The experience of living in three different continents and cultures for most of my adult life has had a profound affect on the way I see the world. I left for Sydney, Australia almost immediately after graduating with a BFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Originally I had planned to stay one year, but partly due to my attraction to the extraordinary landscape of the Australian desert, I ended up staying six years. The severity and seeming emptiness of the desert landscape was a challenge to photograph. The topography has none of the picturesque elements that one associates with landscape imagery. In the end, I realized that the choice of subject matter is only part of the game, and that like a surveyor, photographing is an orienting activity.

The act of photographing is discovering a series of relationships between you and the world. I love exploring the photographic frame as a process of inclusion and exclusion. It is also fascinating to see how editing a collection of photographs for an exhibition or book brings another kind of depth to a single image. During my sixteen years in England I photographed other subjects such as tabletops, clouds, light bulbs, and windows, using some of the strategies that I employed in Australia. Some of these situations and strategies continue to be of interest since I moved to the United States.

I have had the good fortune to work in several art schools, and the perspective gained from this is central to my interaction with students. For example, it was exciting to be part of the development of a new art school in Sydney. The exposure to a variety of teaching structures both here and abroad has given me a chance to observe how different programs handle the relationship between practice and theory. I continue to value the infinite number of responses that students bring to the classroom and how this impacts my own speculations as an artist and teacher.

Education

1992

• MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, London.

1974

• BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Selected Exhibitions

2004

• Lightheaded, Centro de Arte, S. João de Madeira, Portugal.

2003

• Lightheaded, Galeria Imagolucis, Porto, Portugal.

1999

• Split Second, National Railway Museum, York, UK.

1998

• Interior Light, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK.
• Split Second, The Arbor and Industrial Museum, Derby, UK.

1997

• Interior Light, Impressions Gallery, York and Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
• Corporation House, The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library and Design Works, Gateshead, UK.

1996

• Corporation House, Montage Gallery, Derby and Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK.

1994

• 1:1, The Beguinage, Kortrijk, Belgium and Camerawork, London, UK.

1993

• 1:1 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

1992

• 1:1 Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK.

1991

• Furniture Fictions, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Tour of Nottinghamshire venues and Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK.
• Works on Paper 1986-1990, Peterborough, UK.

1990

• Horizons, Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK.

1988

• A Grove of Four Trees, Picture House, Leicester, UK.

1981

• Horizons, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

1979

• Places/Spaces, Sculpture Centre, Sydney and Old Brewery Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Group Exhibitions

2004

• Inward Gazes, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Maryland, USA.
• Faces and Lightheaded, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

2003

• Faces and Lightheaded, Gallery 1101, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.

2002

• Faces and Lightheaded, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA.
• Art on Paper 2002, Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

2001

• A Vindication of Tlon, Photosynkyria 2001, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Transpositions, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

2000

• For Yours Eyes Only, University of Essex Gallery, Essex, UK.

1999

• What is this thing called photography? Australian Photography 1975-1985, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

1998

• The Shape of Light, EICH Gallery, Hull, UK.
• Corporation House, Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire, UK.

1997

• Export, University of the Southern Cross, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.
• Inside the Visible, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.

1996

• Inside the Visible, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Into the void, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

1995

• Enlightenment, Photographers' Gallery, London, UK.
• Viewfindings Women Photographers: 'Landscape' and Environment, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford and Zone Gallery, Newcastle, UK.

1994

• Viewfindings Women Photographers: 'Landscape' and Environment, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance and Watershed, Bristol, UK.
• Blue Dreams, Montage Gallery, Derby, UK.
• An International Fusion of Photo Technology and Art, Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe, UK.

1992

• How Did These Children Come To Be Like That, Goldsmiths' Gallery, London, UK.

1991

• Beyond Landscape, Derby Photography Festival, Derby, UK.

1990

• Six Alternatives, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK.

1989

• Tricks and Transformations, Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK.
• The 1989 Leicestershire Exhibition, Beaumanor Hall, Leicester, UK.
• Six Alternatives, Metro Cinema, Derby and Picture House, Leicester, UK.
• Image and Imagination, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, UK.

