Creative History


Exhibitions

2004 Solo Exhibition 'Aspects of the Heart'
Kidogo Art Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 
2000 Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, Perth, Western Australia.  (installation, mosaics)
Solo Exhibition ”The Journey of the Black Madonna”
Moores Building , Fremantle, WA

1992-3 Beaver Galleries, Canberra Cintra Galleries, Brisbane Griffith Park Gallery, Murwillumbah Riverhouse Galleries, Queensland

1991 Warana Festival, Brisbane, Queensland

1989 New Editions Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia Perth Festival Fringe Festival Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Co-ordinator of Chinese Tiennnamen Square Exhibition Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
 
1988 Matilda Bay Exhibition, Western Australia Red Cross
Exhibition, Perth. WA

Commissions

2006 Illustrate the novel, “A Young Orangutan Living in a Loving Home,” by Esther Kerr.

2003 Artist in Residency at Beehive Montessori School. Created costumes and huge sculptures in Papier Mache for the Fremantle Festival Parade with 180 children, parents and teachers.

2002 Artist-in-Residence at Beehive Montessori Primary School, WA. Created a mosaic garden play area with the children reflecting its Aboriginal Site.

2001
Commissioned by the Real Sing Choir in Fremantle Art Centre to create backdrop for Performances. Consisted of a wall of 1000 candles.

Artist- in -Residence at Beehive Montessori School, Mosman Park creating costumes and large sculptures with 180 children and parent body for the Fremantle Festival Parade.

Private commissions for creating sacred spaces in gardens with mosaics.

· Two 2 x 1m mosaics for Park St Centre (Healing Centre) in Subiaco, WA.
· Private Garden Mosaics (3 x 2m)

1998 Commissioned by Mandurah Hospital to create a large mural for the Children's Ward.

1996-1997 Private Commissions for oils and pastels.

1996
Commissioned by Barking Theatre Company to supply painting for poster and all publicity for the inaugural Perth International Children's Festival.

Commissioned by restaurant owners in Market St, Fremantle to design piazza area.

1995
Commissioned by Sandrino Café, Fremantle to redesign interior and exterior of restaurant. This involved constructing and installing a 2 x 12 metre length mosaic on interior walls and decorative elements to exterior: refurbishing the restaurant and designing a logo which was incorporated throughout the restaurant and reflected in a floor design made from steel, brass and ceramic.

Commissioned by Mosman Park Council to design an image for the Mosfest Poster.

Commissioned by Fremantle council to co-ordinate a mosaic with unemployed youth.

Workshops


2007 One Day Workshops on Releasing Your Creative Self, Santa Cruz Home Studio, California

2006 8 week courses: Creating Balance in Your Life, Santa Cruz Home Studio, California

2004 -5 8 week courses Creating Your Life in Balance. Using color to create the life you want, co written and taught with Paula Bradley at Kidogo Art Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia

Dance to Draw Workshops. 8 week courses using Salsa Dance as a way of warming up the physical and creative self before drawing from the heart.


2002-4 Dance to Draw Workshops. 8 week courses.

2001 Southcare Community Centre- 2 workshops with Aboriginal Elders expressing their life's journey through miniature water colours resulting in 3 'mosiac' pieces.

Day workshop with Aboriginal students at Curtin University celebrating and expressing their qualities that they enjoyed giving to life. Mixed media resulted in each student producing an individual tapestry.


2000 Monthly workshops with youth group on 'Spirituality in Your Life.'

Qualifications


1990 Royal Society of Arts Preparatory certificate for Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
1987- 89 Diploma in Fine Art (painting) with Distinction, Claremont School of Art, Perth, Western Australia.
1981- 84 Registered General Nurse, Guys Hospital, London

Publications

6.3.2004 Post - Soul Sisters - Sarah McNeill

15.7.2003 Western Suburbs - Art Classes Hit Right Note - Cara Sputor

Aug 2002 Australian Vital Magazine - The Dancing Artist -Emma Leask

29.7.2002 West Australian - Drawn to the Dance - by Keith McDonald

14.7.2000 West Australian - Defining Moments - Bron Sibree

19.7.2000 Perth Weekly - Soul Searching - Evi Ferrier

Sept 95 Fremantle Herald - Dawn's Ceramic frieze a swimming success - Nick Paskos.

Dec 95 Herald - Another Leap Forward - Lisa Gutherie

1992 Fremantle Gazette - Art from Dreams-Michele Nugent

2001 Brisbane Review - Ides of March - Phil Brown

Television

Fremantle Festival in the Making Channel 31

2001 Documentary about artists working with the community for the Fremantle Festival.