STUDIES
2005 - 2008 PhD, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
1998 – 2000 Master of Visual Arts (Research), University of Southern Queensland, Australia
1974 – 1979 Bachelor of Arts (Textile Design), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Scotland
POSITIONS HELD
2009 - 2023 Professor of Fibers, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA
1991 - Freelance artist and designer
Numerous workshops in textile design throughout Australia; 5-week workshop tour for New Zealand Craft Council 1994; tutor for McGregor
Summer School, Flying Arts, The Australian Forum for Textile Arts
1999 – 2000 Associate lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
1989 – 1990 Textile Instructor, Mt Gravatt College of TAFE, Brisbane
1986 – 1989 Head of Textile Department, National Arts School, Papua New Guinea
1980 – 1985 Design Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
collaborations –
2013 Road Trip, with Ann-Maree Reaney, three collections of digitally printed textiles, garments and video inspired by the fiction of travel and video footage, documentation from actual journeys by the artists to Morocco, India, and across the USA, Artisan Gallery, Brisbane.
solo –
2008 - 2009 Diaspora: textiles as paradox, solo travelling exhibition of digitally printed textiles, opened at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery by the
Governor of Queensland, Ms Quentin Bryce AC. Toured by Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery to venues in Queensland and New South
Wales, Australia.
2004 A passionate practice; selected works by Jill Kinnear, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Australia.
2002 State Library of Queensland, exhibition of maps in the collection of the James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia.
1999 – 2001 The Ratio of Distance: mapping the landscape in drawings and textiles, solo travelling exhibition toured by Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
to galleries throughout Queensland and Northern New South Wales, including Craft Queensland, Brisbane and Perc Tucker Gallery,
Townsville, Australia.
1985 Jill Kinnear – drawings, blinds and batik, Dundee Repertory Theatre, Scotland.
group –
2023 - 2024 Tartan, V&A Dundee, Scotland.
2020 - 2021 Drawn Threads, Artisan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2017 On the move, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2017 Here, there and everywhere, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
2014 Slavery and Freedom in Savannah, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2013 Mythopoetic: women artists from India and Australia, (with Ann-Maree Reaney), Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2013 Perennials: selected USQ Alumni – the first 40 years, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2009 Mod Squad: Contemporary Design + Objects, Queensland touring exhibition, Australia.
2008 Scotland: A Changing Nation, National Museums Scotland permanent exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2008 - 2010 Momentum: 18th Tamworth Textile Biennial, national touring exhibition, Australia.
2007 Smart works: design and the handmade, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2006 A place in the world, The University of Adelaide Visual Art Prize Exhibition.
2005 Design Excellence in Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2004 Less ordinary legends, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2002 The outback; imagined & experienced, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2001 20th national craft acquisition award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia.
2000 Hutchins art prize, Finalist Exhibition, The Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
1997 Australian Korean textile exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1996 The international exchange exhibition of textile design, Taegu Culture and Arts Centre, South Korea.
1996 Images of Queensland, Woven Image Textile competition exhibition. Exhibition Hall, Brisbane, Australia.
1995 Textile designer, Ipswich Regional Gallery, Australia.
1995 Contemporary furniture and furnishings, Crafts Council of Queensland Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
1995 Talking textiles forum, Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Australia.
1994 Furniture ’94, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia.
1994 Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand.
1992 Contributor to World fashion trade fair, Osaka, Japan.
1980 – 1985 Contributor to joint exhibitions throughout Scotland and UK.
SELECTED MAJOR COMMISSIONS
2006 Gibber desert, jacquard weave upholstery collection for production, collaboration with Loop Textiles, Brisbane.
2005 Spinifex, licensed textile design for Department of Community Services offices in Townsville, Thuringowa and Mt Isa.
2005 Circle of influence, Curators’ Memorial, Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (concept only), Brisbane City Council.
2004 Queensland Health, paintings for six 2-metre long display banners.
2004 Verandah, textile design furnishing collection for 11 Aged Care facilities across Queensland (concept only), Queensland Health.
2003 track, field, trajectory, concepts for feature carpets for refurbishment of QE11 Stadium, Brisbane, Queensland Academy of Sport.
2003 Highgate Hill Park, Brisbane. Collaborative concept for complete landscape design of park, with Darryl Mills, senior landscape architect,
Brisbane City Council.
