CV
Born 1992 in Sydney, Australia.
EDUCATION
2018-2020 Master of Fine Arts (Research) funded by the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, University of New South Wales Art & Design
2011-2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photomedia (First Class Honours with Dean's Award) and Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (Dean's List for Academic Excellence), University of New South Wales
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 DOUBLE WITNESS, curated by Professor Ari Larissa Heinrich and Dr Lindsay Kelley, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra
2023 HEAVEN; JUST ANOTHER RUIN, Dominik Mersch Gallery Online
2020 DOUBLE WITNESS, Dominik Mersch Gallery Online
2019 SHADOW SHRINE, AD Space UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2017 OCCULERE, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Passage of Night; Luminary Rising, Chatswood Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney
2023 Double Parallax, collaboration with Anna May Kirk curated by Althea Kuzman, The Cube at Mosman Art Gallery
2023 Tracing the Rupture, curated by Hayley Zena, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
2023 Powerhouse Photography Late, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2022 Click & Collecting: New Works from the Studio, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2022 Playground, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2022 Transcending Bodies, PhotoAccess, Canberra
2022 Where Shadows Meet, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2022 The Moon's New Fury, group exhibition curated by Johanna Bear, KINGS Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2021 Home Planet, created for 4A Digital, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2021 CALDERA360, online exhibition: https://360.caldera.sydney/
2021 After Dark, Art Month group exhibition presented by Sydney Living Museum and curated by Talia Smith, Hyde Park Barracks
2021 Disobedient Daughters, group exhibition curated by Sophia Cai, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Collective: Ghost, virtual exhibition , Outer Space ARI Brisbane
2019 Becoming With, AD Space group exhibition, Tributary Projects Canberra
2019 Arts in Jet Lag, Experimental curatorial project by Yves Chiu, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2019 CARROUSEL, Open studio exhibition with Virginia Rowlands, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2019 Kudos Live: Intimate Circulation, mail-out exhibition from Paris to Sydney
2019 ECHO CHAMBERS: Art and Endless Reflections, across Deakin University Gallery, Deakin University Library Gallery, and Deakin University Downtown Gallery
2018 CALDERA, Eveleigh Works, Supported by the City of Sydney and Underbelly Arts
2018 being / becoming, STACKS Projects
2018 CONDO: DMG group exhibition, Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico City
2018 Summer Group Show, Dominik Mersch Gallery
2018 Otherworldly for Art Month, The Bearded Tit
2017 Oh, it's a horror show, group exhibition, Kudos Gallery
2017 Could all this be it, group exhibition, Cold Cuts Project Space
2017 Workshop 1, group exhibition, AD Space UNSW Art & Design
2017 For Film’s Sake Festival, video installation at Chinese Garden of Friendship
2017 MCA ARTBAR: CURATED BY LOUISE ZHANG, live performance at Museum of Contemporary Art
2017 THEY ARE FLYING, group exhibition Spot81 Gallery
2016 TRANSMUTE, group exhibition 107 Projects
2016 Identity, group exhibition Dominik Mersch Gallery
2015 UNSW Art & Design Annual, UNSW Galleries
2015 Outsiders, Imposters and Aliens, group exhibition, Dominik Mersch Gallery
2015 Face to Face, group exhibition, Gaffa Gallery
2015 COLLISION: Collide Magazine Launch, Commune Space
2014 Sydney Painting Now, group exhibition, Galerie Pompom and MOP Projects
2014 Porosity Studio: Displacement, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China
2013 COFA Annual, UNSW Art & Design Campus
2013 ILLUSION, group exhibition, Kudos Gallery
2013 After The Mayans, group exhibition, Kudos Gallery
