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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2004 Master of Arts (Visual Arts), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
2002 BA (Art) (Hons), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
2000 BA (Art), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
1975 BA (English) (Hons), University College London


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Natural Connections, Perth Galleries
2008 Eclipse, Perth Galleries
2006 Overlooked, Mundaring Arts Centre
2005 Underfoot, Breadbox Gallery, Northbridge
2003 Lacunae, The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2011 Mine Own Executioner, (Invitation), Mundaring Arts Centre
2011 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2010 Get SmArt, John Curtin Gallery
2010 Cossack Art Award, (Invitation), Shire of Roebourne
2010 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2009 Cossack Art Award, (Invitation), Shire of Roebourne
2009 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2008 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award
2008 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2007 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2006 Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize (shortlist), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
2006 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award
2006 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2005 John Curtin Gallery
2005 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2004 Fragments, Monart Gallery, Dalkeith
2004 The Shire of Mundaring 2004 Invitation Art Acquisition Exhibition, Mundaring Arts Centre
2004 Deck the Halls (Invitation), The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle
2003 Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park
2003 Left, Mundaring Arts Centre
2002 SofA '02, John Curtin Gallery
2002/2003 Away from Home: Narrogin Gallery, Narrogin; Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany; Goldfields Art Centre Gallery Kalgoorlie; Geraldton Regional Art Gallery; Fremantle Arts Centre; Mandurah Performing Arts Centre; Cummins Theatre, Merredin; The Cannery Art Centre, Esperance; Katanning Gallery; Civic Centre, Carnarvon.
2001 Seeing Eleven, The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle
2000 100°, Curtin University of Technology


PUBLICATIONS

2003 'Then and Now', in Liveable Communities, (eds. J Haswell & D MacCallum), Black Swan Press, Perth, WA,
pp 131-137


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008 'Contrasting timeframes', Ric Spencer, Visual Arts, The West Australian, 5 September, p 7
2005 'Finding meaning in familiar motifs', Ric Spencer, Visual Arts, The West Australian, 1 October, pp 14-15
2005 'Simple pleasures in Blythe's change of pace', Ric Spencer, Visual Arts, The West Australian,
3 September, pp 12-13
2004 04 Art Thou, Curtin Department of Art Yearbook
2002 Away from Home, Art on the Move Education Pack, front cover and p 20
2002 SofA ’02 – Western Australian Art No.8, pp 17 and 36
2001 'Away from Home', Crate News, July, p 6
2001 'Seeing Eleven', Judith McGrath, www.artseeninwa.com, 8 March
2000 100° - Western Australian Art No. 6: 125 Western Australian Artists, p 52
2000 Paintings featured in a Curtin Film Department Honours film The Last Dance, for the national film festival
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GRANTS/AWARDS

2007 Highly Commended, Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2003 Postgraduate Visual Culture Theory Award for outstanding achievement (Curtin University)
2000 Art on the Move - Vivarts Group touring exhibition proposal, Away from Home, accepted