career

My creative career started in my late teens when I won the 1981 Fellowship of Australian Writers' Young Poet's Award. I graduated as a doctor in Melbourne in 1987 and continued to write and be involved in performance poetry for the next decade. During my specialist studies in psychiatry my creative path took a turn toward the visual arts.

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Since 2000 I have held annual exhibitions of my drawings, paintings, sculptures and found object assemblages at Medical Conferences across Australia.

In 2002 I started formal studies in Visual Arts with the North Coast Institute of TAFE completing a Diploma in 2006.

October 2006 saw the launch of my professional Visual Arts Career with "In Out About" - a Diploma of Visual Arts graduate's group exhibition which was held in Bellingen. In December 2006 I exhibited in the "First Focus Exhibition" in Coffs Harbour.

My first solo exhibition since graduating was held in May 2007 in Coffs Harbour and entitled "Darkwood - Photographic Exhibition".

In October 2007 my work was selected as a finalist in the prestigious $35,000 Country Energy Landscape Art Prize and exhibited in the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo. This exhibition travels to the Artspace Visual Art Centre in "The Gunnery" building, Woolloomooloo, Sydney in January 2008.

In December 14 2007 - January 13 2008 I held an exhibition at Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery. It was titled "Weathering" and featured my frottage based fence post drawings.

exhibition

From August 18 2008 - September 26 2008, I will be holding an exhibition at The Liminal Space, 228A Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour. The exhibiton is entitled 'Witchetty Language'.

I now have a significant number of artworks represented in private collections across Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.A.

A selection of my past and current works can be viewed in my gallery.