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Curriculum Vitae

Educational Qualifications
2006 Master of Visual Arts, (Thesis title: Everyday Matters: My Body of Work in Experimental Video,) University of South Australia
1996 Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies, Flinders University of South Australia
1989 Bachelor of Visual Arts, South Australian College of Advanced Education
1986 Associate Diploma in Art, North Adelaide School of Art

Awards and Commissions
2010 The Big Pond Adelaide Film Festival Moving Image Partnership Award SALA Festival (for The Last Stand)
2008 Parkestone Foundation
2005 Craft South, Centre for Contemporary Craft & Design Grant
Shoelace in Space nominated for an experimental award 15/15 Film Festival
2004 Highly Commended, Teaching Excellence Awards, University of South Australia
2003 Highly Commended, Teaching Excellence Awards, University of South Australia
2002 Travel Grant, Australian Film Commission
2001 Travel Grant, University of South Australia
1999 Student Association Grant, University of South Australia
1994 SA Young Filmmaker Award (Co coordinator/editor of Nightmare on John Street)
1993 Come Out ‘93 City of Adelaide Lending Library
1992 Pat Corigan Artists Grant (group grant)
1991 Fair Go Series, Equal Opportunities Beach Safety, Safe City Project, Port Adelaide Council
1989 International Soroptimist Award

International Film Festivals/Screenings
2010 SALA Festival, Moving Image, Festival Theatre Foya (Aug '10)
2009 SALA Festival, Moving Image
2002 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco
2001 Melbourne International 50th Film Festival, 2001, Melbourne
2000 Mix Festival, The 14th New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival, New York
2000 Lesbian Film Festival, Berlin

National Film Festivals/Screenings
2008 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, Moving Image, Adelaide
  • Moving Image Cinema, Mercury Cinema (Aug ’08)
Drowning Duncan, documentary, Mercury Cinema
2007 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, Moving Image, Adelaide
  • Mercury Cinema (Aug 07)
2007 15/15 Film Festival , Adelaide
2006 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, Moving Image, Adelaide
  • Higher Ground
2005 Foreign Body, Video by Susan Bruce @ The Project Space, Contemporary Arts Society of SA
2005 15/15 Film Festival Screened Melbourne, Adelaide and Broome. (March, June 05)
2005 Art on the Rocks Film Festival
2004 SALA Festival, Moving Image, Mercury Cinema, Adelaide MEG (artist in school project), Mercury Cinema, Adelaide
2003 HomeStart Finance Best Queer SA Film Competition, Feast Festival, Adelaide Finalist, Mercury Cinema (25 Nov 03)
2003 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Week, Moving Image, Adelaide
  • Street Editions Daubing Driller, 218 Rundle St (2 Aug 03)
  • Mercury Cinema, Mixed Messages (3 Aug 03)
2001 Film Feast, Feast Festival, Adelaide
2001 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Week, Moving Image, Mercury Cinema, Adelaide

Solo Exhibitions
1998 You Can Brush My Hair, SEAS Gallery, Adelaide
1994 The Domestic Garden, The Union Gallery, The University of Adelaide,
1993 Greenaway Art Gallery, Kent Town
1992 Personal Fiction, Blue Expressions, Semaphore

Group Exhibtions
2008 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, Moving Image, Adelaide Moving Image Gallery, The Queens Theatre, Adelaide
2007 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, Adelaide Hope: A Moving Image Exhibition
2006 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, Moving Image, Adelaide Higher Ground
2002 Glimmer, upstArt Gallery, Port Adelaide
1997 Walls who needs them Feast Cultural Festival, Nexus Cabaret Space
1996 Pride in the Port, Feast Cultural Festival Port Community Arts Centre From Art Zone to Zone Gallery Ten Years 1986 – 1996, Zone Gallery Amnesty International Exhibition Port Community Arts Centre Masticate, Babettes Eatery STILL CINEMA, art house album Of large stamps, Ripening Room Gallery
1995 Ex.str.acting, Red House Gallery, Sturt Port Artists Exhibition, Port Community Arts Centre
1993 Private Space Rainmoth Gallery, Waikerie Toenails and Blackcats Come Out 93, City of Adelaide Lending Library Xmas at the Circus, The Parade, Norwood
1992 Adelaide 1992 Stonewall Exhibition Artzone, Adelaide York Street Studios Exhibition York Street, Adelaide Oblique Edge Adelaide Festival Fringe Exhibition Loft Gallery, Lion Arts Centre
1991 Portable Picture Touring Show Port Community Arts Centre Enter At Your Own Risk International Women’s Day Exhibition Lion Arts Centre
1990 Back to the City Vincent Art Gallery, Adelaide
1989 Degree of Difference Bachelor of Visual Arts Graduate Show University of SA Art Museum The Body Show Prospect Gallery, Prospect
1987 One Week Only Artzone Gallery, Adelaide
1986 Graduate Exhibition North Adelaide School of Art Gallery, North Adelaide

Lectures/Presentations
2010 Cultural Conversation, Drowning Duncan and Gay Law Reform in South Australia
Moot Court, Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, (screening and discussion)
2008 Digital Dialogues, Media & Education National Conference 2008, An Artist’s View of Where Two Processes Meet: Creativity & Education (presentation/workshop)
Quench: To Satisfy a Thirst, a weekend of queer thinking, Higher Ground, Adelaide, “Conversations with a queer experimental filmmaker” (presentation)
2008 Ethics in Art Galleries & Museums, Creative Industries, University of South Australia (guest Lecturer)
2006 Dykeback Mountain – Where is the Lesbian? (screening & Q & A) Ethics in Art Galleries & Museums, Creative Industries, University of South Australia (guest Lecturer)
2003 Experimental Video, Wilderness School, Yr 12 Art (presentation)
2001 Honours Research Methods, University of South Australia (presentation)
2000 Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Technical University, Chemnitz, Germany (guest Lecturer)

Recent Employment History
2008-09 Studio Assistant, Art Department Wilderness School
2005 Tutor Semester 2, Creative Industries & Ethics, University Of South Australia
2002-07 Tutor Semester 1, Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies University of South Australia

Other Employment
2007 Crank Film Project, Come Out Festival, Wilderness School
2005 Crank Film Project, Come Out Festival, Wilderness School
2004 Artist in Schools Video Project, Wilderness School
1998-2000 Project Work, Administration & Gallery Attendant Flinders University Art Museum
1998 Gallery Assistant (temp), Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design
1997-1998 Multimedia Trainee, Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University
1995 Artist, Banner Project, Post Adelaide Council Coordinator, Silk Painting Workshop, Morgan, Riverland
1994 Administrative Assistant, Port Community Arts Centre Project Artist, Port Community Arts Centre
1993 Artist in Residence, Video Project, Torrensville Primary School Artist in Residence, Banner Project, Largs North Primary School Tutor/Video Artist, Salisbury Youth Annexe Project Co ordinator, Mural Artist, Paralowie R-12 School
1992 Project Artist, Installation Come Out ’93, City of Adelaide Lending Library Project Co ordinator/Mural Artist, Paralowie R-12, Special Education Program

Residencies
Oct 2009 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA