BIOGRAPHY
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EDUCATION
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| 2003 | Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing: Victorian College of the Arts |
| 2001 | Diploma of Visual Arts: RMIT |
| 1996 | Honours: Anthropology / Sociology: La Trobe University |
| 1994 | Bachelor of Arts, Double Major, Pacific Studies and Anthropology: La Trobe University |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | this weather, Centre for Contmeporary Photography |
| 2008 |
Luminist, Alliance Franciase Melbourne Valerie Sparks at Turner Galleries, Turrner Galleries, WA |
| 2007 | El Dorado Springs, Flinders Lane Gallery |
| 2006 | Linden Project Room, Melbourne Art Fair |
| 2005 |
The Organisation of the View, 3015 Paris France With a View to Paradise, Marios |
| 2004 | With a View To Paradise, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art |
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 |
Visions, City of Glen Eira Art Gallery Time Travel: reimaging the past, Tweed River Art Gallery |
| 2009 |
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre Hutchins Prize, Long Gallery Salamanca Art Centre Hobart Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery The View from Here IV, Flinders Lane Gallery Linden Post Card Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art |
| 2008 |
Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery Here and Now, Flinders Lane Gallery The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery |
| 2007 |
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre Valerie Sparks and Polixeni Papapetrou, Roger Williams Gallery Auckland, New Zealand The View from Here II, Flinders Lane Gallery Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery Hutchins Art Award, The Long Gallery, Hobart |
| 2006 |
Proof, National Gallery Victoria Tidal, Devenport Art Award Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery The Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs Inhabitation, Australian Galleries Linden Post Card Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art |
| 2004 |
Swan Hill Print and Acquisition Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery Explorations 5, Flinders Lane Gallery Untitled, Flinders Lane Gallery Select Graduate Students Exhibition, Dickerson Gallery Linden Post Card Show, Linden St-Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts |
| 2003 |
Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Wallara Traveling Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts |
PRIZES AND AWARDS
| 2009 | People's Choice, Fremantle Print Award |
| 2008 |
Skills and Arts Development Grant, Australia Council, London Residency Rupert Bunny Fellowship, City of Port Phillip |
| 2006 |
The Tammy Kingsley, People's Choice Award, The Alice Prize Linden Post Card Show, 1 of 6 works selected for reproduction as a Linden Post Card Arts Victoria Grant, International Touring Cité Des Arts Residency Paris, French Embassy Australia |
| 2004 |
Australia Council New Work, conduct research in France and Spain Ian Potter Foundation, conduct research in France and Spain |
| 2003 |
Orloff Family Award for Innovation and Excellence in New Media and Digital Art, Victorian College of the Arts Irene Sutton Award; Victorian College of the Arts Finalist, Wallara Travel Scholarship Victorian College of the Arts |
| 2002 | Proud, Friends of the VCA Acquisition Prize |
COMMISSIONS
| 2006 | Short listed, Parramatta Justice Precinct Public Art Installations |
COLLECTIONS
| National Gallery of Victoria |
| Hamilton Regional Art Gallery |
| Art Bank |
| Australian Business Arts Foundation |
| Malthouse Theatre |
| Alliance Francaise Melbourne |
| Private Collections Australia, London, Paris, Hong Kong |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ashley Crawford, Here and Now Catalogue, 2008 |
| Adam Gillford, "Vanishing into the landscape", New Zealand Herald |
| Rachel Anthony, Paradise on Paper, Vogue Living May/June 2007 |
| Kirsty Grant, Proof. National Gallery of Victoria Catalogue, 2006 |
| Melissa Miles Inhabitation, Folio for Inhabitation, Australian Galleries, 2006 |
| Ulanda Blair, Review, With a View to Paradise. UN-magazine Issue 3, 2005 |
| Robert Nelson, 'St Kilda, Beached' The Age December. 2004 |