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PRIZES

2025+2024 Archibald Salon des Refusés / S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney

2025 WINNER The Agency Still Life Prize / Bowral Art Gallery
2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED Clayton Utz Award / Clayton Utz Brisbane
2024 Percival Portrait Painting Prize / Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville

2023 Brisbane Portrait Prize / Powerhouse Brisbane




EDUCATION

2016-2020 University of Vienna - PhD Philosophy

2011-2012 Atelier Art Classes Brisbane - Painting


2006-2010 University of Queensland & University of Edinburgh - BA Hons I Philosophy


SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2025 North London Group First Annual / Regent’s Park Gallery London
2024 Ceramics and Still Life / Project Gallery Sydney
2020 SOLO Like Kings / Radici Vienna
2019 SOLO The Wine one Drinks with the Eyes / Erbsenfabrik in Brick5 Vienna
2018 SOLO Mysterious / Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense Vienna
2017 Vernissage / with Stephanie Rappl Der Greißler Vienna
2016 SOLO The Homes of Others / Salon with Dr. Brigitte Papis Vienna
2015 With Ryan Daffurn and Adolphe Piche / The Old Museum Brisbane
2015 SOLO Vernissage / Takt Keller Vienna



        ART PRIZES 


2025 Fisher’s Ghost Award / Campbelltown Arts Centre Campbelltown
2025+2024 Gosford Art Prize / Gosford Regional Gallery Gosford
2025 BAMM Portrait Prize Biennial / Bank Art Museum Moree
2025 Hornsby Art Prize / Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre Sydney
2025+2024 Omnia Art Prize / St Kevins College Melbourne
2025+2024+2021+2019 Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award / Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane
2025 Lethbridge Landscape Prize Salon des Refusés / Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane
2025 Doyle’s Art Award / Firth Park Mudgeeraba Gold Coast
2025+2023+2021 Harold and Agnes Richardson Drawing Prize / Royal Queensland Art Society Petrie Terrace Gallery Brisbane 
2024 Korea Australia Arts Foundation Prize / Korean Cultural Centre Sydney

2024+2022+2020 Brisbane Portrait Prize Salon des Refusés / Royal Queensland Art Society Petrie Terrace Gallery Brisbane

2024 Lethbridge Landscape Prize / Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane

2023 Clayton Utz Award / Clayton Utz Brisbane
2023+2022 Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award Salon des Refusés / Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane

2023 Brisbane Rotary Art Show / Central Plaza Brisbane

2022 FINALIST. A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship / Glen Eira City Council Melbourne
2022 SECOND PRIZE. Queensland Figurative / RQAS Petrie Terrace Gallery Brisbane

2022 Brisbane Landmarks, Landscapes and Personalities / RQAS Petrie Terrace Gallery
2021 Members’ Annual / Royal Queensland Art Society Petrie Terrace Gallery Brisbane
2019 Elegant Chaos / Royal Queensland Art Society Brisbane
2018+2017+2016 Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award / Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane
2016 A.M.E. Bale Art Prize / Glen Eira City Council Melbourne
2016+2015 Sketch Group Vienna / Takt Keller Vienna
2015+2014 Moreton Bay Region Art Awards / Pine Rivers Gallery Brisbane
2014+2013+2012 PRIZE WINNER. Atelier Art Classes Summer Show / The Old Bomb Factory Brisbane


A SENSUAL DELIGHT IN THE MATERIAL WORLD THAT IS OPENLY HEDONISTIC. ALL THE SENSES IN INTIMATE CONTACT WITH THE WORLD. / DAVENPORT


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