Current Projects and Positions
Tir Canol, RSBP, Dyfi Valley, Wales
Co-director Aberystwyth Printmakers, Aberystwyth, Wales
Manager (and founder) Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, Wales
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2022 900 Baskets, Ffenest y Piazza, Art Centre, Aberystwyth University and Impact conference, Frenchay Campus, Bristol
2022 The Land as Other, The Island Gallery, Bristol
2022 Oriel Q print Show, Oriel Q, Narbeth, Wales
2022 We Live with the Land / Ein Bro, Cyd-fyw â’r Tir, Aberystwyth School of Art Galleries, Aberwystwyth, Wales
2022 Positive Environmental Art,, Mid Wales Art, Caersws, Wales
2022 Bodfa Continuum, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey, Wales
2022 I gam o gam, Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, Wales
2021 Aberystywth Printmakers in the City, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists’ Gallery, Birmingham, England
2020-21 This is a language warning / Mae hwn yn rhybudd iaith!, Aberystwyth School of Art Galleries, Aberwystwyth, Wales
2019 Etched and Carved, Jays Gallery, Tregaron, Wales
2019 We are further north than you, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2019 Interpretations in Printmaking, Kilcock Art Gallery, Kilcock, Ireland
2019 Sui Generis: The Possibilities of a House, in collaboration with Nisa Ojalvo, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey, Wales
2018- Bestiary, Travelling exhibition organized by Manchester University
2018 In a New Light, Aberystwyth School of Art Galleries, Aberwystwyth, Wales
2017 Artists from Schleswig Holstein and Wales, Kunsthaus Hanisch, Kappeln, Germany
2017 Spring Show, Aberystwyth Printcentre, Mid Wales Art Centre, Caersws
2017 A for Aber Two, School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth, Wales
2016 Un ar adeg, Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga, South Australia
2015 Xiaoxiang Exhibition of International Printmaking, Changsha Normal University, China
2015 Mae’r heniath yn y tir, Y Capel, Llangollen, Wales, UK
2015 Knowing Place, Oriel Nwy / Gas Gallery, Aberwystwyth, Wales, UK
2015 Aberystwyth Printmakers, RCA, Conwy, Oriel Q, Narbeath and Minerva Art Centre, Llanidloes
2014 Maps and Makers, Oriel Nwy / Gas Gallery, Aberwystwyth, Wales, UK
2014 In and Out of the Citadel, Harlech Biennale XI, Harlech, Wales, United Kingdom
2014 Y Le Celf, Eisteddfod, Wales, United Kingdom
2014 Aberystwyth Printmakers, MOMA Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom
2013 Aberystwyth Printmakers, The Courtyard Gallery, Hereford, England
2013 Ink, Paint, Lens, Hughes Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
2012 Figuratively Speaking, Black Diamond Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
2011 Intangibles in Terra Australia, a survey of South Australian art, Flinders University City Gallery, State Library of South Australia
2011 Le Chéile, a Welsh Irish collaborative printmaking project, Oriel Ynys Mon Gallery, Wales
2010 Intangibles in Terra Australia, a survey of South Australian art, Kuba Kutxa, San Sebastian, Spain
2010 X Xuntanza Obradoiro Internacional Das Artes Plásticas, Fundación a Solaina de Piloño, Xunta de Galicia, Lalin, Spain
2010 Le Chéile, a Welsh Irish collaborative printmaking project, Rhyl Museum and Arts Centre, Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom
2010 Port to Port, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Port Noarlunga Art Centre and Jackalope Gallery, Port Adelaide (residency and touring)
2009-11 Le Chéile, a Welsh Irish collaborative printmaking project, touring South Australia with Country Arts SA touring exhibition program
2009 Off Straits, Axis Gallery, The Parks, Adelaide
2009 Convergent, Axis Gallery, The Parks, Adelaide
2009 Le Chéile, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Le Chéile, Riverbank Gallery, Newbridge, Ireland
2008/9 Off Track, Axis Gallery, The Parks, Adelaide (solo)
2008 Thirty-One Days, Fountain Gallery, Port Augusta, South Australia (solo)
2006 Oasis, June Marriott Gallery, Territory Craft, Alice Springs Cultural Precinct, Northern Territory
2006 A Sense of Place, Llwyngwril Gallery, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom (solo)
2006 Tomoko, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Mudmaps, Wrexham Art Gallery, Wales, United Kingdom
2006 Asian Fibre Art Exhibiton, Seuol, Korea
2005 Visions in Textiles – From Tradition to Textile Art/Design of Tomorrow, Izmir State Art and Sculpture Museum, Turkey
2004 Small things, Courthouse Gallery, Port Hedland, Western Australia
2003 Queridos, Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Victoria
2002 Asian Fibre Art Exhibiton, Beijing, China
2001 Asian Fibre Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan
