Resume

Exhibitions and Awards

2023 Awarded the Small Sculpture Prize, Newstead, Victoria

2021  Awarded Australian Fibre Art Award, NSW

2019  Finalist in Petite exhibition, Wangaratta , Victoria

2018 Finalist in Textile Awards, Wangaratta, Victoria
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2017 3rd prize Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand

​2015 Awarded first prize, 'Friendship Lost and Found', crosspollination, Colac, Victoria

2014 Finalist in Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand

2013 Selected exhibition, Miniatures Poland

2013 Awarded 3rd prize, Selected exhibition, Filzrausch, Gottingen,
Germany

2012 Invited exhib. Museum Natural DyeArts, Daega, Korea   

2012 Finalist in Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand

2011 Finalist in Australian Wool Fashion Awards, Sydney

2011 Finalist in Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand

2011 Awarded the Beechworth Texile Award

2011 Invited touring exhibition ‘Hands of Korea’,
MOCFA Museum, San Fransisco USA

2010 Group exhibition ‘Five Australian Artists’,
Heyri Artists Village, Korea

2008 Solo exhibition, Gana Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2008 Shortlisted/exhibited in Ula Cohn Sculpture Prize

2006 Sculpture Installation, Fracture Gallery, 
National Gallery Victoria, for Craft Victoria

2004 Solo exhibition, Ranfurlie Gallery, Melbourne

2000 Commission ‘Celebrating Federation’, EGV

1990 First Prize n Mornington Peninsula Craft Event

2011 Awarded the Beechworth Texile Award

Group exhibitions in Australia

Carrick Hills Gallery, South Australia

National Wool Museum, ‘Running Stitch’

Metro Craft Centre, Melbourne

Immigration Museum, Melbourne ‘Journeys’

Lumina Gallery, Melbourne

Linden Gallery, ‘Postcard Exhibition’ VIC

Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD

Old Schoolhouse Gallery, Beechworth VIC

Wangaratta Gallery, Petite and Textile Award

TAMA regional Gallery, Ararat, Vic

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Books and Publications

'From Felt to Fabric'  written by Catherine O'Leary was published by Lark Books in 2011

out of print currently

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Represented in Textile art around the World by Ellen Bakker, 2014

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Represented in
‘A sense of Place, Contemporary Needlework’
 by Jerry Rogers, Harper/Collins 1992

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Contributing artist and mentor, 'Felt'
by Robyn Steel-Strickland Penguin Books

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Included in 'Textiles'
by Mary Schoeser, Thames/Hudson 2012

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Represented in ‘500 Felt Objects’,
Lark Books 2011

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Represented in ‘500 Tables’,
Lark Books 2009

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Represented in ‘Fabulous Felted Scarves’ C A Hagan and Jorie Johnson,
Lark Books 2009

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Featured in Australian and International textile magazines

Ver Filzt Und Zuge Naht , 2014

Felt Fashion, (Russian) 2014

Textiles Down Under, issue 13, 2013

Felt (Austalia) 2013

Get Creative 2011

Art Price 11 vol.61 2008 (Korean)

Textile vol.21 issue 4, no.68 2002

Textile no. 64 2001

Textile vol.18 issue 1, no.44 1999

Craft Arts International no.21, March/June 1991

Art Price 11 vol.61 2008 (Korean)

Textile vol.21 issue 4, no.68 2002

Textile no. 64 2001

Textile vol.18 issue 1, no.44 1999

Craft Arts International no.21, March/June 1991