My Story
ARTISTS STATEMENT
I am a visual artist and activist with a focus on the environment and how people engage with it. I am concerned about humankind’s devastating impact on planet Earth. Through my art, I hope to instigate social change that benefits humanity and the environment. My wish is that my art will inspire hope despite the massive challenges we face.
I try to make art that gently facilitates thought, starts a conversation, and initiates change. Art can present new ideas in an engaging way and as the world is facing so many challenges right now.
EDUCATION
2016 - 2017 Alice Miller Arts-based Secondary School (Macedon, Victoria)
2019 La Trobe University, Studying, Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Bundoora, Victoria)
AWARDS
2018 Highly Commended, Trentham Easter art show
2018 Entry in Kyneton Daffodil Festival
CURRICULUM VITAE - CV
I am an artist, painter, sole trader. My art career began in my high school at Alice Miller’s annual art show, where all five pieces I had entered, sold. I then sought out placement in a local commercial gallery where I displayed work for over a year, followed by two solo exhibitions at another local gallery.
I enjoy personally meeting clients and getting feedback from them, so from 2019 onwards I sold art directly from my rented home studio. I sought out further retail stores that would display my work as a way of reaching new people and joined the Daylesford, Macedon Ranges Open Studio Program (DMROS). I rented a gallery in 2020 for around 8 months but due to COVID-19 lockdowns it was impossible to maintain the commercial rent, so I have had to scale down, I now work out of my home studio again.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Works of Art gallery in Kyneton, Australia (176 Mollison St, Kyneton, Victoria, 3444)
2018 Emerging Artist
2018 ‘Birds of a Feather’, Old Auction House gallery (52-56 Mollison St, Kyneton, Victoria, 3444)
2019 DMROS Open Studios Artist (59 Rogers Drive Kyneton, Victoria, 3444)
2020 Tia Alysse Art Gallery Malmsbury (69 Mollison St, Mlamsbury, Victoria, 3446)
PRESS - PRINT
The Local Daylesford and Macedon Ranges l Issue 147 April 8, 2019 pg. 4
https://issuu.com/dhslocal/docs/the_local_easter_2019_complete
Macedon Ranges Naturally Cool commercial 2019
https://www.visitmacedonranges.com/see-do/arts-culture/galleries-artists/
WORKS DISPLAYED IN
Aesop's Attic (2019 - present, 70 High St, Kyneton, Victoria, 3444)
Gisborne Market (2019)
Alex Muir (2019, 30 Piper St, Kyneton, Victoria, 3444)
The Newmarket Hotel (2019, 98/100 Mollison St, Kyneton, Victoria, 3444)
Kodama Cafe (2021, 69-71 Stevedore St, Williamstown, Victoria, 3016)
Melbourne Boat Sales (2021 - Present, 61 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands, Victoria, 3008)
Saba Wax and Beauty (2021 - Present, 64A Stevedore St, Williamstown, Victoria, 3016)
Lisa Chesters MP
Letter of Support from the Federal Member for Bendigo
Daylesford
Picnic Boxes
Letter of Support from local food supplier.
Zig Zag Rd Wines
Letter of Support from local wine supplier.