Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
2013-15 Master of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Professor Callum Morton)
1997-2000 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
SOLO & COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2023 Velodrome, Stockroom Kyneton, Australia (with Edwina Stevens)
2022 Velodrome, Schoolhouse Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (with Edwina Stevens)
2021 Conversation Piece, BUS Projects, Melbourne, Australia (with Edwina Stevens)
2019 I feel the earth move under my feet, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (with Edwina Stevens)
2018 From Little Things, Big Things Grow, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Australia
2017 From Little Things, Big Things Grow, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2016 If man is 5 then the devil is 6: 7 Artworks for KOOKOO, Gerichtstr 23, Berlin, Germany
2016 Creating False Memories for a Place That Never Was (Part 2), BLINDSIDE, Melbourne (with Mieko Suzuki)
2016 Creating False Memories for a Place That Never Was, Bus Projects, Melbourne (with Mieko Suzuki)
2015 Magic Dirt, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Australia (with Mieko Suzuki)
2015 Total Eclipse of the Heart, Monash University MFA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Total Eclipse of the Heart, This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Magic Dirt, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (with Mieko Suzuki)
2013 Don’t forget me, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2013 I want to love you but I’m getting blown away, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (with Mieko Suzuki)
2012 We’re All in This Together, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
2012 I want to love you but I’m getting blown away, REH Kunst, Berlin, Germany (with Mieko Suzuki)
2011 Life tends to come and go, that’s ok as long as you know, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
2010 Time stands still when I think of you, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
2010 I heard it from my friends about the things you said, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
2010 You took the words right out of my mouth, Gearbox Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 I didn’t come here to be a tourist, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
2009 Spatial Interruption, Gallery 33, Berlin, Germany
2007 It’s because we can’t stop that we do it, Victoria Park, Melbourne, Australia
2007 It’s because we’re all the same that we’re blue, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Just Passing Through, Platform Space, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Set Menu, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 SKWOT, KINGS ARI, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Straight from the Skwot, Little Salon, Melbourne, Australia
2002 The time it takes for paint to drop, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2001 DFNKT, Bus, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Upcoming) Beechworth Biennale, Beechworth, Australia (Upcoming) Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curated by Simon Lawrie, Lorne, Australia
2023
Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland (with Edwina Stevens)
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Origin of Images, curated by Benjamin Sheppard, Fitzroy Gardens Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia
Feed me magnetic rain, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Beautiful thing in you, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Be of our space world, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
We're on fire, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
On a clear day, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2022
There is no pilot, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Sculpting in time, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Direct action, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2021
Assemblage, curated by Jon Butt, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (with Edwina Stevens)
2020
Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Object Lessons, curated by Victor Griss, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Assemble, curated by Kent Wilson, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (with Edwina Stevens)
Falling, falling, falling now, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2019
Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (with Edwina Stevens)
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Some will rise, some will fall, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
We share the moon, we share the stars, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
You can't tell us how to play our music, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Unlike the snail, we carry our homes within us, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2018
Groundwork, curated by Matthew Davis, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Melbourne, Australia
Everyday Monuments, curated by Lisa Byrne, Artspace REALM, Melbourne, Australia (with Kenny Pittock)
Begin the fall into your arms, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
You've got the answers in the palms..., curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
There is thunder in our hearts, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
In the demon's lair, a small bird rose, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Every silence lets in the same doubt, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
It's after the end of the world, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2017
The Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (with Mieko Suzuki)
BLINDSIDE B-SIDE, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, Australia
Guirguis New Art Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia (with Mieko Suzuki)
Technicians Choice, curated by Claire Watson, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Sports, curated by Ross Taylor, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Australia
Bureau for the Organisation of Origins, curated by Benjamin Sheppard, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, Australia
When I see the towers fall, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
A veil awave upon the waves, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
No kinds of love are better than others, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
I think we should put some Mountains here, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Where even the darkness is something to see, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2016
Artfest, HB55 Raume Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany (collaboration w Mieko Suzuki/Yuki Taguchi)
MFA Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Overgrown, The Foodcourt, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
If man is 5 then the devil is 6, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
The harder we fight, the higher the wall, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Touching from a distance, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Mit dem mond und unberechenbar, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Tomorrow never comes, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
It's after the end of the world, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2015
Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
This city's made of light, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
There ain't no cowboy in my hair, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
If I had control, I didn't feel any yet, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Growth, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Soothe my mind and set me free, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
The things that dreams are made of, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2014
The Gleaners’ Archive, curated by Verity Hayward, D11 Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Faux Museum, curated by Melissa Loughnan et al., c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
All is made of old, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
