Profile
Born in 1954, I grew up on the family farm at Warooka on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. My childhood interest in art and creative pursuits led me to train as an art teacher in the early 1970s. Teaching wasn't for me and so, naturally, I followed this with paraprofessional training in library studies during the late 1980s. While working in libraries I made a foray into the world of desktop publishing and by the mid-1990s had found digital graphic design and publication development a natural fit for my character.
After the 1980s I set aside my art practice to focus on family and work but since 2006, with periodic bursts of activity, have sought to resume my professional practice. In 2015, after 20 years living in Willaston and commuting by train to Adelaide for work, I moved to Mintaro in the Clare Valley to pursue my interests.
My relationship with art practice seems to be both sporadic and idiosyncratic; lacklustre and hesitant at times, unfettered and obsessive at others. My work and ideas come, as they do, bubbling to the surface at their own pace.
I generally favour working in two dimensions, including painting, drawing and digital mediums. My work draws on the juxtaposition of random thoughts and observations, on composition, contemplation and circumstance. Simplicity attracts me, space also.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2011 A Transitory Impression. Rolf Binder Veritas Winery, Tanunda.
2010 Yorke Peninsula Coastal. Rolf Binder Veritas Winery, Tanunda.
2008 Mostly Landscape. Belalie Art Gallery, Jamestown.
2007 Changing Light. Belalie Art Gallery, Jamestown.
1983 Circumstantial evidence. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
1980 Photo-compositions. Fullarton Park Community Gallery.
Group Exhibitions
2019 Mintaro Slate. Mintaro Institute.
2016 Port Pirie Art Prize. Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery.
2016 Vitrine. The University of Adelaide.
2014 Mother Nature is a Lesbian. Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide.
2012 Drawn from the Valley. Rolf Binder Veritas Winery, Tanunda.
2010 Composite Works. Gawler Community Gallery, Gawler.
2009 6th Prospect Portrait Prize. Prospect Gallery, Nailsworth.
2009 Peter Murdoch and Gilbert Roe: Impressions. The University of Adelaide
1987 Sum of the Parts. College Gallery, Underdale campus, SACAE, Adelaide.
1987 Sum of the Parts. Kelly Street Kolektiv Gallery, Sydney.
1986 Truth Rules II. (Touring exhibition). Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
1985 40 SA Artists. Stow Church Meeting Hall, Adelaide.
1985 ANZART / Auckland '85. (Book-work). Auckland, N.Z.
1985 Post-Atomic card show. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
1984 Roundspace at the Royal Society. Kintore Gallery, Adelaide.
1983 Ideas on Ice. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
1983 C.A.S. Members exhibition. Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide.
Collaborative Projects
1994 From Tablet to Terminal. State Library of South Australia.
1987 Flowering Plants at the Parks. Parks Community Centre Library.