Profile

1985 QLD College of Art - completed a Diploma of Art, majoring in Graphic Design.
Part time positions were held at QLD Newspapers as Graphic Artist and Woolworths Art Department producing catalogue layouts.

1986 Moved to Sydney. CBS Records and part time magazine layout for Craft Australia.

1987 Saachi & Saachi Advertising, Sydney. Visual / Rendering Artist. High end, large budget Advertising campaigns.

1987 - 91 RWD Design Studio, Sydney. Producing a resort wear range of clothing and giftware.
Contracted to design and supply a custom range of T Shirts and Ceramic Mugs to Expo 88 and David Jones.

1992 - 2004 Established RWD Design Studio and Art factory, concerntrating on Textile Design, a ceramic tile range and mosaic artworks. The tile range was supplied to over 50 stores throughout Queensland and NSW.

2004 - 07 Down sized RWD to work from a home studio. Studied computer generated Graphic Design (2nd Diploma) Focusing on textile design, painting and Graphic design.

2007 - 2010 Presently working in a number of mediums that include pure graphic design,
creating imagery for glass features, photographic essays, public artworks and on going textile designs for a variety of clubs and institutions.

NOTABLE COMMERCIAL PROJECTS

Currumbin RSL - Design & supply of staff uniforms, 1994 - 1999
South West Rocks Country Club - Design & supply of staff uniforms, 1997 - 2002
Port City Bowls club - Design & supply of staff uniforms, 2000 - 2009
Bank South Pacific - Friday shirts and promotional garments 2009-2010
Hoppy’s Handwash Cafe - Logo and corporate identity
Versace palazzo - 160sqm pebble mosaics, Nympheum Walls at each end of the outdoor pool.
Wesley Hospital - Refurbishment (over a four year period) 6,500 custom frieze tiles.
Mater Children’s Hospital - 100sqm floor mosaic. 2000 and refurbished 2009
Outrigger Resort, Fiji - 2,200 custom printed freize tiles.
McDonalds Family Restaurants - Produced mosaics and painted tile work for 7 stores.
Princess Theatre, Toowoomba - Restoration and reproduction of historical tiles.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

1985 Qld Art Directors Awards - Graduating Student Award

Design FX Textile, Clothing and Footwear Assoc. of Qld

1993 Winner - Resort wear Category
1995 Winner - Corporate/ Promotional Design
1995 Winner - Most Potential Fabric Designer

Group exhibitions
1992 Group exhibition - Baguette Restaurant & Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Group exhibition - Baguette Restaurant & Gallery, Brisbane
1993 St Hilda’s Art Show. Winner - Acquisition prize
1994 Ipswich Council Art show
2006 - Cleveland Art Expo, Winner of the Open Contempory Painting prize.
Curator - Simone Jones, Freelance Curator & Writer for QUT Art Museum.
2009 - 1 of 97 artists selected from 850 nationwide entrants to exhibit in
The Churchie Emerging Art exhibition.

Selected as one of one hundred prominent contemporary mosaic artists worldwide to be featured in the
“World Book of Mosaics”, published 2003 by Sterling Publishing, USA.