CV

Academic Qualifications

2019 Graduate Diploma of Design (Multimedia), Monash University, VIC

2005 -2007 Bachelor of Visual Media (Design), Queensland College of Arts, QLD

2002 – 2004 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Fine Arts), Southern Cross University, NSW

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Solo Exhibitions

2016 Reflective INK, Dark Horse Experiment Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2014 The Space Between Us, D11 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2012 Memento Mori, Polymer Culture Factory, Tallinn, Estonia

2010 Intermedia Synaesthesia, The Edge Digital Media Culture Centre, Brisbane, Australia

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Curatorial Projects

2015 Project Pixel at Pause Fest , Tech_Bar, Federation Square Melbourne

2015 Project Pixel at the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne, Australia

2014 Project Pixel, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia

2012 Project Pixel, Polymer Culture Factory, Estonia

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Artist Talks /  Interviews / Publications

2017 VJ & Projection Mapping Workshop – The Arts Centre Melbourne – Workshop

2017 Future Music Industry – SAE Institute – Artist Talk

2016 Unlikely Journal for the Creative Arts – Article

2016  Signal Screen Commission, City of Melbourne – Mentor

2015  PBS radio – Interview

2015 Subcultures Magazine – Interview

2015 Themusic.com.au – have-you-been-to-rose-sugarlove/radiance  – online blog

2014 Project Pixel Squared, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia – Artist presentation on practice

2014 SBS Radio, Melbourne, Australia – Interview

2013 Scope Sessions, Berlin Germany – Artist presentation on practice

2013 Ptarmigan International Artist Talks, Tallinn Estonia – Artist presentation on practice

2012 The Arts Show, Tallinn TV – Interview

2010 Youth Arts Queensland – Cover design for magazine publication Young People and the Arts

2010 Rage, ABC TV, Australia – Feature independent music video ‘Red, Yellow, Blue’ for the week June 4 -13th

2010 ABC Open Artist by Artist – interviewed and profiled

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Grants, Awards & Residencies

2024 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards – Finalist
In the category of Communication design for projection mapping the Gwanghwamun Palace Gate, for the Seoul Light Festival in South Korea

2024  Time Out Melbourne’s Arts & Culture Awards – Impact Award
For the exhibition Connection presented at The Lume Melbourne

2023 Timeless Light Residency – Ionian Center Of Art, Kefalonia, Greece

2022 Timeless Light Residency – Ionian Center Of Art, Kefalonia, Greece

2022 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards – Finalist
In the category of Communication design for the work The Crossing shown at the Melbourne Olympic Park for the Australian Open Tennis Tournament

2021 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards – Finalist
In the category of Communication design for the work Love Light shown in Norwich Cathedral, England UK

2020 Limelight Masterclass hosted by Vivid Sydney

2019 Australian Graphic Design Awards – Distinction

2019 Monash University Support Scholarship

2019 Light Odyssey – Adobe Design Achievement Awards Top Talent

2018  Isometric Projection Mapping – Adobe Achievement Awards Semi-finalist

In the category of Commercial animation & motion graphics

2018   Reflective Ink – Adobe Achievement Awards Semi-finalist

In the category of Fine art illustration

2018   Isometric 360 – Adobe Achievement Awards Semi-finalist

In the category of Fine art animation & motion graphics

2018   Lullaby X Melbourne Museum – Adobe Achievement Awards Semi-finalist

In the category of Commercial animation & motion graphics

2018   In The Night Garden – Adobe Achievement Awards Semi-finalist

In the category of Fine art animation & motion graphics

2014 Screengrab International Media Arts Award, Queensland, Australia– finalist

2014    The Crystal Interface, Mutek Festival Montreal, Canada – finalist

2012     Polymer Culture Factory Residency, Tallinn, Estonia

2009    Youth Arts Mentorship Program (YAMP), Youth Arts Queensland, QLD

2009   Strut Your Stuff, Youth Arts Queensland, QLD

2004   Brunswick valley photography competition, Shearwater, Mullumbimby, NSW

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Exhibitions, Performances, Installations

2024

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 40th Anniversary Experience, The District Docklands, VIC

