Studies

Diploma of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

B.A., University of New England (English/History)

Postgraduate Certificate in Writing, University of Technology, Sydney 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 Tacit Contemporary. Melbourne Vic Australia PAINTINGS and PRINTS   

2014 Manningham Art Gallery Melbourne, Australia

2003 Gallerie Paul Trilloux Le Cendre, France

2001 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery NSW Australia

2000 Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney PAINTINGS and WORKS ON PAPER

1994 Studio One Canberra, NSW

1994 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery NSW Australia

1993 Penrith Regional Gallery NSW Australia

1989 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Sydney NSW

1987-1990 Wagner Gallery Paddington NSW; Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney NSW. PAINTING 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 Tacit Contemporary Melbourne

2015 Rick Amor Print Prize Exhibition, Montsalvat, Vic.

2009 Union Art Collection Exhibition, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney

2009 The Jewish Museum, Melbourne

2008 The 57th Blake Prize Exhibition, Sydney

2006 Guest Artist (Invitation) Barat Bhavan International Biennial, Prints. India

2005 Guest Artist (Invitation) “L’Arte e il Torchio”, Cremona, Italy

2004 Alice Prize Exhibitions Alice Springs NT Australia

2004 University of Sydney Union Art Collection Herman Black Gallery Sydney NSW Australia

2003 Guest Artist (Invitation)  Sixieme Triennale Mondial de L’estampe Petit Format, France

2000 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery

1998 Alice Prize Exhibition NT Australia Painting

1998 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, group exhibition "Co-Existence"

1998 Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst NSW Work on Paper

1997 Group Exhibition "Sarajevo" Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Painting and Work on Paper

1995 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, "Through Women's Eyes", AWM Travelling Exhibition

1995 The Twenty-first Alice Prize, NT Painting

1994 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Grafton NSW

1994 Australian War Memorial, ACT. "Through Women's Eyes".

1994 Fremantle Print Award Exhibition

1994 Alice Prize Exhibition NT Australia Painting

1993 Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery Solo

1993 Portia Geach Memorial Art Award Exhibition Sydney NSW Australia PAINTING

1990 Alice Prize Exhibition NT Australia

1990 Portia Geach  Memorial  Art Award, Sydney NSW PAINTING

1989 Fremantle Print Award Exhibition

1988, Blake Prize Exhibitions PAINTING

1987 National Women’s Art Award, Qld

1987 Mornington Peninsular Drawing

1986 Blake Prize Exhibition PAINTING

1985 Blake Prize Exhibition PAINTING

1982, 1980 Print Council of Australia Touring Exhibition Sweden, Korea 

Professional experience

2008 Printmaking Workshop for HSC Teachers, Dept. of Education and Training NSW

2005 Floor Talk on Drawing Parramatta Heritage Centre NSW

1998 Visiting Lecturer Newcastle University, Australia

1995   External Assessor in Printmaking, University of Adelaide

1993 Visiting Lecturer, Newcastle University NSW

1990 Art Gallery NSW talk on Drawing “The Personal is the Political” 

Prints in Selected Public Collections

Australian War Memorial Contemporary Collection, ACT Australia; City Museum, Cremona, Italy; Galerie d’Art Contemporain de Chamalières, Auvergne, France; Mosman Art Collection, Mosman NSW Australia; Queensland State Library Artists Books Collection Qld, Australia; University of Sydney Union Art Collection NSW Australia and  Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW Australia 

Selected Bibliography

2016 Oz Arts

2009 Rebecca Forgasz and Claire Rankin, Catalogue, Jewish Museum of Australia; Shannon Connellan and Hannah Kothe Works from the University of Sydney Union  Art Store; “ L’Arte e il Torchio”, Catalogue, Cremona, Italy; Art Monthly July 1997; Sasha Grishin Canberra Times, 1997. Dara Rome. “Artists in Action” Australian War Memorial Publication 2003; Catalogue Essays Geraldine O’Brien, April Hersey , Elin Howe, Katy Batha; Art Monthly  Evelyn Juers.  Prof. Joan Kerr,  Ivan Dougherty Gallery, “Sarajevo”, Catalogue 1997; Donal Fitzpatrick Catalogue essay 1996; Lola Wilkins AWM Catalogue 1994   Sonia Barron, Canberra Times, 1992; Geraldine O’Brien, Catalogue Essay Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery; Jo Saurin, Sydney Morning Herald,  Nov. 30, 1990; Neville Drury, "New Art Four", Craftsman House Publication, 1989; Susanna Short, Sydney Morning Herald 1985; Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 1985; Art and Australia, Vol 23 No.1 Spring, 1985.

Prizes, Publications and Awards

2023 Speaker. Generationwomen.org Finding my voice. Howler. Melbourne CBD

2022 Speaker Generationwomen.org ‘Finding my Joy’ Howler, Melbourne;

2019 Selected for Hardcopy ACT Writers Centre.

2014 Hannah Blumenstein Eady , a Life. Revised Edition

2013 Carmel Bird long story Award (shortlisted);

2013 Australian Book Review Calibre Prize (Long listed for Essay ‘The Shadow of the Rose’);

2012 ABR Calibre Prize for Outstanding Essay

2012 (Shortlisted for essay ‘Mapping the Edges of the Night’ );

2006 Biography of Hannah Eady by E. Ratnam

2003 UTS Writers Anthology of New writing Short Story ‘The Eye of the Typhoon’ Halstead Press.

1988  Mosman Print and Drawing Prize (shared with Tom Carment)

1988  Bowral Mittagong Print Prize