CV

Exhibitions:
Solo Shows
A Silence of Angels, Ministry of Casual Living, September 11-27, 2025
Beloved Resistance, theDock, October 28, 2022-January 23, 2023
The Persistence of Love, XChanges Gallery, Victoria BC, January 8-24, 2021
The Other Side of War, The Fifty Fifty Gallery, March 10-April 9, 2017.

Group Shows
Visage,  Rockslide Gallery, September 24-November 20, 2022
Permission to Grieve (community project) Integrate Arts Society, 2021
Postcards from the Pandemic, Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, July 23- August 14, 2020
Interworld, Arc.hive ARC, May 3-12, 2019
History as Personal Memory, The Slide Room Gallery, February 16-March 12, 2018, with Ira Hoffecker and Ulricke Walker.
Voices of Canadian Women, International Women’s Day Exhibition, March 2017
Snapshot, Arc.hive Artist Run Centre, January 2017

Education:
Therapeutic Arts Practitioner Certificate-Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy, 2024
Continuing studies- Vancouver Island School of Art 2016-
Artist Mentorship Program, Arc.hive ARC, September 2018- April 2019
Painting, John Luna , Vancouver Island School of Art,  2015, 2016, 2017
Advanced Drawing 2, Wendy Welch, Vancouver Island School of Art, 2015
Advanced Drawing 1, Wendy Welch, Vancouver Island School of Art, 2014
Trauma recovery and vocation training, Bridges for Women, 2013
Associate Diploma of Fine Art, Northern Sydney Institute, Australia
(Drawing minor, National Art School, Sydney Australia, 1989) 1988, 1989
Student Awards: Runner-up, Robert Le Gaye Brereton Prize for Drawing , Sydney Australia 1989
Winner, Noel Chettle Memorial Art Prize for Drawing, Sydney Australia, 1988

Curator:
St John the Divine Anglican Church, 2024-present
The Stairwell Gallery at St Philip Anglican Church 2012-2018
Special curatorial projects:
This Tender Earth:  Heather Barr, Jane Coombe, Anna Curtin, Joanne Hewko,
Kate Scoones, Trish Shwart, Esther Parker, 2018
Iconic Blue:  Jane Coombe, 2018
All Things New: BOXCARSIX Artist Collective, 2017
Transmogrify: Devin Babineau, Patrica Graham, Fern Long,  2016/2017
Beauty for Ashes: Clare Thomas, Shirley Grosser, Ulricke Walker. 2016

Theopoetic speaking, writing, publication:
Endurance, Creative Mornings Victoria (Victoria Arts Council), October 27, 2023
Art and Prayer, Lenten School of Prayer, St John the Divine Anglican Church Victoria, BC, Canada, March 2023
An Evening of Art for Social Justice, TheDock, Victoria, BC, November 25, 2022
Sermons and reflections, Fairfield United Church, Victoria BC, Canada 2021, 2022
Making Art After War, Resilient Creatives Podcast, September 2021
Sermons, reflections, liturgy, prayers Abbey Church, Victoria BC, Canada 2018-2021
Reflections, Advent and Lenten Chapbooks, Emmaus Community  2017- 2021
Until Magazine, Victoria Arts Council, Issue 5, June 2020
Art and Empathy, article, Diocesan Post, Anglican Diocese of British Columbia 2019
Art and the Nature of Wisdom, St Philip Anglican Church, BC, Canada 2017
( adapted as article for Australian Broadcasting Commission 2019 )
Advancing the Small, Vancouver Island School of Art, 2016

Workshops:
Soul Space, workshops integrating embodied art practices with spirituality , St John the Divine Anglican Church Victoria, BC, Canada, February 2024 – present.
Creative Prayer groups (online), Convergence, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 2022 –
The Art of Paying Attention, A Rocha, Wild Church, BC, Canada, Sept 2020
Art and Empathy, ‘We Together’ Conference, Nanaimo, BC.  October 28, 2019

Community Leadership:
Artist Advocate, and Parish Council member,  St John the Divine Anglican Church Victoria, BC, Canada, 2023 – 
Creative Prayer Facilitator, Convergence, Virginia, USA, 2021-
Speaking, worship beautification, Fairfield United Church, 2021, 2022
Vision Team, Artist in Residence, speaking, Abbey Church, 2017-2021
Curator, Stairwell Gallery, St Philip Anglican Church, 2012-2018