I am a visual artist with over 30 years of experience, working primarily in painting and drawing. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Finland, Iceland, Slovakia, Canada, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Denmark. I have been a finalist in major national prizes including the Portia Geach Memorial Award (twice), the Blake Prize, the Whyalla Art Prize, the Lismore Portrait Prize, the Percival Portrait Prize, and the Hornsby Art Prize. My work is held in public collections including Artbank, La Trobe Regional Gallery, the City of Yarra, and Box Hill Institute. While I also work in video and have collaborated on several performance and screen-based projects, painting and drawing remain at the heart of my innovative and professional arts practice.
My work explores the relationship between gesture and structure through a series of abstract paintings. I work with a vibrant colour palette and there’s a physicality to the mark-making—at times delicate, at times assertive—that creates a visceral charge. At the same time, my compositions—which emerge through a combination of unpremeditated action and structured revision—incorporate organic and geometric forms that are built up through collage into dense, dynamic fields. These layered surfaces create spatial complexity and visual rhythm, inviting the viewer to consider the relationship between order and spontaneity. There’s a hovering between clarity and opacity—between the familiar and the ambiguous—that invites sustained looking and multiple readings. In this way, the work becomes a kind of “edited self,” where the spontaneity of gestural mark-making meets the cutting and reflective process of collage. It is this interplay that underpins the innovative, evolving nature of my professional practice.
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Community engagement is an important part of my practice. I run painting workshops for children and adults at art centres and libraries throughout Victoria. These workshops are hands-on and joyful, combining creative learning with live budgerigar observation, and introducing participants to drawing and painting techniques while fostering curiosity and connection. They reflect my broader interest in how art can foster both play and reflection.
While diverse in form, all aspects of my practice are connected by a deep engagement with materiality, visual language, and the search for meaning through abstraction. I am committed to continuing this innovative and professional arts practice, and to producing new work that builds on the depth and direction of my current painting practice.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2024
'Perched', Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston VIC
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2023
Kristian Brown Sustainable Hair and Music, St Kilda VIC
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2021
'Budgie Nation', Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston VIC (painting)
Dust Off Mildura, video installation, Arts Mildura VIC (video)
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2019
Mimicry, Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens, Dandenong VIC (painting)
Perched! Brightspace, St Kilda VIC (painting)
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2018
23° WEST, Fivewalls Arcade, Melbourne VIC (two channel video installation)
23° WEST, Sawtooth, Launceston TASMANIA (three channel video installation)
Budgiemania: A Fanciers Folly, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne VIC (painting)
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2016
Amateur/Professional, Conduit Arts Initiative, Melbourne, VIC (painting)
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2015
Plasticus number 4, The Substation, Melbourne, VIC (installation, performance collaboration with Carolyn Hanna)
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2014
Plasticus, FELTspace ARI, Adelaide, SA (installation, performance collaboration with Carolyn Hanna)
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2013
Back of Murray’s, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, VIC (painting and animation)
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2011
On the other side of Murray’s, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW (painting, animation)
An action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW (video installation)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FILM FESTIVALS
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2025
Crossing Latitudes, Trannivirtaa Tampereella (Dance Festival) Tampere, FINLAND
(video projection collaboration with choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz)
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2024
Salt’, Video Art + Digital Media, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
Winter Salon, Brightspace, VIC (painting)
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2023
Salt’, Dance Lens, Dance House, Carlton VIC
23° WEST, Dancescapes, Art House Cinema Festival, FINLAND
Everything I Know, Official Selection, Japan International Film Festival JAPAN
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2022
Touched By Nature - Ripple, INSHADOW Festival, PORTUGAL (video)
Split Rock Finalist - Roma Short Film Festival, ITALY (video)
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2021
Video Art + Digital Media, Adelaide Festival Centre, Festival Centre Media Screens (outdoor and indoor), SA (video)