2003 Coral garden, design for garden, Rocks Riverside Park, Brisbane City Council.
2002-03 Brisbane City Council, Environment and Parks Urban Management. Landscape designs for crop area and playground, Rocks Riverside
Park.
2002 Veil and Memory, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Memorial artworks screen-printed onto 96 individual panes of laminated glass each 2.4 m x
1.5 m of exterior glass curtain wall and Level 3, South East corner of Stadium building.
2002 Foundry, Yeronga TAFE, Brisbane. Design for refectory entrance, screen-printed onto glass.
2002 Nephrolepis cordifolia, entrance gates for Horticultural Facility, Southern Qld Institute of TAFE, Toowoomba.
2001-02 Traversing water, collaboration with Jay Younger for public art concepts for floating walkway section of RiverWalk, Brisbane, Brisbane City
Council.
2001-02 Eclipse, design for suspended metal shade structure for Queen Street Mall (concept only), Brisbane City Council.
2001 Office of State Revenue, 200 Mary Street, Brisbane. Design and production of printed interior textile lengths.
2001 Growth and Rhythm, extensive public artworks for two bus tunnels; Vulture/Stanley Street Tunnel artwork – 104 metres long, Mt Gravatt
Tunnel artwork – 38 metres long with vinyl extensions. Queensland Transport; South East Transit Busway Project, Brisbane.
1999 Department of Justice; Land and Resources Tribunal, Brisbane. Ten visual diary pages.
1998 Kedron Wavell Services Club, Brisbane. Design for feature entrance foyer carpet.
1998 Kedron Wavell Services Club, Brisbane. Artwork for 2 gobo light features.
1997 Surfers Paradise Bowls Club. 20 interior double-sided banners, design and management of project.
1997 Hyundai. Design for conference fabric.
1995 Shangri-la Resort, Fiji, Lagoon Terrace Restaurant. All artwork for 70 individually designed ceramic table tops and buffet counter front
panels.
1995 Australian Resorts; Beachcomber Restaurant, Dunk Island. Design work and production of imagery for 10 ceramic panels for counter area.
1995 Southern skies, design for feature terrazzo floor, Kedron Wavell Services Club, Brisbane.
1994 – 1996 Back2Bay6 Swimwear, Gold Coast. 10 fabric designs, exported to New Zealand and Fiji.
1988 Design and production of interior furnishings for the office of the Chief Ombudsman of Papua New Guinea.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 and 2008 Consultant, curator and facilitator with Beverley Bloxham, Ann-Maree Reaney, Ingrid Steinhardt for Avant Garden, Toowoomba, an
ephemeral public art project with 14 local artists and international artists Christian Bumbarra Thompson, Mona Ryder and Marie Sierra.
2003 Principal curator, (co-curator Ross Searle), researcher, essay writer, for University of Queensland Art Museum’s exhibition kibung; textiles
from graduates of the National Arts School, Papua New Guinea, Customs House Gallery, Brisbane, July 2003.
RESIDENCIES, ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2013 Oral presentation of research and artwork, Architecture of the South, Textile Society of America study tour, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA.
2012 Keynote speaker, with Ann-Maree Reaney: presentation of paper On the road and related artwork, Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand annual symposium, Nelson, New Zealand. Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand annual symposium, Nelson, New Zealand.
2010 Presentation of paper, Diaspora; textiles as paradox, to the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New Orleans, USA.
2008 One week residency, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Included presentation of paper, Contradiction and paradox in the Third Space.
COLLECTIONS
Telfair Museums, Savannah, USA.
Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.
University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
The Australian Forum for Textile Arts,Brisbane.
State Library of Queensland (James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Arts).
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland.
Arts in Fife, Scotland.
SELECTED ARTICLES, REPORTS, PROGRAMMES AND PRACTICE NOTES
2013 Architecture of the South, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 32, Issue 2 , Number 110, May.
2012 Road Trip, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 31, Issue 4, Number 108, Nov-Dec.
2008 Tartan up clans of steel, Rosemary Sorenson in The Australian, Arts, June 19th, p 11.
2004 Extraordinary discretion, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 23, Issue 4, No. 76.
2004 Suncorp Stadium – Veil, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 23, Issue 1, No. 73.
2003 kibung: textiles from graduates of the National Arts School of Papua New Guinea, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 22, Issue 4, No. 72.
