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education
2007- currently studying Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University
1995-96 Diploma Graphic Design, Sydney Graphics College

solo exhibitions
2007 i love you... forever, Dolores Cupcake Studio Gallery, Byron Bay NSW

click here to download article by Bernadette Curtin

publications
2009 inRetrospect, published by Retrospect Galleries
2009 Australian Art Journal, published by True Art + Media
2009 Byron Bay Artists Diary 2010, published by True Art + Media

2007 Byron Bay Artists Diary 2008, published by True Art + Media

group exhibitions
2009 petits travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2009 Art Sydney, Retrospect Galleries, Sydney NSW
2009 Transit 09, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW
2009 2010 Byron Bay Art Diary Launch Exhibition, Byron Bay NSW
2009 Unknown Landscapes, Next Gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW
2009 Revolution of Art - Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2008 12x12 art for the tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2008 Where Mighty Giants Dwell - Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2008 Altered Books, Southern Cross University Library, Lismore NSW
2008 Marine Visions, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2007 Flash In The Pan, Waywood Gallery, Byron Bay NSW
2006 Form & The Formless, XO Gallery, Tweed Heads NSW

artist statement

i grew up on a big farm in western nsw, pretty much in the middle of nsw actually.
i guess it was pretty isolated, and i spent a lot of time as a kid daydreaming and imagining all kinds of things. then i went to boarding school in sydney and lay awake til a million o’clock every night listening to my walkman for 6 years. i studied graphic design in sydney after that and moved out to the north coast before i got hit by a bus or something and missed a life in paradise... i've been living in byron bay for some time now, which is a kind of paradise, and am almost finished my uni degree in visual arts. now i dream of the big cities like barcelona, tokyo, new york... [it’s ok, i’m coming...]

i make art because.

it just comes out.

i am continually surprised by the range of media and styles through which my creativity chooses to express itself.

i am inspired by the beauty and the meditative nature of everyday sorts of objects and activities.
i am inspired by words (spoken, thought, written) and these often feature or form the basis of my work. anything from humorous ditties or strange things i’ve seen written on walls to deep poetic or philosophical ponderings...

oh and my latest thing is pretty much anything that starts with p.

i've spent the past year copying text madly like a scribe onto canvas (and paper). in fact i made the biggest works on canvas i've made to date. i copied whole sections of books by Umberto Eco, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guittari (and friends). i added days, weeks, months worth of text messages, emails and skype chats. and then excerpts from books by Haruki Murakami, Hunter S Thompson [to name just two], poetry by Dante, random thoughts of my own.... like a thousand [or thousands of] words to tell a picture....

oh and i listed everything i could think of that started with p.

then i took books and circled all the p words and painted over all the other words. i found that it is easier to do this with books in foreign languages.

i still like to simplify things into a few key words.
like i love you or hell yeah.

and then see how they sound in other languages.... je t'aime, infierno siiii...?

hmmm... ja. hasta luego, hell yeah.

what next?

well, i have discovered video art, and over the past 6 months have taken a lot of footage. mostly of my shadow and the ground as i walk over it. and of things like windmills slowly turning and clouds drifting by. i think i’ll make a movie out of these. and after all those words and words i might just get back to making pictures using colour and paint and pencils.

oh, and how about a soundscape or a song? merci, au revoir.

december 2009.