Background contributing to THE rangelands Revealed project
Tertiary Qualifications
2004
Master of Art Administration
UNSW School of Art & Design, Sydney
Thesis title: Environmental Issues and Critical Thinking in Art Gallery and Museum Exhibitions
1994
Bachelor of Teaching (Primary)
University of New England, Armidale NSW
Group Exhibitions & Awards
2026
Newness, juried Member’s Exhibition Craft Nova Scotia, Halifax (forthcoming August - September)
2023
Contemporary Wearables ‘23 Biennial Jewellery Award and Exhibition, juried, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
PIN 9 Show: miniature wearable art, juried, Australian National Capital Artists Inc, Canberra
The Earring Show, juried, recipient of the Emerging Artist Award, Craft Council of British Columbia, Vancouver
Love Tokens, KIN Gallery, Canberra
2022
Charmed I’m Sure, KIN Gallery, Canberra
#everydayclimatecrisis Visual Petition, curated by Hilary Wardhaugh, PhotoAccess, Canberra
employment summary - Arts & Education
2022 - 2023
Gallery Assistant & Artist in Residence, KIN Gallery, Canberra
2010 - 2021
Programs and Partnerships Officer, ACT Historic Places, Canberra
Access and Learning Officer & Manager, ACT Museums and Galleries, Canberra
Learning Team Coordinator, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra
Education and Community Programs Officer, ACT Historic Places, Canberra
2004 - 2009
Museum Educator, Elizabeth Farm, Museums of History NSW, Parramatta NSW
Teacher-Lecturer, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Museum Educator & Visitor Services Officer, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
1996 - 2003
Primary School Teacher, Wenona Junior School, Sydney
Primary School Teacher, Dubbo NSW
metal + jewellery design workshops + courses
2026
Jewellery II lead by Sarah Sears, Jewellery Making lead by Lindsay MacDonald, and Jewellery II lead by Wenjing Yan (commencing September), Extended Studies NSCAD University, Halifax
Beginner Wax Carving Class: Simple Ring, lead by Meg Lizabet, Musquoboboit Harbour, NS
Shell Casting Workshop, lead by Sarah Sears, Halifax
2024
Jewellery II lead by Sorrel Van Allen, and Jewellery II lead by Lindsay MacDonald, Extended Studies NSCAD University, Halifax
Intermediate Jewellery Projects lead by Hannah Craig, Centre for Craft, Halifax
Introduction to Enamelling lead by Wenjing Yan, Centre for Craft, Halifax, Canada
2018 - 2020
Beginner & Intermediate Workshops lead by Katie Shanahan, KIN Gallery, Canberra
Sand Casting Workshop lead by Kirra-lea Caynes, KIN Gallery, Canberra
Contemporary Enamelling Techniques Workshop lead by Barbara Ryman, Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University, Canberra
2017 + 2018
Spoon Making Workshops lead by Alison Jackson, Pocket Studio, Canberra
2015 + 2016
Damascus Steel and Japanese Knifemaking Courses, Tharwa Valley Forge, Tharwa NSW
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Designed Talk: Permaculture at Millpost Farm, Lanyon Homestead, Canberra 2021
Carried out the quarterly field condition surveys under the guidance of ecologist Sarah Sharp, and assisted grassland ecologist Dr David Johnson during the inaugural annual plant survey, Mugga-Mugga Cottage, Canberra 2020
Designed, researched and co-authored the blog post A bungalow-style garden, ACT Historic Places 2020
Designed the public program Environmental activism across generations, Canberra Museum and Gallery 2019
Lead the successful grant application Rehabilitation of Natural Temperate Grasslands at Mugga Mugga Cottage, supported by Southern ACT Catchment Authority, ACT Historic Places, Canberra 2018
Member of the Land Management Advisory Group for Mugga-Mugga Cottage, ACT Historic Places, Canberra 2018 - 2021
Designed and managed the Sylvia Curley Oration: Professor Saul Cunningham, Mugga-Mugga Cottage, Canberra 2017
Wrote and delivered the conference paper Repairing Grassland at Mugga-Mugga Cottage, Travelling Stories: Connecting People and Landscapes, Interpretation Australia Conference, Tasmania 2017
Designed and wrote the online Secondary education resource Thinking Geographically, Thinking Mugga-Mugga ACT Historic Places, Canberra 2016
Delivered the welcome presentation Women shaping our future: reflections from the Limestone Plains, Australian Women in Agriculture Conference, Australian National University, Canberra 2016
Delivered the conference paper Mugga-Mugga: understanding our heritage, our landscape and our decisions, ACT and Region Annual Heritage Partnership Symposium, Canberra 2016
Content editor Woodlands & grasslands , Bush Capital: The natural history of the ACT, Canberra Museum and Gallery 2016
Note: this exhibition statement is cited in the online Natural Heritage and Ecological Management of Mugga Mugga - Secondary Science Teachers Resource, ACT Historic Places
Designed and managed the public program Grassland: A conversation, involving guest speakers Dr Charles Massy, and CSIRO Honorary Research Fellow Dr Kenneth Hodgkinson, Mugga-Mugga Cottage, Canberra 2014
Established, monitored and documented ground cover repair across a grazing trial site within Natural Temperate Grassland, per the heritage property Conservation and Management Plan, at Mugga-Mugga Cottage 2013 - 2018. This site and the grazing management method was commended in 2014 in a report to the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment in the Condition of Selected Natural Temperate Grassland sites in urban and peri-urban Canberra, pp37-38, Canberra
Designed, managed and co-delivered the public program Shadow Creatures. This year-long program used games, seek-and-find, storytelling, gardening and craft to engage children and carers in native species, historical and contemporary land management, and language of the Darug people. Elizabeth Farm, Museums of History NSW, Rose Hill NSW 2009
