Education

2007/2006 – Masters of Indigenous Studies (Wellbeing), Southern Cross University

2005 – BVA Honours (Bachelor of Visual Arts), Southern Cross University

2003-2001 – BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts), College of Fine Arts (UNSW)

Selected Prizes, Awards & Residencies

2018 – KWM ATSI Art Prize (Finalist) NSW Parliament House Sydney

2011 – Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award, Winner, Grafton Regional Gallery

2011-2005 – NSW Parliament Indigenous Art Award Finalist

2010 – Red Gate Gallery Cultural Exchange Program, Beijing

2010 – UNESCO Andorra International Art Camp

2009 – Country Energy Landscape Painting Prize, finalist

2007 – ABC Artsnest Awards, Winner Visual Arts Category & Overall Winner.

2007 – NSW Parliament Indigenous Art Award, Winner ‘ CoFA Professional Development

2007 – Country Energy Landscape Painting Prize, Winner ‘Youth Encouragement Award’.

2007 – Drawing Together National Art Award Winner ‘Youth Award’, Canberra ACT

2006 – Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, finalist. Darwin

2000 – Blake Prize Winner, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 – Angwirri, dawn projection Sydney Opera House: 26 January 2021

2016 – Can You Hear the Whispering Walls, Eatonsville Hall

2013 – Always… Grafton Regional Gallery

2009 – Fragmented, Lismore Regional Gallery

2008 – Identifying Ulgundahi, CoFA Art Space, Paddington

2002 – ‘Beiirrinba Araagyirri’, Ulgundahi Art & Culture Gallery, Maclean

Selected Exhibitions

2021 – ‘River to the Sea’, Grafton Regional Gallery

2019 – ‘Idle Worship’, Lismore Regional Gallery

2017 – ‘Badu Gili’, Sydney Opera House

2016 – ‘With Secrecy and Despatch’, Campbelltown Art Centre

2015 – ‘The Lindt Collection’, Grafton Regional Gallery

2012 – ‘Home’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2012 – ‘Bungaree’, Mosman Regional Gallery

2010 – Hard Sleeper, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2009 – Sculpture By the Sea, Bondi, NSW

2008 – ‘The Premier State’ Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney NSW.

2007 – ‘I Saw the Sun’, Lismore Regional Gallery, The Dreaming Festival Woodford QLD

2006 – Chrysalis, Lismore Regional Gallery

Publication & TV

2016 – Colour Theory (s3e03), SBS TV Artist episode (view here)

2014 – ‘Frances Belle Parker’, artist book published by ARTSPACE Sydney

Select Art Residencies

2020 – River to the Sea, Grafton Regional Gallery

2010 – The Red Gate Gallery Cultural Exchange Project, Beijing China

2010 – UNSESCO Art Camp, Andorra

Selected Public Artwork/Commissions

2022 – Northern Beaches Coastal Walk (view here)

2022 – Sea of Hands, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens (view here)

2021 – Angwirri, dawn projection Sydney Opera House, 26 January 2021 (view here)

2020/2022 – Woolgoolga to Ballina Art Trail, Pacific Highway

2020 – Mural, Maclean District Hospital

2020 – Yaegl Garden Art project, Port of Yamba Historical Museum

2019 – Yarning Circle, Maclean riverside precinct

2018 – Healing Connections, Art fence Royal Far West, Manly

2017/current – Badu Gili, Sydney Opera House

2016 – The Gratitude of Being (integrated seating artwork) Byron Central Hospital (view here)

2014 – Glass wall art design, Grafton Regional Library