Education
2025    Master of Philosophy, University of Wollongong (with Examiners Commendation for Outstanding Thesis)
2018    Dipoma of Library Information Science (outstanding student award)
1993    Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts

Writing
2025    Walking with       Moon (book/publication: creative component for Master of Philosophy)
walking back: towards geographies of belonging, Master of Philosophy thesis, University of Wollongong
2024    Let Me Tell You About a Place: Tending Hidden Narratives in the Continuous Present
Co-authored with Annemaree Dalziel, Journal of Creative Practice Research
2022    Stitching Art Practice: as action and metaphor for care and repair
Axon: Creative Explorations
2018    Summer Love, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong (suite of ten poems)
2017    Archaeology of a sea pool: A love letter, published by All into Ocean Pools

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021    Coming Up For Breath, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2013    Solastalgia, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
Pool, the Alchemy of Blue, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
2010    Still Light, NG Art Gallery
2009    An End To Myth, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2008    Into The Woods, NG Art Gallery

Selected Public Works
2022    Foot Notes: three art walks, Wollongong, funded by a Quick Response Grant
2021    Super blood full moon lunar eclipse, 26 May 2021
– Public & community participatory artwork
Walking with a Friend at Sunrise who is Walking with Another at Sunset
– Month-long collaborative walking project with artist Anna Hart (UK)
2016    Ghost Trees for Spirit of Place, Lake Illawarra, Warilla
– Collaborative public art project, for Shellharbour City Council
2012    New moon & Full (blue) moon, Coledale rock platform
– Ephemeral rock construction created with local community

Grants & Awards
2021    Quick Response Grant, Wollongong City Council
2017    Pat Skinner Writing Award, All into Ocean Pools, winner
2016    Sheridan Evans Art Award, All Into Ocean Pools, winner
2012    NSW Artists’ Grant, NAVA
2011    New Work Grant, Creative Australia

Residencies
2025    The Foundations, Portland NSW, with Annemaree Dalziel
Illawarra Ecological Artists, Wollongong Art Gallery
2021    West Darling Arts, Restart residency (Create NSW), Menindee

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022     Palindrome, Clifton School of Arts, Wollongong
2019     In the Making, Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong
2015     Objects d’Urbanites, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland
2014     Collected Connected & Cut, Wollongong University Library, University of Wollongong
2012     Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Life’s Fragile Nature, NG Art Gallery
2011     Korea International Art Fair, with NG Art Gallery, Korea
A Cabinet of Curiosities, NG Art Gallery
2010     On paper, in time and in others’ minds, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby
2009     Summer Reading, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
… Of Nature, NG Art Gallery
CarriageARTworks, Carriageworks, Sydney
2008    Art Sydney with NG Art Gallery
The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007   There is No Place Like Home, NG Art Gallery

Collections
Wollongong Art Gallery; Artbank NSW; The City of Sydney, Town Hall Collection; Baker & McKenzie;
Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa and private collections internationally.

Selected Media and Reviews
2021 Artlink / In Public, Issue 41:2 August 2021, Blue Skies, Blood Moon by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, pages 60-63
South Coast Register, Coming Up For Breath at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, by Robert Crawford, Feb 25
2016    Illawarra Mercury, Lake Illawarra’s art trail’s fifth installment, by Desiree Savage, May 13
2014    Illawarra Mercury, Walk Inspires Pool Art, by Louise Turk, March 15
Architectural Worlds 2014: 1/Vol 29, 155, Uncommon Spaces, by Mary-Ann O’Donnell
2013    Anne Summers Reports, Issue 5, December, Gallery, pages 12-16
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Open Gallery, by Michael Fitzgerald, November 23
Art Almanac, Exhibition Review, by Melissa Pesa, November
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Open Gallery, by Michael Fitzgerald, June 1-2
thisiscolossal.com, Pool, The Alchemy of Blue, Found Concrete Installations, by Christopher Jobson, May
Art Monthly Australia, Artnotes, Issue 259, May
Illawarra Mercury, Good Life, At Wollongong Art Gallery for Pool, the Alchemy of Blue exhibition, 18 April
Illawarra Mercury, Artworks Inspired by Nature, by Benjamin Long, April 12
2012    House & Garden, Insider, by Elizabeth Wilson, April
2011    McGrath magazine, Cabinet of Curiosities, by Brooke Lewis, July
2010    Illawarra Mercury, Weekender, Profile, Wonder of Wildlife, by Louise Turk, October 2-3
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Sharp Thinker, by Lissa Christopher, May 29
Art Monthly Australia, Artnotes, Issue 230, June
Vogue Living, Art & Events, May/June
2009    Inside Out magazine, Paper Works, styled by Lara Hutton, July/August
The Australian Financial Review, What’s On – Sydney, May
Inside Out magazine, A Weekend With, by Rachael Mogan, May/June
Belle magazine, Right Now - Art, edited by Leta Keens, Feb/March
2008    Inside Out magazine, Play On Words, styled by Vanessa Colyer Tay, September
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Open Gallery, by Josephine Tovey, May 17
Australian Country Style magazine, Change The Frame, by Barbara Sweeney, April