auckland , October 2011
·       Fuck your donation, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, August 2011
·       Shelf, The Framing Workshop, Hamilton, November 2010
·       Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Hamilton, September 2010
·       Pins and Needles  Uxbridge Art Centre, Auckland, June  2010
·       Light: watercolour jewellery textiles North Shore City, May 2010
·       Finalist Estuary Artworks, Uxbridge Art Centre, Auckland, March 2010
·       Waiprint, ArtsPost, Hamilton October 2009
·       Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Hamilton, September 2009
·       End of Year Show, Douglas Arts Base, QLD, Australia, December 2008
·       Books 08, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD Australia, September 2008
·       Write On! Women Writers of Northland, Whangarei Museum, 2008
·       Finalist New Zealand Art Awards Challenge, Takapuna,  2008
·       Books ‘07, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD, September 2007
·       Bookworks, Northart Galleries, Auckland, June 2007
·       Heritage Award Exhibition, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, 2005
·       Works of Imagination textasimageastext Noosa Gallery, QLD 2005
·       Handmade Books, Auckland City Libraries, September 2005
·       Bookworks, Northart Galleries, Auckland, June 2005
·       CrossOver, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, March 2005
·       From the Same Foundations, Artspost Galleries, Hamilton, July 2004

Residency

Artist/Writer in Residence, Hamilton Girls High School 2009

Collected works

Calder and Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato
            Tipping Point (2011)
            My Antarctica (Ross Island) (2010)
Special Collection, Auckland City Libraries
     Do the Dishes (2007)
     Waipoua Forest (2005)
     Karori Sanctuary: Interleaving (2005)
     Wind Talk (2004)
     The Optimistic Heart (2004)

Public Art/Installations

·       Anzac Poetry, Waikato Museum, April 2009
·       Love Letters at Your Feet, Hamilton Summer Festival, February 2009
·       After the Big Storm, 25 public libraries, Northland Region, August 2007
·       Love Letters at Your Feet, Whangarei Mid Winter Arts Festival, July 2007
·       Addicted to Capitalism, 8 public libraries, 4 countries, June 2007

Commissions

·       Deep Time Writer’s Residency, original poem in unique artist’s book for Hamilton Girls High School 2009
·       Weeds Catalogue, handmade edition 1000, for Weeds, InDesign, 2009
·       Moves Afoot artist’s book edition 100, collaboration with Alan Deare, for Waikato Society of Arts (WSA) 2009
·       Sea of Tears original poem in artist’s book edition 25 for Judith Sleavin 2009
·       Narnia original poem in unique artist’s book for Narnia Café 2006

International Experience (selected)
·         Invited to participate in group show at First Site Gallery, RMIT in Melbourne  VIC Australia,  August  2011
·         Member of the Craft Cartel  2009-present;  participated in popup market Melbourne VIC Australia, December 2009
·         Informal letterpress residency at Melbourne Museum of Printing, Melbourne VIC Australia, December 2009- January 2010
·         Informal residency at Rainforest Hideaway, sculpture park/bed and breakfast, Cape Tribulation QLD Australia, May-December 2009
·         Informal residency with Queensland papermakers teaching letterpress and learning botanical papermaking, Noosa QLD Australia,  April 2009
·         Australian Political Exchange Programme October 2000
            
Academic Record
2000 Master of Social Sciences (First Class Hons)    
Public Policy & Public Administration               University of Waikato
1997   Bachelor of Social Sciences           
Public Policy & Public Administration               University of Waikato