Artist Statement

My art practice involves the concept of lifting the negative stigma attached to scars and acknowledging that an aesthetic quality can be found within them. My art making process is a ritualistic one, which involves applying paint or ink onto my scars and printing it onto a surface.

More recently I have depicted my affinity with the burnt environment. The act of assimilating myself into the burnt environment was used as a tool to closely examine the unusual virtuosity of the act of ruination within the arid landscape and further accentuate the sublimity found within my scars.

Awards

• 2011 - Jenny Birt Award, UNSW Painting & Drawing Prize - Winner
• 2011 - Waverley Art Prize - Finalist
• 2007 - Diploma of Graphic Design First in Course Award
• 2005 - Golden Key International Honour Society Award

Qualifications

• 2008 - 2011 : COFA, MArt
• 2007 : TAFE - Hornsby Campus, Diploma of Graphic Design
• 2007 : Macquarie University, Bachelor of Arts (Creative Arts)

Skills

• 2010 Selected Painting Group Exhibitions
  2010 BSG Small Works Prize, Drawing in the City at Night, Gallery Red, Beyond First Impression: what changes if you get to know me?, Collingwood Gallery, Done And Dusted: The Rex Irwin Prize, COFA Space, Young Creators Society Exhibition, Eastern Hotel
• 2011 Selected Painting Group Exhibitions
  Through the Looking Glass-Kaleidoscope Gallery; There is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in-Collingwood Gallery; Metaphoria-Gallery Red; My My-Kaleidoscope Gallery; Formation-Gallery Red; sjs gallery Group Show; 1200K WEST COFASpace
• 2011 Solo Exhibition
  Burnt, Gaffa Gallery