Education

2022                Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Sydney

2006                Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education), The University of Sydney

2000                Master of Arts by Research (Ceramic Design), Monash University, Melbourne

1996                Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours (Ceramic Design), Monash University, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2022                A Village Called Arncliffe, Project Space, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney

2011                Fabric, Artereal Gallery, Sydney      

2009                Emerald City, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

2004                Skyline, Object Galleries, Sydney

2006                Soundscape, Twocubes @ Sherman Galleries, Sydney

Group Exhibitions by Invitation or Competitive Entry

2026                Glasnost, Waranara Library Exhibition Space, Macquarie University, Sydney

2025                Twenty, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney

2024                Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney

2023                Fifty Skies, Annandale Galleries, Sydney

2023                Nuova Luce, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

2023                Present Continuous, SCA Galleries, Sydney

2016                X/I & X/II, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

2015                What’s in a Toybox?, Goulburn Regional Gallery, New South Wales

2014                Critical Thinking: Research + Art + Culture, Graduate School Conference Exhibition: New Materialism, SCA Galleries, Sydney

2013                Critical Thinking: Research + Art + Culture, Graduate School Conference: Space, Place and Country and Camouflage Cultures, SCA Galleries, Sydney

2013                Connexion Points, Willoughby Sculpture Prize, Sydney

2013                Ten Squared, Canberra Glass Works, Canberra

2010                Heartbeat (in collaboration with Marion Borgelt), Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

2010                Now: pop culture in contemporary craft, Masterworks Gallery, New Zealand

2010                Cats and Dogs, Masterworks Gallery, New Zealand

2009                RBS Emerging Artist Award, RBS Building, Sydney

2008                Shaping Perspectives, Horus and Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney

2008                SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA

2008                Pilot Light, Canberra Glass Works, Canberra

2007                City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

2007                New Glass from Australia, Chappell Gallery, New York, USA

2007                M Generation, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne

2005               Mindmaps, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2005                25 Years of Monash Glass, Monash Faculty Gallery, Melbourne

2005                The Next Chapter, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney

2005                Masters of Australian Glass, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney

2004                Australian and New Zealand Glass — The Next Generation, Global Art Venue, Seattle, USA

2004                Reflections, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, New South Wales

2003                Australian Glass, Anna Bibby Gallery, New Zealand

2002                Less is More/ Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane

2001                Formal Qualities, Object Galleries, Customs House, Sydney

2000                Glass Sculpture, Kirra Galleries, Southbank, Melbourne     

2000                RFC Annual Glass Prize, Volvo Gallery, Sydney, QV1 Lobby, Perth, Craft Queensland Gallery, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Craft ACT Gallery

1998                RFC Annual Glass Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australian Contemporary Art Fair, National Gallery Melbourne, Craftwest Centre for Contemporary Craft, Brisbane City                            Hall Gallery

1996                Unique — A selected exhibition of Victorian Glass, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2011                Utility, Bauhaus to Our House — Something Old Something New, SCA Gallery, Sydney

2011                Refraction, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2008                Travelling South, M16 Gallery, NSW

2006                The Blues, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney

2005                Art Sydney 05, Sabbia Gallery, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney

2000                Fidelity–Filipelli, Lavery, Stokes, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney

1999                Studio Glass, The Contemporary Art and Design Gallery, Queensland

1997                20th Anniversary Ausglass Members Show, Sydney College of the Arts

1994                Glass Exposure, Whitefriars College, Melbourne

Journal Articles

2022                The Historical Materialism of Urban Ruin in A Village Called Arncliffe, The Official: International Journal of Contemporary Humanities

2011                Peripheral Vision, Craft Arts International, Issue 82, pp 2–3

2006                World Glass, Object Magazine, issue 51, pp 38–40

Conference Proceedings

2025                Sculptural Forms of Resistance: Addressing Exclusion Through Live Material Encounters, Unruly Objects, AAANZ 2025 Conference, The University of Western Australia

2023                Education now: The challenges of teaching glass at the Futures Past, Ausglass Conference, Melbourne, Academic Panel

2015                Mining Matter: Materialist Methodologies in the Land Art of Robert Smithson and Laura Almarcegui, Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology and Relationality, VI International Conference on                           New Materialisms, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne

2015                Robert Smithson: New Materialism in Reverse, The Graduate School Conference, New Materialism in Contemporary Art, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney

2015                The Craft Paradox in Advertising and Contemporary Art, The Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand (MAANZ), Sydney

2014                The Craft Paradox in Advertising and Contemporary Art, The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, Hobart, Tasmania

Presentations and Demonstrations by Invitation

2008                Guest Lecturer and Demonstrator, Alfred University, Summer School, Alfred, New York

2008                Demonstrator, Open House, Ausglass Conference, ACT

2005                Coordinator and Demonstrator, Hot Glass Road Show, Corning Museum of Glass, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2003               Guest Lecturer, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University