You can be someone if you grow with me, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Falling out of sunset into your blue sky curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2 young 2 know better 2 old to refuse, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Count the calories of your thoughts, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
Gonna hang the dreamcatcher right over..., curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2013
Small Gestures, MU Artspace, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Abbotsford Convent Fundraiser, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
FRAME_Birmingham, curated by Elly Clarke, Clarke Gallery in various locations, Birmingham, UK
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
You'll never know how close you came, curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
The distance makes me want you more..., curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
I'm thinking about the way that lost things..., curated by Mieko Suzuki/Arno Raffeiner, OHM Berlin, Germany
2012
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
TaskMasters, curated by Rachael Hooper, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
Utility, curated by Kent Wilson for Craft Cubed (Craft Victoria), Stockroom, Kyneton, Australia
Gentle Giants II, curated by Martin Kwade, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
West Space Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
Fundstücke-Trash-Transformationen, curated by Hubi Jäger, Vitrine, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Art Brussels, KWADRAT booth curated by Martin Kwade, Brussels, Belgium
Ripe, curated by Ana Finel Honigman and Amir Fattal, ADN Building, Berlin, Germany
Berlin/Birmingham/Beyond- ALLOTMENT, curated by Elly Clarke, MAC Birmingham, UK
2011
Pre-Fab, Curated by Mardi Nowak, The Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Cut-Up, Curated by Mieko Suzuki, Alte Giesserei Berlin E.V., Berlin, Germany
Let’s have an exhibition at my house, curated by Renee Cosgrave, Mehringdamm 25, Berlin, Germany
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
NEXT2011 Art Chicago, Goffo booth curated by Liz Nielsen, Chicago, US
2010
Mums & Mimosas, curated by Liz Nielsen, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago, US
NEXT2010 Art Chicago, Goffo booth curated by Liz Nielsen, Chicago, US
Gentle Giants, curated by Martin Kwade, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
Stan & Maureen Duke Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
CUBEOpen, CUBE, Manchester, UK
Souterrain Boutique, curated by Anne Faser, Souterrain, Berlin, Germany
Short Stories, curated by Helen Gory, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
Anthology of Optimism, curated by La chose, MMX, Berlin, Germany
Distorted Viewpoint, curated by Spiros Hadjidjanos, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Remix, curated by Madeleine Boschan, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Der Kabinettschrank des Doktor W., curated by Hannes Gruber, Bar 25, Berlin, Germany
Eine Handvoll Leben, curated by Nicole Messerlehner, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
#6 Mail, curated by Hannes Gruber, Kantine, Berlin, Germany
#7 Altar, curated by Hannes Gruber, Kantine, Berlin, Germany
2009
Die Grosse Herbstausstellung, curated by Martin Kwade, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
Zweckgemeinshafft, curated by Art at Work, MICAMOCA, Berlin, Germany
Fundraislinn, curated by Helen Gory, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
SFHOTWT, curated by Hannes Gruber, Berlin, Germany
Repeat, Repeat, curated by Dell Stewart and Adam Cruickshank, Platform, Melbourne, Australia
Sarugaku, Souterrain, Berlin, Germany (collaboration with Ina Viola Blasius, Marcel Schobel, Claudia Rohrmoser)
Sarugaku, Kunstraum Pro Art, Hallein, Austria (collaboration as above)
Signals through the Flames, curated by LAN Hungh & Juan Arata , PHB, Berlin, Germany
Spending Time, Schmeide ARI, Hallein, Austria (screening)
Time Stands Still, Schmeide ARI, Hallein, Austria (screening)
2008
.BHC, Berlin, Germany
Knorke Goren, curated by Martin Kwade, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
Confusion, Studio 23, Berlin, Germany
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, Australia
Wasting Time, Schmeide ARI, Hallein, Austria (collaboration with Mieko Suzuki)
2007
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
The Flag Project, curated by Marcus Keating, Majorca House Windows, Melbourne, Australia
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, Australia
2006
Are You Here? curated by Julia Barnes, Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (collaboration with Jack McKlean)
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, Australia
ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, ABN AMRO, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Luminous 2, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
It's all about us, curated by Geneine Honey, Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
One Night Only, curated by Marcus Keating, AREA Contemporary Art Inc., Melbourne, Australia
2004
Hole in the Bucket, curated by Spiros Panigirakis, CLUBSproject, Melbourne, Australia (collaboration)
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Abject Arousal, curated by Angela Brophy, Conical, Melbourne, Australia (collaboration with Susan Jacobs)
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
A4 Show, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
Fundere Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery Melbourne, Australia
2002
Shelf Life, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (collaboration with Geneine Honey)
Fundere Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A4 Show, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
Fresh, Bus, Melbourne, Australia
2001
Arting Around, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (collaboration with Geneine Honey)
GRANTS | PRIZES | RESIDENCIES
2023 Finalist, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Australia
2022 Recipient of the Sustaining Creative Workers Grant (Creative Victoria/Regional Victoria)
2021 Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award, Australia
2020 Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award, Australia
2020 Recipient of the City of Melbourne Quick Response Art Grant
2018 Residency, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Melbourne, AUS
2017 Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award, Australia
2016 Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Thesis Excellence
2015 Finalist, Darebin Art Prize, Australia
2013 Recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award
2013 Recipient of the Australia Council Skills & Arts Development Grant
2013 Residency, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Australia
2012 Finalist, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Australia
2012 Recipient of the Australian Artist’s Grant
2011 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Australia
2010 Finalist, Stan & Maureen Duke Prize, Australia
2010 Finalist, CUBEOpen, Manchester, UK
2010 Residency, PieK Festival, Stattbad Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2009 Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur grant, Austria (in collaboration)
2009 Residency, Schmeide ARI, Hallein, Austria
2008 Recipient of the Australia Council New Work Emerging Artist Grant
2008 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, Australia
2008 Residency, Schmeide ARI, Hallein, Austria
2007 Recipient of the Janet Holmes a Court Artist Grant
2007 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, Australia
2006 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, Australia
2006 Finalist, ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Residency with workshops, St Michaels Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Recipient of the Pat Corrigan Artist's Grant
COLLECTIONS
Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection
RMIT Gallery Collection
The City of Stonnington Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Private collections in Australia, Japan, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the US
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Bednarczuk, Ola. "Best Cities for Creatives: How Berlin is Inspiring Four Australian Artists", Indesign Live, 10/2011. https://www.indesignlive.com/articles/in-review/best-cities-for-creatives-how-berlin-is-inspiring-four-australian-artists
Butler, Rex. "Critic's Choice", Art Collector, 76, April-June 2016, pp177-181.
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