C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e

EDUCATION
1997 Fine Art Printmaking major, Prahran College, Victoria
1989 Certificate of Horticulture, Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley
1987 Botanical Illustration with Anita Barley
1998 Picture Framing, DYO Framing
2001 Botanical Illustration with Dianne Emery
2002 Conservation Framing with Samantha Shellard, Artists Week Mt. Buller
2002 Jenny Phillips Botanical Masterclass
2002 Jenny Phillips Intensive Class
2003 Silk Painting with Maggie Linden
2003 Shibori Workshop at Passion de Soie
2005 Certificate in Initiatic Art Therapy with Cornelia Elbrecht, Apollo Bay
2006 Encaustic painting with Jan McBride, Victoria
2008 Insect Illustration with Kate Nolan, RBG Melbourne


CAREER
Freelance botanical, scientific and natural history artist 1989 –
Botanical illustrator, National Herbarium of Victoria, 1992 –
Scientific and botanical art teacher 2001-


HONOURS / AWARDS
1998 Highly Commended Award, Wildlife Art /Society of Australasia Exhibition, Melbourne
2001 Gold Medal, London Flower Show, Royal Horticultural Society, London
2002 Celia Rosser Inaugural Medal, Friends of Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
2006 Purchase Award, Focus on Nature IX, New York State Museum, New York
2009 Highly Commended Award, Margaret Flockton Art Prize, RBG Sydney


COLLECTIONS
National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne.
Private collections, Australia, Scottland, England
State Botanical Collection of Victoria.
Simplot Australia.
New York State Museum, USA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1991 Centenary Botanical Art Exhibition, Burnley, Melbourne
1996 – 2008 The Art of Botanical Illustration, RBG Melbourne
1998, 2006 Wildlife Art Society of Australasia, Melbourne
2001 1st Botanical Illustration Exhibition, Benalla Regional Art Gallery
2001 10th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration, Hunt Institute USA
2001 London Flower Show, Royal Horticultural Society, London
2002 ‘Special Botanicals’, Villa Mulberry, Melbourne
2003 – 2007 Karwarra Botanical Art Exhibition, Victoria
2003 ‘Botanica’ Dickerson Gallery Melbourne
2003 ‘Nature’s Art Revealed’National Herbarium of Victoria, RBG Melbourne
2004 -2006 ‘Focus on Nature’, New York State Museum, USA
2004, 2007 The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australia
2005 Woodbine Art Exhibition, Red Box Gallery, Sydney
2006 ‘The Masters’ Botanical Art Exhibition RBG Sydney
2007, 2008 ‘Nature + Art’, Woodbine Art Gallery, Victoria
2008 – 2009 ‘Hidden in Plain View, the forgotten flora’ National Museum of Aust Canberra, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston, Gordon Gallery Geelong, Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide Botanic Garden
2008, 2009 Botanica, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
2008 ‘VFFA Art Show 2008’, inaugural show, Victorian Fly Fishing Association
2008 ‘Plasma Soul’, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Margaret Flockton Art Prize, Sydney Australia


PUBLISHED WORKS
1992 ‘The Most Important Building in Town’, Gary Hurle, Hill of Content
1993 Australian Systematic Botany, P.Y.Ladiges, Melbourne University
1994 -1999 ‘Flora of Victoria’, National Herbarium of Victoria, Inkata Press, volumes 2, 3 & 4
1994 - ‘Mulleria’, National Herbarium of Victoria
1993 -1998 Action Statements, Department of Natural Resources and Enviroment
1997 ‘Life and Letters of Ferdinand von Mueller’, R.W.Home and S. Maroske,
2002 ‘Flora of Australia’, Volume 44, ABRS, Enviroment Australia

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