CV

Education

2014. Master of Arts (Arts Management). Graduated with Distinction. RMIT University. 
2012. Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting). Graduated with Distinction, RMIT University.

Selected Mural Projects

2025. Lithium, light and colour, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
2024. Create, Think Pods Garden Studios Warehouse, Moorabbin.
2024. Private commission, Canberra ACT.
2024. Billanook from Day to Dusky, Billanook College Artist in Residence, Mooroolbark. 
2024. Botanicals, Imbue Distillery, Research Victoria. 
2024. Pink tinged light, land and detail, Canterbury Kinder, Surry Hills Melbourne. 
2024. Where the wild meets the water, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. 
2024. Pigeon with a mohawk and juvenile magpie, Carlton North Primary School.
2024. For Wallaroo, Wallaroo Primary School, Hastings.
2024. Dusk, South Gippsland Shire Council, Korumburra. 
2024. Benalla Street Art Festival, Benalla, Victoria. Curated by Eddie Zammit. 
2024. Golden Hour, Neerim South, Neerim South Progress Association. 
2024. Myths and Muses, Elliott Davies, Leongatha. Private Commission
2024. Kitchen and Cottage Botanicals, Lamezleighs, Mirboo North
2024. Electrical Box Painted Works, South Gippsland Shire Council, Leongatha. 
2023. Leongatha Maternity Ward Mural, Leongatha Hospital
2023. Magpie, bush-peas and pink bells, Neerim South Primary School, Neerim South
2023, Lark and Botanicals, Laughing Lark Cafe, Frankston. 
2023. Flight Path, Elder Street South Reserve, City of Kingston, Clarinda.
2023. Western Plains Landscape Details for Tesla, Victorian Big Battery, Moorabool. 
2023. Botanical Corridor of Western Plains, Sunshine Hospital, Western Health. 
2023. Orca Deep Dive, commissioned for Under the Sea Project, Just Another Agency.
2023. Scarlet Honeyeater and Pied Cormorant. Deery Engineering, Inverloch. 
2023.  Australasian Bittern, pouched lamprey, white faced heron. galaxia fish and botanicals for Kaurna Country, Henley Beach, Adelaide. City of Charles Sturt.
2023. Bendigo Bank Community Foundation Native Orchids, Mirboo North.
2023  Selected Artist, Urban Canvas Mural Festival, Windsor Melbourne
2023. Art installations at Bunyip and Longwarry railway stations, Regional Rail Victoria.
2023  Poppies, Carnations and Rosemary, Seaford, Frankston City Council
2023. Art Deco Herons and Diamonds, Fitzroy. Private Commission.
2023. Magpie and Tui, Abbotsford. Resene Paint HQ.
2023. Locals, Seaford. Frankston City Council.
2022. Common Heath and Blue Gum, Leongatha. South Gippsland Shire Council.
2022. White Correa and Hop Pea, Seaford. Frankston City Council.
2022. Kookaburra and Rosella, with Maffra High School Students, Gippsland Art Gallery.
2022. Eastern Spinebill Urban Courtyard, Carlton. Private Commission.
2022. ART CUBES, Colour and Landscape, South Gippsland Shire Council.
2022. Blue Mallow and Valerian, Richmond. Mellow Fellow Restaurant.
2022. Black-Faced Cuckoo Shrike and Colour, Melbourne. Redbubble Offices. 
2022. Orchids and Natives Interior, Footscray. Private Commission.
2022. Eucalypts and Colour Panels, Fitzroy. St Vincent’s Hospital.
2022. Clay Organics, Carlton. Private Commission.
2022. Waratah and Fig, Sydney. Mosman City Council.
2022. Carlton Red and Blue, Carlton. Private Commission.
2022. Giants, Moe. Show Me Some Art Festival.
2022. Moonlighting, Frankston Big Picture Festival, with Frankston High students.
2022. Kookaburra and Wedgetail Silos, Nerrena. Private Commission.
2022. Electrical Box Beautification, Frankston and Seaford. Frankston City Council.
2022. Don’t Forget Colour, Korumburra. Carinya Care Lodge.
2022. Coastal Banksia and Wattle, Inverloch. Private Commission.
2022. Coastal banksia, eucalyptus and green, Private Commission, Cape Paterson. 
2021. Scarlet Robin, Waratah, Lily – Mirboo North, with Mirboo North Community Foundation and Mirboo North Secondary School students.
2021. Swamp Gum, Tea Tree and Banksia, Seaford Library, Seaford. Frankston City.
2021. Pelican and Ibis, Frankston Big Picture Festival, with Frankston High students. 
2021. Bloom Interior, Tarneit. Private Commission.
2021. Modern Mediterranean, Elwood. Anchor Restaurant.
2021. Floral Butterfly, Seaford. Frankston City Council.
2021. Lush Green Botanicals with Black, Bendigo. Private Commission. 
2021. Swamp Gum, Tea Tree and Banksia, Seaford Library, Seaford. Frankston City.
2021. Pelican and Ibis, Frankston Big Picture Festival, with Frankston High students.
2021. Acacia and Eucalyptus, Moe Show Me Some Art Festival.
2021. Eastern Rosella and Wattle from Nerrena, Leongatha Primary School.
2020. Foster Botanicals, Foster, with Foster Secondary College students.
2020. Coastal Banksia Forage, Leongatha. Private Commission.
2018. It’s Like A Jungle Sometimes, North Fitzroy. Roi Apartments.

