BIOGRAPHY

Education:

2007	Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours 1st Class, RMIT University
2006	Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, RMIT University
2004	Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University

Solo Exhibitions:
2011 2010	Hint of Spring, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza Cycles, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne
2009	Water’s Edge, Louey & Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2008	Leaving it open, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2008	Heading South, Bayside Council Corporate Centre, Melbourne
2007	Slipstream, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011	Small Art Show, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne Manyung at Sorrento, Sorrento New Paint, Subject Matter Art Space, Melbourne Belle Arti Chapman & Bailey Art Award, Chapman & Bailey Gallery, Melbourne Vale St Studio Artists, The Gallery St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne Fog, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne Hang together, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne Seek, Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University, Melbourne Medium: Vinyl, Hardware Gallery, Sydney Autumnal Equinox - Photographic Exhibition, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne Gallery Sorrento, Sorrento Louey Lane Gallery, Melbourne Body Parts, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2010	Christmas Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza New Collectables, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne A little bit of summer, Breathing Colours Gallery, Sydney Belle Arti, Chapman & Bailey Art Award, Metro Arts Galleries, Brisbane Exquisite Palette, St. Luke, Melbourne Black + White, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne 40% Wool. 60% Acrylic, Hardware Gallery & World Bar Sydney Medium: Vinyl, Hardware Gallery, Sydney Louey & Lane Gallery, Melbourne My Space, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne Launch 3, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne
2009	Belle Arti, Chapman & Bailey Art Award, Chapman & Bailey Melbourne New Collectables, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne Two Feet Under, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne Louey & Lane Gallery, Melbourne Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney Lioli Gallery, Melbourne The Collectors’ Exhibition, Steps Gallery, Melbourne Red, Yellow & Blue, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Pinhole, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne Coffs Harbour Postcard Show, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour.

2008	New Collectables, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne Botanica 08, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne Gardner Galleries, Melbourne Members Show, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne Things @ Kings, King Street gallery, Melbourne B&W shades of grey, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne Déjà vu, Gardner Galleries, Melbourne Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2007	69 Smith Street, Melbourne Pigment Gallery Melbourne Unusual Contexts, Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne Works of paper, Imp Exhibition Space, Melbourne Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2006	Summer Samples, Intrude Gallery, Melbourne Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne The Lounge, Melbourne
2005	New Collectables, first site RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne Beneath the Surface. Fire Station Ivanhoe, Melbourne
2004	New Collectables, first site RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne Cardigan, The Foundry, Melbourne Couch Art, Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne My Favorite Place Postcard Exhibition, Tivoli Artspace, Melbourne

Awards & Prizes:
2010	Finalist Outback Open Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill Finalist City of Albany Art Prize, Albany
2008	Finalist The Money Myth, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
2007 2004	Finalist Biennial Art Competition 2007, Box Hill Community Art Centre, Melbourne Finalist 6^o Art Prize, Human Landscape, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston 1st Prize ‘My Favorite Place’ Postcard Exhibition, RMIT Union Arts, Melbourne
Philanthropy:
2011 2010 2009 2008	International Women's Development Agency, Art Auction Art Exhibition, Albert Park College, Melbourne Seek, a collabrative project, supporting the Melbourne Street Kids Food Bank. Christmas card exhibition, supporting the Fitzroy Learning Centre. Flocking printed on the label of the Bellarine Penninsula, Vic Reserve Sparkling Brut as part of the wine series labels supporting breast cancer charities 2010 Calendar 2011, Pink Lady Art Exhibition supporting breast cancer charities, Hampton Art Supplies Melbourne 2010, p. 2 Fundraiser for The Butterfly Foundation, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne Pink Lady Exhibition, Fundraiser for National Breast Cancer Foundation, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Melbourne Kiwanis, Fundaiser for Heart Kids, Family Life and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Pink Lady Exhibition, Fundraiser for National Breast Cancer Foundation, St Andrews Hall, Melbourne Fundraiser Chinese Earthquake exhibition, Crossbay Gallery, Sydney Pink Lady Exhibition, Fundraiser for National Breast Cancer Foundation, St Andrews Hall, Melbourne
Reviews/ Publications:
	Spalding S. 2011, 'Artists honing skills' Port Phillip Leader, 23 August, p 8 Clark-Kennedy J. 2011, 'New art heralds season's change', Mornington News, 28 July - 10 August, p.3 Rainforth D. 2011,'Giving a bean to change a life', The Age, 6 July,p.15 2010, 'Art, A little bit of summer', Village Voice, Courier Newspapers, December, p 12 2010, 'Brightening up a washed out summer', Inner West Courier, Inner City Edition, 7 December, p.1 2010, 'See & Do', Melbourne Weekly, 21-27 July, p.4
	Ryan L. 2010 'The art of seasonal changes', Port Phillip Leader, 18 May & Caulfield Glen Eira Leader, 18 May, p.30. Ryan L. 2010 'An abstract capturing of the rhythms of life', Stonnington Leader, 18 May, p.8.
	2010, 'art & about', Melbourne Weekly, 5 May, p. 37.
	2009, 'Capturing Nature', Caulfield Glen Eira Leader, 24 November, p.7.
	2009, 'Second Nature', Melbourne Weekly Bayside, 18 November, p. 6.
	Backhouse M. 2008, 'Art around the galleries', The Age 7 June, p. 10.
	Awadalla A. 2008, 'Inspired by nature', The Bayside Leader, 24 June, p. 41. 2005, 'Fresh waters provide new fish', Heidelberg Leader, 1 April, p.14
Collections:
	Rydges Hotels & Resorts RMIT University Private Collections Malaysia, USA and Australia