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Solo and group exhibitions, awards and prizes, grants and commissions, residencies, collections, education, research and curatorial positions, panels and public speaking, professional affiliations.
AWARDS, PRIZES, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES
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2023: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) // International Feminist Art Residency // Gibraltar Point Art Centre // Toronto // Canada
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2021: City of Yarra Community Award // Contributions to the Arts // Victoria // Australia
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2021: City of Yarra Arts Grants // Small Projects Grant // Victoria // Australia
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2020: National Assistance Program for the Arts // Artist Grant // Philanthropy Australia Arts Funders Network // Australia
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2020: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) // International Feminist Art Residency // Florence // Italy // Cancelled due to COVID-19
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2020: Petite Residency // Factory 49 // Paris // France // Cancelled due to COVID-19
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2017: NARS Foundation // International Artist Residency // New York City // USA
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2015: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) // International Feminist Art Residency // Gibraltar Point Art Centre // Toronto // Canada
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2015: NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts) // Australian Artists’ Grant // Australia
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2015: University of Melbourne Student Union // Arts Grant // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: University of Melbourne // POTS Award (Prestigious Overseas Travelling Scholarship) // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Creative Victoria // VicArts Grant // Government of Victoria // Australia
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2014: Victorian Women’s Trust // Sponsorship Grant // Victoria // Australia
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2014: Australian Tapestry Workshop // Artist in Residence // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Melbourne Social Equity Institute // Doctoral Academy Grant // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: University of Melbourne // Faculty Small Grant Scheme // Melbourne // Australia
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2013: Melbourne Social Equity Institute // Seed Funding Grant // Melbourne // Australia
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2012–2013: Australian Postgraduate Award for PhD Research // Government of Australia
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2012: Art Gallery of New South Wales // Moya Dyring Studio Residency // Cité International des Arts // Paris // France
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2012: City of Melbourne // Arts Project Grant // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: Copyright Agency Limited // Creative Industries Career Fund Grant // Australia
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2011: NAVA(National Association for the Visual Arts) // The Janet Holmes á Court Artists’ Grant // Australia
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2010–2011: Australian Postgraduate Award for Masters Research // Government of Australia
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2010: University of Melbourne Conference and Creative Research Activity Fund // Grant // Melbourne // Australia
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2010: University of Melbourne Student Union // Arts Grant // Melbourne // Australia
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2009: University Melbourne Student Union(UMSU) // Sculpture Commission for the UMSU collection // Melbourne // Australia
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2009: Winner // George Paton Gallery Proud Award // Solo exhibition prize
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COLLECTIONS
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Melbourne University Student Union Art Collection // University of Melbourne // Australia
Hotel Sofitel Emerging Artists Collection // Melbourne // Australia
Byron Bay Community Health Centre // NSW // Australia
Private Collections // Australia & International
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EDUCATION​
2017: PhD (Fine Art) // University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: Master of Fine Art (Research) // University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts // Melbourne // Australia
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2009: Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Art // University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts // Melbourne // Australia
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1993: Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) // Phillip Institute of Technology // Melbourne // Australia
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RESEARCH AND CURATORIAL POSITIONS
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2022: Curator // Women's Art Register, Setting up shop at the GPG // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2021/21: Researcher // This Is W.A.R! // Women’s Art Register // Melbourne // Australia
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2019: Curator // From the W.A.R Files // City Library // Melbourne // Australia
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2018-20: Research Assistant // Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times // LaTrobe University // Bendigo & Melbourne // Australia
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2018: Curator // Conspicuous Presence // Trocadero Artspace // Melbourne // Australia
