EXHIBITIONS
SUMMARY
HISTORY OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
2018
Represented in 'Residency', An exhibition marking the end of Caritas Christi Studios, St Vincent's Gallery, Fitzroy
Represented in 'SMALL!', fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
'Hyperrealism and Improvisation'
Painting and Drawing, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
'Improvisations' - Drawings from Caritas Christi, St Vincent's Gallery, Fitzroy
2017
Represented in 45 at 45, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Represented in 'Aviary', CANBERRA MUSEUM AND GALLERY, Canberra
2015
'The Drawing Room' fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
'Urban Landscapes 2011 - 2014',
Limited edition Giclee reproductions of original works, St Vincent's Gallery, Fitzroy
2014
'Places Nearby', More of Melbourne's Inner East, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2012
'Walking to work', Melbourne, inner east, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2011
'Vox Pix ' Centre for Theology and Ministry, Parkville
2010
'Travelling North', Journey to Cape York, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2008
'Abstraction and Space ' fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2005
'Formal Considerations', An exhibition on line and in Richmond
2003
'Sense of Place', SPAN Galleries, Melbourne
2001
'Presence/Absence', SPAN Galleries, Melbourne
2000
Represented '8 x 8', Roar Studios, Fitzroy
1999
Represented '8 x 8', Roar Studios, Fitzroy
1998
Non-objective Representations, Galerie helengory
1998
Represented 3rd Annual Summer Show, Galerie helengory
1997
First Steps Exhibition, Galerie helengory
1997
Represented 'Blurb' show, Moonee Valley Festival
1996
Represented Galerie helengory, Annual Summer Print Show
Represented A Four Art 19 ninety-six, Westspace
123 Studio Exhibition, group show
1995
Studio Exhibition
1993
Represented in Swan Hill Print and Drawing Show
1992
Represented in Studio One's '92 Pressing' Annual Show, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Group show 'Figurative' with Les Peterson and Tanya Myshkin, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
Represented in 'Social Images' group exhibition, Canberra
1990
Represented in Studio One's touring group exhibition 'Sun Smoke and Steel', Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, & etc.
Represented in 'Social Images' group exhibition, Gorman House, Canberra
Solo exhibition Dorette's Bistro, Canberra
1989
Solo exhibition Dorette's Bistro, Canberra
SUMMARY
EXHIBITIONS
HISTORY OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
1986
Took up drawing age 32. Studied with Christopher Croft of the Graphic Investigation Department, Canberra School of Art
1987 - 1989
Painting and drawing in my spare time whilst working for the Attorney General's Department in Canberra
1990 - 1992
Commenced full-time as artist. Working from Studio One Printmaking Workshop, Canberra – studied etching and lithography.
Produced about 50 editions, most of which were exhibited in group and solo shows
1993 - 1994
Returned to Melbourne. A series of landscapes in oil, pastel and drawing media, exhibited in my studio in 1995
1995 - 1997
A series of figurative works produced and shown at Galerie helengory in an exhibition titled First Steps
1997 - 1999
Preparation for second solo exhibition at Galerie helengory titled 'Non-objective Representations'
commencing 6th July 1999. Primarily, figurative and landscape works
- Attended the New York Studio School Drawing Marathon Master Class at the 1998 Adelaide Arts Festival
Work on two anatomical bas-reliefs
2000 - 2001
A series of landscape works produced and shown at SPAN Galleries in an exhibition titled Presence/Absence
2002 - 2003
A series of landscape works produced and shown at SPAN Galleries in an exhibition titled Sense of Place
2003 - 2005
A series of abstract works produced and shown via internet and in a private exhibition space in Richmond in
an exhibition titled Formal Considerations
Attended the New York Studio School Drawing Marathon Master Class at the Adelaide Central School of Art
2005 - 2008
A series of abstract works produced and shown at fortyfivedownstairs in an exhibition titled Abstraction and Space
2008 - 2010
Preparation of a series of landscape works for an exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs titled Travelling North, Journey to Cape York
2010 - 2012
A series of urban landscape works produced and shown at fortyfivedownstairs titled
Walking to Work
Preparation for a multi-media art/music show at Centre for Theology and Ministry, Parkville
titled Vox Pix
2012 - 2014
A series of urban landscape works produced and shown at fortyfivedownstairs titled Places Nearby.
2014 - 2015
A series giclee reproductions of the urban landscapes produced
and donated to St Vincent's Hospital shown at St Vincent's Gallery, Fitzroy titled
Urban Landscapes 2011 - 2014
Preparation for an exhibition of drawings, prints and casts shown at fortyfivedownstairs
titled The Drawing Room
2016 - 2017
Travelled The Oodnadatta Track and Flinders Ranges, S.A. gathering material for a series of landscape paintings.
Commenced a residency at St Vincent's Hospital's Caritas Christi. Undertook a series of spontaneously
improvised drawings. (The residency was extended until the end of 2018). Over 90 drawings produced.
Execution of a commissioned painting of the Rippon Lea homestead.
Execution of a painting titled Smart , Alec ... hatters for the fortyfivedownstairs Group Celebratory Exhibition 45 at 45
2018
A series drawings exhibited at St Vincent's Gallery, Fitzroy titled
Improvisations
A series of landscapes produced and shown together with some of the drawings from the Caritas Christi
Residency at fortyfivedownstairs titled
Hyperrealism and Improvisation
Particiapted in fortyfivedownstiars exhibition 'SMALL!'.
Particiapted in St Vincent's 'Residency', An exhibition marking the end of Caritas Christi
Studios, St Vincent's Gallery, Fitzroy
HISTORY OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
EXHIBITIONS
SUMMARY
1976
Bachelor of Science, Monash University
1978
Bachelor of Law, Monash University
Completed legal articles
1979 - 1980
Employee solicitor
1981
Graduate Diploma in Data Processing, Prahran College of Advanced Education
1981 - 1982
Lived in Germany for two years: Became fluent in German, worked in information technology
1983 - 1986
Returned to Australia: Computer programmer at the Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
1987 - 1989
Computer programmer at Attorney General's Department, Canberra