A3 Festival, Lardner Park, VIC

Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia

Lightwave Festival, Nubeena, Tasmania

Chihuahua Town, The Industrique, VIC

Rainbow Serpent Reunion, Melbourne Pavilion, VIC

Esoteric Festival, Donald, Australia

Let Them Eat Cake, Werribee Mansion, Melbourne, Australia

2023

Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia

Van Gogh Alive, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, America

Free Earth, Asprovalta, Greece

Timeless Light Residency, Ionian Centre of Art, Kefalonia, Greece

All Together Now, Curraghmore Estate, Waterford, Ireland

Connection – Songlines From Australias First Nations People, The Lume, Melbourne

Esoteric Festival, Donald, Australia

Let Them Eat Cake, Werribee Mansion, Melbourne, Australia

2022

Let Them Eat Cake, Werribee Mansion, Melbourne, Australia

Wonderlights, Malahide Castle, Dublin, Ireland

Timeless Light Residency, Ionian Center Of Art, Kefalonia, Greece

All Together Now, Curraghmore Estate, Waterford, Ireland

Street Art Alive, Magic Box, Los Angeles, America

Connection – Songlines From Australias First Nations People, National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra ACT

Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Ararat, Australia

Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia

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2021

Van Gogh Alive, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, America

Van Gogh Alive, The Lume, Melbourne, Australia

Brave Blooms, Melbourne Design Week, Australia

Margaret Court Arena, Australian Open Tennis Tournament, Melbourne Olympic Park.

Marti grass, ANZ Bank, Liberty Place, Sydney NSW

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2020

Monet & Friends, The Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney, Australia

Imaginaria, Docklands Melbourne, Australia

Pitch, Ararat, Australia

Love Light, Norwich Cathedral, England UK

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2019

Trouble Makers II, Vs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Psy-Fi, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Free Earth Festival, Halkidiki, Greece

All Together Now, Curraghmore Estate, Waterford, Ireland

Video Mapping Festival, L’Hybrid, Lille, France

Paradigm, Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia

Pitch, Ararat, Australia

Rainbow Serpent Festival, Lexton, Australia

Let Them Eat Cake, Werribee Mansion, Werribee, VIC

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2018

Lego Cities, Sydney Exhibition Quarter, Australia

All Together Now, Curraghmore Estate, Waterford, Ireland – Façade Building Projection

Light Odyssey, Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, UK

Free Earth Festival, Halkidiki, Greece – Landscape Projections

Muscle, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, VIC – exhibition

Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia

West Projections Festival, Melbourne, VIC

We’re All Mad Here, David Williamson Theatre, Melbourne VIC

Wall to Wall, MADA Monash University, Melbourne VIC

Trouble Makers, Vs. Gallery + Studios Richmond, Melbourne VIC

The Night Garden, 6th International Video Poetry Festival, Embros Theatre, Athens Greece – Screening

Rainbow Serpent Festival, Lexton, Australia

Let Them Eat Cake, Werribee Mansion, Werribee, VIC – Architectural Projection + VJ set

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2017

Melbourne Music Week, La Di Da, Melbourne, VIC – Live performance

Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia – VJ set

High Tide Contemporary Art Biennial, Fremantle Festival, Fremantle, WA – Facade projection

Darwin International Film Festival, Darwin Waterfront, Darwin, NT – 360 Dome projection

Diwali Festival of Lights, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, VIC – Live Performance

Glow Winter Arts Festival, Chapel Street, Prahran, Melbourne, VIC – Facade projection

Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne, VIC – video installation

Splendour In the Grass, Byron Bay Parklands, NSW – large format scenic projections

Pitch Music & Arts Festival, Ararat, VIC – large format scenic projections + vj set

Australian International Documentary Conference, ACMI, VIC – VJ set

White Night Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, VIC – Facade projection

Rainbow Serpent Festival, Lexton, Australia –  VJ set on Mainstage

Let Them Eat Cake, Werribee Mansion, Werribee, VIC – VJ set on Mainstage

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2016

Lullaby, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne Australia

Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW, Australia

Electrofringe, 107 Projects, Sydney, Australia

IS, Batman Royal, Melbourne, Australia

Rainbow Serpent Festival, Lexton, Australia – Mainstage VJ set

Mr Bill- corrective scene surgery show, Railway Hotel, Melbourne, Australia

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2015

Lost Paradise, Glenworth Valley, Australia

Eclipse Festival Pre-Party, Brunswick Hotel, Melbourne, Australia

Stereosonic, Melbourne Showgrounds, Australia

Earthcore, Pyalong, Australia

I-scream-nails x Di$count Univer$e, No Vacancy Gallery, QV Building, Melbourne, Australia

The World Beyond, Revolt, Melbourne, Australia

Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Vivid, Martin Place, Sydney, Australia

Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece

Mapping Festival, Le Zoo, Geneva, Switzerland

Australian Center of Moving Image (ACMI), White Nights, Melbourne, Australia

Nature In the Dark II, National Aquarium, Baltimore USA

700s Arts Festival, RMIT Library, Melbourne, Australia

Rainbow Serpent Festival (Mainstage VJ set)