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2017: Assistant Curator // Doing Feminism/Sharing the World // Norma Redpath House // Melbourne // Australia
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2016: Research Assistant // Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970 // Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2016-18 // Victorian College of the Arts // University of Melbourne // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: Co-curator // f generation: feminism, art, progressions, with Juliette Peers and Veronica Caven Aldous // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
2015: Co-curator // As If: Echoes of the Women’s Art Register, with Juliette Peers and Stephanie Leigh // West Space // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Co-curator // Topologies of Sexual Difference, with Louise Burchill // George Paton Gallery // for Topologies of Sexual Difference Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Curator// The f Word // Touring - Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale & Ararat Art Gallery, Ararat // Victoria // Australia
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2014: Curator // Imagining Social Equity, perspectives on migration, gender and community // Museo Italiano // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Co-curator // The Technopia Tours Feminist Art Bus, with Kim Donaldson // Melbourne // Australia
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2013–2015: Co-founding member //Matters of the Body Research Cluster // Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne // Melbourne // Australia
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2013–2018: Member // Melbourne Social Equity Institute Gender Research Network // University of Melbourne // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: Co-curator // A Dinner Party: setting the table // West Space // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: Curator // Wild vs Man // Goodtime Studios // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: Curator // Interior Architecture // LaTrobe University Visula Arts Centre (VAC) // Bendigo // Australia
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PANELS & PUBLIC SPEAKING, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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2025-: Member // Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) // Spain
2024: Panel moderator // A Story named Joy // Palais de Tokyo // for NEST network for empowerment, solidarity and transregionality // Paris // France
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2024: Forum participant // NEST network for empowerment, solidarity and transregionality // for AWARE Archives of women artists, research and exhibitions // Villa Vassilief // Paris // France
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2024: Conference panellist // CAA Annual conference // Panel - Radical archiving for radical art histories: against a positivist rhetoric of discovery // Paper - The Women’s Art Register: Archiving feminist community // Panel Chair Prof. Hilary Robinson // Chicago, USA and online
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2023–2024: Convenor, Grants & Development Coordinator // Women’s Art Register // Melbourne // Australia​
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2017-2023: Secretary, Archive Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator // Women’s Art Register // Melbourne // Australia
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​2022: Panellist // The Adrianne Wadewitz Panel WOW 2022 Keynote // Diversity, Diasporas and Digitality: The Worlds of Wikimedia™ and beyond conference // University of Sydney and online // Australia
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2022: Organiser & Presenter // Leaving Your Legacy, A Guide for Australian Artists // Women’s Art Register Forum // Siteworks // Melbourne // Australia​
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2022: Panellist // Distribution series #2: Alternative Collections // Who’s Afraid of Public Space? // Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) // Melbourne // Australia
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2022: Panellist // NICE TO MEET YOU #8: Creating Databases of Women Artists // SALOON Network Berlin // Online​
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2020-21: Regional Ambassador (Oceania Region) // Art+Feminism // International
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2021: Panellist // Women artists and abstraction // West End Art Space // Melbourne // Australia
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2020: Launch speaker // HER – Stories 2020 // Chapman & Bailey IWD Exhibition // Melbourne // Australia
2019: Launch Speaker // Women’s Work // Backspace, Ballarat Art Gallery // Ballarat // Australia
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2019: Launch Speaker // Re:Register, Australian Women Sculptors from the Women’s Art Register // Richmond Town Hall // Melbourne // Australia
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2018: Host and panellist // The Great Divide: feminist art practice across generations and geography // #MEL/NYC // Richmond Theatrette // Melbourne // Australia
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2018: Panellist // In Conversation, Natalie Thomas and the Women's Art Register // True Estate // Melbourne // Australia
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2018: Panellist // Material Matters // Town Hall Gallery // Melbourne // Australia​
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2017: Facilitator and panellist // The Round Table: W.A.R Stories, The Women’s Art Register // Australian Centre for Contemporary Art // Melbourne // Australia​
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2015: Launch speaker // A Crafted History People and Place // ArtSpace Realm // Melbourne // Australia​
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2014: Panel moderator // Sexuate Art in the Making // Topologies of Sexual Difference, 7th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Panellist // Topologies of Sexual Difference, 7th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Panel - Aesthetics of the Interval // Paper - Relatedness as a Methodology, an Aesthetics of the Interval // Moderator Louise Burchill // Melbourne // Australia
