Born 1968 in Dampier, Western Australia, and resides in Melbourne.
Individual Exhibitions
2004
Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, multiple venues in Melbourne throughout the year.
2003
Gorgonia, Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy.
2000
White Breath, West Space Inc., Melbourne.
1999
Trying to keep more than one thing in your head at any one time (Viva Timor Leste, Aug. 30 1999), West Space Inc., Footscray.
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Prahran.
Works-off-paper, cityartpublicspace transport shelters, Melbourne.
1998
engorge(o)us, Stripp, Fitzroy.
1997
Cicatrix, Gallery 106 Lt. Lonsdale St., Melbourne.
Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden, St. Kilda.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
Cycle tracks will abound in utopia, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Performance Anxiety, Ocular Lab, West Brunswick.
2003
West Space Goes Downtown, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide.
Gertrude Studios 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy.
PrintROOM, CLUBS project inc., Fitzroy.
2002
Capurro, Ellis, Hutchison and Parsons, 1ST. Floor, Fitzroy.
1999
Raw Hin; Christian Capurro, Choi Sung Youn and Soyoug Kang, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo.
Awards
2004
City of Yarra Arts Development Grant.
2003
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency.
1998
Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts.
1996
U.W.S. Macarthur National Printmedia Acquisitive Prize.
Selected References
After Images, Meanjin vol.62 #2, 2003.
DiPietro, M.......... Printmakers in the raw, Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, 23rd September 1999.
The John McBride Collection (Tokyo/Melbourne) archive catalogue(s), National Library of Australia, Canberra.
Dialogue #12 Civic, August 1999 (pp 90-93).
Bragge, A.......... engorge(o)us review, Herald Sun, 25th July 1998.
Nicholson, T.......... 'Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden', review, LIKE, art magazine #4, Spring 1997.
Collections
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur.
Private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and the U.S.A.
Studies
2003
R.M.I.T. Media Arts, Digital Imaging (single subjects).
1993-5
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University - B.F.A. (Printmaking).
1994
Melbourne University Italian Language School, Summer School.
1987-9
Australian College of Photography Art and Communication, Melbourne
Diploma of Photography (Fine Art).
1986
Photographic Studies College, Melbourne.
Selected Professional Experience
2003/4
Lecturer/tutor in Photomedia, Faculty of Multimedia and Digital Arts, Monash University.
Visiting artist, Media Arts dept., R.M.I.T. University.
2002 - present
Committee member, West Space Inc., Melbourne.
2002
Printmaking lecturer/tutor and Visiting artist, Northern Metropolitan TAFE.
2002/1999/1996
Assistant Printmaker/Archivist, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy.
1999
Drawing tutor, Printmaking dept., Victorian College of the Arts.
1996-7
Lecturer/tutor in Photography, College of Art and Design,
Monash University
1993 - present
Freelance photographer.