CV

Biography

Born Brisbane, Australia. Lives Berlin, Germany.

Education

2007 Bachelor of Fine Art, First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2004 Bachelor of Fine Art Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2003 Semester study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, United States of America

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Sugar Fever Dream Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 To proceed within a trap Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Floral Atlas Artscape Contemporary, Luxembourg
Gold Standard Helmut, Leipzig, Germany
Fools Gold Das Giftraum, Berlin, Germany
2017 After Nature Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Vivarium Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2014 Here nor there Australian High Commission, Singapore and Chan Hampe Galleries, Raffles Hotel Arcade, Singapore
2013 Hang-Ups Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Every moment lives together Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
2012 To have and to hold Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Finders Keepers Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
Recent Paintings Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2011 Deterior Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Left Behind Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2008 Interiors Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Dwelling Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Floral Obsession, Artscape Contemporary, Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg
Tondo, InFormat, Projektraum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
An Australian Spring, Michael Reid, Berlin
Five Years, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
Built Forms, Redcliffe Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia
The Family Home, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland
2019 Female Gaze, Artscape Contemporary Art Luxembourg at the Foundry, Luxembourg
Re_wild, Artscape Contemporary Art Luxembourg at CMS, Luxembourg
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
VIS-IBLITY, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Outmoded, Nachtspeicher23 Hamburg, Germany
2018 Almost Nature, Caves Bernard Massard, Luxembourg. Neue Echtheit, 48 Stunden Neukolln, Berlin, Preview, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
2017 Artscape Contemporary, Luxembourg Art week, Luxembourg
Raze Raise, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
Scenes of our city, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia
2016 100% Brisbane, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia
Frieze, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
Bayside Acquisitive Art Award, Brighton, Victoria, Australia
Summer Show, Michael Reid Berlin, Berlin, Germany
A Conversation about Portraiture, Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2015 Panorama, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
Wandering Archive, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award finalist exhibition,touring Regional Australia
2014 David Malouf & Friends, Museum of Brisbane, Australia
Triptych, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton, New South Wales, Australia and touring
Double Trouble, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
2013 Archival Wandering: Karla Marchesi, Clare Rae, Melanie Jayne Taylor, Scope Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Heuriges 013, Ausstellungsraum.at, Vienna, Austria
Triptychon (phase 2), Pavillon am Milchhof, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Triptychon (phase 1), Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
20 Jahre Ateilerhaus Mengerzeile Housesalon, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin, Germany
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Australia
2012 Orientation, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Together in Harmony, The Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Seoul, Korea
Our Place, touring regional Queensland
Winning Works, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2010 Gaze: people, relationships and place, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia
Weapons of Mass Consumption, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia
Something or other, Old Space ARI, Brisbane, Australia
The Stanthorpe Art Festival, Stanthorpe, Australia
The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, QCA Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia
2009 World's Best Practice, Old Space ARI, Brisbane
12+ Queensland Artists, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2008 15 Artists, Redcliffe Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards, Australia
2007 15th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards, Australia

Grants & Awards

2019 Finalist - Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2017 Finalist - Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2016 Finalist - Bayside Acquisitive Art Award, Brighton, Victoria, Australia
2014 Finalist - Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
2013 Recipient - Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant – Early Career
Finalist - Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Australia
2012 Winner - Wilson Visual Arts Award
Highly Commended - Spirit of Youth Awards
Recipient - Career Development Grant, Arts Queensland
2011 Shortlisted finalist - Australia Council for the Arts, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency
2010 1st Prize - Redland Art Awards, Queensland Regional Art Awards Young Artist Prize
Recipient - Career Development Grant, Arts Queensland
Finalist – The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, QCA Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009 Recipient - Young Artist Mentoring Program, Youth Arts Queensland - mentor Anne Wallace
2008 Runner-up 2D Category, 16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards
2007 Recipient - University Medal for Academic Excellence over 4 years of study
Recipient - Honours Thesis Prize, Art Theory, Queensland College of Art
Recipient - First Prize 2D Category, 15th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards
Recipient - Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
2004 Recipient - Highly Commended Prize, The Thiess Art Prize, Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
2003 Recipient - Philip Bacon Galleries Prize for Excellence in Drawing, A scholarship sponsored by Philip Bacon Galleries, valued at $5000, to study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA

Residencies

2012-13 6-month studio residency at Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin, Germany

Commissions

2020 Album cover: Grief Scene Bad Times
2019 Single cover: Dead for ages In defence of an ordinary life
2014 David Malouf & Friends, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia

Relevant Work Experience

2018-current Artist Assistant for Studio Martin Eder, Berlin
2016-17 Artist Assistant for Studio Anslem Reyle, Berlin, Germany
2016 Artist Assistant work for Iris Van Dongen and Alex Tenningkeit

Curatorial Projects

2020 to present: Proxi Projects, Berlin-Exhibitions: There Was a Sense that No One Was Going to Leave the Room, Ever - Multi-disciplinary Groupshow (2021); Moon Spill - Arryn Snowball and collaborators (2020)

Collectives

InFormat Berlin Painting collective, Berlin, Germany 2014-2020

Collections

Australian Catholic University Art Collection
Central Queensland University
Gadens Lawyers
Griffith University Art Collection
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
Museum of Brisbane
Pine Rivers Shire Gallery
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum Collection
Redcliffe City Gallery
Redland Art Gallery
Southern Downs Regional Art Collection, Stanthorpe
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, Brisbane
Swiss Re
University of Queensland Art Museum
University of the Sunshine Coast

Bibliography

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