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Solo Exhibitions
2024 Cold Collations M16 Artspace, ACT
2020 Road Trip, Bega Valley Regional Gallery:Tarmac program at Merimbula Airport
2019 Road Trip, M16 Artspace, Griffith, ACT
2018 Graduating Exhibition, School of Art and Design Main Gallery, ANU, Canberra, ACT.
2016 Within, Figures in Space Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, South Coast, NSW
2014 Post Grad Painting Exhibition, Family Portraits, Painting Workshop, SOAD, ANU, Canberra.
2012 Silver City, Megalo Print Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2011 Figure in the Landscape, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, South Coast, NSW.Estuary, Spiral Galley, Bega, NSW.
2008 Estuary, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW.
2007 Merimbula Jazz Club, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, South Coast NSW
2006 In and out of the Garden, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, South Coast, NSW.
2006 Shorelines, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW
2004 Reveries, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW.Shorelines, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW
Small groups 2-3 persons
2022 Transmission with Sue Banks and Phil Page at CCAS, Manuka ACT.
2022 A journal of a plague year with Sue Banks and Phil Page at M16 Artspace, ACT.
2018 waterdrawn, with Heather Burness and Julie Krone, Aspects of Weather, Form Gallery, ACT.
2018 One way or Another with Leah Bullen, Foyer Gallery, School of Art and Design, ANU, Canberra
2016 Re:Space with Elisa Crossing and Phil Page: Generations, M16 Artspace, Griffith, ACT
2015 Inside spaces/Outside spaces with Phil Page; Annies Room. Photo media Space, School of Art, ANU
2009 West by South East with Catherine Drinan, Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney
Selected Group and Travelling Exhibitions
2024 HOME:Works from the collection, SECCA, South East centre for Contemporary Art/Bega.
2021 Bega Valley Art Month:Inaugural Motel Art Fair participant
2019 Geo: Art of the Collection, ANU School of Art and Design and Geoscience Australia, ACT
2019 Promised the Moon, invited participant, ANU School of Art and Design Gallery, ACT
2011/12 The Hill, see: The Hill1and The Hill 2; with Poppy Benton, Lorna Crane and Jen Mallinson. A travelling exhibition to the Albert Kerston Geocentre, Broken Hill, Raglan Gallery, Cooma and Bega Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 Sun Prints, Travelling Exhibition to Megalo Access Arts,Canberra, ACT, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW and Bega Regional Gallery, Bega, NSW
2007 Site Specific Bega Regional Gallery, Bega, NSW
2006 Figuratively Speaking, Mechanics Institute, Moruya, NSW.
2004 Stroke and Smudge, Bega Regional Gallery.
Awards
2014 Basil Sellers Art Award, Eurobodalla, Bega Valley, Cooma Monaro, and Snowy Mountains Shires - winner
Bega Valley Art Award - winner
2008 Bega Valley Art Award - second prize
2006 South East Modern Art Prize - commended
2005 Lilith art prize for International Womens' Day,Spiral Gallery, Bega -winner
2004 Beyond the Square, Spiral Gallery, Bega - peoples choice award
2004 Merimbula District Art Awards - winner contemporary art award
2003 South East Modern Art Group Prize - commended
Selected Finalist for:
2018 M16 Drawing Prize
2014 M16 Drawing Prize
2012 Bega Valley Art Awards
Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize
2011 Bega Valley Art Awards
2010 Basil Sellers Art Award, Moruya
The Outback Prize, Broken Hill
2009 South East Modern Art Group Prize
2006 South East Modern Art Group Prize
Bega Valley Art Awards
2003 Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize
Residencies, Grants and Professional Activities
2023 Speaker engagement to give a presentation to the NSW Regional and Public Galleries conference, 2023
2022 Recipient of a Country Arts Support Program Grant funded by Create NSW and South East Arts.
completed and acquitted February, 2023: for the creation of a pilot digital artwork, Road trip.
2022 Selected participant for the online course, Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries,
by the Australia Council for the Arts and produced by UTS.
2021 Participant in Art Month 2021 Bega Valley Regional Gallery; inaugural Motel Art Fair
2020 Participant in Art Month Bega 2020 Bega Valley Regional Gallery
2019 Recipient of a solo exhibition at M16 Artspace, ACT :A Regional Initiative.
2013 Field Studies trip to Zurich, Amsterdam, Paris and Madrid
2011 Selected for Speed Dating 4 Artists funded by Industry and Investment, NSW.
2009 Residency at Broken Hill Art Exchange partly funded by a CASP grant
2008 Participated in group project Sun Prints, a joint project between Spiral Gallery and Megalo Access Arts, receiving a Regional Arts Grant. This included solar plate printing workshops, production of work, exhibitions and teaching of techniques to youth groups and others in Bega NSW
2007 Participated in a group project, Site Specific, partly funded by a CASP grant for investigation of a coastal area, including production of art work and workshops on curating the exhibition led by Rita Lazauskas, curator at Albury Regional Gallery.
Past committee member/director Spiral Gallery, Bega (five years).
Past committee member South East Modern Art Group (five years)
Media
2018 Review: Canberra Times, water drawn with Heather Burness and Julie Krone. Peter Haynes – Different ways of expressing water, 10 September 2018 – 10:19am
2017 Essay: Julie Brooke - One Way or Another with Leah Bullen.http://www.juliebrooke.net/
2014 Bega District News: Liz Tickner – December 17 2014 – 9:11AM Bega Art Prize winner
an emotional sketch of mother's final days.
2014 Magnet News: Emily Barton – October 9 2014 – 8.15PM Basil Sellers Art Prize winner announced.
Bega District News: October 10 2014 – 10.55AM Basil Sellers Art Prize won by Merimbula artist
ABC South East: Know the Story ABC Radio online. Interview between Jen Hunt and judge, Nicholas Harding, regarding my winning work in Bega Art Awards, Sitting with Pattie. - link
2008 Review: Canberra Times 30th August 2008 Sasha Grishin - Solar Plate Technology Shines, for group travelling exhibition, Sun Prints.
Collections
South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA/ Bega) Collection
ACT Legislative Assembly Collection
Basil Sellers Collection.
Private Collections
Education
2018 Doctor of Philosophy Practice-led (visual Art). School of Art and Design, Australian National University. Canberra
1980 Diploma of Arts, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney.
1969 Diploma in Physiotherapy, Sydney