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1966
Born Australia
Currently lives in Melbourne
EDUCATION
1985-87
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Phillip Institute of Technology, (Bundoora Campus), Melbourne.
1995-96
Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Colour me black, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2007
Learning to Draw IV, Darren Knight Gallery at silvershot, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Learning to Draw III, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
(with Ronnie van Hout), Darren Knight Gallery in Melbourne, 167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia
2000
Push-Me-Pull-Me, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Skeleton in the closet, video work in collaboration with Jonathan Luker, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
Talk, Allan’s Walk, Artist Run Space, Bendigo, Australia
1999
Incident, (with Jonathan Luker) talk artists initiative inc., Melbourne, Australia
Space, (with Jonathan Luker) Spare Room, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1998
The Cup, (with Jonathan Luker), talk artists initiative inc.,, Melbourne, Australia
Talk, Platform 2, Melbourne, Australia.
1997
Pictographs, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Fuzzy Felt, talk artists initiative inc., Melbourne, Australia.
1996
A Girls' Own, West Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1992
How to Make Your Own Pictures, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Darwin’s bastards, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia
2008
The year of the bird, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2007
All in an afternoon, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
BloodLines – Art and the Horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW Australia
Strange beauty, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Polar mark, RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, Melbourne Australia
2006
Getting on Mother’s Nerves, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
2005
ex libris, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia,
2003 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Mystic Medusa on Art, Newcontemporaries, Sydney
2002
2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Play, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania School of Art, Hobart, Australia
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, winning entry, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
2001
Menagerie, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Australia
A4, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2000
On the Beach, talk artists initiative inc., Melbourne
Wholelottalove, Citylights, Melbourne
1999
Group Show, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Bill Posters will not be prosecuted, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
1999 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regiona Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Talk Artists Initiative, Hanover Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1998
Summer Exhibition, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Paper Anniversary, talk artists initiative inc., Melbourne, Australia
Jennifer Mills, Jonathan Luker, James Morrison, talk artists initiative inc., Melbourne, Australia
Verve, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
Work, West Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia
Introduction, talk artists initiative inc.,, Melbourne, Australia
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship 1997, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996
Nostalgic, curated by Zara Stanhope, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Would you believe….., Fictional and Actual Artists Space, Collaboration with Sandra Bridie, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
ANZ Arts Fellowship, ANZ Cathedral Building, Melbourne, Australia
1994
Fifth International Women's Day Exhibition, The Women's Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1993
Saturnalia, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1991
A.R.T. project sponsored by the City of Melbourne, Port Phillip Arcade, Melbourne, Australia
No Vacancy, project sponsored by NAVA and the City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
AWARDS
2002 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney, Australia
Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Australia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bridie, Sandra. Talk artists initialive, Artlink, vol. 17, no. 4, 1997, p. 37
Clement, T. Holy crayons, batman, Sydney Morning Herald Metro 24 February - 2 March 2006
Ed. Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Imprint magazine Winter 2006, Vol. 41, No. 2
Ed. Australian Graffiti, Follow Magazine February 2006
Ed. Art, Sydney Morning Herald Metro 24 February - 2 March 2006
Fortescue, E. Exhibits, The Daily Telegraph 18 February 2006
Fox, A. Learning to draw, Lifelounge Volume 1, Issue 6, pp. 24-46
French, B, Jennifer Mills, review, art/text, no.58 Aug. - Oct. 1997,pp. 93-94
Hart, D. Home Sweet Home: an artist-collector’s passion, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Holt, R. Sit, beg, roll over, play dead, Art Monthly, no. 107, March 1998, p. 14
Kidd,C. The beauty in the beast, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 2000, p.3
Lingard, J. Jennifer Mills, Nothing magazine, #14, www.nothingmag.com/_issue14/index.html
mother’s tankstation, mother’s annual 2006 mother’s tankstation, Dublin, 2006.
O’Keeffe, Play, catalogue essay, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania School of Art, Hobart, Australia
O’Mahony, J. Unnerving ideas, The Metro [Ireland] 24 October 2006
Timms, P. Life rehearsal, review, The Weekend Australian, 1-2 March 2003