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​2012–2014: Heide Museum of Modern Art // volunteer Visitor Services Officer // Melbourne // Australia
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2013: Convenor // Regional Feminist Art Forum // Latrobe University VAC // Bendigo // Victoria
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2013: Panellist // Thinking Life, 6th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Panel - Irigaray & Art // Paper - A Loosely Woven fabric // Moderator Per Buvik // Bergen // Norway
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2010: Co-curator // The Feminist Salon Group: The Envelope // The West Wing // Melbourne // Australia
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2008–2012: Member // UNAP // Union Nicaraguense de Artistas Plasticos // Nicaragua // Central America
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1992–ongoing: Member // National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) // Australia
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
​2019–ongoing: #imawomanartist // durational online project
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2019: Totem and Taboo // Feltspace // Adelaide // Australia
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2018: there’s something happening here… (extended remix) // Boxcopy // Brisbane // Australia
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2017: there’s something happening here… // NARS presents @ Anese Projects // New York City // USA
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2016: Materialising Feminism // Margaret Lawrence Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Hang Ups // Factory 49 // Sydney // Australia
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2013: Enmeshed // Craft Victoria // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: Open Studio // Cité Internationale des Arts // Paris // France
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2012: Barely Breathing // Factory 49 Project Space // Sydney // Australia
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2012: Easement // BLINDSIDE // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: Bunker // NoNo Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2010: Holding Pattern // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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GROUP + COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
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2025: Landmarks 75:25 - 50 years of the Women's Art Register // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
2025: chatterbox I charladora I xerrameca (with Anne Hastie) // CasCaDas Artspace // Barcelona // Spain
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2023: Feminist Art Collective (FAC) International Residency Open Studio Exhibition // Artscape Gibraltar Point // Toronto // Canada
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2023: UMSU Art Collection: New acquisitions and selected works // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2023: SHE of Mind and Body // Walker St. Gallery // Curated by Alojz Babic // Melbourne // Australia
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2022: Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial // Curated by Anna Prifti // West End Art Space // Melbourne // Australia
2022: Boobing (with Karryn Argus & Stephania Windholz Leigh) // ACU Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2022: When you think about feminism, what do you think? George Paton Gallery, Feminisms 1975-2022 // George Paton Gallery // Curated by Sandra Bridie and Emma Shaw // Melbourne // Australia
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2022: Women's Art Register: Setting up shop in the GPG // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2022: 30works30days // 12ø collective // online project // UK
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2022: Banyule Works on Paper Award (with Claire Field) // Melbourne // Australia
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2021: Kate Derum and Irene Davies Award for Small Tapestries // Australian Tapestry Workshop // Melbourne // Australia
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2021: Factory 49 Annual Group 2021 // Factory 49 // Sydney // Australia
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2021: Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial // West End Art Space // Melbourne // Australia
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2020: I’ve Never Seen The Sky Like This Before // Southwest Contemporary // Curated by Bronia IwaÅ„czak // Adelaide // Australia
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2020: A1 Darebin Art Salon 2020 // Online exhibition // Bundoora Homestead // Melbourne // Australia
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2020: BOOBOO with Karryn Argus and Stephania Leigh // Assembly Point // Melbourne // Australia
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2020: @Covid-19 Global Quilt // Curated by Tal Fitzpatrick and Kate Just // Online project // International
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2020: MCA International Women’s Day // Favour Economy Installation // Museum of Contemporary Art // Sydney // Australia
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2019: Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times—symposium week with Claire Field // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2019: Crafting Resistance—Six Moments in Kingston // Kingston Arts Centre // Curated by Tal Fitzpatrick // Melbourne // Australia
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2019: Love Letters to Feminisms // Trocadero Artspace // Curated by Margaret Mayhew and Nilmini Fernando // Melbourne // Australia
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2019: Women’s Work with Laurene Dietrich // Backspace, Ballarat Art Gallery // Ballarat // Australia