Pause Fest edition of Project Pixel, Tech_Bar, Federation Square Melbourne

Cube Projection Mapping Installations at Ride the Night, Melbourne City

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2014

Screengrab International Media Arts Award, Queensland, Australia

Stereosonic, Melbourne Showgrounds, Australia

Athens International Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece

Project Pixel Squared, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia

Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Mutek and Elektra festival (EM15), Museum of Contemporary art of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Vivid, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Glow Festival, Church of San Vito Martire, Ostuni, Italy

White Nights, The Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia

West Writers Forum, Footscray Community Arts Center, Melbourne, Australia

House of Light, Northcote Social,  Melbourne, Australia

Docklands Library, Melbourne, Australia

Lost Paradise, Greenwood Hotel, Sydney, Australia

Loop Bar, Melbourne, Australia

Rainbow Serpent After Party, The Brown Alley, Melbourne AU

The White Party, Stradbroke Island, AU

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2013

Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, UK (Sonic Stage)

Scopitone, Stereolux, Nantes, France

Live Performers Meeting, Brancaleone, Rome, Italy

Nozstock, The Hidden Valley, Bromyard, Uk

Polymer Culture festival, Tallinn, Estonia

Psysisters, Union Club, Vauxhall, London Uk

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2012

Illumini, Shoreditch Town Hall, London UK

Burning Mountain Festival, Zernez, Switzerland

Level B, Lithuanian Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Creature Live Art Performance Festival, Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania

Global Container XXIV, Totaldobže Art Centre, Riga, Latvia

Global Container XXIII, Polymer Culture Factory, Estonia

Elixir, Hackney Downs Studios, London UK

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2011

Sonica Festival, Ulcinj, Montenegro

Transylvania Calling Festival, Sibiu, Romania

AV Playground, Sakog Kulturwerk, Trimmelkam, Austria

Surfers Paradise Festival, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia (commissioned video piece)

Southern Oracle Festival, QLD, Australia

Earth Freq Festival, Landcruiser Park, QLD, Australia

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2010

Miscellaneous, Judith Wright Center of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Deliverance Festival, Grafton, NSW, Australia (AV events co-ordination, AV Performance)

D’Alliance Festival, Currumbin Waters, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (AV events co-ordination, VJ)

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2009

International Digital Arts (IDA) Projects, Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia

D’Alliance Festival, Currumbin Waters, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (AV events co-ordination, VJ)

Circle fiesta, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD

4C arts collective, The Valley Studios, Brisbane, QLD

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2008

Two High Festival, The Power House, Brisbane QLD

Essence Projectile, In The Bin Short Film Festival, Gold Coast QLD

Phenylethylaminds, Open Air outdoor event, New Italy

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2007

Open : Space, TCB, Brunswick St Mall Fortitude Valley, Gold Coast QLD

Digital Design Graduation Exhibition, The Council Chambers, Gold Coast, QLD

Open : house, The old post office, Gold Coast, QLD

Tales from the Cold Ghost, Black + Neon, Gold Coast, QLD

Open : sesame, The old post office, Gold Coast, QLD

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2006

Emerging Artists, Piece gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW

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2005

Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award

Next gallery, Southern Cross University, NSW

Chapter 64, Piece gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW

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2004

Brunswick valley photography competition, Shearwater Steiner school, Mullumbimby

SCU Visual Arts Graduation show, Visual Art department, Southern Cross

University, Lismore

Rush, Next gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore

Traveling Artist books, Selected high schools, Northern Rivers area, NSW

Protoplay, Piece gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW

Between the covers, Next gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore

Feminisms, Next gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore

By degrees, Armisteads Gallery, Lismore

Third year student show, Drop in Center, Southern Cross University, Lismore

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2003

Community Printmakers Murwillumbar Competition, Murwillumbar

Postcards from Mullumbimby, Piece gallery, Mullumbimby NSW

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Professional Experience

2019 Senior Motion Graphic Designer, Grande Exhibitions, Melbourne, Au

2016 Graphic Designer, Mercer Interior Design School, Melbourne, Au

2015 Freelance Designer, Melbourne, Au

2012 Graphic Designer, The Organic Pharmacy, London, Uk

2011 Videography Internship, Visual Domain, London, Uk

2010 Resident VJ, The Family Nightclub, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Au

2009 Graphic Designer, Bechtel, Brisbane, Au.

2006 – 2009 Graphic Designer, CSQTC, Brisbane, Au.