Designed and delivered a visual art workshop for Primary School teachers focused on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection, including identification of plants endemic to the Sydney Basin and incorporating language of the Gadigal clan of the Eora Nation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2006
Established, and provide ongoing funding of the Critical Thinking Prize, awarded annually to a student who has demonstrated decision-making awareness regarding environmental resources, Wenona Junior School, Sydney 2004 - current
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Guest artist - Enameling Workshop, Design and Technology, Canberra Grammar School 2025
Assistant, Festival of Everyday Art, PeopleLab, Canberra 2023
Volunteer, Power Trip, Country to Canberra, Sydney 2022
Researched and created the online audio-visual Object Story: Life-long learning beginning at Mugga-Mugga Cottage, ACT Historic Places 2020
Researched, designed and co-authored the blog post Our convict women, ACT Historic Places, Canberra 2020
Designed and delivered the hands-on conference paper Why risk whittling with kids?, Interpretation Australia Conference, Melbourne 2019
Designed and managed the Sylvia Curley Oration: Hannah Wandel and Country to Canberra, Mugga-Mugga Cottage, Canberra 2018
Co-designed, managed and co-delivered Tinkering at our Places, ACT Historic Places, Canberra 2016 - 2019
Co-delivered the school learning program We Can Make a Difference supporting student investigation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra 2015
Designed and delivered the public program A Colony Walk, in conjunction to Fiona Hall: Force Field, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney 2008
Co-designed and delivered a two-day Winter School Holiday Workshop engaging 8-12 year old children in The Hours exhibition exploring contemporary Latin-American art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2007
Co-delivery of GENEXT events and the Bella Program, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney 2006 - 2007
Wrote, and delivered 23 in-person lectures to up to 330 Secondary School Visual Art students addressing the exhibitions Self-Portrait: Renaissance to contemporary and the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2006
Wrote the introductory wall text for Wolfgang Laib, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2005
Wrote and co-delivered tours with Chadia Gedeon-Hajjar, a bilingual Arabic speaker, for Mona Hatoum: Over My Dead Body, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney 2005
Designed and co-supervised a multi-site, day-long excursion for Year 5 Primary students incorporating viewing of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, a study of Indigenous bush foods at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, and a hands-on craft activity responding to the exhibition Fine Lines: works of ornamentation and decoration by Maningrida Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Wenona Junior School, Sydney 1999
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2026
Juried Student Exhibition Virtual Reception, Society of North American Goldsmiths (online)
Threads on Enamel, lead by Jina Seo, Workshopping With: Summer Series, Society of North American Metalsmiths (online)
AJF Weekend - Montreal 2026, Montreal
2025
AJF Live with Bryna Pomp, (online)
A Journey Throughout the History of Fibulas, Brooches and Pins, presented by Daniela Malev, Square Peg Studio, Sydney (online)
2024
UNEARTH 2025 lead by Jessica Connor Kennedy and Adam Kennedy (online)
Paper Marbling lead by Rhonda Miller (My Handbound Books), Craft Nova Scotia, Halifax
How to give a great artist talk, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Canada (online)
2023
Incursions, Plants, Art Practices Short Course, Art Programme, Melbourne and Bundanon Art Museum, Illaroo, NSW (online and onsite)
2022
How to write about your work, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London UK (online)
What The Light Tells, Poetry Masterclass presented by Mark Tredinnick (online)
2021
Value Chains Reset Conference, Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (online)
Writers at the Woolshed Festival, Earth Canvas, ‘Bibbaringa’, Bowna NSW
2019
Tour of ‘Jillamatong’ lead by owner Martin Royds, Braidwood NSW
Tour of ‘Millpost’ Farm lead by owner David Watson, Bungendore NSW
2018
Writing About Place presented by Mary Lynn Mather, Short Course CIT Solutions, Canberra
Stakeholder Engagement and Effective Communication Workshop, Australian River Restoration Centre, Canberra
Climate Conversations, NSW Landcare, Yass
2015
Grazing and El Nino Farm Walk - Landcare ACT, Amberly Farm, Kambah ACT
Poet’s Breakfast – Open Mike, Two Fires Festival, Braidwood NSW
2013
Poetry Workshop presented by Lizz Murphy, Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra
2004
Writing the Real presented by Mark Tredinnick, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sydney
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Volunteer, The Graig Gallery, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia 2026 - current
Volunteer, Craft Nova Scotia Designer Craft Show, Halifax 2024
Logistics Coordinator - Project Empower, Country to Canberra 2022 - 2023
Volunteer, Mulloon Institute, Bungendore, NSW 2016 + 2017
Community consultation group, The Coal Loader Development Project, Waverton, NSW 2005 - 2007
Volunteer, Pub-n-Art Tours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2001 + 2002
Volunteer Guide, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney 2000 - 2004
Volunteer, Brett Whiteley Studio, Surrey Hills NSW 1999 - 2000