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2019: MCA ARTBAR Things We Do Together // Favour Economy Installation // Curated by Lara Merrett // Museum of Contemporary Art // Sydney // Australia
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2018: Hutchins Australia Contemporary Art Prize // Hobart // Australia
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2018: Hiraeth // Tacit Gallery // Curated by WAC (Women’s Art Collective) // Melbourne // Australia
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2018: AbstractionTwentyEighteen // Langford 120 // Curated by Wilma Tabacco and Stephen Wickham // Melbourne // Australia
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2017: Various Existential Angsts // NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, US) // Curated by Eriola Pira
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2017: Free Love Hurts // Mailbox Art Space // Curated by Andree Ruggeri and Rachel Pearce // Melbourne // Australia
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2017: 9 X 5 NOW // Margaret Lawrence Gallery // Curated by Elizabeth Gower // Melbourne // Australia
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2017: Favour Economy Vol 2. 2016–2017 // Co-leaders Claire Field and Bronwyn Treacy // Online project // Australia
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2017: Selvedge // Space on Collins // Curated by Alozj Babic // Melbourne // Australia
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2016: F49 3D // Factory 49 // Sydney // Australia
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2016: BOOB—Bias Objects, Objective Bodies with Karryn Argus and Stephanie Leigh // KINGS Artist Run // Melbourne // Australia
2016: Cut: garments without patterns // Backspace, Ballarat Art Gallery // Curated by Laurene Dietrich // Ballarat // Australia
2015: Looking forward, looking back // OCAD University Great Hall // Toronto // Canada
2015: Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize // Deakin University // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: f generation: feminism, art, progressions // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: AS IF: Echoes of the Women’s Art Register // West Space // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) International Residency Exhibition // Artscape Gibraltar Point // Toronto // Canada
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2015: Relatedness with Cathy Johnstone // Living Museum of the West // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: Fertile Ground // Australian Tapestry Workshop // Melbourne // Australia
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2015: Notes Towards a Future Feminist Archive // Affiliated Text // Curated by Bronia Iwańczak and Lynne Barwick // Sydney // Australia
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2014: Topologies of Sexual Difference // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: THE f WORD // Ararat Regional Art Gallery // Ararat // Australia
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2014: quietNOISE // Chapman and Bailey // Curated by Filomena Coppola // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Annual Group 2014 // Factory 49 // Sydney // Australia
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2013: Curtain Call // BLINDSIDE // Curated by Kali Michailidis // Melbourne // Australia
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2013: Bird Hide and Bunker with Catherine Evans // M16 // Canberra // Australia
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2013: Regimes of Value // Margaret Lawrence Gallery // Curated by Elizabeth Gower // Melbourne // Australia
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2013: Luminescence // The Hotel Windsor // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: Bird Hide and Bunker with Catherine Evans // Seventh // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: A Dinner Party: setting the table // West Space // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: Wild vs Man // Goodtime Studios // Melbourne // Australia
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2012: The Art of Collecting // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: Masters Exhibition // Victorian College of the Arts // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award // Deakin University Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: The Substation Contemporary Art Prize // The Substation // Melbourne // Australia
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2011: Travelling Scholarship 2011 // Noosa Regional Gallery // Noosa // Australia
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2011: Interior Architecture // La Trobe University Visual Art Centre // Bendigo // Australia
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2010: Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics // The Slade School of Art Research Centre // London // UK
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2010: Travelling Scholarship 2010 // Noosa Regional Gallery // Curated by Claire Mitchell // Noosa // Australia
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2010: The Feminist Salon Group—The Envelope // The West Wing // Melbourne // Australia
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2010: aRtECYCLE // Incinerator Gallery (Melbourne)
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2010: Hide and Seek // Red Gallery // Melbourne // Australia
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2010: SafARI 2010 // Firstdraft // Sydney // Australia
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2010: Current Sculpture Biennial // Wangaratta // Australia
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2009: Graduate Exhibition // Victorian College of the Arts // Melbourne // Australia
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2009: Albury Art Prize // Albury Art Gallery // Albury // Australia
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2009: UNAP Group Show // Galleria Praxis // Managua // Nicaragua
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