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
2023 CreateNSW Small Project Grant
2020 National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant, Sidney Myer Fund and the Myer Foundation
2020 Create NSW Small Project Grant
2019 Ross Steele Scholarship
2018 Post-Graduate Travel Grant, UNSW Art & Design
2018 Arc @ UNSW Art & Design Grant
2018-2020 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2022 The Lock-Up, Newcastle, Australia
2019 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
PRIZES
2023 Highly Commended for the Olive Cotton Award, Tweed Regional Gallery
2023 Finalist for the Burwood Art Prize, Burwood Library, Sydney
2023 Finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2017 Finalist for Landscape, Head On Photo Festival, NSW Parliament House
2015 Finalist for the Kudos Award, Kudos Gallery
FILM & TELEVISION
2022 Photographic Artist for The Twelve, Australian television series produced for Foxtel by Easy Tiger Productions and Warner Bros Entertainment, starring Sam Neill and Kate Mulvany
CURATORIAL
2021 - Ongoing: Assistant Curator at White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
ADVISORY
2022 - 2024 Powerhouse Photography Advisory Group
2023 Creative in Residence 2024 Selection Panel, University of Technology Sydney Library
FUNDRAISERS & DONATIONS
2021 Fundraiser Exhibition, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2020 Art for First Nations Justice, raised $17,240 for Aboriginal Legal Services and Sisters Inside
2020 Art for Climate Justice, raised $15,741 for the Fire Fund for First Nations Communities and SEED Mob
2020 FBi Radio Digital Art Auction: Supporting Local Radio
2018 Fundraiser Exhibition, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2018 FBi Radio Art Auction, National Art School
2016 Totes Gay, Heaps Gay fundraiser raising awareness for Australian Marriage Equality
2015 GUT: Opening Fundraiser, GUT Space
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2023 China, Taiwan & Queer Conversation on Art by Professor Ari Larissa Heinrich, Australian Academy of the Humanities. Read online: here
2022 PhotoAccess Review, The Canberra Times. Read online: here
2022 Diaphanous Materiality in 'the moon's new fury' review by Nancy Mauro-Fludeby Nancy Mauro-Flude, UN Projects. Read online: here
2021 Caldera 360, TimeOut Sydney
2020 Interview with Mugetang Art Space in Chengdu about "Double Witness" (2020) published on WeChat. Read online: here
2019 Echo Chambers: Art and Endless Reflections, Art Guide. Read online: here
2018 Bohdee Media Featured Artist Video Interview: here
2018 UNSW Donor Report
2017 Featured Artist Interview, Antidote: here
2017 Workshop 1 catalogue curated by Isabella Cornell & Valerie Schlosberg, AD Space UNSW Art & Design
2017 OCCULERE: Exhibition Catalogue, essay written by Virginia Rowlands.
(ISBN: 978-0-646-97209-1)
2017 'OCCULERE' Exhibition Dominik Mersch E-Catalogue: here
2017 FBi Radio: Agenda with Katie Winten and Isabelle Hore-Thorburn, "BAD FEMINISM & GOOD SELFIES", Live to air radio Interview 27th May 2017
2016 Featured artist interview, The Ladies Network: here
2016 'IDENTITY' Exhibition Dominik Mersch Gallery E-Catalogue
2016 Grand Illusions, Art, Right Now, "Cool Reflections",BELLE Magazine, Feb/Mar, p.45
2015 Collide Magazine
2012 Tharunka: Women's Edition
CONFERENCES & TALKS
2023 Reading for PATHETIC HAPPENING curated by Eileen Myles and Tom Cole at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, New York, USA supported by CreateNSW
2019 Fatal Crush x Framework #26, Artist reading and screening, UNSW Art & Design
2019 Guest Artist Lecture at Deakin University Downtown, Melbourne. Live video available: here
2018 Conference Paper Presentation, Symbiotica - "Quite Frankly: A Monster Conference", University of Western Australia, Perth
2015 Artist talk with Tim Johnson for Outsiders, Imposters & Aliens exhibition at Dominik Mersch Gallery
COLLECTIONS
Deakin University collection, Dominik Mersch private collection, Len Warson family collection, other private collections