Studies
Diploma of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
B.A., University of New England (English/History)
Postgraduate Certificate in Writing, University of Technology, Sydney
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Tacit Contemporary. Melbourne Vic Australia PAINTINGS and PRINTS
2014 Manningham Art Gallery Melbourne, Australia
2003 Gallerie Paul Trilloux Le Cendre, France
2001 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery NSW Australia
2000 Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney PAINTINGS and WORKS ON PAPER
1994 Studio One Canberra, NSW
1994 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery NSW Australia
1993 Penrith Regional Gallery NSW Australia
1989 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Sydney NSW
1987-1990 Wagner Gallery Paddington NSW; Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney NSW. PAINTING
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Tacit Contemporary Melbourne
2015 Rick Amor Print Prize Exhibition, Montsalvat, Vic.
2009 Union Art Collection Exhibition, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney
2009 The Jewish Museum, Melbourne
2008 The 57th Blake Prize Exhibition, Sydney
2006 Guest Artist (Invitation) Barat Bhavan International Biennial, Prints. India
2005 Guest Artist (Invitation) “L’Arte e il Torchio”, Cremona, Italy
2004 Alice Prize Exhibitions Alice Springs NT Australia
2004 University of Sydney Union Art Collection Herman Black Gallery Sydney NSW Australia
2003 Guest Artist (Invitation) Sixieme Triennale Mondial de L’estampe Petit Format, France
2000 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery
1998 Alice Prize Exhibition NT Australia Painting
1998 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, group exhibition "Co-Existence"
1998 Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst NSW Work on Paper
1997 Group Exhibition "Sarajevo" Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Painting and Work on Paper
1995 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, "Through Women's Eyes", AWM Travelling Exhibition
1995 The Twenty-first Alice Prize, NT Painting
1994 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Grafton NSW
1994 Australian War Memorial, ACT. "Through Women's Eyes".
1994 Fremantle Print Award Exhibition
1994 Alice Prize Exhibition NT Australia Painting
1993 Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery Solo
1993 Portia Geach Memorial Art Award Exhibition Sydney NSW Australia PAINTING
1990 Alice Prize Exhibition NT Australia
1990 Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, Sydney NSW PAINTING
1989 Fremantle Print Award Exhibition
1988, Blake Prize Exhibitions PAINTING
1987 National Women’s Art Award, Qld
1987 Mornington Peninsular Drawing
1986 Blake Prize Exhibition PAINTING
1985 Blake Prize Exhibition PAINTING
1982, 1980 Print Council of Australia Touring Exhibition Sweden, Korea
Professional experience
2008 Printmaking Workshop for HSC Teachers, Dept. of Education and Training NSW
2005 Floor Talk on Drawing Parramatta Heritage Centre NSW
1998 Visiting Lecturer Newcastle University, Australia
1995 External Assessor in Printmaking, University of Adelaide
1993 Visiting Lecturer, Newcastle University NSW
1990 Art Gallery NSW talk on Drawing “The Personal is the Political”
Prints in Selected Public Collections
Australian War Memorial Contemporary Collection, ACT Australia; City Museum, Cremona, Italy; Galerie d’Art Contemporain de Chamalières, Auvergne, France; Mosman Art Collection, Mosman NSW Australia; Queensland State Library Artists Books Collection Qld, Australia; University of Sydney Union Art Collection NSW Australia and Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, NSW Australia
Selected Bibliography
2016 Oz Arts
2009 Rebecca Forgasz and Claire Rankin, Catalogue, Jewish Museum of Australia; Shannon Connellan and Hannah Kothe Works from the University of Sydney Union Art Store; “ L’Arte e il Torchio”, Catalogue, Cremona, Italy; Art Monthly July 1997; Sasha Grishin Canberra Times, 1997. Dara Rome. “Artists in Action” Australian War Memorial Publication 2003; Catalogue Essays Geraldine O’Brien, April Hersey , Elin Howe, Katy Batha; Art Monthly Evelyn Juers. Prof. Joan Kerr, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, “Sarajevo”, Catalogue 1997; Donal Fitzpatrick Catalogue essay 1996; Lola Wilkins AWM Catalogue 1994 Sonia Barron, Canberra Times, 1992; Geraldine O’Brien, Catalogue Essay Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery; Jo Saurin, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 30, 1990; Neville Drury, "New Art Four", Craftsman House Publication, 1989; Susanna Short, Sydney Morning Herald 1985; Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 1985; Art and Australia, Vol 23 No.1 Spring, 1985.
Prizes, Publications and Awards
2024 Talk on Artists Books, Rare Books Week, Kathleen Syme Library, Melbourne
2023 Speaker. Generationwomen.org Finding my voice. Howler. Melbourne CBD
2022 Speaker Generationwomen.org ‘Finding my Joy’ Howler, Melbourne;
2019 Selected for Hardcopy ACT Writers Centre.
2014 Hannah Blumenstein Eady , a Life. Revised Edition
2013 Carmel Bird long story Award (shortlisted);
2013 Australian Book Review Calibre Prize (Long listed for Essay ‘The Shadow of the Rose’);
2012 ABR Calibre Prize for Outstanding Essay
2012 (Shortlisted for essay ‘Mapping the Edges of the Night’ );
2006 Biography of Hannah Eady by E. Ratnam
2003 UTS Writers Anthology of New writing Short Story ‘The Eye of the Typhoon’ Halstead Press.
1988 Mosman Print and Drawing Prize (shared with Tom Carment)
1988 Bowral Mittagong Print Prize