Painting excites me and has been a lifetime passion, instilled from early childhood by my mother. In fact I find all art exciting. Artists engage others to stop and ponder at what they create. That amazes me. Art weaves itself into the fabric of our lives. It gives us pleasures in untold places. Every new artwork is an adventure in skill and imagination, building and expanding repertoires, filling our life's cup.
Biography
Wiradjuri descent, born in 1954 in Forbes, New South Wales.
1976 - 89 Chef/Manager, Sydney, New South Wales.
1989 - Relocated to Adelaide.
1999 - Art Teacher, Suneden Special School.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 In Ceaseless Patterns Of Being - Art Images Gallery, Norwood.
2007 More Script Works - Zest Cafe/Gallery, Glenelg.
2004 Writings On The Wall - Zest Cafe/Gallery, Glenelg.
2003 Life Signs - Zest Cafe/Gallery, Glenelg.
1999 Trees In Space - Cafe Piccante, Hyde Park.
1997 Early Works - Red House Gallery, Sturt.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
In Ceaseless Patterns of Being - Art Images Gallery, Norwood.
2009
Kumqwot - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Making Tracks - Tandanya, NACI, Adelaide.
Sala Week Exhibition - Sevenhill Hotel, Main North Rd, Sevenhill.
2009 Vintage - Red Poles Gallery, McMurtrie Rd. McLaren Vale.
Our Metro Mob - Tandanya, NACI, Adelaide.
RH-09 – Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
2008
Coloured In Words - Feast Festival:
Multiple exhibitions located at Port Adelaide Library, Tea Tree Gully Library, Goodwood Library, Mount Barker Library, Marion Cultural Centre, St. Peters Library.
Our Metro Mob - Tandanya, NACI, Adelaide.XIV - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Elemental - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
From The Fringes The Artist’s Come - Tess Pike Art Management, Gilles St. Adelaide.
The Corner - Inaugural Opening Uniting Church Art Exhibition, Oaklands Park.
2007
Nuances – 4 person show, Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Indigenuity - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Belair Hills Art Show - St. Johns Grammar School, Belair.
2006
Size Does Matter - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Big Picture Show - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Belair Hills Art Show 06’ - St. Johns Grammar School, Belair.
Weaving Cultures, Weaving Communities * - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park
2005
Petroglyphs - Tandanya, NACI, Adelaide.
Mind Games - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Text-ure - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
2004
Vein - Kintoli Gallery, Hindley St, Adelaide.
Now And Then - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
2003
On Shared Ground - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Wallflower - Zest Cafe/Gallery, Glenelg.
Passion - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
2002
Many Cultures/One Earth - City Of Marion Community Exhibition, Gallery M, Oaklands Park.
Comfort Zone - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
A Feast Festival event. (curator)
Spiritual Visibility / 20 Years Of Indigenous Health * - Tandanya, NACI, Adelaide (Co-curated with Tandanya) Mind Games - Glenelg Fine Art Gallery, Glenelg.
Bloom - Kintoli Gallery, Hindley St, Adelaide.
Self-Image - Zest Cafe/Gallery, Glenelg.
Driven To Abstraction - Tomlinson Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide.
2001
Wind and Wave - The Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga.
Now - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Urban Dimensions - City Of Marion Community Exhibition, Gallery M, Oaklands Park.
2000
Going That Way - Tandanya, NACI, Adelaide. (co-curated with Tandanya)
Bold, Black and Beautiful - Port Community Arts Centre, Port Adelaide. (curator)
2000 Art Oddities - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
Visage - Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands Park.
High 5 - Red House Gallery, Sturt.
1999
Visually Blak ‘n’ Out - Kintoli Gallery, Hindley St. Adeliade. (co-curated with David Pearce)
Yearn - City Of Marion Community Exhibition, Red House Gallery, Sturt.
Imbued Social Manifold - Red House Gallery, Sturt.
1st Birthday Exhibition - Port Dock Gallery, Port Adelaide.
Well Hung - City Of Marion Community Exhibition, Red House Gallery, Sturt.
1998
Ethos - Red House Gallery, Sturt.
2 Too Two Spirit People - Kintoli Gallery, Hindley St. Adelaide. (co-curated with David Pearce)
Animal Passions - City Of Marion Community Exhibition,
Red House Gallery, Sturt.
For Your Pleasure - Red House Gallery, Sturt.
1997
Two Spirit People - Nexus Gallery, Lions Art Centre, Adelaide.
Mixed Metaphors - Red House Gallery, Sturt.
Awards
2003 3rd Annual City Of Marion Community Art Exhibition
( most outstanding artwork / any media )
2001 City Of Marion Mayoral Certificate Of Appreciation
(Community Arts )
2000 Tandanya / Arts SA Aboriginal Artist’s Fellowship Award.
Selected Bibliography
Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity – 2009 Report
“In our own backyard” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people living in urban Adelaide.
Dr. Christine Nicholls – Multifarious Narratives review
Asian Arts News Volume 20 Number 2 - March/April 2010.
John Neylon - Petroglyphs - The Adelaide Review
( September 2nd 2005 )
Norris Iannou - Spiritual Visiblity - Arts Monday / The Advertiser
( November 13th 2002 )
John Neylon - Imbued Social Manifold - Adelaide Review
( June 7th 1999 )
Dr. Christine Nicholls - Two Spirit People - The Advertiser
( November 6th 1997 )
Consignments:
BMG Art 31-33 North St - West End, Adelaide.
O’Brien Street Practice
17 O’Brien St. Adelaide.
Art Images Gallery, 32 The Parade, Norwood.
Private Collections
Dr. Gary Rogers / O’Brien St. Practice, Adelaide.
Margie Fischer / Artistic Director Feast Festival 1998-
Mr. Greg Mackie / Director Arts SA / Feast Festival.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardo Bottin, Hahndorf SA.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schmid, Mount Barker SA.
Ruth Gilbert, Payneham, SA.