2003               Guest Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne

Professional Development Workshops

2006                Lino Tagliapietra workshop, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide

2005                Glass Art Society 35th Annual Conference, Matters of Substance, Adelaide

2002                Andrea Zilio workshop in Advanced Venetian Style Glassblowing, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA

2002                Tom Rowney workshop, Canberra School of Art, ACT

1997                Tom Farbanish workshop, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA

1997                 Laura Donefer workshop, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

1996                Hiroshi Yamano workshop, Monash University, Melbourne

1995                Ruth King workshop, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne

1994                Pam Stadus workshop, Monash University, Melbourne

1993                Dick Marquis and Dante Marioni workshop, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne

Selected Grants, Awards and Funding

2011                Ian Potter Foundation, Conference Grant. $10000

2011                Australia Council for the Arts, Presentation and Promotion Grant. $26724

2010                Small teaching equipment improvement scheme grant (TEIS), The University of Sydney. $8460

2008                NAVA (National Association of Visual Artists) Marketing Grant. $1250

2008                Large teaching equipment improvement grant (TEIS), The University of Sydney. $27855

2007                Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant. Travel to Corning Museum of Glass to research and develop new work.$20000

2003                Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and Development Grant. Travelled to ARS Murano, Venice, Italy. $6000

2002                Scholarship Andrea Zilio workshop in Advanced Venetian-Style Glassblowing, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA        

2000                Finalist RFC Glass Prize

Collections

Public

Goulburn Regional Gallery, Australia

National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Australia

Artbank, Sydney

Private

The Martin Beaver Collection, ACT 

The Wrightmann Collection, New Zealand

The Luisa Catanzaro Collection, Sydney      

The Geoffrey Strutton Collection, Brisbane

Coca Cola Amatil, Sydney

Horwitz Publications P/L, Sydney

Yarra Valley Anglican School, Melbourne

Selected Book, Catalogue, Journal and Media Coverage

Book              

2013                O’Connor, Denis, Australian Signatures, The National Art Glass Collection for the Collection of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 90

2009                Robson, Kelly, Gaffa, Creation Development, 2006, 54–59

2005                Osbourne, Margot, Australian Glass in the New Millennium, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 99–100

2002                Fitzpatrick, Kirsten, Less is More/Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, 21

Catalogue

2014                Critical Thinking: Research + Art + Culture, Graduate School Conference Exhibition: New Materialisms, SCA Galleries, Sydney

2013                Critical Thinking: Research + Art + Culture, Graduate School Conference: Space, Place and Country and Camouflage Cultures, SCA Galleries, Sydney

2013                Ten Squared, Canberra Glass Works, Canberra

2009                RBS Emerging Artist Award, RBS Building, Sydney

2005                Wirdnam, Nick and Aslanis George, 25 Years of Monash Glass

2000                Fong, Helen, RFC Glass Prize

Journal

2004                King, Gerry, Beside the Tasman Sea, Craft Arts International, 91–3

2003                Lavery, Andrew, Portfolio No.202, Craft Arts International, Issue, 56

2002                Fitzpatrick, Kirsten, Less is More/Less is a Bore, Craft Arts International,Issue 56, 98–103

2001                Cooke, G. R. The RFC glass prize 2000, Craft Arts International, Issue 51, 97–98

Media

2007                Schwartzkoff, Louise, He’s Hoping his work won’t be a smash, Arts and entertainment, Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 2007

2007                Jones, Jennie Jones, Skating on Glass, Sydney Live, The Daily Telegraph, 15 October, 2007

2007                Design Hub, Powerhouse Museum, http://www.dhub.org/articles/1046

2005                Crafti Stephen, 25 Years of Monash Glass in The Age, 16 May, 2005

2005                Crafti Stephen, The Age, Map of the Human Heart (and brain), 2 May, 2005

2005                MacDean, Mark, Journey’s End: Negotiating Mind Maps: A Cartography of Glass in Australia, Craft Culture, 14 May, 2005

2004                Knight, Anneli, Glassy Gaze, Sydney Morning Herald – Metropolitan, 12 November, 2004

2002                Edwards, David, Less is More/ Less is a Bore www.theblurb.com.au/Issue20, in the blurb

2002                Bearman, Nicole; Australian Style, No.62, May 2002, terraplanet, 41

2002                Monks, Suzanne; Inside Out, May 2002, Issue 24, News Magazines, 58–60

2002               Smoky Skyline featured in Inside Out Magazine, 58–60

2000                Russel, Kelly; Wallpaper – Design Directory, July–August, Time Life Entertainment Group, 161

2000                Bean, Georgina; Marie Claire Lifestyle August–September, Murdoch Magazines, 36

Public Comment

2020                Tributes for the artist who wrapped Sydney's coast, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June

2020                New art school recalibrates the value of art and craft, Arts Hub, 2 October

2019                $20 million Sydney art campus will ‘breathe fire,’ The Daily Telegraph, 13 November

2013                Artists' insights a boon for students, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December