| Education (selected) |
| 2019, 2024 | Marble carving course, Carrara, Italy (create NSW 2019 Grant) |
| 2013-2017 | Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Doctor of Philosophy. Thesis title: "Inscribing Memory: Art and the Place of Personal Expressions of Grief in Memorial Culture" |
| 2012 | Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Master of Fine Art |
| 2010 | Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Master of Studio Art
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| Awards, Prizes, Grants |
| 2024 | Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize (11 May – 2 June) |
| 2023 | Finalist exhibition, Hidden Rookwood Sculptures (21 October – 20 November) |
| 2023 | Finalist exhibition, Dobell Drawing Prize, Sydney (31 March - 10 June and touring regionally until 2025) |
| 2022 | Winner, Drawing Prize, North Sydney Art Prize, Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Sydney (14 - 29 May) |
| 2019 | Finalist, HIDDEN 2019 sculpture walk, Rookwood Cemetery, (7 September – 7 October) |
| 2019 | Finalist exhibition, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award (1 June – 11 August) |
| 2018 | Artist Support Grant for 2019, Create NSW Arts & Cultural Development |
| 2018 | Gunyah Artists in Residence Program (August) |
| 2017 | Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Art Award |
| 2017 | Shortlisted, John Fries Award |
| 2013 | Finalist, Blake Prize, Sydney |
| 2013-2016 | 2013 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) recipient |
| 2013-2016 | Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) recipient
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| 2013 | Winner, Willoughby Sculpture Prize, Sydney |
| 2012 | Zelda Stedman Scholarship recipient, University of Sydney |
| 2012 | Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) recipient
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| 2012 | Finalist, Blake Prize, Sydney |
| 2012 | Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney |
| 2012 | Finalist, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA |
| 2009 | Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tas |
| 2009 | Highly Commended, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA |
| 2009 | Finalist, Mosman Art Prize ’09, Sydney |
| 2009 | Shortlisted, Royal Botanic Gardens Artist in Residence 2009, Sydney |
| 2008 | Finalist, Fleurieu Biennale, South Australia |
| 2008 | Finalist, Mosman Art Prize ’08, Sydney |
| 2008 | Linden Postcard Show 2008, Melbourne, Vic |
| 2007 | Finalist, Mosman Art Prize ’07, Sydney |
| 2007 | Finalist, The Churchie Emerging Art Exhibition, Brisbane |
| 2006 | Finalist, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA |
| 2004 | Finalist, Willoughby City Art Prize, NSW |
| 2004 | Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, NSW |
| Exhibitions |
| 2024 | “Encounter”, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery (8 November-7 December) |
| 2024 | "Light as Air", Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth, North Sydney Council (1 March - 15 Apr) |
| 2022 | "Material Language", ANCA Gallery, Canberra, ACT (27 April - 22 May) |
| 2022 | “Ash”, Pari ARI, Sydney, (13 February - 27 March) |
| 2022 | "Fieldnotes to Survival", Duke University, Nth Carolina, USA (18-24 Jan.) |
| 2021 | "Cessnock Contemporary" exhibition, Cessnock, NSW (3-12 December) |
| 2021 | "In Deep", Gallery25, Edith Cowen University, Perth (21 Oct-11 Nov) |
| 2021 | Solo exhibition "Second Skin", Airspace Projects, Sydney (7-23 May) |
| 2021 | "From A Common Past: Contemporary glances on the shadows of the past", B#S Gallery, Treviso https://bsidewar.org/en/from-a-common-past/ (15 April - 29 May) |
| 2020-2021 | "The Making Effect" (On-line exhibition), Arts Health Network. |
| 2019 | "Connecting Thread", Grace Cossington Smith Gallery (19 July-22 Aug) |
| 2019 | The Big Anxiety festival exhibition, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, (15-26 October) |
| 2019 | "States and Senses", Kudos Gallery (30 April - 18 May) |
| 2019 | "Public #Intimacy", B#Side Gallery, Treviso, Italy (7 June – 21 September) |
| 2018-2019 | “The Fate of things: Memory Objects and Art”, Sydney Jewish Museum, (Joint exhibition with Anne Zahalka) (November 2018 – March 2019) |
| 2018 | Solo exhibition "The Materiality of Memory", Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA), Ballarat (Sept-Nov) |
| 2017 | B#Side War Project, 2017/2018 edition, Treviso, Italy (8 Dec. '17-29 Jan. '18) |
| 2017 | SCA New Contemporaries, Sydney (3-7 May) |
| 2016 | PhD Examination Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney (1-4 Dec) |
| 2016 | "Articulate Turns 6: What Next?", Articulate Projectspace, Sydney (10-24 Dec) |
| 2016 | "Identity", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney (4-27 May) |
| 2016 | "Her Moving Presence", Airspace Projects, Sydney (5-20 Feb) |
| 2015 | "Doing Time", Verge Gallery, University of Sydney (16 July-18 Aug) |
| 2014 | "Free Association", Verge Gallery, University of Sydney (27 Aug-5 Sept) |
| 2014 | "Bildhauen", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney (23 Aug-8 Sept) |
| 2013 | Graduate School Conference, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (11-27 Sept) |
| 2012 | Sydney College of the Arts Postgraduate Show, University of Sydney (14-23 Nov) |
| 2012 | “Transitory States”, VAC Gallery, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, Vic (28 Mar-6 May) |
| 2012 | “Stilled Life”, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (Solo Show) (9-30 Mar) |
| 2010 | Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (5-8 Dec) |
| 2009 | “Tideline”, Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney (Solo Show) (24 Mar-7 Apr) |
| 2008 | Drawcard, National Art School, Sydney |
| 2007 | “The Art of Collecting”, Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney (Solo Show) (6-26 Nov) |
| 2006 | Art Melbourne ’06, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2006 | “From Nature’s Mould”, Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney (Solo Show) (14-30 Mar) |
| 2005 | Saint Ignatius College 34th Annual Art Exhibition |
| 2003 | "Rooms and Corridors", groundfloorgallery, Sydney (Solo Show) |
| 2002 | SEXDECIM 2002", groundfloorgallery, Sydney |
| Publications, Articles, Interviews |
| 2023 | Dobell Drawing Prize #23, National Art School, ISBN 978-0-6451306-6-9 |
| 2022 | Chapter in 'Maternal Connections: When Daughter Becomes Mother', ed. Joan Garvan and Kandee Kosior, Demeter Press. |
| 2022 | Chapter in 'Caring Ethics and Art', ed. Jacqueline Millner and Gretchen Coombs, Routledge. |
| 2021 | Anne Ferran, Catalogue Essay, for 'Second Skin', Airspace Projects |
| 2021 | Artist Talk, "From A Common Past: Contemporary glances on the shadows of the past", IoDeposito conference (virtual), Italy, April 15 |
| 2019 | Interview with Sylvia Griffin and Brooke Leigh re "States and Senses", May 6, FBi Radio, https://fbiradio.com/programs |
| 2019 | Interview, Sylvia Griffin on "The Fate of Things: Memory Objects and Art", https://sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/news/interview-with-sylvia-griffin/ |
| 2019 | 2SER GlamCity, January 19, 2019, "Intergenerational Trauma" (podcast) |
| 2018 | Wentworth Courier, December 5, 2018, “Two artists honour the memories of their parents and the family they never met” by Jacqui Taffel |
| 2018 | Weekend Breakfast, ABC News, November 4, 2018. Live interview with hosts Andrew Geoghegan and Johanna Nicholson. |
| 2018 | The Intimate monument: Memorialising from a Feminist Perspective (Chapter) in ‘Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary outtakes’ ed. J. Millner and C.Moore, Routledge. |
| 2017 | Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Journal, 2.1, 2017, p134 “World Materials” (Review) |
| 2015 | The Art Life, July 20, 2015, "Doing Time" by Stella Rose McDonald http://theartlife.com.au/2015/doing-time/ |
| 2015 | Sydney Morning Herald, July 13, 2015, "Artist is buried alive to explore incarceration in Doing Time exhibition" by Elissa Blake
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| 2015 | Peer reviewed article: "Dowry linen and the intimate outsider: visual arts as a bridge to matrilineage", Women's History journal, Vol 2, Issue 1, 2015, p6-14 www.womenshistorynetwork.org |
| 2013 | Daily Telegraph, October 18, 2013, p83 “Legacy Boosted by Late Artist’s Heavenly Win” by Elizabeth Fortescue |
| 2013 | Inner West Courier, September 24, 2013, p38 “Success is a Shore Thing: Artist Snags Major Win” by Shireen Kahlil |
| 2010 | Australian Art Review, Issue 22, Feb-Apr 2010, p25 “The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2009” |
| 2009 | Asian Art News, March/April, 2009, p60-63 “A Prize to Conjure With” by Dr Christine Nicholls
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| 2009 | Art Almanac, April 2009, p185 “Profile” |
| 2007 | Australian Art Review, Issue 15, 2007, p82 “The Art of Collecting” by Stewart White |
| 2006 | Good Weekend, the Sydney Morning Herald Magazine "Weekender: 10 things to do", March 18, 2006 |
| 2006 | Sydney Morning Herald, Domain "Events", Mar 16, 2006, p4 |
| 2003 | Art Almanac, March 2003, p115 "Profile" |
| 2003 | Sydney Morning Herald, Domain "Events", Mar 13, 2003, p3 |
| 2003 | The Glebe & Inner Western Weekly, Mar 5, 2003 "How Art Translates Garden Into House" by Veronica Apap |
| 2003 | Art Review, March 2003, Vol 54, "Art Travel", p134 |
| Conferences, Residencies |
| 2024 | Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) AiR, VIC |
| 2024 | Konstepidemin Artist-in-Residence, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2019 | 'Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, (31 October-2 November) |
| 2018 | Gunyah Artist-in-Residence, North Arm Cove, NSW |
| 2018 | ‘Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence’, Krakow, Poland |
| 2017 | ‘Genocide Memorialisation: Political Imaginaries and Public Materialities', Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2013 | ‘Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present’, Adelaide, SA |
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