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Last updated: May 2024

Education
2023 MA (Photography), Photography Studies College
2017 PhD, University of Melbourne
2013 MPH, University of Melbourne
2006 FRACGP, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
1997 BSc(Med) MB BS, University of New South Wales

Solo exhibitions
2023 A Home Among the Plum Trees, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Painted Ghosts, Sol Gallery, Melbourne

Group exhibitions
2023 CCP Print Sale Fundraiser, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2023 Bowness Photography Prize, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
2023 (Un) Home: Being-towards-place, Collective Polyphony Festival (with Chinese Museum Arts Collective)
2023 Through Time and Space, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne
2021 STAGES Life in Lockdown, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2020 Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2014-2020 Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1991 ArtExpress (1990), Art Gallery of New South Wales

Awards, grants, residencies
2024 Creative Residency, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2023 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
2023 Creative Residency, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2021 Finalist, Australian Photography Awards
2020 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Collaborations
2023 Chinese Museum Arts Collective, as part of the Collective Polyphony Festival, Melbourne
2022 Consultant, Unknowing Madness project by Thembi Soddell for The Big Anxiety Festival, Melbourne
2016 Co-facilitator, Exploring Emotion Through Photography, youth program with headspace Collingwood, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Publications
2017 Understanding mental distress in young people from a migrant background in Australia through photo-interviewing, open access thesis, University of Melbourne

Declared fields of interest
Reflexive photographic practice
Autoethnography
Qualitative research methods
Visual social research
Arts/health
Health/illness lived experience
Primary healthcare