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AWARDS / FUNDING / SPONSORSHIP

2022   RADF Regional Arts Development Fund Grant, (Qld Govt & Moreton Bay Regional Council)

 1989   Premier’s Arts Encouragement Award, Premier’s Department, Queensland Government

Art Research & Development Grant ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology)

Funding – NCGA  (The National Computer Graphics Association of America ) & CADRE (Computers in Art & Design, Research and Education Institute)

1988   Funding – ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology)

Project Funding – The Australian Bicentennial Authority

Project Funding – The Arts Division of the Premier’s Department, Qld Government

Project Funding – The Brisbane City Heart Business Association

Artists and New Technology Grant Australia Council

1986   Group Project Grant,  Australia Council

No Frills Fund Grant,  Australian Film Commission

Sponsorship by Telecom Australia and Visionhire Pty Ltd

1982   Exhibition Grant, Australia Council

COLLECTIONS

 National Gallery, Canberra

University of Qld Art Museum

ARTIST RUN INITIATIVES

1986     

O’Flate National Art Safari:

Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, WA

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA

Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne VICT

Chameleon Space,  Hobart TAS

Performance Space,  Sydney NSW

That Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, QLD

1985     

O’flate Studios, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD

1984-83

One Flat Exhibit George Street Branch, Brisbane, QLD

1983     

Art Wonder Stories Magazine, Brisbane, QLD

1983-82

Art Walk Magazine, Brisbane, QLD

1983-82

One Flat Exhibit, Brisbane, QLD

1982     

Produce Art Project – Red Comb House, Brisbane, QLD

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

1999     

Workshop Co-ordinator / Artist , Double Happiness, Cross-Cultural Exchange China & Australia, The Arterial Group, Brisbane, QLD

EDUCATION

2015     

Diploma of Graphic Design, Brisbane, QLD

1997-1981

Studied Major in Sculpture + Minor in Film & Television at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD

CONFERENCES / FORUMS / PANELS

 2024

Panellist, Nowhere Fast: Creativity, Culture and DIY, WAG, Wooloongabba Art Gallery, QLD

Panellist, Nowhere Fast: Punk, Politics and the Police, WAG Woolloongabba Art Gallery, QLD

2019

Panellist, Radical Houses: Identity and public life in the Qld  House 1975-1989, Architecture and Art Week, Museum of Brisbane, QLD

 2016

Panellist, Ephemeral Traces Exhibition, Public Program, University of Queensland Art Museum, QLD

1991

Panellist, Flesh & Bones – Fringe Festival Forum, Brisbane, QLD

1990 

Panellist, Metrozone – Art in Public Places Seminar, Brisbane, QLD

1989 

Workshop participant, Creative Australia Conference, Adelaide, SA

Panellist, The Shaping of Teleculture – NCGA Arts 89 Conference, NCGA (National Computer Graphics Association), CADRE (Computers in Art & Design, Research & Education) Institute,  San Jose University California, USA

Panellist, Without Number Forum, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD

1988

Panellist, Networking in the Arts – FISEA (The First International Symposium on Electronic Art) Utrecht, Holland

Workshop participant, Information Systems of a City – Creative City Seminar, Melbourne

Guest Speaker, Forum Program, South Australian School of Art,  Adelaide, SA

1987 

Panellist, The Art of Untruth Simulation Artificiality, New Media Forum, IMA,  Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, The Politics of Space, Speakeasy Lunch Box Lecture, Queensland Art Workers Alliance Inc, QCA (Queensland College of Art), Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, Look Who’s Talking – Artemis Form – ARX’ 87 Australia & Regions Artist’s Exchange – Western Australia, Perth, WA

Panellist, Lost in Space, Speakeasy Lunchbox Lecture, Queensland Art Workers Alliance Inc, QCA, Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, ARX’ 87 – Lunchbox Lecture, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD

1986

Panellist, Art Practice, Professionalism, Art Funding & Institutions Forum, QCA, Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, Art Practices and Policy in an Era of Recession – Art(s) Now Symposium, Griffith University School of Humanities, Brisbane, QLD

1983 

Panellist, Alternative Art Spaces – Open Sandwich Conference, ANZART (Australian New Zealand Artist Exchange) Hobart, TAS

FESTIVALS

1994-93

Coordinator / Entertainment Co-ordinator Inala Multicultural Festival, The Icy Tea Theatre Company, Brisbane

1992-91

Co-ordinator / Artistic Co-ordinator, Paddington Community Festival, Brisbane

1992 

Artist,  Fiesta Car Painting Project, Valley Fiesta, Fortitude Valley Business Association, Brisbane

1991  

Artist,  Polymedia Car Constructions, First Fringe Festival, Brisbane

1991 

Entertainment Co-ordinator, The Sports Health & Leisure Expo, Brisbane

AWARDS / FUNDING / SPONSORSHIP

2022   RADF Regional Arts Development Fund Grant, (Qld Govt & Moreton Bay Regional Council)

 1989   Premier’s Arts Encouragement Award, Premier’s Department, Queensland Government

Art Research & Development Grant ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology)

Funding – NCGA  (The National Computer Graphics Association of America ) & CADRE (Computers in Art & Design, Research and Education Institute)

1988   Funding – ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology)

Project Funding – The Australian Bicentennial Authority

Project Funding – The Arts Division of the Premier’s Department, Qld Government

Project Funding – The Brisbane City Heart Business Association

Artists and New Technology Grant Australia Council

1986   Group Project Grant,  Australia Council

No Frills Fund Grant,  Australian Film Commission

Sponsorship by Telecom Australia and Visionhire Pty Ltd

1982   Exhibition Grant, Australia Council

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery, Canberra

University of Qld Art Museum

CONFERENCES / FORUMS

 2019

Panellist, Radical Houses: Identity and public life in the Qld  House 1975-1989, Architecture and Art Week, Museum of Brisbane, QLD