2001 Be moved: south east transit busway, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 20, Issue 3, No. 63.
2000 The Ratio of Distance, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 19, Issue 3, No. 59.
1999 Parallel journeys, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 18, Issue 2, No. 55.
1996 Apparel Industry Magazine, July.
1996 Designs on Australia, Hotel Magazine, Vol. 2, October.
1995 The Textile Design Centre of Queensland (with Gordon Stuart, Rae O’Connell, DIA).
1994 Textile design in Queensland (with Gordon Stuart, DIA). Report for DIA.
1993 Textile design – first training programme, Programme for the unemployed.
1989 Textile Fibre Forum, Australia, Vol. 8, Issue 2, No. 25.
1988 Textile Fibre Forum, Australia, Vol. 7, Issue 1, No. 21.
1987 Paradise Magazine, (Air Niugini), Papua New Guinea, No. 65, Nov-Dec.
1985 Interior Design Magazine, UK, October Issue.
1984 Design Magazine, UK, March Issue.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, BOOKS, ESSAYS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
academic papers, artwork and essays in books by other authors:
2012 Textiles: the art of mankind, by Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson, London: my artwork featured on pages 485, 488, 489.
2012 Diaspora: textiles as paradox, my paper published in Creoles, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms, edited by David Gallagher, Academica Press. (Paper originally presented to the American Comparative Literature Association, ACLA Conference 2010, New Orleans, USA.)
2009 Wendi Choulai; textiles in the Third Space, wrote foreword essay for Wendi Choulai, edited by David Tenenbaum, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia.
1998 Produced 100 pen illustrations for Australian Drift Seeds, written by Associate Professor Jeremy Smith, published by the University of New England, Australia.
books (artist and author) –
2001 - The Ratio of Distance; mapping the landscape in drawings and textiles (70-page full-colour book with drawings, textiles and diary text
published by the University of Southern Queensland.
solo exhibition catalogues (artist and author) –
2008 Diaspora: textiles as paradox, 48-page full-colour book with 6,000 word essay.
1999 The Ratio of Distance; mapping the landscape in drawings and textiles, includes essay. (see exhibitions)
catalogues (as principal exhibition curator)
2003 kibung; textiles from graduates of the National Arts School, Papua New Guinea, edited by Ross Searle, published by the University of Queensland. Wrote 3,000-word essay A textile designer on location, and compiled all text, images and information for catalogue.
catalogues (as joint curator and joint editor)
2009 Committed to memory, wrote essay for Avant Garden, edited by Beverley Bloxham, Ann-Maree Reaney and Jill Kinnear, published by Arts
Council of Toowoomba, Australia.
representation within selected group exhibition catalogues –
2013 Perennials: selected USQ Alumni – the first 40 years, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2007 Smart works: design and the handmade,exhibition catalogue, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2001 20th National Craft Acquisition Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1997 Australian Korean Textile Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
1996 The International Exchange Exhibition of Textile Design, Taegu Culture and Arts Centre, South Korea.
1994 Furniture ‘94, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne.
AWARDS
2012 Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2006 Jean Clarice Searle Research Award, University of Southern Queensland.
2005 Design Excellence Award, Queensland Design Awards, Design Institute of Australia.
2005 Award of merit, Public Art Collaboration, Queensland Design Awards, Design Institute of Australia.
2005 – 2008 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship.
2004 Churchill Fellowship.
1996 First Prize, Images of Queensland, textile design competition run by Woven Image.
1995 First Prize, swimwear category, Design FX Awards. Also runner-up, swimwear category.
GRANTS
2012 Arts Queensland, New work (Established) grant, with Ann-Maree Reaney.
2007 Arts Queensland, Development and Presentation grant.
2007 University of Southern Queensland, Research grant.
2006 Australia Council,New Work grant, Visual Arts and Craft Strategy.
2006 University of Southern Queensland, Research grant.
2005 Regional Arts Development Fund, Toowoomba.
2004 Arts Queensland, Project grant.
2001 Arts Queensland,Product Development Grant.
1999 University of Southern Queensland, Research grant.
1999 Sponsorship, Department of Natural Resources, Longreach, Queensland.
1999 Sponsorship, Tourism Queensland.
1998 Regional Arts Development Fund.
1997 Arts Queensland, Creative Development Grant.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Textile Society of America.
Textile Society of the United Kingdom.
Churchill Fellows’ Association of Queensland.
1996 - 2015 International Fellow, Design Institute of Australia.
