PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES
• 2016 – “Into The Void: A Studio Investigation Exploring the Experience of Vision Loss Through Visual Art”. Doctoral Thesis.
• 2011 – “Landscape and Desire: A Studio Project Exploring Place, Identity And Cultural Locations”. Masters by Research Thesis.
• 2014 – The 11th International Conference on Low Vision, Vision 2014, Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, April 2014
Guest Speaker– Plenary Session: (31 March 2014)
“What It Means to Live with Low Vision”
• 2014 – The 11th International Conference on Low Vision, Vision 2014, Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, April 2014
Presentation Paper: (1 April 2014)
“No Black Spot; Exploring the visual field loss of macular dystrophy through contemporary art – an artist’s eyewitness account”
• 2014 – The 6th International Annual Arts and Health Conference 2014, National Gallery Of Victoria, November 2014
Presentation Paper: (12 November 2014 NGV International)
“Exploring the experience of vision loss through visual art; an artist’s eye witness account”
(Winner, Arts and Education Research Award)
http://www.artsandhealth.org.au
• 2014 – Brian Holden Vision Institute
Publication to Global Optometry Resources: (September 2014)
“Low Vision: A Patient’s Perspective”, Online Education Resource
http://education.brienholdenvision.org
• 2013 – School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Seminar Series 2013, University of Melbourne
Presentation Paper
“Into the Void: Exploring the Experience of Blindness Through Visual Art”
http://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/1380591/AN_Seminar_Flyer_-_Mar-Apr.pdf
• 2012 – Southern Regional Optometry Conference 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Docklands Melbourne
Presentation Paper
“Losing Sight, Gaining Vision – The experience of Vision Loss”
http://www.optometrists.asn.au/vic/professional-development-events/src.aspx
AWARDS & GRANTS
• 2014 – Arts and Health Australia Awards for Excellence,
Excellence Award Arts and Health Research
• 2012 – Australian Postgraduate Scholarship Award
• 2012 – Pierce Armstrong Foundation Research Grant
http://www.piercearmstrong.org.au
EXHIBITIONS/COMMISSIONS
2016 – PhD Exhibition, Founders Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank, Melbourne
2012 – Current, Artwork provided as part of research output to Centre for Eye Research Australia, Lions Club patient information publications, and the National Stem Cell Foundation Press Release 2013)
2012 – Macular Dystrophy through Visual Art, A Patient’s Perspective, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, (solo) Works on permanent display
2012 – Macular Dystrophy through Visual Art, A Patient’s Perspective, Victorian Artist’s Society (solo)
2012 – Losing Sight, Gaining Vision, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Docklands (solo)
2012 – Landscape and Desire, Purgatory Artspace (Gallery Smith) Melbourne (solo)
2011 – Szülőfőld (Homeland), Hungarian Cultural Centre, Melbourne (solo)
2011 – Landscape and Desire, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
2011 – Landscape and Desire, Masters Exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Churchill, Victoria (solo)
2010 – Blake Prize Directors Cut Exhibition (Blake Prize Website)
2009 – Exhibitor, BSG Works on Paper Exhibition, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2007 – Exhibitor, Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Show, University of Melbourne
2007 – Exhibitor, ANZ Art Awards, Victorian College of the Arts, South Bank, Melbourne
2006 – Exhibitor, Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Show, University of Melbourne
2006 – Contributor, Australian Artist Magazine, “Not So Still Life”, Oil painting demonstration, photography and text, page 26 – 31. November 2006 Edition, Vol. 269
2006 – Exhibitor, Linden Postcard Show 2006, St Kilda, Melbourne
2000 – Large Print Calendar, Vision Australia
ART AWARDS
2010 – Blake Prize Directors Cut Finalist
2009 – Finalist, BSG Works on Paper Competition 2010, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2007 – Finalist, ANZ Art Awards, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2005 – Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Deans Art Encouragement Awards