Works at UBU Gallery, Feb 2018. Photo by Marcus Johnson, Gallery owner & curator.
Always interested in art from a young age, began painting from about 13 yrs old and never looked back really.
Completed four years at Chisholm College
in Art & Design, Graphic Design Department.
After this began working in the printing and publishing industry.
From 1990 began a career in Advertising as a Studio Artist until the year 2000.
In the same year I moved to Athens, Greece
with my family where I was employed with
BBDO Athens, where I worked up until June 2015 as Senior Art Director / Graphic Designer and Photo Retoucher.
Having worked for so many years and bringing up a young family at the same time left a gap
in my work as a painter.
It was in the last few years in Greece where my work resumed in painting, creating a reasonable body of work to exhibit in numerous solo shows,
in and around Athens.
I returned to Melbourne in 2016 where I exhibited and was successful in a variety of Art Shows.
I am currently based back in Athens, Greece, planning to return to Melbourne in the near future.
Education:
• Cheltenham High School - 1979.
• Tertiary Orientation Program - Art & Design,
Chisholm Institute of Technology (Monash University) - 1980
• Chisholm Institute of Technology (Monash University)
Diploma of Art and Design, Graduated 1984.
Work:
• Aldine Press, Prahran. Art Studio Manager - 1984-1986
• Crystal Communications, St.Kilda. Magazine Art Director - 1986-1988
• Herald & Weekly Times, Melbourne. Senior Design Assistant - 1988-1989
• Clemenger BBDO Melbourne. Studio Artist - 1990-2000
• BBDO Athens (Greece). Senior Art Director - 2000-2015
Shows:
September 2023 - Solo Exhibition at Syriotis Gallery, Mykonos, Greece.
September 2022 - Solo Exhibition at Parko Tritsis (Pyrgos Vassilisis) Athens.
March 2019 - Winner, George Hicks Foundation Contemporary Art Prize, at VAS.
February 2019 - Finalist, Eastbourne Art Exhibition at Victorian Artists Society.
January 2019 - Three works hung in the Sorrento/Rotary Art Competition. October 2018 - Finalist, ANL Mission to Seafarers Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne. July/August 2018 - Finalist, Bundoora Homestead A1 Art Prize.
February 2018 - Solo Exhibition of new works at UBU Gallery, Geelong.
March 2017 - Selection of works at UBU Gallery, Geelong.
July 2016 - Solo Exhibition, Aegina Folklore Museum, Greece.
February 2016 - Solo Exhibition, Flisvos Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece.
EXHIBITIONS
Born: 1963, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
September 2023 - Solo Exhibition at Syriotis Gallery, Mykonos, Greece.
September 2022 - Solo Exhibition at Parko Tritsis (Pyrgos Vassilisis) Athens.
Backyard View.
February 2019 - Winner of the George Hicks Foundation Contemporary Art Prize at the Victorian Artist's Society in East Melbourne.
The Return.
October 2018 - Finalist, ANL Mission to Seafarers Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne.
Eye Witness.
July/August 2018 - Finalist,
Bundoora Homestead A1 Art Prize.
July 2016 - Aegina, Greece - Solo Show, Aegina Folklore Museum.
February 2016 - Athens Greece - Solo Show, Flisvos Cultural Centre.