2005 - 2008 PhD, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
1998 – 2000 Master of Visual Arts (Research), University of Southern Queensland, Australia
1974 – 1979 Bachelor of Arts (Textile Design), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Scotland
POSITIONS HELD
2009 - 2023 Professor of Fibers, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA
1991 - Freelance artist and designer
Numerous workshops in textile design throughout Australia; 5-week workshop tour for New Zealand Craft Council 1994; tutor for McGregor
Summer School, Flying Arts, The Australian Forum for Textile Arts
1999 – 2000 Associate lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
1989 – 1990 Textile Instructor, Mt Gravatt College of TAFE, Brisbane
1986 – 1989 Head of Textile Department, National Arts School, Papua New Guinea
1980 – 1985 Design Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
collaborations –
2013 Road Trip, with Ann-Maree Reaney, three collections of digitally printed textiles, garments and video inspired by the fiction of travel and video footage, documentation from actual journeys by the artists to Morocco, India, and across the USA, Artisan Gallery, Brisbane.
solo –
2008 - 2009 Diaspora: textiles as paradox, solo travelling exhibition of digitally printed textiles, opened at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery by the
Governor of Queensland, Ms Quentin Bryce AC. Toured by Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery to venues in Queensland and New South
Wales, Australia.
2004 A passionate practice; selected works by Jill Kinnear, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Australia.
2002 State Library of Queensland, exhibition of maps in the collection of the James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia.
1999 – 2001 The Ratio of Distance: mapping the landscape in drawings and textiles, solo travelling exhibition toured by Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
to galleries throughout Queensland and Northern New South Wales, including Craft Queensland, Brisbane and Perc Tucker Gallery,
Townsville, Australia.
1985 Jill Kinnear – drawings, blinds and batik, Dundee Repertory Theatre, Scotland.
group –
2023 - 2024 Tartan, V&A Dundee, Scotland.
2020 - 2021 Drawn Threads, Artisan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2017 On the move, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2017 Here, there and everywhere, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
2014 Slavery and Freedom in Savannah, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2013 Mythopoetic: women artists from India and Australia, (with Ann-Maree Reaney), Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2013 Perennials: selected USQ Alumni – the first 40 years, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2009 Mod Squad: Contemporary Design + Objects, Queensland touring exhibition, Australia.
2008 Scotland: A Changing Nation, National Museums Scotland permanent exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2008 - 2010 Momentum: 18th Tamworth Textile Biennial, national touring exhibition, Australia.
2007 Smart works: design and the handmade, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2006 A place in the world, The University of Adelaide Visual Art Prize Exhibition.
2005 Design Excellence in Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2004 Less ordinary legends, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2002 The outback; imagined & experienced, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2001 20th national craft acquisition award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia.
2000 Hutchins art prize, Finalist Exhibition, The Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
1997 Australian Korean textile exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1996 The international exchange exhibition of textile design, Taegu Culture and Arts Centre, South Korea.
1996 Images of Queensland, Woven Image Textile competition exhibition. Exhibition Hall, Brisbane, Australia.
1995 Textile designer, Ipswich Regional Gallery, Australia.
1995 Contemporary furniture and furnishings, Crafts Council of Queensland Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
1995 Talking textiles forum, Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Australia.
1994 Furniture ’94, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia.
1994 Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand.
1992 Contributor to World fashion trade fair, Osaka, Japan.
1980 – 1985 Contributor to joint exhibitions throughout Scotland and UK.
SELECTED MAJOR COMMISSIONS
2006 Gibber desert, jacquard weave upholstery collection for production, collaboration with Loop Textiles, Brisbane.
2005 Spinifex, licensed textile design for Department of Community Services offices in Townsville, Thuringowa and Mt Isa.
2005 Circle of influence, Curators’ Memorial, Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (concept only), Brisbane City Council.
2004 Queensland Health, paintings for six 2-metre long display banners.
2004 Verandah, textile design furnishing collection for 11 Aged Care facilities across Queensland (concept only), Queensland Health.
2003 track, field, trajectory, concepts for feature carpets for refurbishment of QE11 Stadium, Brisbane, Queensland Academy of Sport.
2003 Highgate Hill Park, Brisbane. Collaborative concept for complete landscape design of park, with Darryl Mills, senior landscape architect,
Brisbane City Council.
2003 Coral garden, design for garden, Rocks Riverside Park, Brisbane City Council.
2002-03 Brisbane City Council, Environment and Parks Urban Management. Landscape designs for crop area and playground, Rocks Riverside
Park.
2002 Veil and Memory, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Memorial artworks screen-printed onto 96 individual panes of laminated glass each 2.4 m x
1.5 m of exterior glass curtain wall and Level 3, South East corner of Stadium building.
2002 Foundry, Yeronga TAFE, Brisbane. Design for refectory entrance, screen-printed onto glass.
2002 Nephrolepis cordifolia, entrance gates for Horticultural Facility, Southern Qld Institute of TAFE, Toowoomba.
2001-02 Traversing water, collaboration with Jay Younger for public art concepts for floating walkway section of RiverWalk, Brisbane, Brisbane City
Council.
2001-02 Eclipse, design for suspended metal shade structure for Queen Street Mall (concept only), Brisbane City Council.
2001 Office of State Revenue, 200 Mary Street, Brisbane. Design and production of printed interior textile lengths.
2001 Growth and Rhythm, extensive public artworks for two bus tunnels; Vulture/Stanley Street Tunnel artwork – 104 metres long, Mt Gravatt
Tunnel artwork – 38 metres long with vinyl extensions. Queensland Transport; South East Transit Busway Project, Brisbane.
1999 Department of Justice; Land and Resources Tribunal, Brisbane. Ten visual diary pages.
1998 Kedron Wavell Services Club, Brisbane. Design for feature entrance foyer carpet.
1998 Kedron Wavell Services Club, Brisbane. Artwork for 2 gobo light features.
1997 Surfers Paradise Bowls Club. 20 interior double-sided banners, design and management of project.
1997 Hyundai. Design for conference fabric.
1995 Shangri-la Resort, Fiji, Lagoon Terrace Restaurant. All artwork for 70 individually designed ceramic table tops and buffet counter front
panels.
1995 Australian Resorts; Beachcomber Restaurant, Dunk Island. Design work and production of imagery for 10 ceramic panels for counter area.
1995 Southern skies, design for feature terrazzo floor, Kedron Wavell Services Club, Brisbane.
1994 – 1996 Back2Bay6 Swimwear, Gold Coast. 10 fabric designs, exported to New Zealand and Fiji.
1988 Design and production of interior furnishings for the office of the Chief Ombudsman of Papua New Guinea.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 and 2008 Consultant, curator and facilitator with Beverley Bloxham, Ann-Maree Reaney, Ingrid Steinhardt for Avant Garden, Toowoomba, an
ephemeral public art project with 14 local artists and international artists Christian Bumbarra Thompson, Mona Ryder and Marie Sierra.
2003 Principal curator, (co-curator Ross Searle), researcher, essay writer, for University of Queensland Art Museum’s exhibition kibung; textiles
from graduates of the National Arts School, Papua New Guinea, Customs House Gallery, Brisbane, July 2003.
RESIDENCIES, ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2013 Oral presentation of research and artwork, Architecture of the South, Textile Society of America study tour, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA.
2012 Keynote speaker, with Ann-Maree Reaney: presentation of paper On the road and related artwork, Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand annual symposium, Nelson, New Zealand. Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand annual symposium, Nelson, New Zealand.
2010 Presentation of paper, Diaspora; textiles as paradox, to the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New Orleans, USA.
2008 One week residency, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Included presentation of paper, Contradiction and paradox in the Third Space.
COLLECTIONS
Telfair Museums, Savannah, USA.
Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.
University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
The Australian Forum for Textile Arts,Brisbane.
State Library of Queensland (James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Arts).
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland.
Arts in Fife, Scotland.
SELECTED ARTICLES, REPORTS, PROGRAMMES AND PRACTICE NOTES
2013 Architecture of the South, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 32, Issue 2 , Number 110, May.
2012 Road Trip, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 31, Issue 4, Number 108, Nov-Dec.
2008 Tartan up clans of steel, Rosemary Sorenson in The Australian, Arts, June 19th, p 11.
2004 Extraordinary discretion, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 23, Issue 4, No. 76.
2004 Suncorp Stadium – Veil, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 23, Issue 1, No. 73.
2003 kibung: textiles from graduates of the National Arts School of Papua New Guinea, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 22, Issue 4, No. 72.
