biography
Education
- 2005-2007 Advanced Diploma in Visual Communication – Design College Australia, Brisbane
Awards – Illustration Award, Academic Achievement Award. GPA: 6.45 - 1991 – 1992 Diploma in Commercial Art (majoring in Illustration)
– Commercial Art Training Centre, Brisbane. Awards – Honours for Folio, and Folio of the Year.
Teaching
- 2023 – Nature ArtLab Queensland – Botanical art workhops in Canberra and Brisbane
- 2020-2022 – Artistic Endeavours – Museums & Galleries – Botanical art workshops in conjunction with travelling exhibition held in the following art galleries – Redcliffe, Biloela, Margaret Olley Art Centre – Tweed, Mundubbera, Gympie
- 2014-2021 – Botanical Artists’ Society of Qld – Various watercolour and graphite botanical art workshops
Work Reproduced In
- Exploring Mixed Media, Graphite & Watercolour – Botanical art with Margaret Best – ebook – 2023
- Artistic Endeavour – Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson – 2021
- Botanical Illustration from Life – Isik Guner – 2019
- Look magazine – Gallery Society of New South Wales – March-April 2019
- Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens – The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney – Christmas card
- The Gardens magazine Issue 116 – Augumn 2018 – Botanica Symbiosis
- Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Inc. Calendar, page, 2018
- The Florilegium – The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney – Celebrating 200 years – 2016
- 15th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration Catalogue, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2016
- Office of the Governor. 2014-2015. Annual Report 2014-2015. Government House, Queensland, Cover illustration.
- Australian Geographic Art Calendar 2013, 2015 (botanical artworks)
- Australian Geographic magazine Issue 121 – Jul/Aug 2014 – Nature Watch – Backyard Fungi
- The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration 2013
- Australian Geographic magazine Issue 116 – Sep/Oct 2013 – Nature Watch – Native Seedpods
- Australian Geographic magazine Issue 110 – Sept/Oct 2012 – Orchid Poster 2013
- Australian Geographic magazine Issue 109 – Jul/Aug 2012 – Nature Watch – Bushfood
- Australian Geographic magazine Issue 106 – Jan/Feb 2012 – Nature Watch – Banksias
Bibliography
- Growing Matters, Volume 19 Issue 3 Spring 2017 (p.6), Friends Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens
- Q Weekend magazine, The Courier Mail – 15 December 2012 – ‘Contentment’ article
- Urbis magazine – October 2012 – ‘Creatives in Brisbane’ article
- Design Montage – June 2012
- Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland (BASQ) Winter Newsletter – featured artist interview
- Folk Rag – May 2013
Exhibitions
- October 2023 – BASA, CanAssist exhibition, Bowral
- July 2023 – Plants x healing Botanical Materia Medica exhibition – Foundation & Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- September-October 2022 – The Art of Botanical Illustration (TABI) – Melbourne Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
- September-November 2022 – Waterhouse Natural History Science Art Prize travelling exhibition – National Archives of Australia, Canberra
- July-September 2022 – Waterhouse Natural History Science Art Prize – South Australian Museum, Adelaide
- November 2021 – Floressence – BASQ, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
- June 2021 – ‘B’ exhibition – BASQ, Richard Randall Studio, Mt Coot-tha, Toowong
- December 2020-November 2022 – Artistic Endeavour – Redcliffe Art Gallery, Banana Shire Regional Art Gallery – Biloela, Warwick Art Gallery, – Lockyer Valley Art Gallery – Gatton, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, – Tamworth Regional Gallery, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Mundubbera Regional Gallery, Gympie Art Gallery
- October 2020 – Cultivate – Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- June-September 2020 – Artistic Endeavour – Redcliffe Museum, Redcliffe
- November 2019 – Floressence – BASQ, Brisbane Institute of Art, Windsor
- November 2011-2018 – Floressence – BASQ, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
- November 2012 – Floressence – BASQ, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane (guest artist)
- March-May 2019 – Botanica Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- March-September 2018 – The Florilegium – The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney – Celebrating 200 years, The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens, London
- March/April 2013 – 2018 – Botanica – Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- August 2017 – Finalist (Professional Category) Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2017, Sydney
- October 2016 – 15th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation – Fall 2016, Pittsburgh, PA, USA - July-November 2016 – The Florilegium – The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
– Celebrating 200 years - September 2012- 2015 – Society of Growing Australian Native Plants exhibition,
Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane - October 2014 – The Art of Botanical Illustration (TABI)
Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne - July 2013 – Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adeliade Museum
- December 2011-2012 – Botanica (BASQ), Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
- November 2012 – The Hawkesbury Art Prize, Purple Noon Gallery, Freeman’s Reach, NSW
- April-December 2012 – Focus on Nature XII exhibition – New York State Museum, Albany, USA
- May 2012 – Artists in Residence – Brookfield Garden Centre, Brookfield
- March-June 2012 – Margaret Flockton Exhibition – Red Box Gallery,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney - November 2011 – Lockyer Valley Regional Art Awards, Laidley, Queensland
- April-May 2011 – Metamorphosis – Redcliffe Botanic Gardens
Awards
- October 2023 – First Prize – BASA, CanAssist Exhibition Bowral
- July 2023 – 2nd Prize People’s Choice award – Plants x healing Botanical Materia Medica exhibition – Foundation & Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- October 2022 – People’s Choice award at TABI (The Art of Botanical Illustration – 16th Biennial) 2022 exhibition
- September 2022 – Celia Rosser Honourable Mention Award at at TABI (The Art of Botanical Illustration – 16th Biennial) 2022 exhibition
- July 2022 – Highly Commended award – Waterhouse Natural History Science Art Prize
- August 2017 – Finalist (Professional Category) – Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2017
- July 2013 – Finalist – Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Adelaide Museum
- November – December 2012 – Commended Award – The Hawkesbury Art Prize 2012
- August 2012 – PICA (Print Industry Craftsmanship Awards) Qld Awards
– Gold Medal, Botanical cards - August 2012 – PICA (Print Industry Craftsmanship Awards) Qld Awards
– Gold Medal – Botanical art business cards - November 2011 – Lockyer Valley Regional Art Awards – 1st Prize, Botanical Section
Professional Memberships
- The Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Inc – Invited Artist member
- Botanical Art Society of Australia
- Melbourne Friends – Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne