2023>

Tui Media, Turning the Tides, video shoot NIWA for RNZ wellington. Projection mapping for visual backdrop, art department visual set extension.

2023>

Adrenaline Group: Island of Mystery: Matariki Special . 3d Surface Artist and creative input for characters and the 9 Pou of Matariki. Software, Maya, Blender, Photoshop.

2023>

Master of Fine Arts, First Class Honours, Massey University. Final research and exegesis: The Thin Veneer. Through my creative research I investigated notions of what constitutes real when it is subverted by a pixelated permeable boundary, the hyper real, where the physical and virtual touch. Final exhibiton art installation utilising film, sound and projection mapping, a colliding virtuality, by calibrating the notions of materiality and the immaterial , the observer on the threshold of a liminal blurred state between the two.

2019>

BFA with Honours in Fine Arts, Massey University. Final research and thesis: The Post Digital Artefact-forming the unformable. Final exhibition art installation utilizing object, sound and projection mapping, representing a 3D monolithic ocean sculpture in a compressed moment of time.

2014 - 2019>

Full time practising artist at Bayveiw Studios, working within the disciplines of oil painting, drawing and sculpture.

2018>

NZ Academy of Fine arts Solo exhibiton.

2013>

Miramar Peninsula Artists Trail. Series Reverie. Bayview Studios, Shelly Bay. NZ Art Show General Exhibitor. Series Reverie.

2013-2018>

NZ Art Show Exhibitor. Helped Curate and hang works with Lynne Sandri.

Charity painting for The Journey. www.the-journey.org.nz

2011>

Unscripted Exhibition. Art Presentation of the Individual Film Technician.

2010-2012>

Freelance 3D Surface Artist.

2006-2009>

WETA DIGITAL

Senior Texture Artist. Creating Creature, Plant and Enviroment textures for James Camerons Avatar. Position involves creating both procedural and hand painted texture maps, involving a close collaboration with the Art Director and Shader Writers. Platforms, Lintux, Irix, Windows. Software, Maya, Photoshop, Mari, Studio Piant, Body Paint, Shake. In house shading tools.

2004-2006>

ANIMAL LOGIC

Senior 3D Surface Artist and Matte Painter for enviroments on George Millers Happy Feet, a photorealistic CG animated feature film. In addition to traditional 2D texture painting, this position has required the use of in-house tools and shaders to achieve the film’s photorealistic style. This includes procedural textures, subsurface scattering and ambient occlusion. Software used: Maya, Photoshop, Dark Tree, Renderman. The matte painting involved projecting 2D elements onto 3D geometry using in-house tools.

2003>

PHOTON VFX

Position as Digital Matte Painter and 3D texture artist on the feature film Anacondas at Photon vfx, Warner Brothers Studios, Gold Coast.

2002>

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

Freelance digital artist in collaboration with paleontologists and web developers to create digital illustrations for abc
on-line education programmes: childrens’ paleontologist game (www.abc.net.au/ozfossil). Created a series of digital
oil-style paintings of Australian mega-fauna and the voyagers/naturalists aboard the Flinders and
Baudin Voyagers of Australia

2001>

Graduated in Advertising and Graphic Design Uni SA.

Thesis on Digital Painting. Selected to MC the Graduand Exhibition evening. Gained sponsorship of the entire event to suit the needs of 270 industry professionals.

1997>

O.E to United Kingdom for 12 months.

1993>

AFS Cultural exchange to Belgium for 8 months.

1992>

Matriculated at Mercedes College, Springfield SA.