About the Artist

I'm a Melbourne-based figurative artist. I tell stories about women through art. My artworks explore the portrayal of womanhood in popular culture. My goal is to create art with a feminist sensibility that is both feminine and fashion-inspired.

My current series of paintings, titled "Contained," explores women and the spaces they inhabit. The canvases depict women who are sitting, squatting, or folded. Their whole figure is captured within the borders of the canvas as a metaphor for society trying to control, restrain and measure women. However, each figure makes the space her own. 

I am drawn to repetition and pattern, and often incorporate these elements into my work, either through mark-making, printing, or stencils. I like the juxtaposition of the flat decorative elements against the more realistic portrayals of the faces and hands. I paint the skin tones of the figures in oil paint, which allows me to mix colours on the canvas when painting wet on wet. 

I have exhibited widely across Australia, including numerous solo exhibitions at venues in Melbourne and Sydney. Currently, I am represented by two galleries: Art to Art (Victoria) and Gallery Alchemy (NSW).

I am an award-winning artist, having won two art prizes and been shortlisted for many prestigious awards such as the Omnia Art Prize, Marie Ellis Drawing Prize, Lethbridge 10,000 Small-Scale Art Award, Hornsby Art Prize, Agendo Award, and the Metro Art Prize.

I have been featured in Yen Magazine, Desktop Magazine, Art Lovers Australia, and others. My artwork is included in the art collection of former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett, Standard Chartered Bank, Albert Park College, and the McAuley Community Services for Women.

In 2023, I undertook a dream artist residency in France, which you can read about on the Artist Blog.  In 2019, I completed a Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Before that, I completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at Box Hill Institute. I work out of my home studio in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, where I live with my husband, two sons and my dog.

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Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions

2025       The Hills, The Hills Wine Bar, Surrey Hills, Victoria

2023       Mythical Women, SOL Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

2023       Through Her Eyes, Avondale Heights Library & Community Centre, Victoria

2023       Open Studio, Surrey Hills, Victoria

2020       Womanhood & Childhood, Women's Centre, Royal Women's Hospital, Victoria

2018       I am, Tacit Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria

2018       Curiouser & Curiouser, Steps Gallery, Carlton, Victoria

2016       I Like Pretty Things, City Library, Melbourne, Victoria

2015       Cut from the Same Cloth, Richmond Town Hall, Richmond, Victoria 

2014       Cut from the Same Cloth, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, Victoria

2014       Cut from the Same Cloth, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales

2012       Present Yourself, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

Awards & Finalist Exhibitions

2025       Emerging Artist Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery, Balgowlah, NSW

2025       OMNIA Art Prize, St Kevins College, Toorak, Victoria

2022       GSA Art Prize, Melbourne University, Arts Centre, Southbank, Victoria

2022       Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Wallarobba, NSW

2022       John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, NSW

2020       [Winner] Unearthed Art Prize, Art to Art, North Balwyn, Victoria

2019       Marie Ellis Drawing Prize, Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane, Queensland

2019       [Highly Commended] Art4All, Fairfield Primary School Art Show, Victoria 

2017       OBI Art Prize, Maleny Community Centre, Maleny, Queensland

2016       Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Wallarobba, NSW

2014       [Best Work on Paper] Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park, Victoria

2013       [Winner] Female Art Award, Yen Magazine, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2013       Agendo Award, St Heliers Street Gallery, The Abbotsford Convent, Victoria

2013      Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Queensland

2012      Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Queensland

2011      [Best Oil Painting] Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park, Victoria

2011      Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Armadale, Victoria