Below is a summary of some of my creative practice and projects. For more information please see my resume via LinkedIn
Murray Arts, Unlocked micro-grant, February 2025
Creative Victoria, subsidy to participate in Digital skills of creatives online course, August 2022.
Regional Arts Victoria, Creative Recovery Network training, June 2022.(Department of Health and Human Services/Creative Victoria)
Regional Arts Victoria, Artlands conference and professional development participation grant, 2021
Murray Arts, Art/work- residency May 2021.
Murray Arts, Unlocked micro-grant September 2020.
Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Science Deans award for Learning Design 2014.
Charles Sturt University, Vice Chancellors award for excellence in teaching – First Year Teaching and Learning Team Award 2014.
Sculpture prize 2007, Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design.
2021
May 16 to July
An unopening (needle and hammer) collection, exhibition , Corowa Jewellery, NSW.
COVID is a beetch… this exhibition didn’t really “happen” even though it was physically installed and the work exists!!
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2020
May-June
Home is where the protest is,
Online craftivist protest about safety and privacy in home during COVID-19, protesting right to say no to in home inspections during COVID-19 while space I was living in was for sale.
January
Illustrations for online learning and human rights aged care project, for Daniella Greenwood and Associates.
2018
July- August 2018 , Stitch-a-hug month, Craft Cubed 2018 , Craft Victoria satellite project.
2017
March 17-26- Castlemaine State Festival
Flowers for Oberon, Purple Hen House Studio, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
2014
March to April
My precious ( I remember) , Yack Station, Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia
2009
Between, October, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Australia solo work and collaboration with Helen Braun (Review Sub-Machine, Kent Wilson)
Axioms and Idioms, June, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne Australia, with Melanie Wolfe
Selected finalist- art prizes
2024, Finalist, ( 3 works) Trails Sculpture Prize, Julia Street Gallery, Portland
2023, Finalist, Trails Sculpture Prize, Julia Street Gallery, Portland
2025
Finalist- Trails Sculpture Prize.
2023
Finalist – Trails Sculpture Prize April 1 – May 1
Tastes of Art, Rutherglen, March 5-10 ( photograph)
2022
Australian National Brooch Show
2021
5-14 March Rutherglen Tastes of Art Prize, Arts Rutherglen, Victoria
2020
COVID cancelled Australian National Brooch Show
2017
Dogs in Art, 3-26 February, Backspace Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria , Australia.
2015 Exit: Brunswick Arts will never die 11 December, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2014
Two thousand and four, 10 Year anniversary Brunswick Arts Space, 17 October to 2 November, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Used, 11-28 April 2014,Central Gallery Nhil, Victoria, Australia.
2010- 2011
Of Snowflakes and Spacetime, October to February Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne, Australia
2009
This is Brunswick Arts, Brunswick Street Gallery, January, Melbourne
2008
Totem: dolls with souls September to October Melbourne Fringe Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2007
Places of Being, September/October Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
This is Brunswick Arts, December, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
The Bigger Picture, November, Monash University, Melbourne
2006
depART, November, Monash University, Melbourne
I Heart SCU, August, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Indigo Shire Council, Creative Indigo, Arts and Culture Strategy Steering Committee- current.
Arts Rutherglen, Rutherglen Australia, Committee/media/social media promotions, Rutherglen Tastes of Art Prize subcommittee, 2020-2022
Brunswick Arts Space, Management Committee, Curation and installation of exhibitions Melbourne, Australia -December 2007 to June 2010
Blindside Arts space, Management Committee- Artist Liaison and Exhibition Support/Grant writing , Melbourne, Australia -January 2007 to December 2007
Kathy Temin: is a successful International artist based in Melbourne , Victoria whose works are included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of contemporary art. I had the pleasure and opportunity to work as Kathy’s studio assistant, constructing, packing/shipping and installing her large installation work and helping with preparation for her retrospective exhibition at Heide Museum:
- April to December 2009, and September to November 2008,
- January 2008, November 2007
2023
Woolly heart project, yarn bomb-crocheted hearts for long COVID sufferers.
2020
Learning design and illustrations for Daniella Greenwood and associates, The Mercy Way, a human rights approach to aged care.
Woolly heart project, yarn bomb- crocheted hearts as lockdown letterbox surprises.
Face masks for the community- sewing face masks with the Chiltern Community House.
2019
Woolly heart project, making and gifting folk in my creative heart and soul network with handcrafted, felted and crocheted wool brooches and yarn bomb wool hearts in public spaces as random gifts of woolly warmth.
2018
Regional Arts Victoria, Artlands, Crafting the Merch- handcrafting scarves for Artlands 2018 conference merchandise.
Stitching about Menstruation- contributed to an artist run project based in USA, -messages about issues around menstruation for Australian women were stitched onto cloth pads for a large art installation.
April, 30 days of being socially active, craftivist project- hand stitching and posting social messages in local social spaces and writing letters and sending hand stitched emoji/gifts to friends.
July- August 2018 , Stitch-a-hug month, Craft Cubed 2018 , Craft Victoria satellite project.
2017/2018
Participated in 5000 poppies projects – Making handcrafted, crocheted poppies for Victorian RSL Remembrance Day poppy brooch sales 2018.
2014
Yarn bombing the Holbrook, submarine. Handcrafted and contributed crocheted pieces for the HMAS Otway Yarn bombing project for the town of Holbrook, NSW Community arts project.
Ongoing
- Educational/ learning/curriculum design quality review
- Design for learning across modes (Digital /online/ hybrid/hyflex/open/f2f)- learning /educational design services to higher education/healthcare/creatives plus industry . Focus on social learning, collaborative, learner centred , lifelong learning and social justice approaches to education and learning and development.
- Educational diagrams, illustrations, audio/visual learning materials for online courses/ open education resources (OER)/Phd thesis/reports/ research papers/blogs/H5P/decision support guidelines/social justice/craftivist projects
Ongoing
- Educational/ learning/curriculum design quality review
- Design for learning across modes (Digital /online/ hybrid/hyflex/open/f2f)- learning /educational design services to higher education/healthcare/creatives plus industry . Focus on social learning, collaborative, learner centred , lifelong learning and social justice approaches to education and learning and development.
- Educational diagrams, illustrations, audio/visual learning materials for online courses/ open education resources (OER)/Phd thesis/reports/ research papers/blogs/H5P/decision support guidelines/social justice/craftivist projects
2010
Curator, Little memories exhibition, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
Exhibition installation team, Breathe, by sculptor and installation artist Liz Henderson, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
Artist studio assistant and exhibition installation team, Kathy Temin, My Monument Black Cube, Anna Schwartz
2009
Studio assistant and and exhibition installation team, of Kathy Temin, Survey show at Heide Museum of Modern Art
2008
Designer of exhibition catalogue and author of exhibition essay, Helen Braun, Evolution, August Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
2007
Curator, Places of Being, Brunswick Arts Space Melbourne
2006
Co- curator, I heart SCU, Monash University, Art and Design, 3rd year sculpture students, group exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery