Educational Qualifications
2015 PhD, [Fine Art], Understanding an Intuitive Approach to Abstract Painting, Monash University
2008 Master of Fine Art [by research], Monash University
1997 Graduate Diploma of Arts [Art History and Cinema Studies], University of Melbourne
1980 Bachelor of Art [Fine Art: Painting], RMIT University
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Hillvale Photo Trophy, Hillvale Gallery, Brunswick
2023 Blue Period, One Star Lounge & Gallery, West Melbourne
Merri-bek Summer Show: A Climate for Change, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
HOME, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
The Universe Speaks In Small Paintings, Bard’s Apothecary, Melbourne
2022 Blackwood Tokonoma, Mr Kitly, Melbourne
Stellar, One Star Gallery, Melbourne
Move it, Move it! Franklin Street Frames, Melbourne
Das Boot, ACCA Forecourt, Melbourne
2021 Moreland Summer Show: History and Heritage, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
STAGES: Life in Lockdown, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Into Me See, curated by One Star Gallery and Mariella Del Conte, One Star Gallery, West Melbourne
2019 The Spiritual Meadow, curated by Robina Astley, St Joseph’s by the Sea, Williamstown, Melbourne
Friends and Family, Daine Singer, Melbourne
Mixed Grill, 484, Melbourne
2017 Open House, curated by Elvis Richardson & Beau Emmett, True Estate, Melbourne
Aries Rising, with Rozalind Drummond, The Alderman, Melbourne
Ad Hoc, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Saturn Returns, curated by James Bowen, Fort Delta, Melbourne
Moth to the Flame, curated by Mariella del Conte, Salon Hang, Melbourne
Autumn, curated by Storm Gold & Kez Hughes, CAVES, Melbourne
A1 Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
2015 CCP Salon 2015, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Referencing Artists, RMIT University Library, Melbourne
2013 Wagnerlicht, curated by Michael Day & Chris Henschke, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
Current Tendencies, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Shore Things, curated by Mick Turner, Bright Space, Melbourne
2012 Museum in the Incident, curated by Steven Rendall, MADA Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
The O Show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
This Space, curated by Bree Claffey, Perimeter Books, Melbourne
Future Visions, curated by Caroline Kennedy, Festival d’Australie, Divonne-les-Bains, France
2011 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Shelved, Dear Patti Smith Gallery, Melbourne
Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Surface Pop, Curated by Mariella del Conte, Artsofar, Melbourne
International Postal Art Exhibition, F Block Gallery, University of West of England, Bristol, UK
Pin Up Your Doodle, The Donkey Wheel, Melbourne
2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Stan and Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Post, Place Gallery, Melbourne
Time, Transcendence, Performance, Conference at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
2008 Portraits of Artists, Place Gallery, Melbourne
Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
Things at Kings, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2007 Oz, curated by April Yasamee, Nolias Gallery, London
2006 Conrad Jupiters Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Works from the Collection, Hargrave Library, Monash University, Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, curated by Paul Flynn, Sydney
A Place in the World, Bonython Hall, The University of Adelaide
2005 Summer Exhibition, curated by Paul Flynn, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Abstraction: Four Melbourne Painters, curated by Kit Wise, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Frieze, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
Neo Folk, curated by Julian Holcroft, The Lithuanian Club, Melbourne
2004 Summer Salon, Bright Space, Melbourne
2001 Ex Libris, First Site, RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Serene, Metropolis Gallery, Melbourne
1999 More, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
8x8, Roar, Melbourne
1998 Finale 1998, Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
A Four Art, West Space, Melbourne
Recent Works, Tmesis, Melbourne
1996 See Spot Run, Next Wave Festival, Temple, Melbourne
