Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications and professional development

Master of Fine Arts (Research) University of Tasmania (2025)

introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis, Open University, United Kingdom (2025)

The Climate Shift: University of Tasmania (2026)

Korean Inlay: five-day workshop with Sungho Cho, Atelier Rudee, Bangkok (2019)

Digital Ready Online Mentorship Department of Economic Development, Tasmania (2014)

Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy: Intensive Course (2014)

University of Tasmania: Body Adornment/Contemporary Art Jewellery (2014)

Lucrative Arts Business Course, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania (2009)

TAFE Tasmania Diploma of Art, Craft and Design Course (Jewellery): selected subjects (1991-92)

Bachelor of Social Administration, Flinders University, South Australia (1982)

Bachelor of Arts, University of Tasmania (1980)

Solo exhibitions

Paper towns and abandoned places: contemporary jewellery and object responses to what we

take, what we cast off and what might have been, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart (2024)

This place: Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2024)

Time and Tide: Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2019)

Head in the Clouds: Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2017)

The Flower Lady- ten decades, Old Distillery Gallery, Art Farm, Tasmania (2017)

Physis+Nature=Essence: Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2014)

Made on Deal Island, Off Centre Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania (2010)

Selected Group Exhibitions

Contemporary Wearables: Toowoomba Galleries finalist (2025)

Sculpture Prize, Art Farm Birchs Bay (2025)

Handmark Gallery: Jewellery showcase (2025)

Zooplankton, The Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (2024)

Puncturing the mask of civility, Runneymede House, Hobart (2024)

Truth or Dare, Adornaxis, New York Contemporary Jewellery Week (2023)

Compass: an exploration of place, space and belonging, No Vacancy/Artaviso, Melbourne (2023)

Precious: excellence in contemporary jewellery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (2023)

Difficult Terrain, Rosny Farm, Hobart, Australia (2023)

Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, finalist (2022)

Profile 22, Australian Design Centre (2022)

The Language of Textiles: unravelling ornament, Hadley’s Orient Hotel Hobart (2021)

Tidal.20, Devonport, Tasmania, finalist (2020)

Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, RANT Arts, finalist (2020)

Hidden Histories-Narryna, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (2020)

Profile’19 – The Australian Design Centre, Sydney (2019)

Gilded Encounters- Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart (2018)

Material Memories- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston (2018)

Inscription and Place-Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (2017)

Serial Exchange, Loop Project Art Space, Melbourne, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne (2015)

Contemporary Wearables, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia, finalist (2015)

Australian Contemporary Silver and Metalwork Award exhibition, Castlemaine Art Gallery (2015)

Exquisite, The Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hobart (2015)

Pushing the Boundaries, Rosny Schoolhouse Gallery, Hobart (2013)

Designed Made, Tasmanian Design, Mawson Pavilion, Hobart, Ten Days on the Island (2013)

Residencies

Rosamond McCulloch Studio, Le Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris (2026)

Bundanon Trust Residency, NSW (2021)

Dombrovskis Parks and Wildlife Residency, Maria Island, Arts Tasmania (2018)

Muong studio, North Vietnam (2016)

Awards and grants

Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency, Paris, UTAS (2026)

Marie Edwards Visual Arts Travelling Scholarship UTAS (2026).

Winner Tidal.20 acquisitive art prize, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania (2020)

Dombrovskis Parks and Wildlife Residency, Maria Island, Arts Tasmania (2018)

Arts Tasmania, Individual Artists Grant (2015)

An artwork selected by the Premier as a gift for the Duchess of Cornwall from the people of Tasmania (2012).

Art Publications

Paper towns and abandoned places: contemporary jewellery and object responses to what we take, what we cast off and what might have been, MFA Thesis, University of Tasmania 2025

Oggetti Soievoli - Sociable Objects The season of household objects | The season of home objects

Garland magazine: 2022 Wrapping the present within the past | Garland Magazine

Workshops (1992-2026)

AWEAR: making wearable gestures of hope about climate change, Art Farm, Birchs Bay (2025)

Participate, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Introduction to Contemporary Jewellery (2022)

As part of Community Focus Consultancy, I conducted workshops (health, environmental, arts, legal, educational and community services personnel) on topics ranging from management skills, community engagement strategies, groupwork, dealing with stress, grief, service planning, evaluation skills and teamwork.

Accredited training programs have been developed (e.g. Supported Accommodation Assistance Program, Working for Women’s Health) and I have trained whole workforces (e.g. Australian Bureau of Statistics Interviewers Australia-wide, Glenorchy City Council, customer service skills, Glenorchy City Council, community engagement skills training, Tasmania Together, Community Leaders Group, resources and training in communityengagement strategies, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Training and Induction Manual).

Community engagement

Over a career spanning over thirty years, I have run over one hundred public meetings or forums (e.g. Development of Marine Protected Areas, Tasman Peninsula Health and Aged Care Services re-development, Huon Valley Health Needs, Devonport Bus Services, King George V Redevelopment Project, Pirates Bay Master Plan, Parks and Wildlife Service, Cradle Mountain Infrastructure Project, Re-development of Risdon Prison). Some community engagement has taken the form of focus groups (e.g. Bushwalking and Track Review project, Western Arthurs, Information technology plan for NGO’s, Young People and Pregnancy project, re-development of Brighton and Southern Midlands schools), while others have involved extensive interviews (Under 18’s Homelessness Project, Clarendon Vale residential redevelopment). I have also undertaken extensive survey work (e.g. Glenorchy City Council Social Plan, Home and Community Care Services, services for families of people with mental illness).

Evaluation

I have completed over forty program evaluations in areas as diverse as health programs (e.g. Home and Care Services, The Corner Youth and Pulse Youth Health Services, Rural Alive and Well, Move Well Eat Well), social support programs (Tasman Community project, Flexible Pilot, Disability Services, lungtalanana youth offenders program, Hobart City Council Youth Program), arts projects (e.g. The Happiness Project, Kickstart Arts for the Australia Council), and education programs (e.g. National School Drug Education Program).

Research

From 1983- 2014 I conducted research as part of a consultancy business which I owned and operated (Community Focus). Research projects focused on public infrastructure (e.g. walking trails, design of parks and recreation spaces), health and community services (e.g. aged care models, health services, youth programs, literacy services, women’s shelters, crime prevention programs, legal services, mental health services, health promotion strategies and programs within Aboriginal and Migrant communities). My clients include the Australian Government, State Government Departments, Non-Government Organisations and many Local Governments around the State.

In 2025 I completed and published a Master of Fine Arts (Research) Thesis entitled Paper Towns and Abandoned Places: contemporary jewellery and object. responses to what we take, what we cast off and what might have been.