1988

• Ironworks 88, Santa Fe Center for Photography, New Mexico, USA.
• Women's Photography at Focal Point, Focal Point Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

1987

• Positions, Impressions Gallery, York, UK.
• Circling Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK.

1986

• Australian Landscape Photographed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

1984

• Reconstructed Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

1981

• Some Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

1980

• Frames of Reference, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

1978

• Six Series, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
• 8 x 10, United Nations Building, New York City, New York, USA.

1977

• The Money Show, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• The Women's Show, Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia.

1975

• The Bus Show, a show of American imagery displayed on New York City buses, USA.

Collaborations

2005

• Trespass, spare room, Baltimore, Maryland 21211.

Shows Curated

1998

• The Shape of Light, EICH Gallery, Hull, UK.

Collections

• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Arts Council of England
• Australian National Gallery, Canberra
• Department of Education and Science, London
• Evershed Solicitors
• Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Serco Railtest Limited
• Visual Arts Board, Australia Council of the Arts, Sydney
• Private Collections

Awards & Recognition

2002

• Honorable Mention, Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of the Art.

2001

• Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute, College of Art.

1998

• "meeting the challenge" Regional Commission sponsored by Serco Railtest Limited.

1995

• First Prize, Photographers' Gallery Annual Open Exhibition; Bursary, East Midlands Arts.

1994

• Commission, Middlesbrough Art Gallery.

1991

• Commission, Derby Photography Festival.

1989

• Major Art Award, East Midlands Arts.

1981

• Fellowship, Indiana University Photography Department, Bloomington.

1978

• Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia.

1975

• Honorable Mention in the 11th Annual Photographic Competition in Mademoiselle Magazine.

1974

• Ida Haskell Foreign Traveling Grant, Pratt Institute.

Publications

1997

• Interior Light, Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport.

1996

• Corporation House, Middlesbrough Art Gallery.

1993

• 1:1, Angel Row Gallery in collaboration with Camerawork and the University of Derby.

1989

• Furniture Fictions, Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester.

Anthologies

1996

• Liz Heron and Val Williams, editors: Illuminations, IB Tauris and Co, London.
• Catherine de Zegher, editor: Inside the Visible, MIT Press.

1994

• Liz Wells, editor: Viewfindings, West Country Books.

1988

• Meaghan Morris, The Pirate's Fiancée, Verso, London.

Catalogues

2003

• Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1989-2002, Hayward Gallery Lightheaded, Galeria Imagolucis, Porto.

2001

• A Vindication of Tlon: Photography and the Fantastic, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.

1998

• Split Second, Montage Gallery.

1994

• Signals: Festival of Women Photographers, Arts Council of England, et al.

1986

• Australian Landscape Photographed, National Gallery of Victoria.

1984

• The Centre: Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of South Australia.

1981

• Frames of Reference: Australian Tour 1981-1982, Ewing and George Paton Gallery.
• Horizons and Beyond, National Gallery of Victoria.
• Some Recent Acquisitions 1979-1981, National Gallery of Victoria.

1978

• Six Series, National Gallery of Victoria.

Published Photographs

2003

• The William and Mary Review, pp7, 29 and 69

2001

• parallax, Issue 21, Front Cover

1997

• Portfolio, Number 25, pp34-37
• contemporary visual arts, Issue 14, p91

1995

• British Journal of Photography, Number 7036, 2 August, p5
• The Times Magazine, 29 July, p31

1994

• [ruimte], Numbers 3 and 4, Front Cover
• Portfolio, Number 20, pp28-33
• Versus, Number 3, Back Cover
• Artists Newsletter, October, p17
• "Middlesbrough Sunset: Moonrise", Card, Published by Middlesbrough Art Gallery

1992

• Camera Austria, Number 38, pp58-59
• The Women Artists Diary 1992, The Women's Press

1989

• Creative Camera, Number 4, pp10-13

1983

• Photofile, Autumn, p1

1982

• Art & Text, Number 6, pp61-73

Teaching Experience

1999-present

• Photography Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA.

1984-1999

• Photography Faculty, University of Derby, Hull School of Art and Design, and Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

1976-1981

• Photography Faculty, Sydney College of the Arts and City Art Institute, Sydney, Australia.