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Born: Mooroopna, Victoria
1984 Studied City Art Institute, graduating in 1989, BA(Vis Art)
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS
1987 Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
1988 Grandeur and Decline, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney
Mahleb Law
Week exhibition, Supreme Court Building, Sydney
1989 The Prison Invented, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney
City Art Institute Graduate Show
Douglass Art Award Exhibition
Alfred Altshuler Memorial Award for painting
City Art Institute Alumni Association Award
Highly Commended Douglass Art Award
1990 The Ink Show, Pod Theatre Gallery, Sydney
1991 HISTORY VOLUME ONE: Most Men Are Bad
Pod Theatre Gallery, Sydney
Not reassessing Normal, Ten Taylor St, Sydney
Taylor Square Art Award
1992 HISTORY VOLUME THREE: A Rakes Progress
Nevada Studios, Sydney
1993 HISTORY VOLUME FIVE: The Analysis Of Beauty
Folio Launch,
Dugout Bar, Burdekin Hotel, Sydney
1994 Proverbs Folio Launch, Market Bar, London
1996 Bent Head Portrait Award
1997 I KNOW THE FUTURE (Everything is fine!)
Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1998 TWELVE SUNNY HOURS
Sundial
Installation, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
TWO THOUSAND PAINTED PAGES
Susan Burge Gallery, Sydney
Archibald Exhibition, AGNSW, Sydney
1999 AGAINST NATURE, Room32, Sydney
2000 Animated Multimedia package for Australian
Federation Of AIDS Organisations
2001 Drawing The Line, street based drawing performance
2002 Illustrations for Marele Day’s novel, “Mrs Cook”
2003 DISTANCE AND THE RIVER, Citrus Upstairs Gallery, Byron Bay,
2004 Lake Russell Gallery, Emerald Beach, NSW
John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW
Telstra Phone
Booth Competition finalist, MCA, Sydney
Masters of
Fare, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2007 365 Happy Days, the days so far
gallery37, Coffs Harbour
2008 looking for MR HITCHCOCK, Crossbay Gallery Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Fremantle City Council
State Library of Queensland
Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Monash University
British Art Library
Art Gallery of NSW
Private Collections in the USA, France, UK, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, New Zealand
and Australia.
CATALOGUE OF ARTISTS’ BOOKS & PRINT SETS
1988 Gather Ye Rosebuds
Edition 20,
Folio bound laser prints on Archive text paper
1986 Elysian Fields
Unique, 95 watercolours bound into box
1989 A Book Of Bulls
Edition 20,
Folio bound laser prints on Archive text paper
A Book Of Busts
Edition 25,
Folio bound laser prints on Archive text paper
1990 ...and at this point...
Edition 10,
hand coloured b/w laser prints on Hahnemuhle w/c paper
Hand sewn and
bound in red leatherette book paper
Each Day I Light A Light I Cast A Shadow
Edition 20, accordion bound, ten pages,
hand coloured
woodblock prints on Hosho rice paper
1991 A Rakes Progress
Edition 50,
Folio bound laser print set, 10 pages
Folio covered in red leatherette book paper
The Long Walk
Unique, pencil and watercolour wash
Three volume
set, hand sewn and bound in red leatherette book paper
1993 Analysis Of Beauty
Edition 25, 19
print Woodblock set and corresponding text pages
Printed onto
mulberry paper, text laser printed onto archive text paper
Overall 40
pages housed in wooden box made from wood from artist’s bed
Chinese Whispers
Edition 20,
Accordion bound laser prints, 10 pages
Folio covered in red leatherette book paper
1994 Proverbs
Hand coloured
laser prints on Hahnemuhle w/c paper
28 pages, folio bound in navy blue buckram
1995 (a)sleep
10 woodblock
prints, printed onto white hosho paper, hand bound into book with
black buckram and dust jacket of Velin Arche
noir
1996 Let Your City Then Be Built Of These Small Sticks
10 woodblock
prints, printed onto mulberry paper
hand bound
into folio with black buckram
1997 2000 Painted Pages
Unique, 2000
pages bound into eighty accordion bound books and housed
in black
buckram box, overall size when opened and hanging 1.7 x 4.5
metres
Maritime Warning
Edition 100,
accordion bound, hand coloured on 270 gsm Hahnemuhle w/c
paper,
screen printed black outline, 10 pages, black buckram covered end
boards
Something Is Missing
Edition 100,
accordion bound, hand coloured on 270 gsm Hahnemuhle w/c
paper,
screen printed black outline, 10 pages, black buckram covered end
boards
1998 12 Sunny Hours
Edition 25, 12
woodblock prints, hand burnished onto mulberry paper
hand bound
into folio with black buckram
1999 Rock Scissors Paper
Edition 20,
Three book set each book 9 woodblock prints, printed onto white
hosho
paper, accordion bound into book with black buckram
2000 Ephemera
Edition 20, 10
wood block prints hand burnished onto mulberry paper,
accordion
bound into book with black buckram end boards
2004 The Man That Birds Follow
Edition 20, Hand burnished wood block prints on white
Unrushi paper
Accordion bound with black
stained wooden end boards
STALKER!!!
Edition 20,
Hand burnished wood block prints on white Unrushi paper
Eight prints
and cover page bound into folio and housed in fabric bag
embroided with title STALKER!!!
Pecking Order
Edition 12,
Six wood block prints hand burnished onto white Unrushi paper
hand coloured
and housed in wooden box or framed
2005 The Hung Jury
Edition 20, 12
hand burnished wood block prints on Japanese cream silk paper.
Mounted onto
Magnami laid paper 270gsm, each sheet 18 x 13cm. Presented in
Belgian linen
folio, clasped with tiny ornamental noose
Fetch
Edition 20, 10
woodblock prints hand tinted on mulberry paper. Mounted onto
Magnami laid
paper, accordian bound with Belgian linen covered endboards
2006 Panophobia (the fear of everything)
Edition 20, 10
Pigment prints on A4 Arches 240gsm cotton paper
Housed in black bound box
2007-8 365 HAPPY DAYS
Edition 50,
365 pigment prints on A4 Arches 240gsm cotton paper
2008 Proverbs - pocket edition
edition 50
Linen bound end covers bound with brass interscrews. 50 pages
pigment
printed onto Saunders Waterford paper