Medusa After Klimt

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Art should be inspiring, uplifting and motivating. It should feed your mind as well as your soul. I'm a Melbourne artist making art about people, identity and relationships. I draw on my experience as a woman and a mother, and resultantly most of my work is about family, motherhood, and gender roles. I am a passionate advocate of women’s issues and gender equality.

I have an interest in patterns and lines and include them in nearly all my work. My attraction to patterns comes from my love of order (I'm also an accountant), but I mostly like the flat, decorative element it adds. Sometimes the material inspires the subject, but more often than not, I seek out a particular look, colour or pattern to go with the concept I have in mind. Including patterns is a way of adding another dimension to the work.

In 2020 I won the Unearthed Prized by Art to Art gallery in Balwyn. I've been exhibiting since 2012, when I held my first solo show. Prizes for which I have been shortlisted include the 2019 Footscray Art Prize, the 2018 Contemporary Art Prize, the 2016 Hornsby Prize, the 2016 She competition, the Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Prize, the 2013 Agendo Award and the 2011 Metro Award.  Early in my career I won the 2013 Yen magazine Female Artist award and won 2 prizes at the Albert Park Collage Art Show. My artwork is in private collections worldwide and is part of the Standard Chartered Bank art collection, Albert Park Collage public collection, and the Image Mundi project.