2005: Recipient of Asialink Arts Residency - Sri Lanka.

Exhibition Flora Tasmanica. Original artwork exhibited with Limited addition Southern Ice Porcelain. Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania. Opened by HRH Crown Princess of Denmark.

2004: Winner of the inaugural Margaret Flockton Award. A national prize for excellence in botanical illustration. Exhibited at Red Box Gallery, Sydney Herbarium. Celia Rosser - final judge and presented award.

Solo exhibition Flowers Fronds and Foliage RTBG. Part of Tasmania's Bicentenary celebrations and the 2004 Mountain Festival. Featured original pencil drawings of Tasmania's riverbank flora, as well as historical specimens from the state Herbarium, TMAG.

Completed a collection of botanical pencil drawings for the Rivercare Unit, Department of Primary industries water and the Environment. The drawings will feature in the publication: Tasmanian Streambank Plants, to be published in 2004.

Elected to the Executive Board of the Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania.

2002 - 2004: Commission Flora Tasmanica Southern Ice Porcelain. Collaboration with Les Blakebrough - Master Potter. Six botanical watercolours of plants endemic to Tasmania are featured on Southern Ice Porcelain collector's plates and released as limited edition. Gift to HRH Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark.

2003: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery: Guest Curator for international botanical art exhibition The Nature of Islands: contemporary botanical artworks from islands around the world (to be featured in the Ten Days on the Island festival).

2002: Circling the Flower Arts Tasmania grant to produce six botanical watercolors of plants endemic to Tasmania. A project that draws on the early botanical history of Tasmania through contemporary botanical art.

Solo Exhibition: State Library of Tasmania – Tasmaniana Library – Exhibited current collection of endangered endemic flora along side botanical treasures from the Tasmaniana Library.

2000-2002: Teaching private Botanical Illustration Classes at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.

Group Exhibitions: Loft Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre.

2000: Volunteer botanical artist in residence at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. General public able to view works in progress as well as a hanging display.

Commission: Six pen and ink lichens for Dr. Gintaris Kantvilas. Tasmanian Herbarium

Working Display: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in conjunction with Margaret Stones illustrations from The Endemic Flora of Tasmania.

Group Exhibition: Celebrate Botanica, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.

1999: Commissioned to illustrate pen and ink drawings of native flora for Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania.

Commenced work on illustrating a selection of Tasmania’s endangered endemic flora.

1998: Solo exhibition: The Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne, Victoria. Exhibited pen and ink drawings of herbaceous plants and recent works in watercolour and pencil.

1997: Group exhibition of botanical art. Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham, Victoria.

Commissioned to illustrate twenty-one pen and ink drawings for Women hormones and the Menstrual Cycle: Ruth Tricky, Published by Allen and Unwin.

1996/1998/2000/2002: Works submitted and chosen to exhibit in The Art of Botanical Illustration, Melbourne, Victoria. This biennial exhibition receives national recognition, attracting Australia’s finest botanical artists.

1995- 1996: Studies in botanical art with Jenny Phillips at The Botanical Art School of Melbourne. Jenny conducts master classes in Australia and internationally. She is Honoury Director of the American Society of Botanical artists.

1990-1993: Diploma of Music, Performance. Victorian College of the Arts.

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