Wildsound Black & White Film Festival, winnee Best Sound and Music - Everything I Know, CANADA (video)
FLOW, Australian Dance Theatre screening, Mercury Theatre, Adelaide SA (video)
Boreal Screendance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland (video)
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2020
INSHADOW - SOILS video art installation, Espaço Cultural Mercês, (screen dance festival) Lisbon PORTUGAL (video)
Involving Immersion, Multimedia Exhibition, Košice's Kunsthalle / Hall of Art, Kosice SLOVAKIA (video)
Distant Nature, Knoll Gallery, Vienna AUSTRIA, DIG Gallery, Kosice SLOVAKIA and Fotograf Gallery, Prague CZECH REPUBLIC (video)
Moving Pictures, Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC (video)
Video Art + Digital Media, Adelaide Festival Centre, Festival Centre Media Screens (outdoor and indoor), SA (video)
Percival Portrait Painting Prize and Percival Animal Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD (painting)
Experimental Forum Film Festival, Los Angeles US (video)
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2019
SALTbody, Arts Mildura, VIC (video installation)
The Hague Global Cinema Festival, Hague, NETHERLANDS
Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, NSW (painting)
Blacktown Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW (painting)
Palm Beach International Mini Film Festival, Norton Museum of Art, Florida US (video)
Schmuck Schmock, Temp Contemp, NorthSide4, Melbourne VIC (video)
Artist’s For Kid’s Culture Auction, Melbourne VIC (painting)
The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival, Winton QLD
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2018
The 65th Blake Prize, Casual Powerhouse Arts Centre Sydney NSW (video)
Odile, Walker Street Gallery and Dandenong Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC (video)
Video Art + Digital Media, Adelaide Festival Centre, Festival Centre Media Screens (outdoor and indoor), SA (video)
Crossing Latitudes, The International Theatre of Finland, Espoo, FINLAND (video projection collaboration with choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz), 40 North Film Festival, San Diego US, Urban Campfires, Autumn Exhibition, Collingwood Community Justice Centre VIC (paintings)
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2017
Finalist, Whyalla Art Prize, Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla SA (painting)
23:22 NW 223°, Gallery SÍM, Reykjavík ICELAND (video)
ArtVenice Biennale 4, The Biennial Project, Venice ITALY (projected image)
Amateur/Professional, You Are Here Festival, Canberra, ACT (performance)
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2016
The Footy Show, Lilac Gallery, Sydney NSW (painting)
Amateur/Professional, Geelong After Dark Festival, Geelong, VIC (performance)
International Women’s Day 2016 Screening, Big Screen Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC (animation)
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2015
Portia Geach Memorial Prize, S.H. Ervine Gallery, Sydney, NSW (painting)
Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW (painting)
The Fifth Annual Exposure Photography Award, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
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2014
Back of Murray’s, Illuminations, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (animation)
The Blake Director’s Cut Online, The Blake Prize, Sydney, NSW (animation)
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2013
Yo-Gobo… a light stencil exhibition, The Light in Winter Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC (project ed image)
Australian Panorama, Melbourne International Animation Festival, ACMI, Melbourne, VIC (animation)
Ocean Havets Liv Og Mystik I Glas, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, DENMARK (animation)
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2012
Portia Geach Memorial Prize, S.H. Ervine Gallery, Sydney, NSW (painting)
Back of Murray’s, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Biennale Bar @ Pier 2/3, Sydney, NSW (animation)
AWARDS, GRANTS, NOMINATIONS, PRIZES
2021 Winner Best Sound and Music, Wildsound/Balck & White Film Festival; - 'Everything I Know' (music video), CANADA (video)
2020 Honourable mention and laurel, Salt Lake, Experimental Forum Film Festival, Los Angeles US (video)
2019 Winner, Best Cinematography Award, 23° WEST, AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto CANADA (video)
Shortlisted, Saari Residency, Helsinki, Finland
2018 Winner, NG Creative Art Residency Prize, Eygalieres, France
2017 2nd prize, Birregurra Festival Art Show, Acrylic Painting, Birregurra, VIC
2016 Shortlisted, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne, VIC (painting)
2012 Grant, Artstart, Australia Council for the Arts
Winner, Innovative Aesthetic Award, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney NSW (animation)
RESIDENCIES
2021 Arts Mildura, Dust Off Mildura, VIC
2020 KulttuuriKauppila AIR Arts Centre, Ii, Finland (cancelled CoVID)
2018 Yarra Sculpture Gallery Summer Residency, Melbourne VIC
NG Creative Art Residency Prize, Eygalieres, France
2017 SîM AIR, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2014 Bundanon Trust, Illaroo, NSW
2010 Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW
Hill End, NSW
COLLECTIONS
Artbank; Latrobe Regional Gallery; City of Yarra; Box Hill College of TAFE
EDUCATION
2011 MFA (painting), Sydney College of the Arts, NSW
1995 Postgraduate Diploma (animation), School of Film and TV, Victoria College of the Arts, VIC
1991 BFA (painting), Victoria College of the Arts, VIC