Biography

Current work is exploring ideas of craft, decoration and the domestic context of art. Geometric structures are over-layed with translucent images of flowers to explore pattern, rhythm and traditional ideas of beauty and visuality.

I am also working on landscape images that delve into the history and cultural significance of the geography as well as addressing my connection to Western traditions of landscape painting.

This is a continuation of an interest in the craft and traditions of painting, exploring the ideologies of historic modes of painting and questioning the place of those values in contemporary culture.

26.09.09

EXHIBITIONS:

24.04.2010 Preambles and Perambulations, Charles Dickens Museum, London.

26.02.2010 Te Awanui. Solo exhibition, Fisher Brown Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand

04.12.2009 (N)Everland, The Nunnery, London.

28.11.2009 As The World Turns, Tooting Bec, London.

03.09.2009 Creed is Good, Acquire Arts, London.

28.08.2009 Bethlehem College Art Exhibition, Tauranga, New Zealand

27.06.2009 Kingston on the Edge Arts Festival, Kingston, Jamaica.

23.03.2009 Easter Group Show, NKB Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

22.01.2009 Toku Ipukarea, solo exhibition, Fisher Brown Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand.

04.09.2008 Wimbledon College of Art MA show.

07.03.2008 Approaches to What? The Nunnery, London.

11.02.2008 Deutsche Postbank, City of London.

05.01.2008 Influence group exhibiton, Bath.

2004 COEX, AUT St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

2004 Eclectic Collection 2004, Mt Eden Framers Gallery, Auckland, NZ.

2004 Autumn Collection 2004, Mt Eden Framers Gallery, Auckland, NZ.

EDUCATION:

2007 - 2008 Wimbledon College of Art

  Master of Fine Art: Painting.

2002 - 2004 Auckland University of Technology

  Bachelor of Art and Design.

1995 Auckland Institute of Technology

  Certificate of Art and Design Intermediate.

1994 Elam School of Fine Arts, Summer School, Auckland.