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