Failure? Curated by Julian Holcroft, Next Wave Festival, Linden, Melbourne
1995 Sensorium, (Two Person Exhibition with Tony Garifalakis), West Space, Melbourne
Paintings, (Three Person Exhibition with Louise Saxton and Victoria Cattoni), West Space, Melbourne
Decadence: 10 Years of Exhibitions at Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne
A Four Art, West Space, Melbourne
Ready Wrapped and Self Sealed, Linden, Melbourne
Rupert Bunny Foundation Launch Exhibition, St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
The Endangered and Changing Environment, 671 Rathdowne St. Melbourne
Best Arrangement of a Single Bloom, touring exhibition curated by Jennifer Colbert,
Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta; Linden, St Kilda; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell; Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura;
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
1994 The Room Outside, curated by Mimi Dennett, Argyle Street Gallery, Melbourne
A Four Art, West Space, Melbourne
Reproductions: Artists Perfecting the Machine, curated by Mimi Dennett & Felix Defterios, I/M/T at Tolarno, Melbourne
VO=4711, curated by Amelia Bartak, Napier Gallery, Melbourne
Artists and Children and Endangered Animals, Linden, Melbourne
1991 Twelve Logos, curated by Ralph Traviato, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
The Postcard Show, Linden, Melbourne
1989 Gallery Artists, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988 New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2019 #Bookface, Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library, Melbourne
And the Colours Go…, 484, Melbourne
Bookface, RMIT Connect, RMIT University, Melbourne
2018 Neighbourhood, Sofitel on Collins Street, Melbourne
2016 Abstract Interior, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
From Studio B6, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink, MADA Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Scarlet Yellow Blue Green, Watch This Space Gallery, Alice Springs
2011 Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange, Mr Kitly, Melbourne
2010 Away…Towards, Place Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Soft Edge/Hard Edge, Place Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Hothouse, The East Kitchen, Monash University, Melbourne
Red Wall, Caulfield Library, Monash University, Melbourne
2005 Recent Painting, Watson Place Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Unpainting, Clubs Project Inc, Melbourne
Recent Work, Horti Hall, Melbourne
2003 John and Anna, Horti Hall, Melbourne
1998 Paintings, The Jewish Museum, Melbourne
Recent Work, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 New Paintings, The Continental, Melbourne
1992 Paintings, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1989 Recent Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
FiLM SCREENINGS
Red Wine / On the Move
2023 Unfix Film Festival, NYC (Awarded: Best Ecological Awareness)
Swanpool Environmental Film Festival, Swanpool, Victoria
Merr-bek Summer Show 2023: A Climate for Change, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
The Forest in Me Video Album, One Star Lounge & Gallery, West Melbourne
The Forest in Me Video Album, PS1 Close House, Iowa City
The Forest in Me Video Album, Curtidas, Barcelona
In my mother’s house
2024 Pittsburgh International Dance Film Festival, The Oaks Theatre, Pennsylvania
2023 Dance (Lens), Dance House, Carlton
SAM Open: Home, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
2022 Dance Days Chania Film Festival
Dance Camera Pandemania / Dance Camera, Impro Dance Festival, Istanbul
The Pink Room, Purgatory, Iowa City (with Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata)
Roma Short Film Festival
New Wave Short Film Festival
2021 One Star Lounge, Gallery and Cinemateque
In my father’s garden
2023 SAM Open: Home, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
2022 Swanpool Environmental Film Festival, Swanpool, Victoria
First Mondays, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2021 War-Rak/Banksia Festival, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
One Star Lounge Gallery and Cinemateque, West Melbourne
performance
2023 TEMPUS, Fine Lines Dance Company, Melbourne
PLEXUS, Light After Dark, Dimension Art Project Space, Banyule Open Studios, Banyule
Precipice, Gorman House, Canberra
