CV

B. 1979, Tauranga, New Zealand

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, NZ (1997 – 2001)

Recent Art Projects / Residencies

2010 Invitation to participate in No Soul For Sale– a festival of 50 independent galleries from around the world, Tate Modern, London

2009 Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD), residency and exhibition (Switchback Gallery), facilitated by Monash University Museum of Art

2008 Founder and co-director of Hell Gallery (with Jordan Marani)

2007 Founding member of curatorial collective PILOT (Jess Johnson, Rosemary Forde, Meredith Turnbull)

2006 Founding committee member of Victoria Park Gallery, Abbotsford

www.victoriaparkgallery.com

Exhibitions

2011 THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, Shepperton Art Gallery, Shepperton

2010 KNOWING YOU, KNOWING ME: NEW ARTISTS SHOW 2010, Artspace, Auckland, NZ / NO SOUL FOR SALE, Tate Modern, London, UK / HELL’S BOTTOM DRAWER, Hell Gallery, Melbourne 

2009 HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE, Inflight Gallery, Tasmania (collaboration with Jordan Marani) / FLIPPIN HECK, Hell Gallery, Melbourne (collaboration with Jordan Marani) / HOME IS WHERE MY HELL IS, Switchback Gallery, GCAD, Gippsland (collaboration with Jordan Marani) / I WALK THE LINE: NEW AUSTRALIAN DRAWING, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney / WHO CUT THE CHEESE? TWO GIANTS OF CONTEMPORAY ART TALK FRANKLY OF MONUMENTAL TASKS, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (collaboration with Jordan Marani)

2008 HELLRAISER: THE DIRECTORS CUT, Hell Gallery, Melbourne (collaboration with Jordan Marani) / JAM, Peloton Gallery, Sydney / HONK IF YOU LOVE CONTEMPORARY ART, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane / ROBERT JACKS DRAWING PRIZE, finalist, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo / DIRTY POPSICLES, Peloton Gallery, Sydney / INFORMAL RITUALS, tcb Gallery, Melbourne

2007 THIS IS NOT A LOVE SCHLONG (collaboration with Jordan Marani) Utopian Slumps, Melbourne / CUT ‘N’ PASTE, Peloton Gallery, Sydney / PLIN TUP ‘Second Impact’, Galerie Plin Tub, Brussels, Belgium / FUNNY HA HA, The Narrows, Melbourne / ZONAL MARX - A Drawing Project, VCA Gallery, Melbourne

2006 PORTRAIT OF SALOTE TAWALE, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne / VICTIMS OF DRAWING SUPPORT GROUP, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne

2004 LADRON!, La Aguja Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2003 THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE (solo), The Kiosk – A Physics Room Public Art Site, NZ

2002 LITTLE BEASTS (collaboration with Jacqueline Greenbank), High

Street Project, NZ

2000 THIS ANIMAL IS MISCHEVOUS (solo), High Street Project, NZ

Curated Exhibitions

2010 HELL’S BOTTOM DRAWER, Hell Gallery, Melbourne

2008 THE MONOBROW SHOW, Hell Gallery, Melbourne / FLUX CAPACITOR – A Pilot Project, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

2007 FUNNY HA HA, The Narrows, Melbourne / ZONAL MARX - A Drawing Project, co-curated with Meredith Turnbull, VCA Gallery, Melbourne / MELBOURNE OPERATIC – screening of recent Melbourne video art, Loop

2006 VICTIMS OF DRAWING SUPPORT GROUP, co-curated with Meredith Turnbull, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne

Writing (Select)

2009 TOTAL REKALL, Catalogue essay for Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. 

2009 Too Much Of Me, Catalogue essay for ‘Too Much Of Me’ curated by Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art / Still Sitting Still, Catalogue essay for Dan Moynihan, Utopian Slumps Gallery

2008 Venice Licks, Feature Article, Unmag Issue 2.1 / Order of Appearance. SPEECH online

2007 Anti is the New Hero, Catalogue essay for Nick Devlin, Sullivan + Strumph / Experimenta Playground, SPEECH online

2006 Money for Nothing and the Pics for Free, IsNot Magazine

2005 Diary of a merch dolly, Serialized European tour diary published in: Whatwedoissecret Magazine, Issues 1 – 4 / Up Yours Magazine, Issues 36 – 39 (Belgium)

2004 Dirty Pixels, Catalogue Essay for Deborah White / Plastic Wrapped Pets, ACCA ONLINE Magazine

2003 Into the Void – An interview with Ronnie Van Hout, The package (NZ) / [phage], Mary Flanagan artist essay, The Physics Room Annual (NZ) / Empire tc9, Catalogue essay for R.A. Brunton, SOFA Gallery (NZ)

Comics Published

Lonely & Friends comic featured in: Que Suerte Magazine (Spain) The Thief issue 2005, The Woods issue 2006, The Teeth issue 2007 / Choice Comics Anthology, Issue 1, 2007 (NZ) / Splitter Magazine, Issue 1, 2006 (NZ) / Phatsville Comics, Issues 9, 10, 11, 12 (Aus) / BAM! Big Ass Mini, 2006 (USA) / Shiot Crock, Issue 12, 2006 (USA) / IsNot Magazine: TimeISNOTMoney 2006 (Aus)

Artvader comic featured in: Runway Magazine, Issue 9: Change, 2007 (Aus) / Plintub Comic Anthology 2007 (Belg) / Pictozine II, Aotearoa Comics, 2006 (NZ) / BOYCRAZY Comic Anthology, 2007 (NZ)