Experience

2022 Journey – Retrospective and Current works – Crookwell Art Gallery
2021 Quiet Nature – Bungendore Woodworks Gallery
2012 -2021 Shoalhaven Fine Art Gallery Huskisson
2011 – 2023 Bungendore Gallery
2010 Sydney Art Expo
2009

Coastlines – Bungendore Woodworks Gallery – September

Milkfactory Gallery Bowral – September

Coastal Gallery Milton – February

Naked Flame – Hibiscus Gallery Lake Burrill

Now and Then – Crookwell and District Art Gallery – October

2008

Forest Gallery South Durras

Bungendore Woodworks Gallery

Robertson Cheese Factory Gallery- Southern Highlands – December

‘Heavenly Bodies’ – Escape Art Festival Exhibition – Hibiscus Gallery – South Coast – October

2007 ‘Retrospective’, The Shoalhaven City Art Centre, Regional Gallery, Nowra NSW
2006

‘The Voice of the Angel’ – the Old Butterfactory, Nowra NSW

The Sydney Automobile Club

2005

The Woodworks Gallery, Bungendore NSW

The Old Butterfactory, Nowra NSW

2003

The Solander Gallery ACT ( represented artist)

‘Artists of the South Coast’, Forest Gallery, South Coast NSW

The Cancer Council, Posh Auction’ Sydney

‘Seven Deadly Sins’- Tabula Rasa Festival, Ulladulla NSW

2002 ‘Nudes and Body Parts’, Tabula Rasa Festival, Ulladulla NSW
2000 Yerring Station Gallery, Vic
1999 – 2004

The Qantas Chairman’s Lounge Canberra and Sydney

The Qantas Lounges, Sydney, Canberra & Perth

1999

Michael Commerford Galleries, Milton NSW

Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon Property, Nowra NSW

‘A Word’- Hotel Berry, Berry NSW

‘Nudes’, Forest Gallery, South Durras NSW

1998 Shoalhaven City Council Exhibition, Nowra
1997

The Forest Gallery, South Durras Gallery NSW

The Raglan Gallery, Manly

Shipley Gallery, Blue Mountains

Lurline Gallery, Blue Mountains

1996 – 1997 ‘At the Beach’ – ‘Inner Directions’ Barry’s Guest House, Termeil NSW
1996

‘A Slice of Europe’, Hotel Berry, Berry NSW

‘Eat your Art Out’, Barry’s Guest House, Termeil

1995 Crookwell Shire Exhibition
1993

The Riverina Regional Gallery Wagga Wagga NSW

‘Contemporary Riverina Artists’

1992

The Old Post Office Gallery, Sutton, NSW

The Downing Centre, Sydney

1991 Saint Vincent’s Hospital Sydney – Solo Exhibition
1986 Willowvale Mill, Laggan NSW
1982

The Gambrawatha Gallery, Albury NSW

The Bolitho Gallery ACT- ‘Eight Australian Artists’

The Only Gallery Wollongong, NSW

1980 – 1986 The Riverina Galleries, Wagga Wagga, NSW
1977 Mildura Art Group Gallery, Victoria

Collections and Commissions

  • Upper Lachlan Shire Gallery Collection Crookwell
  • Riverina Regional Gallery Wagga Wagga Collection
  • NSW State Government Collection, Ministry for Justice and Ministry for Police
  • Private Collections in Canada, France, England, America & Australia
  • The Hans Heyson Family Collection South Australia
  • Holy Spirit Hospital Brisbane Queensland- Commission of 40 works
  • Lady Jean Griffin Private Collection

Reviews

  • Canberra Times, June 1982
  • Border Morning Mail, Albury, Aug 1982
  • Wagga Wagga Advertiser 1983
  • Tumbarumba Times, 1984
  • The Southern Weekly, 1994
  • The Times and the Express, Ulladulla 95, 96, 97
  • The South Coast Register, 95, 96, 97, 2007, 2008
  • The Bay Post, Bateman’s Bay 1996
  • The Independent, Nowra, June 1997
  • The South Coast Register, 2007
  • South Coast Style magazine, 2005, 2008
  • South Coast Register 2008
  • The Wollongong Mercury Dec 2008
  • The Southern Highlands Times /2008
  • The Crookwell Gazette 2009
  • Canberra Times 2009

Other Activities

Justice of the Peace NSW.

2021- 2023 Chair of the NSW Federal Assistance Grants Commission .

2019 Grant development and support for $100k for the Bawley Point construction of their Mens Shed

2013 – MC for the ‘Celebration of the 16 years as Glilmore MP- Joanna Gash Amory event Attended by the Prime Minister of Australia Hon MalcolmTurnbull.

2003 – MC for the visit and address to the Shoalhaven of the Hon John Howard MP
Prime Minister of Australia

2004-2008 He was appointed a Board Director of the Lady Denman Museum Husskisson and Board Adviser to Australia’s Museum of Flight Nowra.

2003-Directed & curated an Exhibition of Shoalhaven Artists in Fuzhou China 2003

Presented the 2000 Sydney Olympic Torch Relay- Nowra Celebration Event to an audience of 25,000

1997 Guest Speaker, Regional Arts NSW State Conference, Sydney University

1996-1999 Chairman – Berry to Border Cultural Tourism Inc.

1996-1999 Chairman – Arts Shoalhaven Inc.

1996- Co –Author, ‘Write Now’ (Longman Cheshire) Primary School Handwriting Series K-6

1972-1994 Primary School Principal and Teacher rural and western NSW

1996/ 97 Cultural Consultant with Woodhead, Farr, Lord – Shoalhaven Cultural Centre Feasibility Plan and consultant with People for Places and Spaces in the NSW State ‘City of the Arts’, Project bid.

1974 Visual Arts Education Consultant Dept Education NSW

Awards

South Coast Tourism Awards – Shoalhaven City Arts Centre -Cultural Tourism 2006

Business Excellence Award – Nowra TAF- Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2005

OAM Order of Australia Medal- 2011

2008 IMAGinE Awards- for Individual Award for Excellence- Museums & Galleries NSW, Museums Australia

(NSW & ACT) and Regional & Public Galleries of NSW

2008 NSW State Local Government Cultural Awards – ‘The Brendan Hartnett Award’ for Cultural Development NSW

1996 Healthy Cities Illawarra Award for services to the cultural life of the Shoalhaven

1994 NSW State Education Minister’s Award for ‘Excellence in Teaching’

1993 Rotary Vocational Service Excellence Award Crookwell

1980 Holbrook Shire Art Award

1971 Wagga Teachers College Inaugural Leadership Award

1967 Chatswood Municipality Art Awards

1974 Permanent Building Society, Mildura Art Society