Professional Appointments

2019-current. Co-Director, Arts Eleven Projects.
2021-current Associate Curator, Gippsland Art Gallery
2019-current. Co-curator, Marios, Fitzroy
2024. Judge, John Leslie Art Prize. 
2022. Judge, John Leslie Art Prize.
2022. Associate Curator, Fragile Earth: Extinctions, Gippsland Art
Gallery, Sale.
2021. Archibald Prize Project Manager - Gippsland Art Gallery
Sale.
2020. Marketing and Promotion Co-ordinator, It’s No Drama Theatre Group.
2019-2021 Drawing teacher, CAE Melbourne
2019-20. Nicholas Building Association Core Committee Member.
2014-19. Assistant Director, Flinders Lane Gallery.
2014-15. RMIT University Arts Funding Panel Assessor
2014. Co-founder and co-director Melbourne Music Video Festival.
2013. Studio Manager, Artist Eolo Paul Bottaro
2012. Social Media Content Creator, James Makin Gallery

 

Awards/Grants

2024. Finalist, Omnia Art Prize, Toorak VIC.
2024. Finalist, Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Townsville QLD. 
2023. Finalist, Omnia Art Prize, Toorak VIC. 
2022. Finalist, KAAF Art Prize, Sydney NSW.
2019. Finalist, KAAF Art Prize, Sydney NSW.
2018. Finalist, Collins Place Summer Art Award, Melbourne VIC.
2016. People’s Choice Award Winner, Roi Art Prize, City of Yarra VIC.
2015. Finalist, Gippsland Print Award, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC.
2015. Winner, Dick Bishop Memorial Prize. Latrobe Regional Gallery VIC.

 

Design Work and Curation

2025. Curator, John Cade Ward Art Project, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

2022-2023. Project Co-Manager and Curator, Sunshine Mental Health and
Wellbeing Centre, Western Health.
2023. PicPerf design installations at Bunyip and Longwarry railway
stations, Regional Rail Victoria and Vic Big Build. 
2022. Project Curation, COVID Reflection Space, St Vincent’s Hospital,
Fitzroy. 
2022. Bio Cup Artwork Series, BioPak Packaging
2021-2024. Vinyl Electrical Box Designs, Frankston City Council 
2021. Connections/Disconnections, artwork created for MS Connect,
Sydney

 

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2024. ‘FITZROY NOW’, Group Exhibition curated by Arts Eleven, Marios, Fitzroy. 
2024. ‘SPRING DAYS’ Group Exhibition, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood. 
2023. ‘FITZROY NOW’, Group Exhibition curated by Arts Eleven, Marios, Fitzroy.
2023. ‘Gather Together,’ Curated Group Exhibition to coincide with Dark MOFO. Fort Heart pop-up, Salamanca, Hobart.
2023. ‘Off The Kerb’s 16th Anniversary Group Show,’ Off The Kerb, Collingwood
2022. ‘Negative Space,’ Group Exhibition, Just Another Agency, Melbourne.
2022, ‘Winter Days,’ Group Exhibition, Off The Kerb Gallery, Collingwood.
2020. ‘Art in Iso Group Exhibition,’ Stockroom Gallery, Clifton Hill.
2020. ‘Bushfire Fundraiser Group Exhibition,’ Stockroom Gallery, Clifton Hill.
2018. ‘out in the darkness / seafood / skin test / i love you too’, Enough Space, Prahran. 2018. ‘Covered,’ Marios, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
2017. ‘Specimens’, Marios, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
2016/17. ‘In A Darkened Room,’ Gecko Gallery, Fish Creek.
2016. ‘Inked,’ Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor.
2015. ‘Dripping in Gold’, Marios, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
2015. ‘I wake to see the world gone wild’ Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell. 

Photo by Nicole Reed. John Cade Ward, Royal Melbourne Hospital 2025.