SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sanctuary, Gallerysmith
2023 Dark Garden, Bett Gallery Hobart
2019 this is not a wallflower, Bett Gallery Hobart
2018 Allusion and Illusion: the fantastical world of Valerie Sparks, Museum of Australian Photography
2015 Le Vol Masters Presentation, Monash Art School
2014 Le Vol, Turner Galleries
2012 Unnatural Migrations #1, Lowrise Projects
2011 Understory, Sutton Gallery Project Space
2010 this weather, Centre for Contemporary Photography
2008 Luminist, Alliance Franciase Melbourne; El Dorado Springs, Turner Galleries, Perth
2007 El Dorado Springs, Flinders Lane Gallery
2006 Linden Project Room, Melbourne Art Fair
2005 The Organisation of the View, 3015 Paris France
2004 With a View To Paradise, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art
GROUP EXHIBITIONS – Select
2025 Hadley’s Art Prize, Hadley Hotel; Turner & Australia, Gippsland Art Gallery, On Island Now, Bett Gallery
2024 On Island, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Gold Chip, Gallerysmith; Summer Soirée, Bett Gallery; Gallery Launch Exhibition, Gallerysmith
2023 Flourish, City of Glen Eira Art Gallery
2021 Photo 2021 - Bowness Photography Prize Celebrates 15 Years, Smith & Singer; St Kevin’s Art Prize (Winner), Fremantle Print Award
2020 Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art; Refracted Reality, PICA Perth
2019 Sublime Sea - Rapture and Reality, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Hadley's Art Prize, Hadley Orient Hobart
2016 Tempest, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art; Birds – Flight paths in Australian Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2015 Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art; Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre; Arcadia, City of Glen Eira; Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery.
2014 Outland, Melbourne Art Fair; Semblance, this is no fantasy; Outland, this is no fantasy – Volta10 Basel; Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery;
2013 10 Years – 30 Residencies, Turner Galleries, Perth,
2012 Monash University Maribor 2012 European Cultural Capital Project, International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale Venice; Bowness Photography Award, Monash Gallery of Art; Little Creatures Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre
2011 Private Paradise, Withworth Gallery of Art, Manchester; Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart
2010 Austral-Asia - Contemporary photomedia of the last ten years, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Bowness Photography Award, Monash Gallery of Art; Little Creatures Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre; Visions, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Tidal, Devonport Regional Art Gallery Visions, Time Travel, Tweed River Art Gallery
2009 Fremantle Print Award; Hutchins Works on Paper; 20Plus, Flinders Lane Gallery; Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery; The View from here IV, Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 Treasures Flinders Lane Gallery; Here and Now, FLG; The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007 Valerie Sparks and Polixeni Papapetrou, Roger Williams Gallery Auckland, New Zealand;
2006 Proof, NGV Ian Potter, Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle; Tidal, Devenport Art Award; Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery; The Alice Prize; Inhabitation, Australian Galleries, The View from Here II, Flinders Lane Gallery; Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2021 Winner - St Kevin's Art Prize; Burnie Print Prize; Fremantle Print Award
2020 Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2019 Banyule Works on Paper Award; Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Hadley’s Art Prize
2017 2nd prize, Fremantle Print Award; Career Development Grant Australia Council,
2016 Winner - Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2015 Honorary Mention, Bowness Photography Prize, New Work Grant Australia Council,
2012 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship, Monash University
2010 Arts Victoria Grant, International Program; People’s Choice, Little Creatures Fremantle Print Award
2009 People’s Choice, Fremantle Print Award
2008 Skills and Arts Development Grant, Australia Council, London Residency
2007 Rupert Bunny Fellowship, City of Port Phillip
2006 The Tammy Kingsley, People's Choice Award, The Alice Prize; Arts Victoria Grant, International Touring
2004 Australia Council and Ian Potter Foundation grants to conduct research in France and Spain for new work.
COLLECTIONS - SELECT
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Whitworth Gallery of Art Manchester
Monash Gallery of Art
Art Bank
Hamilton Regional Art Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery
Little Creatures Collection
City of Perth
Art Support
Malthouse Theatre
Alliance Francaise Melbourne
Private Collections Australia, London, Paris, Hong Kong, U.S.A. Private and Public commissions.
EDUCATION
2015 Masters Fine Art - Monash University
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