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For the last 25 years , after graduating from the South Australian College of the Arts with Majors in cinematography and photography I began exhibiting as a visual artist in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. My work has been exhibited by Stills Gallery (SYD), Greenaway Art Gallery (ADL), James Makin Gallery (MEL), Robert Lindsay Gallery (MEL), Hill Smith Gallery (ADL) and M Contemp Gallery (SYD), as well as having solo
exhibitions in London and Shanghai.
My work has been widely collected privately, and is held by SA Art Museum, WA Art Museum, Art Bank, Albury Regional Art Gallery collection and the Chekhov Museum among others. I have previously been awarded the Australia Council residency studio in Besozzo, Italy, the South Australian Dept for the Arts grant, and am published in Eyeline #59, Summer 2006 (Dr Melissa Miles),” Look, Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980” (Dr Anne Marsh, 2011), and “Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits” (Ed. Karen-Jane Eyre, National Portrait Gallery 2017) and elsewhere.
I have been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize held at the Art gallery of New South Wales ( Sydney) and the National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011. Parallel to my arts practice I have for many years worked in the Film Industry as Stills Photographer on such films and series as Shine, Star Wars (Ep 2), Charlotte's Web, Dead Heart, Mystery Road, Rabbit Proof Fence, Clever Man, Truth, and Top of the Lake 2: China Girl.
In 2014 I received my Masters in Photography from Sydney College of the Arts, graduating with High Distinction.
For the last 11 years I have been the Official International Tour photographer for “The Australian Ballet”, touring to Paris, Tokyo, China and New York. On these tours I have embarked on my own personal photographic project where I remove the dancers from their controlled interior environment and place them in the urban landscape of the cities we visit; juxtaposing their stylised classical theatrical form with the everyday reality of city living.
When placed within the physicality of the general public, the spectacular athletic prowess and sculpted forms of the dancers (complete with the extravagance of their stage costumes with their delicate finery ) creates a humorous take on the traditional Ballet portrait and is intended to celebrate and honour the dancers, the city and the dance.
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exhibitions in London and Shanghai.
My work has been widely collected privately, and is held by SA Art Museum, WA Art Museum, Art Bank, Albury Regional Art Gallery collection and the Chekhov Museum among others. I have previously been awarded the Australia Council residency studio in Besozzo, Italy, the South Australian Dept for the Arts grant, and am published in Eyeline #59, Summer 2006 (Dr Melissa Miles),” Look, Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980” (Dr Anne Marsh, 2011), and “Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits” (Ed. Karen-Jane Eyre, National Portrait Gallery 2017) and elsewhere.
I have been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize held at the Art gallery of New South Wales ( Sydney) and the National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011. Parallel to my arts practice I have for many years worked in the Film Industry as Stills Photographer on such films and series as Shine, Star Wars (Ep 2), Charlotte's Web, Dead Heart, Mystery Road, Rabbit Proof Fence, Clever Man, Truth, and Top of the Lake 2: China Girl.
In 2014 I received my Masters in Photography from Sydney College of the Arts, graduating with High Distinction.
For the last 11 years I have been the Official International Tour photographer for “The Australian Ballet”, touring to Paris, Tokyo, China and New York. On these tours I have embarked on my own personal photographic project where I remove the dancers from their controlled interior environment and place them in the urban landscape of the cities we visit; juxtaposing their stylised classical theatrical form with the everyday reality of city living.
When placed within the physicality of the general public, the spectacular athletic prowess and sculpted forms of the dancers (complete with the extravagance of their stage costumes with their delicate finery ) creates a humorous take on the traditional Ballet portrait and is intended to celebrate and honour the dancers, the city and the dance.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1972