Relevant Work Experience & Training
1985 | Artist-in-residence at Glamorgan Grammar School, Toorak: working with students to produce collective mural. |
1994-2000 | Youth worker at the Prahran Adventure Playground: working with children aged 5-17 from many different nationalities and backgrounds from the Housing Commission flats in Malvern Trad, Prahran. |
2005 | Community Artist Grant, City of Yarra: a mural project for the Yarralea Kindergarten using wood cut-outs and paints. This project involved three and four year old kindergarten children and elderly people from the La Trobe Valley Nursing Home, Como Street, Alphington. |
2005-2006 | Supervisor and instructor, Winja Aboriginal Refuge and Rehabilitation Centre, St Kilda: working with aboriginal women to produce paintings. |
2006-2013 | Holiday Art Classes: art classes for country children during school holidays, children aged 6-16 participate in stufio practice and plein air painting with tuition at Main Ridge, Mornington Peninsula. Now a popular ongoing course of classes. |
2009-2010 | Little Smart Arts: weekly after-school art class program for primary school children, Jika Jika Community Centre, Northcote. Over thirty succesful classes held so far, with an exhibition of works held in 2009: ongoing. |
2010 | Certificate IV in Teacher Training (Visual Arts, Craft and Design): completed early July 2010. |
2011 | Artist in Residence at Wesley College . Working with grades 5, 6, and 7 on the Journeys to Refuge mural. |
2011 | Ocean View at Qudos, Lorne. |
2011 | ROAR Show, 30 Years On |
2012/2013 | Artist in Residence. Working with Baltara school on Arts Alive Mural. Funded by RE Ross Trust grant. |
2013 | Working with young people at Charles Latrobe College, Pavillion School South Morang. |
Current holder of Working with Children Safety Check.