Born in Kuusankoski, Finland. Lives and works in Sydney.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2017 - Full time artist
1980 - 2016 General Practitioner, Finland and Sydney
EDUCATION
2021 Master of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney
2017 Master of Art, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2004 Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
1988 - 1990 Art and Gestalt Therapy Training Helsinki, Finland
1988 - 1989 Art School Kriittinen Korkeakoulu Helsinki, Finland
1987 - 1988 Art School Vapaa Taidekoulu Helsinki, Finland
1980 Licentiate in Medicine, University of Kuopio, Finland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Nest (Pesä) –project, In Profile exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 Every angel is terrifying, installation for Visual Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley
2020 Tears of Things, co-exhibition with Alma & Brett Studholme, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2019 House-Works, co-exhibition with Paula Ngu, Ewart Gallery, Sydney
2019 homes bones sticks & stones, Ridge Street Window Art Space, Sydney
2018 Mundane & Myth, co-exhibition with Paula Ngu, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2017 Every angel is terrifying, Black Box UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2024 Sacred Grove in you Street art event with the Tree Veneration Society and Willoughby Council, Sydney
2024 Between Sheets, collaborative, community based installation for Visual Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley
2024 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize, Manly, Sydney
2024 The North Sydney Art Prize, Sydney
2024 Homegrown; A Critical Past, Art Space on the Concourse, Sydney
2023 Tree Tales, with the Tree Veneration Society, Sydney
2023 Before and After, with Textiles Sydney, Sydney
2023 Temple Tree Day event with the Tree Veneration Society, Nan Tien Temple, Wollongong
2023 Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation, with the Tree Veneration Society, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney
2023 Illiliwa Street Art event, Sydney
2023 Spells for Weather, performance with Janet Laurence and Dirt Witches, Bundanon Art Museum, NSW
2022 Being in the landscape-residency exhibition for Visual Arts In The Valley, Kangaroo Valley
2022 Beyond Human, with the Tree Veneration Society, Sydney
2021 The Ewart Art Prize, Sydney (Overall Winner)
2021 Artists of Mosman 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2021 Project 2060: Homeward Bound, Coal Loader, Waverton, Sydney
2021 The Postgrad Show, National Art School, Sydney
2020 Visual Arts In The Valley, Kangaroo Valley
2019 Home Grown: The Tenacious Realm, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2019 Illiliwa Street Art event, Sydney
2019 The Ewart Art Price, Sydney (Highly Commended)
2019 Home, AIRspace Projects, Sydney
2018 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Nowra
2018 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley
2018 Flickering Stone: A Hidden Moving Image Award, Sydney
2018 Illiliwa Street Art event, Sydney
2017 UNSW Art & Design Annual 17 Graduate Exhibition, Sydney
2016 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Nowra
2016 Ripe, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2014 1200 West, Cofa Space UNSW, Sydney
2013 1200 West, Cofa Space UNSW, Sydney
RESIDENCIES
2022 Organiser and participant of Being in the landscape - residency, Kangaroo Valley.
2021 Online Ecological Art Recidency
2018 - 2020 Primrose Park Artist Studios, Sydney
2018 Solo residency, Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station, NSW