CV
Born Paris, France
Lives and works in Melbourne - Australia
EDUCATION:
2022 ETRA, Environmental Program, City of Yarra, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Sustainability Leadership Program, Port Phillip Council, Australia
2020 Art Climate & Activism, Node Center, Berlin, Germany
2019 Climate Leadership Program – Al Gore, Brisbane, Australia
2019 National Climate Emergency Summit, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Environmental Humanities, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
2015 Merging Public Art, Duke University, N.C, United States
2011-2012 Masters of Fine Art (with distinction) Rmit, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Certificate IV in Training & Assessment for teaching, AEIT, Australia
2005 Honours - Monash Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
2002-2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting, VCA-Melbourne University, Australia
2000-2002 Diploma of Visual Art - Painting, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
1981-1983 Diplôme de Graphisme Design, ESAM, Paris, France
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2022 Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2020 Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2019 WAS, West Wood Centre, Washington DC, United States
NRCG, Ignite Studios, Ballina NSW, Australia
2018 BOAA, Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
Red Dirt Studios, Washington DC, United States
Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2017 Art & Science, Culture at Work, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia
Arts Hub, Newstead, Central Victoria, Australia
2016 Can Serrat, Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain
2015 Block Studios, YYS, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2014 Artsbox mcc, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2009 Summer Academy, Venice, Italy
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – Studio:
2024 Shakespeare Grove Artists Studios, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia (3-year)
2023 Billilla, Beckett Studio, Brighton, Victoria, Australia (1-year)
2021 Arroteia, Faro, Algarve, Portugal (5-months)
2020 Western Port Bay, Victoria, Australia (3-months)
ART PRIZES finalist:
2024 The Yering Sculpture Prize, Yarra Valley, VIC
2023 The Yering Sculpture Prize, Yarra Valley, VIC
Sculpture Now, CSA, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, VIC
The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Regional VIC
The Footscray Art Prize, Moreland, VIC
2022 Sculpture Now, CSA, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, VIC. Winner
2021 The Yering Sculpture Prize, Yarra Valley, Regional VIC
2019 The North Sydney Art Prize, Waverton, N.S.W.
2018 Acheron Sculpture Art Prize, Regional VIC. Honorable mention
2017 Burrinja Climate Change Art Prize, Upwey, Regional VIC
Greenway Art Prize, Sydney, N.S.W.
2016 The Scenic World Sculpture Prize, Katoomba, Regional N.S.W.
Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne, Regional VIC.
2015 The Yering Sculpture Prize, Yarra Valley, Regional VIC.
Gertrude Street Projection Festival. Encouragement Award
The North Sydney Art Prize, Waverton, N.S.W.
CURATORSHIP:
2020 COVID MASK ART PROJECT, Global online project, Insta: @covidmaskartproject
2019 PLANET or PLASTIC, Melbourne Zoo, National Geography, summer exhibition, VIC
BLEACHED, ClimArte (Art +Climate = Change), Alliance Française, St Kilda, VIC
ART IN PUBLIC SPACES, ART FAIRS & FESTIVALS:
2024 Birrarung River Fest, Fracture Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Zero Waste Victoria Festival, Fed square, VIC
Melbourne Design Week, St Kilda, VIC
RE-Storying, Assembly Point, Southbank, VIC
Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne (2024 & 2018 & 2017 & 2016 & 2014)
2023 Drift Arts Festival, Point Nepean, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
2022 Metro Tunnel Art, Move it Move it, Franklin St, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Call of The Running Tide, Port Douglas, Regional QLD
2020 Green Screen Film Festival, online
2019 West Projections Festival, Melbourne, VIC
ClimArte 2019 Festival, Melbourne, VIC
Melbourne Fashion Festival, Fitzroy, VIC, (2019 & 2018)
2018 BOAA Featured artist BOAA Dark, Ballarat, Regional VIC
2017 Rethink, Trades Hall Ballarat, Regional VIC (2018)
Bastille Day Festival, North Melbourne, VIC
Castlemaine State Festival, Regional VIC
French Film Festival, The Astor, St Kilda, VIC
2016 Immerse, Art centre, Knox City Council, VIC
Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy, VIC
2015 Curio Artspace, MC2 Square, Manningham Council, VIC
The ARTrium, Bayside Corporate Centre, Sandringham, VIC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection):
2021 BROKEN DREAMS, Estação Galleria, Fuseta, Portugal
2020 SILENT WITNESS, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, VIC
2019 BLEACHED WHITE, Seddon - Collaboration with Gabrielle L. New
BLEACHED, Alliance Française, St Kilda, VIC for ClimArte
2018 PLASTIC TIDE, Yering Station, Yarra Valley, VIC
2017 ORGANIC PLASTIC, Arts Hub, Newstead, VIC
MICROBEPLASTICA, Culture at Work, Sydney, N.S.W.
GLACIER, Cube 37, Frankston, VIC
2016 ORGANIC PLASTIC, Unicorn Lane Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
WORA, Castlemaine, VIC
2015 WHITE TRASH, The Gallery, St Kilda Town hall, Melbourne
ASSEMBLAGE OF THE PAST, WindowSpace, BEEAC, VIC
2014 MÊME FAMILLE, Ranfurlie Gallery, Korowa G.S, Melbourne
2013 MÊMOIRE DE VIE, Eildon Gallery, Alliance Française, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection):
2024 Melbourne Design Week, St Kilda, VIC
With Flying Colours, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, VIC
Plastic problems, Bayley Arts, Highett, VIC
Sculpture at Acheron, Acheron, Regional VIC
2023 Merri-Bek Summer show, Counihan Gallery, Merri-Bek, VIC
New Art, Linden gallery, St Kilda, VIC
INterior, YAVA gallery, Healsville, Regional VIC
Leftover Love: New Directions, Pinnacle Reg. Gallery, Townsville, QLD
Falling from the Sky, Lux Gallery, The Cairns Institute, Cairns, QLD
2022 Room to Reverse, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, VIC
INterior, YAVA gallery, Healsville, Regional VIC
Arnold Bloch Lieber, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Leftover Love, The Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2019 AiR2018, The Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2018 Red Dirt Studios, Washington DC, United Sates
2017 Connections, Cube 37, Frankston, Regional VIC
Las Amigas, Harding St, Coburg, Melbourne, VIC
2016 CSA & Bonanza Exhibitions, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Rmit 700’s, Art Festival, Library, Swanston St, Melbourne
TrashLation, University Hall, Melbourne University, Melbourne
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Image courtesy of Mark Ashkenasi