2022 In the Moment, Dancehouse, Melbourne
Precipice, Gorman House, Canberra
COMMUNE: A Gothic Eco Opera, directed by The Omega Point, Church of All Nations, Carlton
Image Lab, led by Tess De Quincey, Rex Cramphorn Studio, University of Sydney
2020 Multiply, choreographed by Stephanie Lake, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Huru Hara, Asia Topa, Butoh OUT! Ensemble , Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2019 Impro-Exchange, with Peter Fraser and Tess De Quincey, Glebe Town Hall, March Dance, Sydney
Simulcast, Dance Massive, Chunky Move, Birrarung Marr
Map Moreland, Siteworks, Brunswick
2018 ButohOUT!, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Melaka Art and Performance Festival, Saint Paul's Hill, Melaka, Malaysia
2017 Melaka Art and Performance Festival, Saint Paul's Hill, Melaka, Malaysia
Ankianki, choreographed by Kiki Ando & Anna White, A Place to Land, curated by Nicola Beatrix, New Futures Creative, Coburg, Australia
Four, choreographed by Yvette Grant, A Place to Land, curated by Nicola Beatrix, New Futures Creative,Coburg, Australia
Dancing with Myself, choreographed by Gabi Barton, The Australian Dance Awards, Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
2016 For the Time Being, choreographed by Helen Smith, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Awards, Grants and Commissions
2024 Music video, Dirty Three, Love Changes Everything Part 1, Drag City Records, Bella Union, Remote Control Records
Music video, Jim White, Marketplace, Drag City Records
Album cover, Jim White, All Hits: Memories, Drag City Records
Album cover, Jim White & Marisa Anderson, Swallowtail, Thrill Jockey
2023 Music video, Xylouris White, Red Wine, Drag City Records
2022 Metro Tunnel Creative Program, Move it, Move it!, Franklin Street Frames
2021 City of Melbourne Arts Grant, City of Melbourne, for video In my mother’s house
Picture Window, City of Melbourne, Reigniting vacant shopfronts in Melbourne’s CBD
2020 COVID-19 Arts Grant, City of Melbourne, for video In my father’s garden
Content and Form, workshop with Shelley Lasica, Bus Projects
Album cover, Jim White & Marisa Anderson, The Quickening, Thrill Jockey
2016 Album cover, Xylouris White, Black Peak, Bella Union
2013 Winsor & Newton Start Your Studio Scholarship
2012 Australia Council ArtStart Grant
2011 Commission for foyer Department of Microbiology & Biochemistry, Monash University
2009 Australian Postgraduate Award, Monash University
2008 Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Excellence in a Masters Thesis,,Monash University
Laughing Waters Artist in Residence, Shire of Nillumbik
2005 Melbourne City Council Grant: Frieze Exhibition
Melbourne City Council Grant: Neo Folk Collective
2004 Artist in Residence: Bundanon
1998 Pat Corrigan Grant
1996 Pat Corrigan Grant
1994 Radio National Award for Best Exhibition, VO=4711, Melbourne Fringe Festival
1988 Atelier Art Award
Collections
Bundanon Trust, Becton, Monash University, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Private collections in Australia and international
Essays and Reviews
2020 Dancehouse Diary New topographies of the body (a series), October, 2020
Philippe Perez Art begins in your environment, Euroa Gazette, August 19, 2020
Pauline Roberts In my father’s garden, The Granite News, 14_28
2016 Dan Rule In the Galleries, (Sean Bailey, Naomi Eller, David Noonan, Heather B. Swann, Anna White), The Age
2010 Robert Nelson The Ghoulish Art of Witchcraft, The Age
Penny Webb Boxoffice, theage (melbourne)magazine,
2009 Eiichi Tosaki Shadow of Painting, Artinfo.com.au
2008 Ross Moore Sticky Point, The Age,
Megan Backhouse Art Around the Galleries, The Age
Leslie Eastman Soft Edge/Hard Edge, Catalogue Essay, Place Gallery
2005 Kit Wise Paintings, Catalogue Essay, Watson Place Gallery
Karen Burns Frieze, Catalogue Essay
Kit Wise Contemporary Abstraction: Four Melbourne Painters, Catalogue Essay, Criterion Gallery, Hobart.
2004 Penny Webb White Brings Pressure to Bear, The Age,
2003 Catherine St Phalle John and Anna, Exhibition Catalogue
1998 Stuart Koop Recent Work, Globe E, Issue 8
1996 David Cross Everything and Nothing, Real Time 14
Sian Prior See Spot Run, Arts Today, Radio National
1995 Jennifer Colbert Best Arrangement of a Single Bloom, Exhibition Catalogue
Gregory Pryor Sensorium, Dialogue, Issue 5, West Space Inc.
1992 200 Gertrude Street Exhibition Catalogue