2001 Erotic Cup, Heathcote Pottery, Melbourne, Victoria
2000 shields, Street Theatre, Acton, Australia Capital Territory
2000 Interior/Exterior, Galleria del Centro, Boorowa, NSW
1999 Surrender, Canberra Theatre Centre, ACT, Australia (solo)
1999 shields, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, New South Wales
1999 Outsex3, Mechanics Institute Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1998 Hand to Cloth - Origins, Metro! Craft Centre, North Melbourne, Victoria
1998 Meminisse - text to remember, Spiral Arm Gallery, Kingston, Australia Capital Territory
1998 Polictically InCorrect, Art Foyer Gallery, CITA, ANU, Australia Capital Territory
1998 Shields, Women In Action, Canberra Sculpture Forum, Lennox Gardens, Australia Capital Territory; Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Victoria
1998 Passing, Megalo Access Gallery, Hackett, Australia Capital Territory (solo)
1998 Textile Exteriuiu, Chateau de Varaignes, Nontron, France
1997 The Promise Given To Me, Photospace, CITA, ANU, Australia Capital Territory
1996 Bound By Structures, Textile Explosions, Sale, Victoria (solo)
1996 Remembering Structures, Nicholson St. Gallery, Bairnsdale, Victoria (solo)
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2024-5 Tir Canol, RSBP, Dyfi Valley, Wales
2023 PressNorth Residency, Umbrella Stuwdio, Townsville, Queensland
2023 Cill Railaig, Kerry, Ireland (also 2028, 2016, 2013, 2011 and 2010)
2017 Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales
2017 La Joya, Spain
2017 Treléx, Switzerland
2015-16 Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga, South Australia
2015 Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Syracuse, New York, USA
2014 Artist in residence at the AHRC Connected Communities Festival in Cardiff, Go and See Wales, Cardiff, Wales
2010 A Solaina de Poloño, Galicia, Spain
2009-10 Double Vision Port to Port artist exchange, Port Adelaide, City of Port Adelaide Enfield and Port Noarlunga, City of Onkaparinga
2009-10 The Parks Community Art Centre, Adelaide
2007 Grindell Hut, provided by South Australian National Parks and Wildlife, Country Arts SA, Port Augusta City Council
2006 Regional Print Centre, Yale College, Wrexham, UK
2006 Digital Weaving, Royse, Norway
2005-6 Thirning Villa, Ashfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 House At Work, Parliamentary Education Office, Parliament House, ACT, Australia
1999-2000 Designer in Residence, Megalo Access Arts, Hackett, ACT, Australia
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2023 Gwrando (listening), Wales Arts International, ArtsWales
2023 International Opportunties Fund, ArtsWales
2022 Aberforward, Aberystwyth University
2021-22 Joy Welch Foundation research grant
2017 a-n Professional Development bursary
2014 Dan Lynn James Scholarship
2013 Gwynedd Council grant – Nant Gwertheryn
2013 Selected in Agored 2013, Galerie Caernarfon Cyf, Caernarfon, Wales
2013 Selected in Wrexham Open 2013, Oriel Wrexham, Wrexham, Wales
2008 Merit Award, Port Lincoln Art Prize, Port Lincoln, South Australia
2007 South Australian winner, Going Public Art Awards, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 Port Adelaide/Enfield Council travel grant
2007 Selected in Coast, Rhyl, Wales
2007 Selected in the Wrexham Print International 2007, Wales, UK
2007 Selected in the Women’s Art Show 2007, Fairfield Arts Centre, England
2005 Artflight grant, ArtsWA – Turkey
2004 Quick response grant, ArtsACT – Japan
2003 Queridos, (community arts project) artsACT, Australian Defence Force Academy
2001 Madonna, (an exhibition about Madonna / Mary) artsACT; AMWESL (association of migrant women with English as a second language)
2002 Tierra and Encuentro, (community arts project) artsACT, NAVA, Embassies – Argentina, Republic of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Spain
2000 Designer In Residence, (community arts project) Megalo, Healthpact
2000 shields, (community arts project) Australia Council for the Arts, Capital Arts Patrons Organisation, NAVA
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2015-2021 PhD, School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Wales
2013 A Level Welsh as a second language, CBAC
2011 TESOL, University of South Australia, SA
1997 Teaching Adults, CIT Solutions, Canberra Institute of Technology, Australia Capital Territory
1996-97 Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts (Textiles), Institute of Arts, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
1992-95 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmaking) Honors, Institute of Arts, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
1994 Student Exchange, Sieka University, Kyoto, Japan
1991 Associate Diploma of Fine Arts, Liverpool TAFE (1st year)