Biography
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| After training as a weaver in the USA, I returned to Australia in 1977 and subsequently established a production weaving workshop in Sydney in 1979 where I trained apprentices in my studio. In the early 80's, I established the Barr Street Weavers in Sydney and also worked as a community artist training rural and urban educators working in out of school centres, travelling extensively around NSW. From 1983 – 2003 I taught visual arts in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. For a list of exhibitions please visit the exhibitions page HERE |
Collections
| Power House Museum, Sydney, New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery; Araluan Art Gallery, Alice Springs Northern Territory: University of Southern Queensland; University of Wollongong New South Wales; Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales; Goulburn Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Mackay Regional Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales; private collections in Australia and overseas. |
Professional experience
| University Fellow Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW Australia, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer & Co-ordinator of Visual Arts in the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW Australia, since 1984; Director of the Faculty Art Gallery for six years. | |
| 2008 | workshop tutor Fibres Ballarat - Victoria workshop tutor Fibres West - Western Australia workshop tutor in conjunction with Momentum, Tamworth Textile Biennial |
| 2007 | Artist in Residence NERAM, Armidale NSW Artist in Residence Skopelos, Greece Curator Milestones 1 & 11 for Art, Heritage & Place Project Wollongong Workshop tutor Sturt summer School |
| 2006 | Workshop tutor in artist books in New Zealand and Geelong Victoria |
| 2005 | Artist in Residence Quark Polar Expeditions, Antarctic Expedition Lecturer Paper & Book Intensive Colorado USA |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist Residency at NERAM, Armidale NSW Artist in Residence Quark Polar Expeditions, Arctic Expedition |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist Skopelos Art Foundation, Greece |
| 2002 | Curator of an exibition of Australian paper artists to show in Japan |
| 1999 | Selected as a participant in Northern Fibre 111 held in Jutland Denmark Selected as 1 of 3 Australian artists to exhibit in the International Tapestry Triennale in Lodz, Poland |
| 1994 | Cite Internationale Studio Paris, Art gallery of New South Wales studio 3 month residency. Visiting Lecturer Marmara University Istanbul, Turkey Healthy Cities Award for Contribution Towards Community Arts in the Wollongong Area |
| 1993-4 | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade grant for travelling Student Exhibition to Turkey |
| 1983-4 | Australia Council Trainee Grants for training in weaving workshop |
| 1979-83 | Established production weaving workshop in Sydney Australia working with apprenticeship training program; also worked as a community artist with Community Activities Network from 1978, training rural and urban educators working in out of school centres. |
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Publications
| 2007 | Imprint – Spring ’07 review of Wanderlust by Virginia Jay Textile Fibre Forum, issue 4, # 88 Wanderlust review by Kathryn Orton IAPMA Journal Nov ‘07 – Journeys Article Liz Jeneid Milestones – curator, catalogue foreword |
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| 2006/7 | Wanderlust - Artist book catalogue |
| 2004 | Undercover - Artist Book Catalogue |
| 2002 | Departures & Paperworks 2002 Ino, Japan. catalogues |
| 2000/1 | Lake Mungo Revisited – catalogue Common Ground - catalogue |
| 1999 | Northern Fibre - Hidden Treasures - catalogue |
| 1998 | 9th Internationale Tapestry Triennale - catalogue |
| 1996 | Below the Surface catalogue essay.P54,56Derivations - catalogue essay Second Look- catalogue essay Prospect Gallery S.A. TAASA Review - The Turkish Connection |
| 1995 | Crossing Borders catalogue essay Sue Rowley p. 28-29 Intersection Catalogue, Wollongong City Gallery Publication Periphery, catalogue essay by Diana Wood Conroy Issue no.22 Feb'95 p30-31 |
| 1994 | Discerning Textiles catalogue essay Jennifer Lamb Anthology of the Illawarra edit by Ron Pretty |
| 1992 | Imprint- Reflections on the Artist Book Summer 1992 Vol 27 #4 NSW Textile Fibre Forum #33 Artists of the Illawarra p.27 Grace Cochrane, The Crafts Movement in Australia- a History p.11,215,358,363, pub NSW Univ Press '92 |
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Study & Research Overseas
| 2007 | Cyprus, Greece, Spain - Mallorca, Menorca, Malaga Region |
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| 2006 | Israel, Spain, Paris, France |
| 2005 | Antarctic, Greece, Mallorca, USA |
| 2004 | Iceland, Greenland, Canada |
| 2003 | Italy, Greece, USA - one month residency at the Skopelos Foundation Greece. |
| 2002 | Cambodia/Japan |
| 2000/1 | USA, Europe |
| 1999 | Denmark - participant Northern Fibre 111 |
| 1998 | India, Europe - lectured in France, Finland & Estonia |
| 1994 | Turkey - to mount University of Wollongong student exhibition in Istanbul, visiting textile lecturer in residence, Marmara University, Istanbul. Residency at Cite, Paris for 3 months |
| 1992 | Japan,,Hungary (Paper& Book conference)Turkey, France, UK, USA(Participated in Artist Book Fair Washington DC) |
| 1989 | Yemen, Turkey, Switerland, UK, USA, Japan |
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