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SELECT AWARDS AND PRIZES

2023 Finalist in the Archibald Prize, The Art Gallery of NSW

2023 Finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD

2023 Winner of the Packers’ Prize at the Kennedy Art Prize, The Royal Art Society of South Australia

2022 Finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize, The National Portrait Gallery, ACT

2022 Finalist in the Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW

2022 Finalist in the Mudgee Portrait Prize, Mudgee Arts Precinct, NSW

2021 Finalist in the Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW

2021 Finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Award, Clayton Utz, QLD

2021 Finalist in the Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW

2020 Finalist in the Percivals Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD

2020 Finalist in the Global Art Awards, Shanghai, China

2019 Highly Commended at the Naked and Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW

2019 Highly Commended at the Melt Portrait Prize, Brisbane Powerhouse, QLD

2019 Finalist in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Project Artspace, NSW

2019 Finalist in the 14th International ARC Salon, Art Renewal Center

2019 Finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2018 Winner of the Young Artist Prize, the Royal Art Society of NSW

2018 Winner of the SBS Portrait Prize, Southern Buoy Studios, VIC

2018 Winner of the EBNA Portrait Prize and People’s Choice Award, YSC Consultancy, NSW

2018 Finalist in the Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW

2018 Finalist in the Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW

2017 Finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney

2017 Finalist in the Lyn McCrea Memoral Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD

2017 Highly Commended at the Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2016 Winner of the Cliftons Sydney Art Prize and Cliftons People's Choice Award, Sydney

2016 Finalist in the Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney

2016 Finalist in the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

2016 Finalist in the Emerging Artist Award, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne

2016 Finalist in the Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, Cowra

2016 Winner of the Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 ‘Charged’, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2023 ‘Stages: Sydney WorldPride’, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney

2023 ‘Personas’, Frances Keevil, Sydney

2022 ‘Memories and Dust’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2022 ‘Stages’, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW

2021 ‘Distance’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne (online)

2021 ‘ Epoch’, Frances Keevil, Sydney (online)

2020 ‘Drive’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2018 ‘Interfacing’, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney

2017 'Brink', Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne

2016 'Reverie', Artworld Studio Gallery, Brisbane

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 ‘Lives of Their Own’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2022 ‘Glow’, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2022 ‘Wanderlust’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2021 ‘Home’, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2020 ‘A Passion Shared | the ELLIOTT EYES COLLECTION’, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW

2020 ‘Artists to Watch’, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2020 ‘Still’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2019 ‘Nude’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2019 ‘On The Fringe’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2019 ‘ Equus’, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney

2018 ‘Undercurrents’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2018 'Temporal', Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2017 'Exploration 17', Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2017 'The Other Art Fair', Australia Technology Park, Sydney

EDUCATION

2011 - 2014 The Julian Ashton Art School (Recipient of the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Art Full-Time Scholarship)

2006 - 2011 Flinders University (Bachelor of Behavioural Science and Bachelor of Arts)

RESIDENCIES

2024 Bundanon Artist in Residence Program

2024 Gang Gang Residency Program

2022 The Broken Hill Art Exchange

2019 The New York Academy of Art

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