Education

Whitecliffe College of Art and Design: Masters of Arts in Arts Management (MAAM), First Class Hons., 2010 (Final thesis: Arts Management as Mimetic Irony: maintaining an organic way of knowing)

Otago Polytechnic School of Art & Design: Certificate of Creative Studies, 2007

The Vancouver Academy of Art, Canada 1999 – 2003

Valerie Skemp Decorative Arts Studio: various intensive workshops in the art of faux finishing, Canada 1992 – 1995

Artist

Finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Art Award show, Whakatane, 2012 (sculpture: Elderself)

Self Portraits Exhibition From the Wallace Trust Collection (part two), TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead Hillsborough 2010/2011 (sculpture: Flesh Totem)

Pink Ravens II, solo art exhibition, The Lake House Arts Centre, Takapuna 2010

Pink Ravens, solo art exhibition, Satellite Gallery, Auckland 2009

Group Preview Exhibition, Satellite Gallery, Auckland 2009

Life at Random, solo art exhibition, The Depot Artspace, Devonport 2008

Finalist in the (former) Goldwater Estate Award Show, Waiheke Island 2003 (painting: Motherhood)

Arts Management

NZ Trio: assisting management in new growth and organisational developments, 2013 – present

Creative New Zealand – 21st Century Arts Conference Coordinator: assisted in the design, planning, and execution of three themed arts industry conferences, 2009 – 2012

Creative New Zealand: completed a commissioned internal review of the Move On Up programme, 2012

Touch Compass Dance Trust: assisted with a strategic planning overhaul 2011/2012

NZ Sculpture OnShore: live entertainment coordinator 2010, and ambassador of artworks 2012