More Than Reproduction is a Sydney-based artist-run initiative who celebrate and promote women printmakers. It’s a pleasure to be featured as their February 2025 Artist Profile. You can find a wonderful, growing archive of Profiles and more on their website.
studio portrait, 2023, photo by Sammy Hawker
I’m honoured to have three of my recent works included in The Shape of Things to Come at Shepparton Art Museum, Yorta Yorta Country, on display from 22 Feb until 9 June 2025. There will be opening event on Friday 21 March 6 - 8pm.
Featuring SAM collection works paired with key loans, The Shape of Things to Come presents a selection of evocative and inspiring artworks that invite us to think about the future, through both fantastical apocalyptic visions of disaster and utopian ideals of environmental sustainability and connection to place.
The Shape of Things to Come, Shepparton Art Museum:
Annika Romeyn, Old Mutawintji Gorge 1, 2023
Lin Onus, Floodwater Woorong Nucko, 1995
Anne Wenzel, Silent landscape (detail), 2006-2010
Borrowing its name from a 1933 science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells that imagines an alternative future society, The Shape of Things to Come provides a window into an unknown future where artists investigate ideas of progress, transformation, and adaptation through diverse mediums and bold visions. The artworks grapple with both the destruction we face and the potential for renewal, offering a powerful reflection on how art can act as both a warning and a catalyst for change.
Exhibition highlights include River, 2023, an immense linocut work from Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Bridget Hillebrand, on loan to SAM from the artist, and The Bird Agents, 2007-2008, a large-scale work on paper from artist Locust Jones.
Exhibiting artists: Penny Byrne, Penny Evans, Bridget Hillebrand, Locust Jones, Douglas Kolk, Lin Onus, John Perceval, Annika Romeyn, Anne Wenzel
It’s wonderful to be exhibiting new work in Seasonal Shifts alongside Matt Arbuckle, Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, Tamara Dean, Brian Robinson, Hiromi Tango, and James Tylor.
The exhibition is on display from Wed 5 February 2025 until Sat 26 April 2025 at Town Hall Gallery, 360 Burwood Road Hawthorn, Naarm/Melbourne. Free entry.
I’ll be part of the artist and curator talk at 1pm on Saturday 22 Feb, followed by the official opening from 2 - 4pm.
Endurance 14, 2025, watercolour monotype on paper with watercolour additions, 228cm x 168cm.
Tracing the rhythms of life, memory, identity and human influence on the environment, ‘Seasonal Shifts’ is a group exhibition presenting artists whose works unveil our multifaceted relationship with the passage of time and our natural surroundings.
As observers of nature we bear witness to moments of seasonal change, and the beauty and unpredictability of our environment. We feel the impact of natural forces on our minds and bodies, and actions. A favourite flower, the smell of rain, or a familiar rock formation can become markers of experience, a record of our personal histories told through objects and places. As time unfolds, we see the traces we leave behind and the ways human presence alters the landscape, both subtle and drastic, temporary and permanent.
‘Seasonal Shifts’ reflects how we experience nature in cycles—its transformations marking time and seasons, anchoring memories, and stirring metaphors that deepen our sense of self. Through exquisite depth and imagination, each artist invites consideration of our role within, not apart from, the natural world.
Curated by Alana Seal
I’m super pleased to have my recent rust and ink work ‘Wana Karnu’ selected as one of seventy finalists from over 1000 entries for the National Works on Paper 2024 (NWOP) at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. The exhibition is on display from 31 August – 24 November.
Finalists:
Bori BENKO, Emma BINGHAM, Tom BLAKE, Yvonne BOAG, Anthea BOESENBERG, Solomon BOOTH, Ashleigh BRIGGS, Harriette BRYANT, Roland BURRUNALI, Jane BURTON, Jacky CHENG, Olga CIRONIS, Matthew CLARKE, Maree CLARKE, Carolyn CRAIG, Zoë CROGGON, Nici CUMPSTON, Mel DEERSON and Briony GALLIGAN, Stanley EBATARINJA, Matthew FEDER, Emily FERRETTI, Robert FIELDING, David FRAZER, Kirsten GARNER LYTTLE, Deanne GILSON, Julia GORMAN, Edwina GREEN, Blake GRIFFITHS, Amala GROOM, Mandy GUNN, Joe GUYMALA, Gracia HABY and Louise JENNISON, D HARDING, Gail HASTINGS, Siri HAYES, HIRATANAO, Naomi HOBSON, Eleesa HOWARD, Alana HUNT, Locust JONES, Kieren KARRITPUL, Martin KING, Barbie KJAR, Jenna LEE, Niloufar LOVEGROVE, Kyra MANCKTELOW, MATTI, Dan McCABE, Jennifer MILLS, Betty MUFFLER, Balwaldja Wanapa MUNUŊGURR, Dorota MYTYCH, Gavin NAMARNYILK, Lorraine NAMARNYILK, Glen NAMUNDJA, Joey NGANJMIRRA, Cameron ROBBINS, Annika ROMEYN, Joshua SEARLE, Darrell SIBOSADO, Cyrus TANG, Augusta VINALL RICHARDSON, Gidja WALKER, Tricky WALSH, Rosie WEISS, Cyril WHYOULTER, Laura WILLS, Joel WOLTER, Dhopiya YUNUPIŊU, Djakaŋu YUNUPIŊU.
Judges:
Lisa Waup, Artist, 2022 NWOP Finalist
Erica Green, Director, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia
Trent Walter, Director, Negative Press
Dunja Rmandić, Curator—Exhibitions, MPRG
14th May 2024 - 1st June 2024
Flinders Lane Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
Please join me for the opening on Saturday 18 May from 1 - 3pm RSVP
Centred on the experience of entering Old Mutawintji Gorge, this exhibition encapsulates my response to camping in Mutawintji National Park on Barkindji and Malyangapa Country, as part of the 2022 Broken Hill City Art Gallery’s Open Cut Commission. Further works, completed after returning to the same sites in 2023, seek to deepen and extend my ongoing engagement with place.
In Return (Old Mutawintji Gorge), 2023, pencil and watercolour monotype on paper, 168cm x 228cm