Detached
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I often find myself feeling lost, detached in a world where simplicity has faded.
My memories take me back to fishing, swimming, jumping off jetties, losing ourselves in time.
Creating my octopus work transports me to the past, Dad and I catching occys in terracotta pots, our bait for the day's Dhufish catch. Now, I look forward to a world of patience, balance, and respect.
My highly patterned, ocean forms, drawings and textiles, interpret coastal Western Australia in a
bright, maximalist story. My creative practice covers many art disciplines. My specialist areas are
ceramics, graphics and textile design.
I have been immersed in creative arts - traditional and contemporary; then went on to study visual
arts at TAFE, which has led me to teaching and running my own art company and studio/gallery. The
creative arts are my full-time profession.
Condensed experience
2025 - Director
BioSHPERE Rewilding project in progress, Ecological selected artists. Fleur Schell Creative
LightBox Gallery - Selected artist, Public Art, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
2024 - Geraldton Open Studio Artist
Jury Art prize, selected finalist
Carnarvon Shire - commissioned public artworks - in progress
Cossack Art Award - Finalist & Category Winner - North West Flora & Fauna
Gascoyne Art awards - Highly commended & Gascoyne Landscape
Clay Gulgong International Ceramics Conference & Delegate Exhibition
Midwest Members Exhibition - Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Pets of Summer - Public artwork - Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Illustration and design consulting - Ash Sutton Design - Five Luxe Dubai Bar Paradiso
1998 - 2025 Visual Art lecturer Central Regional Tafe. Specialist in 3D, Painting, Sustainable
Business, Digital Design, Drawing and Ceramics.
2023 Cervantes Art Awards - Shire of Dandaragan Purchase Prize - Cormorant
Geraldton Open Studio Artist
Carnarvon Art Awards Runner up - Eucheuma Spinosum - Porcelain & copper
City of Geraldton - Commissioned Public Art Log Artwork
Midwest Art Prize finalist
LightBox Gallery - Selected artist Public Art Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Graphic design for Highend Bars in Dubai - Luxe Five Group
We Dream in Colour - Geraldton Tafe Lecturer showcase, Group exhibition
Ash Sutton Design - project design and consulting.
2022 - We Dream in Colour - Geraldton Tafe Lecturer showcase, Group exhibition
City of Geraldton - Bus shelter artist x2 Public art
2021 - current - Sea.studiogallery - Ceramics studio and local art gallery
2018 - Heartwalk - Kalgoorlie Mural Artist - Mulla Mulla Designs
2012 - Morawa Art Award - Winner Ceramics Award
Shopping Centre Geraldton - Mural Art Winner
2012 - Current Pink Lake Road Australia - Designer & maker
2011 - Senior Territorian Portrait Award Winner - NT Parliament House
1998 - Current Visual Art lecturer Central Regional Tafe. Specialist in 3D, Painting, Sustainable
Business, Digital Design, Drawing and Ceramics.
I have collaborated with international and regional artists and Aboriginal art centres (Mt Magnet,
PortHedland & Arnhem Land) delivering various workshops and also to design and developing their
work into textiles, thus enabling other artists to do what they love too.
Owner of Geraldton’s smallest art gallery and my working studio, a hidden treasure worth the search.
55 cm x 25 cm x 30 cm
Porcelain
