1964               Born Auckland, arrived Australia 1973
1990               Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong

Recent Solo Exhibitions
2006, 08, 10  Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2010               No Country for Dreaming, Wollongong City Gallery
2009-10         Michael Reid at Murrurundi
2009, 10         Clifton School of Arts
2001 - 05       Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2002, 03         Dickerson Gallery Melbourne
2000               Queen St Fine Art, Sydney
1997               Gallery 482, Brisbane
1996               Project, Wollongong
1989, 90         DC Art, Sydney
1988               Galaxy Gallery, Balmain

Group  Exhibitions

2011               BIG/small Rex Irwin Art Dealer,
2009               Heads, Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2008               Food for thought, NG Gallery, Chippendale
2007               The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2007               Land, Sea, Sky, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2007 - 08       Cuisine and country, touring exhibition of regional art galleries
2006               The idea of the animal, RMIT
1990-2008     Important works on paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

Selected Prizes

2010               Paddington Landscape Prize (winner)
                        Murrurundi Prize  (winner)
2009               King’s School Art Prize
                        Fischer’s Ghost Prize, Campbelltown Regional Gallery
                        Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2008               Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, NSW
2008               Bowral Sculpture Prize, NSW
2008               NSW Parliament Plein Air Landscape Prize, Sydney
2007               Paddington Landscape Prize, NSW
2002, 03, 07, 09   Tattersall’s Club Prize, Brisbane
2004, 2006 (Winner), 2008   Fleurieu Prize (Food), South Australia
1993, 2002, 04 - 2010       Archibald Prize, AGNSW
2006, 07, 09         Wynne Prize,   AGNSW
1989, 2005, 06, 09   Sulman Prize,   AGNSW
2003, 04, 05, 07 Mosman Prize,  Mosman Regional Gallery
2003 - 06       Art on the Rocks, Sydney
2003               John Copes Prize, Bowral, (Winner)
                       St Marys Prize, Wollongong, (Winner)
                       Shirley Hannon Portrait Prize, Bega
2004               Northern Exposure Prize,  Thirroul, (Winner)
                        Mt Kembla Prize, Mt Kembla (Winner)
                       Fleurieu Prize, Mclaren Vale, SA, (Shortlisted)
                        Heysen Prize, Hahndorf, SA
2001, 03         Salon de Refuses, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2002               Mornington Peninsular Works On Paper Prize, Vic.
                       Norvill Landscape Prize, Murrurundi, NSW (Highly Commended)
                       Thirroul Prize, Wollongong, NSW, (Winner)

Collections

University of Wollongong Collection
Artbank