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
