Exhibitions

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Compressing Atmosphere: PhD examination
2024
Concluding exhibition of PhD research at SITE 8, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
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Let the Sunshine In
2 Feb 2024 – 24 Jan 2024
Curated by Sara Lindsay at Five Walls Gallery, this group exhibition represents ten multi-generational female visual artists, from Australia, the UK and Japan, who utilise hand woven textiles in their practice.
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Klytie Pate Ceramic Award
15 Sep 2023 – 30 Sep 2023
The Klytie Pate Award for Ceramics is a National prize, open to all ceramicists in Australia and New Zealand who are experienced in the craft, and carries a biennial prize of $10,000.
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Vessel, Cloth & Cloak
18 May 2023 – 29 Jul 2023
Curated by the Australian Tapestry Workshop & features artists and designers creating functional textiles as vessels of culture, stories, and identity and explores works that traditionally carry, protect, contain and cover – and reinterprets them in a contemporary design context. Part of Melbourne Design Week 2023.
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Window Session (reflective)
1 Jan 2023 – 17 Jan 2023
A series of contemporary ceramic installation in an inner city shop front window. Facilitated by Group Sessions cooperative and supported by the City of Melbourne.
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The Weight of Waiting
15 Jun 2022 – 2 Jul 2022
A solo exhibition at Rubicon ARI investigating the generative and transformative potential of pliable clay and textile and their capacity to suggest meaning beyond themselves – poetic, cultural, social, and as keepers of time.
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Wearing Out the Days
4 Apr 2022 – 5 May 2022
PhD Candidate Thinking Through Practice installation, REY Space, RMIT University
To Dwell & Respond
5 Aug 2021 – 17 Oct 2021
Solo exhibition of wood fired ceramic sculpture at Kyneton Stockroom
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Finding Form on Landscape Road 
27 Feb 2021 – 27 Mar 2021
A solo exhibition of wood fired sculpture, made on residency in the Tallarook Ranges, exhibited at CLAD (Centre for Learning & Design), Bendigo
Conversations with a Landscape
8 Apr 2019 – 18 May 2019
Craft Victoria exhibition proposes that we occupy a newly redefined place in nature, one that is observant and respectful. The objects made through this investigation explore a way of constructing and acknowledging landscape outside of colonial tropes and actions of consumption, ownership, and labelling
Material Memories Exhibition, QMAG Art Gallery 
1 Jun 2018 – 30 Dec 2018
Six interdisciplinary practitioners explore methods of materiality, through the mapping of existing objects and species located at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania in order to reveal and trace the story of place and visual memory
Wonky
14 Jul 2016 – 24 Jul 2016
Group exhibition curated by Sophie Cai & Caitlin Shearer at Tinning St Presents, Brunswick
Porcelain Wall - Ode to an Obsession 
24 Jul 2015 – 27 Sep 2015
Curated by Wendy Golden for the Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
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Ain't No Mountain High Enough- Milestones for Two Centuries of Women Climbers 
16 Oct 2012 – 16 Nov 2012
A solo exhibition at Mailbox 141, Melbourne reflecting on the concurrent achievements of women mountaineers and feminism
Tooth & Nail: Cross Cultural Influences in Contemporary Ceramics
2011
An national touring exhibition curated by NETS Victoria with Australian and Hong Kong artists