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1962
Born Geelong, Victoria
Lives Sydney
EDUCATION
1987
Bachelor of Arts, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
1989
Graduate Diploma, Victorian College of the Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Broke, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005
Excavating, Künsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2003
Block Gallery, Sydney
2001
Women, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000
Typographie, Elastic, Sydney, Australia
Never, Elastic, Sydney, Australia
1999
John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Small optical works 1992-99, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
1998
Worthless, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
1997
What it is worth, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
lucre, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
In the flat field, Helen Schutt Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1996
File #2, First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Xographs, First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
File # 1, First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
Two Places, Fictional & Actual Artists Spaces, Melbourne
1991
Store 5 No.92, Artless, Melbourne
Store 5 No.93, Confidence, Melbourne
Store 5 No.94, Xographs, Melbourne
1990
suite of children, Store 5 No.53, Melbourne
Preludes, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Ten Installations, The Greater Western, Melbourne
Albert Street, Melbourne
1989
Store 5 No.21, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Little Deaths, Apartment, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Group show of past and present residency artists, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2004
Performance Anxiety, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, Australia
Dynamo! Dynamo! The Firstdraft Auction, Firstdraft, Sydney
2002
Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op art in Australia, Heide
Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Attention Span, Freespace Project Space, Sydney
Sex & the Settee, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
2001
Caravan, Scots Church, Sydney, Australia
Arkitekt, Blaugrau, Sydney, Australia
Art & Science International Exhibition and Global Symposium, National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
2000-2002
Facsimile, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2000
Rent, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Taxi, Elastic, Sydney, Australia
Pixel, Elastic, Sydney, Australia
KWL, Shepherd Street Carpark, Sydney, Australia
Millennium Grafica, Yokohama, Japan
Y2K International Exhibition of Prints, Chung Cheng Gallery, Taipai, Taiwan
1999-2000
Moral Hallucination: Channelling Hitchcock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1999
Liquid Evasions, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Facsimile, CAL Gallery, Caracas, Venzuela
Wish you were here, Smith+Stoneley, Brisbane
1998
Habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
On the Ashes of the Stars (Mallarme - a celebration), Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Yo-in, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan,
RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
1997
World Speak Dumb, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Fall, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
QWERTY, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1992
talk artists initiative, Melbourne
Colloquy, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1996
Rumble, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
SWIM 2, Project Space, Melbourne
Photostat, First Floor, Melbourne
Melancholia, Fictional & Actual Artists Space, Melbourne
1995
Faktura, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne
Film, First Floor, Melbourne
Flag Project, Kawasaki Museum, Japan
Decadence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1994
e-topia, New Media Network, Southgate, Melbourne
Sinistra, Artspace, Sydney
Prototype, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Loop (Critical Cities), Longford Cinema, Melbourne
Pure Cinema, RMIT, Melbourne
Memento, New Media Network, Melbourne
1993
Store 5 No.132, Melbourne
Store 5 No.149, Melbourne
Margaret Stewart Endowment Exhibition, National Gellery of Victoria, Melbourne
1992
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Temple Studio, Melbourne
Australia Centre, Manila, Philippines
Supermart, Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne
1991
Store 5 No.’s 100 & 101
S.W.I.M., Linden Gallery, Melbourne
W.T. Rawleigh Building, Melbourne
Printed Matter, Deakin University Gallery, Geelong,
The Decade Show, CSA Gallery, Canberra Institute of the Arts
Centre for a Constructed World, Melbourne
1990
Store 5 No. 67, Melbourne
1989
Store 5 No.’s 6 & 8, Melbourne
Store 5 No. 31, Melbourne
2 x 7, Postgraduate Exhibition, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
1988
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
AWARDS
1999
Australia Council New Work Grant
1995
Project Grant VACB (group application)
1995
Project Grant Arts Victoria (group application)
1994
Australia Council Studio Residency, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Theodore Urbach Award
PAGES IN ARTIST PUBLICATIONS OR ARTIST PAGES
Rebus #2, 1990
Pataphysics, 1990
Agenda, October 1990
Installation Publication, 1991
Rosebud #2, 1992
Circular, Issues 1,2,3 & 4
Artfan, Autumn 1996
Permanent Food, 1996
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Artbank
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Koop, S. Crackle…, Contemporary Art From the Middle of Nowhere, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008
Stanhope, Z. Good Vibrations, exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2002