A Bigger Picture.
Sources of Inspiration, Connection, Community & Causes.
Making meaningful art includes connecting with community, exhibiting, partaking in humanitarian work and fundraising for organisations that make a difference. Donations have been possible to a range of organisations through the sale of original artwork and archival prints, participation in exhibitions, prizes and community fundraising events.
Archibald Prize opening event 2026
Humanitarian: Operation Smile mission. Arba Minch Hosptial, Ethiopia.
Behlau Murakami Grant Portrait Prize with (L>R) Professor Beck Davis (Head of School), Ron Belau, Anna Weston and Simon Degroot.
Community & the human experience. Operation Smile mission. Quelimane, Mozambique
Vibrant colour & incredible sky lines. Fernie, BC Canada
Preparing for the 'It Takes a Village' fundraiser exhibition which raised $6500 for the Friends of HEAL Foundation.
Figure Drawing at Brisbane Portrait Prize. From left Sandy Lidgett, Anna Weston, Chelsea Carkett & Paige Ristevski from the Queensland Ballet Academy
Temporal Gestures, Public Art Work. Ernest St, South Bank, Brisbane. Photo courtesy of Steven Hoare, Qld Rail.
Darling Portrait Prize (2024), National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Natural light & subtropical forests, QLD
Fundraising through Dynamic Life Drawing classes, including Friends with Dignity & the WA Bushfire Appeal.
Art brings people together. Queensland College of Art & Design - Honours Exhibition, 2025.
Out of the Box - Fernie Chamber of Commerce Live Art Event. Canada, 2015.
Fundraising through the 'Don't Mention the C Word' exhibition for Job Co.
Captivating colours & brilliant green. Post fire regrowth. Australia.
Drawing Festival at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane / May 2023 / Photograph: C Baxter, QAGOMA / Image Courtesy: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Residencies & locations.
Sourcing inspiration - attending locations and residencies (short term - local, interstate and internationally)
Cascades Female Factory, UNESCO Site, Hobart, Tas 2026
Residency Mount Tambourine, QLD 2019
Studio with a view. Design by Cheyney Studio. Residency Puhoi, New Zealand 2019.
Residency Yulara. Kata Tjuta, NT 2019
Oregon Wilderness, USA 2019
Plein Air with Pamm Cuipa. Fernie, BC Canada 2015
Residency, Grove of Giants - Huon Valley, Tasmania 2022.
Australian outback, en route to WInton, QLD for the Humans of the Outback project, 2023.