Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2025 PhD Monash University, Melbourne
2014 Masters of Contemporary Art Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2010 Graduate Certificate Visual Arts Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2005 Diploma of Visual Arts R.M.I.T Melbourne
1990 Diploma of Photography, A.C.P.A.C., Melbourne
AWARDS
2024 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Honourable Mention
2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, WINNER, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2014 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Award – Masters Graduation Exhibition, VCA
2013 Creative Scholarship – Faculty of VCA & MCM
EMPLOYMENT
2019- Present Sessional Academic – Photography, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne
2017-2021 Photography and Digital Specialist, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2008-2017 Registrar, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Reflections on a Living Ruin, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2024 Sideshows, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Love and Loss, Venezia Contemporanea – La Storta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2022 Under the Nylex Clock: Wellington Street 1988, Richmond Town Hall and Library
2019 The Exhibition Project, City Recital Hall, Sydney
2018 I see myself in you, St.Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2015 Remains to be seen, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2026 Sharing Practice – The APA Portrait Project, Glasshouse Project Space, Melbourne
2024 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Art School Confidential, curated James Lynch, Deakin University Art Gallery
2021 Genealogies, curated by Belinda Scerri and Elyssia Bugg, as part of Memory Conference 2021, CoVA, University of Melbourne
2021 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, FINALIST, Ballarat International Foto Biennal, Ballarat
2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, WINNER, Ballarat International Foto Biennal, Ballarat
2019 Milburn Art Prize, FINALIST, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2019 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin Germany
2018 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2017 The Olive Cotton Award, FINALIST, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
2017 FLOW (CLIMARTE), Counihan Gallery, Melbourne Curated Heather Hesterman,
2016 Verdant Garden, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne. Curated by Claire Watson
2016 A wallaby once sat here, small acts of celebration and concern, ecology and the feminine, The Avoca Project Inc. Avoca. Curated by Lyndal Jones
2015 Quarter Acre, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne. Curated by Adriane &Verity Hayward
2015 M Collection Art Award, RUNNER UP, Gallery Smith, Melbourne
2015 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, FINALIST, Bright Space, Melbourne
2014 Marvel, FINALIST, The Windsor Prize, Melbourne
2013 Luminescence, FINALIST, The Windsor Prize, Melbourne
2007 City of Hobart Art Prize, FINALIST, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2007 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, FINALIST, Gold Coast Gallery
2007 Julie Millowick Acquisitive Photography Award, FINALIST, Castlemaine Festival, Victoria
2001 National Photographic Purchase Award, FINALIST, Albury Regional Gallery, Victoria
CONFERENCES
2025 Research in Action symposium ,Monash Art, Design and Architecture. Presented PhD research, Reflections on a Living Ruin.
2022 The Archival Ruin talk at Silences of the Archive symposium, Deakin University
2021 Genealogies, curated by Belinda Scerri and Elyssia Bugg, as part of Memory Conference 2021, CoVA, University of Melbourne
RESIDENCIES
2023 Photography Between Exhibition and Publication workshop with David Campany, Santorini, Greece
2023 Venezia Contemporanea – La Storta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2023 The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy
2017 Clarendon House Estate, Nile, Tasmania
2016 Berlin, Germany, collaboration with photographer/architect Ross T. Smith.
2016 Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence, 3 months, Melbourne
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Ross Bilton, A Glimpse into an Unusual Mind, Weekend Australian Magazine,
The Australian, 15/08/21
2021 Mass Isolation Project, book by Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2020 Loud and Luminous- A Celebration of Australian Women Photographers, 2020, p.74-75. Curated and published by Melissa Anderson & Hilary Wardhaugh
2019 Loud and Luminous- A Celebration of Australian Women Photographers, 2019, p.72-73. Curated and published by Melissa Anderson & Hilary Wardhaugh
2017 Kate Gorringe-Smith, FLOW: Counihan Gallery, imprint Magazine, 08/06/17
2016 Maria Miranda, The Avoca Project 2005 – 2016, Art+Australia Online, 2017
2015 Ray Edgar, Suburbia – Does the Great Australian Dream have life in it yet?
Sydney Morning Herald, 09/12/15
2015 Dylan Rainforth, The Remains of Art and War, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald, 16/0615
2008 Simon Gregg, The Space In Between Book Project, Artlink Vol.28
1997 Myf Warhurst, Strange Things Happening, The Age, pg69, 05/09/97
1990 New Dimensions, The Age, p.14, 01/06/90
TALKS/INTERVIEWS
2016 Artist in Residence Talk, The Australian Tapestry Workshop
2015 Penelope Hunt, The Pool, Quarter Acre Catalogue, p.14-15, 2015
2014 Alan Moore: WW11 artist turns 100
Produced and Directed by Emily Bissland, Project: Unsung, ABC Open
COLLECTIONS
Australian Catholic University Art Collection
Australian War Memorial Contemporary Art Collection
Australian Tapestry Workshop Collection
Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation
Various private collections