GRANTS AND AWARDS

2024

Finalist- Tom Malone Prize, Linton and Kay Gallery, West Perth, WA 6005

2022

Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA

2021

Finalist - WATERHOUSE NATURAL SCIENCE ART PRIZE EXHIBITION 2020

South Australia Museum

2020

Australia Council for the Arts. Resilience Create grant. Solo exhibition at Sabbia Gallery, Redfern, NSW

Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA

2019

Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA

2018

Finalist. FUSE Glass Prize. JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, SA

Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA
2016    

Finalist. FUSE Biennial Glass Prize. JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, SA

Winner. 2nd Biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace Gallery

Finalist. KIGA 2016 - Kirra Illuminating Glass Award. Kirra Galleries, Federation Square Melbourne. Vic Australia

2015    

Australia Council for the Arts. Grant for development of new work and exhibiting at Collect: The International Art Fair, London, 2017

2013

Sculpture prize. The Waterhouse Natural Science Art prize

2012

Triennial Project Grant, Arts SA

Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA

2011

Named the 2012 Living Treasure: Master of Australian Craft by Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design 

2010

New Work grant, Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council

2009

Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA

Finalist, Ranamok Prize for Contemporary Glass, National Touring Exhibition

2007

Project Grant to assist with the development of work for major exhibition at William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington State, USA, Arts SA

2004

Project Grant to assist with the development of work for major exhibition at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide SA, Arts SA

2003

Project Grant to assist with the development of work for major exhibition entitled Un Nouveau Souffle at the Ambassade d'Australie, Paris, France, Arts SA

2002

Recipient of the inaugural Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA

2001

Recipient of South Australia's Living Artist's Week monograph, initiated by the SALA Week committee, published by Wakefield Press with the assistance of Arts SA

Arts Assistance grant for the production of a catalogue for a major one-person exhibition in Seattle, USA, in May 2002, Arts SA

1999

Fellowship, Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1997

New Work grant, Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1996

Quick response grant, Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council

Recipient of the Gold Medal, Barvarian State Prize, Germany

1993

Arts Project Assistant Grant, South Australian Department of Arts & Cultural Heritage

1986

Apprenticeship Assistant Grant, Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1984

Relocation and Establishment grant, Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1983

First Prize, Glass Section, Stirling and District Council Art and Craft Award, SA

Award in the Glass and Ceramics Section, Inaugural English Speaking Union Stuart Devlin Award

Apprenticeship Assistance Grant, Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1982

Apprenticeship Assistant Grant, Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1981

Apprenticeship Assistant Grant, Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1980

Grant to study in a private glass studio in the USA, Crafts Board of the Australia Council

1975

Grant to study glass in the USA and Europe, Crafts Board of the Australia Council