 2016

Panellist, Ephemeral Traces Exhibition, Public Program, University of Queensland Art Museum, QLD

1991

Panellist, Flesh & Bones – Fringe Festival Forum, Brisbane, QLD

1990 

Panellist, Metrozone – Art in Public Places Seminar, Brisbane, QLD

1989 

Workshop participant, Creative Australia Conference, Adelaide, SA

Panellist, The Shaping of Teleculture – NCGA Arts 89 Conference, NCGA (National Computer Graphics Association), CADRE (Computers in Art & Design, Research & Education) Institute,  San Jose University California, USA

Panellist, Without Number Forum, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD

1988

Panellist, Networking in the Arts – FISEA (The First International Symposium on Electronic Art) Utrecht, Holland

Workshop participant, Information Systems of a City – Creative City Seminar, Melbourne

Guest Speaker, Forum Program, South Australian School of Art,  Adelaide, SA

1987 

Panellist, The Art of Untruth Simulation Artificiality, New Media Forum, IMA,  Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, The Politics of Space, Speakeasy Lunch Box Lecture, Queensland Art Workers Alliance Inc, QCA (Queensland College of Art), Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, Look Who’s Talking – Artemis Form – ARX’ 87 Australia & Regions Artist’s Exchange – Western Australia, Perth, WA

Panellist, Lost in Space, Speakeasy Lunchbox Lecture, Queensland Art Workers Alliance Inc, QCA, Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, ARX’ 87 – Lunchbox Lecture, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD

1986

Panellist, Art Practice, Professionalism, Art Funding & Institutions Forum, QCA, Brisbane, QLD

Panellist, Art Practices and Policy in an Era of Recession – Art(s) Now Symposium, Griffith University School of Humanities, Brisbane, QLD

1983 

Panellist, Alternative Art Spaces – Open Sandwich Conference, ANZART (Australian New Zealand Artist Exchange) Hobart, TAS

PUBLIC ART STRATEGIES / PROJECTS

2023

In the Real Estate of the # – underdevelopment

Beautiful Data Dangerous DNA – underdevelopment

The Wall – underdevelopment

2023-22

Boot Art – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, Redcliffe, QLD

2021

Blackline Wallpaper, Instagram – ongoing

Inglorious Trash, Instagram – ongoing

2020 

Small Stuff in a Big World, Brisbane, QLD,  Instagram,

1988

Designer / Co-ordinator, InterFace Project, Australian Bicentennial Art Spaces Project, Brisbane, QLD

1986 

Designer / Co-ordinator, Outdoor Art Drive-In Project, Brisbane, QLD

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 2023

The Trauma Project – underdevelopment

2023-22

Boot Art – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, Redcliffe, QLD

2022 

Rythyms @ Circadian Visions, The Soylent Spot, Ngudooroo, QLD

 2020 

And the Crown Came Down @ Double Decker Ecko, The Soylent Spot, Brisbane, QLD

Small Stuff in a Big World, Brisbane, QLD, Instagram

Our Happy Place @Eviction Party, The Soylent Spot @airspace Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD

2016 

Ephemeral Traces Exhibition, University of Qld Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD

2010  

Melbourne><Brisbane: Punk, Art & After, Super 8 in Brisbane, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VICT

2005

Zootopia – Posters From The Urban Jungle, Dell Gallery, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD

1992

Fuel, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

1989

Brisbane Video Art & Performance Documentation in the 1980’s, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

1988

Work to Screen, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD

A  Caste: An Homage to Women Artists in Queensland Past and Present, The Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD

InterFace Project, Brisbane City, QLD

AXIS File – Axis Art Projects, New York, USA

1987

Lines of Force, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

Local Color, That Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, QLD

1986

Outdoor Art Drive-In, Brisbane, QLD

Know Your Product, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

The Demolition Show, Observatory Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1985

Queensland Works 1950 – 1985, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD

Brisbane Hot, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

1984 

One Flat Exhibit, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

Dance Jerks, One Flat Exhibit George St Branch, Brisbane, QLD

1982

Produce Art, Redcomb House, Brisbane, QLD

ARTIST RUN INITIATIVES

1986     

O’Flate National Art Safari:

Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, WA

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA

Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne VICT

Chameleon Space,  Hobart TAS

Performance Space,  Sydney NSW

That Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, QLD

1985     

O’flate Studios, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD

1984-83

One Flat Exhibit George Street Branch, Brisbane, QLD

1983     

Art Wonder Stories Magazine, Brisbane, QLD

1983-82

Art Walk Magazine, Brisbane, QLD

1983-82

One Flat Exhibit, Brisbane, QLD

1982     

Produce Art Project – Red Comb House, Brisbane, QLD

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

1999     

Workshop Co-ordinator / Artist , Double Happiness, Cross-Cultural Exchange China & Australia, The Arterial Group, Brisbane, QLD

FESTIVALS

1994-93

Coordinator / Entertainment Co-ordinator Inala Multicultural Festival, The Icy Tea Theatre Company, Brisbane

1992-91

Co-ordinator / Artistic Co-ordinator, Paddington Community Festival, Brisbane

1992 

Artist,  Fiesta Car Painting Project, Valley Fiesta, Fortitude Valley Business Association, Brisbane

1991  

Artist,  Polymedia Car Constructions, First Fringe Festival, Brisbane

1991 

Entertainment Co-ordinator, The Sports Health & Leisure Expo, Brisbane

EDUCATION

2015     

Diploma of Graphic Design, Brisbane, QLD

1997-1981

Studied Major in Sculpture + Minor in Film & Television at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, QLD

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