2001 Be moved: south east transit busway, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 20, Issue 3, No. 63.
2000 The Ratio of Distance, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 19, Issue 3, No. 59.
1999 Parallel journeys, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 18, Issue 2, No. 55.
1996 Apparel Industry Magazine, July.
1996 Designs on Australia, Hotel Magazine, Vol. 2, October.
1995 The Textile Design Centre of Queensland (with Gordon Stuart, Rae O’Connell, DIA).
1994 Textile design in Queensland (with Gordon Stuart, DIA). Report for DIA.
1993 Textile design – first training programme, Programme for the unemployed.
1989 Textile Fibre Forum, Australia, Vol. 8, Issue 2, No. 25.
1988 Textile Fibre Forum, Australia, Vol. 7, Issue 1, No. 21.
1987 Paradise Magazine, (Air Niugini), Papua New Guinea, No. 65, Nov-Dec.
1985 Interior Design Magazine, UK, October Issue.
1984 Design Magazine, UK, March Issue.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, BOOKS, ESSAYS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
academic papers, artwork and essays in books by other authors:
2012 Textiles: the art of mankind, by Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson, London: my artwork featured on pages 485, 488, 489.
2012 Diaspora: textiles as paradox, my paper published in Creoles, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms, edited by David Gallagher, Academica Press. (Paper originally presented to the American Comparative Literature Association, ACLA Conference 2010, New Orleans, USA.)
2009 Wendi Choulai; textiles in the Third Space, wrote foreword essay for Wendi Choulai, edited by David Tenenbaum, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia.
1998 Produced 100 pen illustrations for Australian Drift Seeds, written by Associate Professor Jeremy Smith, published by the University of New England, Australia.
books (artist and author) –
2001 - The Ratio of Distance; mapping the landscape in drawings and textiles (70-page full-colour book with drawings, textiles and diary text
published by the University of Southern Queensland.
solo exhibition catalogues (artist and author) –
2008 Diaspora: textiles as paradox, 48-page full-colour book with 6,000 word essay.
1999 The Ratio of Distance; mapping the landscape in drawings and textiles, includes essay. (see exhibitions)
catalogues (as principal exhibition curator)
2003 kibung; textiles from graduates of the National Arts School, Papua New Guinea, edited by Ross Searle, published by the University of Queensland. Wrote 3,000-word essay A textile designer on location, and compiled all text, images and information for catalogue.
catalogues (as joint curator and joint editor)
2009 Committed to memory, wrote essay for Avant Garden, edited by Beverley Bloxham, Ann-Maree Reaney and Jill Kinnear, published by Arts
Council of Toowoomba, Australia.
representation within selected group exhibition catalogues –
2013 Perennials: selected USQ Alumni – the first 40 years, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
2007 Smart works: design and the handmade,exhibition catalogue, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2001 20th National Craft Acquisition Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1997 Australian Korean Textile Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
1996 The International Exchange Exhibition of Textile Design, Taegu Culture and Arts Centre, South Korea.
1994 Furniture ‘94, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne.
AWARDS
2012 Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
2006 Jean Clarice Searle Research Award, University of Southern Queensland.
2005 Design Excellence Award, Queensland Design Awards, Design Institute of Australia.
2005 Award of merit, Public Art Collaboration, Queensland Design Awards, Design Institute of Australia.
2005 – 2008 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship.
2004 Churchill Fellowship.
1996 First Prize, Images of Queensland, textile design competition run by Woven Image.
1995 First Prize, swimwear category, Design FX Awards. Also runner-up, swimwear category.
GRANTS
2012 Arts Queensland, New work (Established) grant, with Ann-Maree Reaney.
2007 Arts Queensland, Development and Presentation grant.
2007 University of Southern Queensland, Research grant.
2006 Australia Council,New Work grant, Visual Arts and Craft Strategy.
2006 University of Southern Queensland, Research grant.
2005 Regional Arts Development Fund, Toowoomba.
2004 Arts Queensland, Project grant.
2001 Arts Queensland,Product Development Grant.
1999 University of Southern Queensland, Research grant.
1999 Sponsorship, Department of Natural Resources, Longreach, Queensland.
1999 Sponsorship, Tourism Queensland.
1998 Regional Arts Development Fund.
1997 Arts Queensland, Creative Development Grant.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Textile Society of America.
Textile Society of the United Kingdom.
Churchill Fellows’ Association of Queensland.
1996 - 2015 International Fellow, Design Institute of Australia.
