SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Our Frocks Like Mountains, William Hodges Fellowship Exhibition. Riverton Community Art center, Riverton
2016 Vintage, Orex Art , Auckland
2016 O Maria, Artists Room, Dunedin
2015 I Want More in a Nutshell, Artists Room, Dunedin
2014 Sweet Home Sick, Aratoi-Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Wairarapa
2012 Coming Back, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2010 Sign Post from God. Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
2009 Cross My Heart, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2007 Away, Away, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2008 Pie in the Sky, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
2006 Votive & Lies, Oedipus Gallery, Auckland
2005 Limbus The Temple Gallery, Moray Place, Dunedin
2003 Desire Drapes Everything The Temple Gallery, Dunedin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Unbound, University of Otago at Dunedin School of Art
2018 Trailblazers MD Gallery, Whangarei
2018 Landfall Exhibition Otago Art Society
2016 Birthday show, Artists Room, Dunedin
2016 Hope & sons Art Awards, Dunedin
2016 Art Fair, Oamaru
2015 Xmas exhibition Artists Room, Dunedin
2015 Art & Design, Skinner Annex, Dunedin
2015 Birthday show, Artists Room, Dunedin
2014 Staff, Aigantighe Gallery, Timaru
2014 Staff, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru
2013 Small Works, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2013 Religious Experience, Orex Art, Auckland
2012 Traces, Leipzig Art Fair, Leipzig, Germany
2012 Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award Exhibition
2012 Summer Show, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2012 Art in Practice, University of Otago, Dunedin
2011 The Smith & Yallop Memorial Exhibition, A Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin
2010 Summer Show, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2009 Art In Law, Law Faculty, University of Otago, Dunedin
2009 ANZAAE Conference, Otago School of Art, Dunedin
2009 The Collectors Exhibition, Oedipus Rex, Auckland
2009 Auckland Art Fair, Auckland
2008 Summer Show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2007 Preview, 40 contemporary NZ artists. Coca, Christchurch
2007 Summer Show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2006 Discomposures, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2006 Adams Portrait Exhibition, Lopdell House, Auckland
2006 Parklane Art Awards, Artis Gallery, Parnell. Auckland
2006 The Adam Portraiture Award & Exhibition, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington
2005 Past Winners.The Cleveland Living Arts Centre, The Railway Station, Dunedin
2005 Some Plus One, Segue Gallery, Burlington Street, Dunedin
2004 Southern Lights, The Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2004 Small Works, Peter Rae Gallery, Stuart Street, Dunedin
2004 Annual Spring Festival, Anderson Park Art Gallery, Invercargill
2004 Cleveland Art Awards. Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003 Large Art, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003 Post Raphaelites, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2003 Cleveland Art Awards, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2000 Divine World Descend, Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic
1999 Love Stories, Sirenz, Dunedin
1999 Prodigal Daughter, Sirenz, Dunedin
1998 Winter Solstice Exhibition, Arc Café, High Street, Dunedin
QUALIFICATIONS:
MASTER of FINE ARTS, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand.
BACHELOR of FINE ARTS, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Graduate Diploma in Teaching, Dunedin
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2004 - current
Drawing and painting Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic.
REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS:
Darren Ludlow, Art is Perception, Radio Southland NZ on Air 2018
Amy Johnstone, Southland Express 7/8/2018
Amy Johnstone, Southland Express 3/9/ 2018
Westernstar July 2018
T J McNamara, review, Vintage. New Zealand Herald Aug 2016
Sian Hannagan, Home Birth Aotearoa, artists page 3.2 Winter 2016
James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Coming Back, p 26, 31 May 2012
David Eggleton (ed), Landfall, Home + Building, 2012
Scope, Contemporary Research Topics Art and Design, Otago Polytechnic, p. 5-6, 2011
Nigel Benson, Otago Daily Times, True to Form, 16 Sept 2009
Leoni Shmidt, Scope, Contemporary Research Topics: Art 3, Pie in the sky, 2009
Otago Polytechnic Research Annual Report, Otago Polytechnic, 2009
James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Cross My Heart, 23 April 2009
Gavin Bartram, D-Scene, Cross My Heart , Dunedin, 15 April 2009
T.J. McNamara, The New Zealand Herald, Pie in the Sky, April 9 2008
David Eggleton, The Listener, 25 Aug 2007
Channel 9 Documentary, 7 July 2007
Margi Macmurdo, Critic, OUSA, Issue 15, 2007
Nigel Benson, Otago Daily Times, 12 July 2007
Stephen Higginson, a review for the exhibition "Cross My Heart", 2009
Bridie Leonie, Ordinary Ecstacies catalogue for exhibition, Away, away, July 2007
Maari McClusky, Drawn from Life: The Art of Anita DeSoto, Art New Zealand, Winter, 2007
T.J. McNamara, The New Zealand Herald, Votive & Lies, July 5, 2006
Ralph Body, Critic, Discomposures, OUSA, 2006
James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Discomposures, May 18, 2006
Katrina Megget, Otago Daily Times, report on Park Lane Award, April 22, 2006
Capital Times, Adam Portraiture Award, 2-28 March, 2006
Diana Dekker, Dominion Post, Adam Portraiture Award, March 18, 2006
Ben Vidgen, Deadline, 18 August, 2005
Frith, Review of Limbus, p.23 - 24
Joanne Campbell, Otago Daily Times, review of Limbus, (page 25), 12 August 2005
Katrina Megget, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Past Winners Show, p.26, 2 July 2005
James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Southern Light review, 16 Dec 2004
McAlister Award, Southland Times, Amy Glass, P.27, 3 Oct 2004
James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Award, 1 Oct 2004
Richard Dingwall, Otago Daily Times, Post Raphaelites review, 15 Nov 2004
David Eggleton, The Listener, Cleveland Award, 25 Oct 2004
Richard Dingwall, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Award, 3 Oct 2004
Catherine Patterson, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Award, p.28, 3 Oct 2004
Brenda Harwood, Otago Daily Times, Desire Drapes Everything, 20 July 2004
Richard Dingwall, Otago Daily Times, Desire Drapes Everything Review, 18 July 2004
Peter Entwistle, Otago Daily Times, Site review, Dec 2000
PRIZES AND AWARDS:
2017 Peoples choice award, New Edinburgh Art Awards, Dunedin
2014 Artist in residence, New Pacific Studios in Vallejo, San Francisco, USA
2013 Aratoi Fellowship, New Pacific Studio, New Zealand
2012 Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award, merit prize for Abor Spiritus
2010 Awarded a 3 month Leipzig International Art Residency in Germany
2006 Park Lane Art Awards, First Prize, Portrait Category, Auckland Museum
2004 The McAlister Award, Anderson Park Gallery, Invercargill
2004 Highly Commended, Cleveland Award, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003 Cleveland Premier Award, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003 Derivan Art Award, Dunedin
2000 Recognition of Achievement in Painting, Otago Polytechnic School of Art
RESIDENCIES:
William Hodges Fellowship, Southland 2018
New Pacific Studio, Vallejo, San Francisco, California, USA 2014
Arotoi Residency Award at New Pacific Studios, New Zealand, 2013
Leipzig International Art Residency Programme, Leipzig, Germany, 2010
COLLECTIONS:
Not of This World, 2013, Sir James Wallace, Pah House, Auckland
Signpost from God, James Wallace Collection, Pah Homestead, Auckland
Further than Far Away, Anderson Park Public Gallery Collection, Invercargil
JUDGING OF ART AWARDS:
Edinburgh Realty Art Awards Dunedin 2018
Otago University Students Association Art Awards 2015
Aspiring Art Awards, Central Otago 2014
