Exhibitions

2024 Networks group exhibition: Macleay Valley Exhibition

2023 Networks Group exhibition: Australia Artists at Work.

2023 ACT Craft and Design - Exuberance- An Embroiderers Perspective, Curated by Carol Cooke and Sharon Peoples. The book was launched at the exhibition.

2023 The Chute- M!6 Arts Space Judge Me By My Cover

2022; Hanging by A Thread ACTTAA Group exhibition

2021 September M16 ArtSpace The Chute - A solo exhibition in (one of ) the tiniest galleries in Australia - A response to the poem below;

We are just shoots, reaching through the darkness to flower in the light. by Philip Snellen

Timed to coincide with Floriade Canberra.

2021 February Adelaide Perry Prize Finalist- Drawing Prize Finalist

2020 November M16 ArtSpace Drawing Prize 2020 Finalist

2020 November Canberra Design Festival Solo Exhibition Open studio/garden exhibition “Floribunda”

2020 September “Textile with a Twist’ ACT Textiles Art Association Queanbeyan Art Gallery , NSW

2020 September @covid19quilt Online global quilt project, a narration and shared experience of Covid19 via craft. Dr Tal Fitpatrick &Kate Just

2020 August 'Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Farm, Tasmania. ‘Stitched On’- ‘The Shape of Things to Come', a reflection on the future

2019 November Canberra Design Festival Open studio/garden exhibition

2019 September FibreArts Australia residency and sculpture exhibition

2019 September Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist. ‘Interconnected’ was a 3 Dimensional textile and embroidered sculpture. After decades apart in separate continents my twin brother and I are now a suburb away. A poem written by my brother responds to our re-connection and shared childhood memories. Our memories are as different as ying and yang, black and white. Our shared memories emerge together like flowers in the spring, interconnected.

2019 August The Icelandic Textile Centre Residency

2018 October, RedLine Gallery, Denver One Square Foot Exhibition

2018 October, Strathnairn Gallery Canberra, Bird Watching (sightings guaranteed) Observational drawings and hand embroideries of local birds, found feathers and forest debris. My hand embroideries, watercolors and multimedia works demonstrate the birds’ similarity to us in daily life. This series consists of 52 small works, one done every week during 2017/18. Some are a character assassination, while others show the strength and lightness, the ugly and beautiful characters of our local birds.

2017 June, Tuggeranong Art Centre, 'Bird Life' is a curated group exhibition exploring the human connection to birds, and how they capture our imagination.

2017 June, ANCA, 'PIN 7', Wearable artwork featuring artists working across Australia

2016 May, ANU Foyer Gallery, Artists Books, a collaboration.

2016 March, M16 –‘ Red' is a collaborative exhibition by Carol Cooke, Victoria Cotton, Jane Keany and Maryann Mussared, all of whom are members of the Canberra-based art group Continuing Momentum. The exhibition is centred around the repurposing of found objects; the colour red and transforming ordinary observations in Canberra.

2016 September , Belconnen Art Gallery, 'Traces.' As we journey through life, we leave traces of where we have been. We all have a connection to a place, a story or memory. Artists were invited to respond to the theme of: speaking of our sense of place; our connection to it; the stories and memories we have gathered.

2016 November ANU Graduation Show, Textiles. The culmination of years of study in art practice, as well as art history and art theory, the Graduating Exhibition represents the successful resolution of thought processes, skills and making, working in and across disciplines. 4 series of work were displayed including Emotion of Red, an investigation into domestic violence, Fix My Footpath, Busy as a Bee, social comment on political correctness gone overboard, and a cross stitch series of social comment on political sexism.

2015 March, Maldon 3D Walk, Victoria, A consortium of the highly talented artists has created the MALDON ARTS WALK, a town-wide art exhibition. A large free style crocheted wagga rug was designed to be the centre piece in a retail shop selling elaborate and colourful shoes.

2015 July National Australian University, SOA Gallery 'Random' is an annual celebration of art, curated by Frank Maconochie

2015 July Belconnen Art Gallery, 'Hidden Treasures', a collaboration for artist to draw on the idea of unsung personal treasures, tangible and intangible. Recycled, painted glass sculpture was the answer to this callout.

2014 March Solo Exhibition Buzz Cafe, Canberra An eclectic collection of paintings and drawings.

2014 July National Australian University, SOA Gallery "Random' is a celebration of art, curated by Frank Maconochie