CV
Education
2023-24 Fine Arts First Class Honours, RMIT, Melbourne
2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts RMIT, Melbourne
2017 Masters of Military History and Strategic Defence Studies, ANU, Canberra
2009 Masters of Engineering Management – University of Technology Sydney
2004 Royal Military College - Duntroon, Queen's Commission
2002 Australian Defence Force Academy, Bachelor of Arts
Professional experience
2026 Play in Residence, City of Yarra artists course with Leah Manaema Avene
2026 Festival of Veteran Art Workshops
2025 Residency at the Victorian Shrine of Remembrance
2024 Festival of Veteran Art Print Workshop
2023 Collaborator on Australian Defence Force Creative Arts deployment pack
2023 Co-curator for Australian National Veterans Art Museum exhibition, March into Art: Create
2021-22 President of Open Bite Student Association RMIT Union Student Association
Exhibitions
2026
Napier Waller Art Prize exhibition, Australian War Memorial
Sparks in the Dark, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (August 2026-2027)
March to Art exhibition, Australian National Veterans Art Museum, Southbank, Melbourne
Sky Writing – toured at the Festival of Veteran Art in Melbourne, Smiths Alternative Canberra, and will go to the University of Canberra in October
…May We?, Pussy Willow Power Collective, Maroondah Federation Art Gallery
Staying with the Trouble, Rofe Street Gallery, Leichhardt
Fold Stitch Bind, Artist Book Survey, Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Collective 2026, Red Gallery North Fitzroy
2025
Peace Within, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
Celebrating Women, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
Sparks in the Dark, Next Wave, Brunswick
Protesting the Personal, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne
2024
Emerging Artist Exhibition, Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne
Inter - print – ations, Rubicon Gallery, North Melbourne
Napier Waller Art Prize, Australian Parliament House, Canberra
2023
March into Art: Create, Australian National Veterans Art Museum, Melbourne
Printmaking Today 3rd Edition, Site Eight Gallery, RMIT University
Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
Solo Show, River of Art, Moruya, NSW
‘ADF to V of Creative Conversations, Australian Parliament House, Canberra
Reflections, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide
Solo Show, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
RMIT Graduation Show, Melbourne
2022
RMIT Graduation Show, RMIT City Campus
For Each a Road, Melbourne City Library
Napier Waller Art Prize, Australian Parliament House
Persona, Victoria Parliament House, Government House Canberra, and traveling nationally
Rock for R&R, traveling nationally
A4 Exhibition, Site Eight, RMIT
March into Art: Australian National Veterans Art Museum, Melbourne
2021
March into Art: Australian National Veterans Art Museum, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
Liberate Our Lights, Motley Bauhaus, North Fitzroy
2020
COVID Window Show, Motley Bauhaus, North Fitzroy
Napier Waller Exhibition, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
ReMiX, RMIT Print Studio, RMIT University, Melbourne
2019
ARRTS 19.1, Canberra University Inspire Centre, Canberra
Napier Waller Exhibition, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
2007
Wet and Dry, Northern Centre of Contemporary Art, Darwin
Awards
2025 8 AM Afghan Independent Media Art Award
2024 Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence Award (Top 2% of graduates)
2024 Napier Waller Art Prize winner
2024 Fortyfive Downstairs Emerging Artist finalist
2023 Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize finalist
2022 Kayell Digital Print Award upon graduating from Bachelor of Fine Art, Print
2022 Ursula Hoff Art History Essay Commission, Imprint Magazine
2022 Highly Commended Napier Waller Art Prize
2020 Highly Commended Napier Waller Art Prize
2019 Short Listed Commended Napier Waller Art Prize
Visiting lectures
2025 Artist talks at Shrine of Remembrance
2024 Artist talk at Rubicon ARI for Inter - print - ations exhibition
2024 Artist talk at Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2023 Artist talk for River of Art with author Adrian Caesar, Moruya, NSW
2023 Artist talk for March into Art, ANVAM
2022 Artist talk at Persona Launch, Bright
2022 Artist talk at Department Veterans Affairs Victoria, Melbourne
2022 Artist talk at Viden, Canberra
2021 Artist talk at No Vacancy Gallery for March into Art, ANVAM
Bibliography
ABC Documentary series, When the War is Over, 2025
Brunswick Voices, Artworks honour Afghan women in adversity, 16 August 2025
SBS World News, Sparks in the Dark, 21 March 2025
The Unforgiving 60 Podcast 2025
Mandarin, Artwork that Puts Everything in Context, 21 March 2024
Australian War Memorial, From Anguish to Art, 2024
Shrine of Remembrance podcast, 2024
2024 Arts Hub, How do artists and cultural institutions shape the conversation on war and conflict?
ABC documentary After the War 2023
Mufti Magazine, RSL Australia, 2022
Publications
2025 Monuments and counter monuments: Anzac myths and the real cost of war, Defending Country
2024 An Artist Answers Her Critics, The Quadrant Online
2024 Australian Print Council blog on Inter - print - ations exhibition
IMPRINT Print Council Australia, Ursula Hoff Essay Reckoning: In what ways can print practice be used to promote thought on uncomfortable Australian military history?, 2022
2021 Reshaping Worlds Magazine, RMIT
Collections
Australian National Library, Canberra
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Shrine of Remembrance, Victoria
Australian National Veterans Art Museum
Legacy Headquarters, Canberra and Melbourne
Viden, Canberra
RMIT Print Exchange 2022 – personal and various university collections (RMIT University, Curtin University, University of South Queensland, National Art School, ITB Indonesia)
Victorian Government House, Melbourne
Grants
2025 Creative Australia, City of Melbourne
2026, 2025 and 2024 Wayward Women Giving Fund
Professional service
2022 – ongoing - Ambassador for Australian National Veterans Art Museum
Media
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