Curriculum Vitae
Positions Held
Guest curator of graphic narratives project at Island Magazine 2022-2024
Owner/operator Moon Shed (since 2019) & curator of The Moon Walk 2021 & 2023
Organiser of the annual Small Press Zine Fair 2014 to current
Member of Bing/Santospirito (band) 2019 to current
Co-Director of the Comic Art Workshop 2019 to 2023, board member 2015-2019
Festivale Directeur Flamboyante at Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival 2014-2016
Registered Nurse - 2005-2020 working largely in community mental health in remote Aboriginal communities of Central Australia and in community forensic mental health in Tasmania.
2009-2015 : Hobart Improv Collective member
Books
2024 – The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors, forthcoming graphic novel, Scribe Publications
2015 – Swallows Part One, graphic novel (San Kessto Publications)
2013 – The Long Weekend in Alice Springs, graphic novel (San Kessto Publications)
Further Publication History
2022-23 – Guest curator of The Nanna Project (Island magazine)
2023, 2019, 2014 – Island magazine
2023 – Future Lutruwita anthology, curated by Leigh Rigozzi & Ritchie Cyngler
2023 – Rat World magazine, New Zealand
2023 & 2020 – The Suburban Review
2022 – Guest editor at Circular Newsletter
2018 – The Monthly
2016 – Academic article in Analysis and Activism, Social and political contribution of Jungian psychology, Routledge, with Craig San Roque
2016 – Guest curator for Interferene Archive’s ‘Our Comics, Ourselves’ series
2015 – Yankunytjatjara Wangka Project – 20 children’s readers produced by the Mimili School in conjunction with UniSA and Mimili Maku Arts Centre.
2015 – Academic article in International Journal of Comic Art 17:1 (Spring) with Richard Scully
2014 – Fluid Prejudice – contributor, (Glass Flag Press)
2014 – Meanjin September
Solo Exhibitions
2024 – Museo Italiano (Carlton, Victoria)
2024 – Salamanca Arts Centre, Long Gallery (Hobart, Tasmania)
2024 – Moonah Arts Centre, with Nunami Sculthorpe-Green
2022 – Penny Contemporary (Hobart Tasmania)
2022 – Wilderness Gallery (Cradle Mountain, Tasmania)
2020 – Swallows Part Two, Moonah Arts Centre (Hobart, Tasmania)
2020 – The Quoll, Q Bank Gallery (Queenstown, Tasmania)
2019 – Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (Darwin, NT)
2016 – Swallows Part One, Immigration Museum (Melbourne, Victoria)
2016 – Sleuth: The Pulse, Visual Bulk, Hobart (Hobart, Tasmania)
2015 – Swallows Part One, Tasmanian Writers Centre (Hobart, Tasmania)
2015 – Swallows Part One, Museo Italiano, (Carlton, Victoria)
2015 – Sleuth: the Delegation, Tuggarenong Arts Centre (ACT)
2014 – The Long Weekend in Alice Springs, Top Gallery (Hobart, Tasmania)
2014 – Sleuth: the Delegation, Sawtooth ARI (Launceston, Tasmania)
2013 – The Long Weekend in Alice Springs, Watch This Space (Alice Springs, NT)
2012 – Sleuth: The Origin, Inflight Art Gallery (Hobart, Tasmania)
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 – PressWEST, Queenstown, Tas
2022 – Australian Comics, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre
2022 – Future Lutruwita, Rosny Schoolhouse, Tas
2018 – “New Horizons. An Exhibition of Italian Australian Artists” Co.As.It, Carlton, Victoria
2017 – Strange Careers, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2012 – Its my party and I’ll die how I want to, social engagement artwork with Nadine Kessler, Sara Wright and Doctor Bruce.
2010 – Dog with Dan Murphy and Craig San Roque at Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs as part of Watching This Place organised by Watch This Space ARI, curated by Doris Stuart
2008 – Respond with Nadine Kessler, Taste Festival Tasmania.
Awards / Grants / Major Reviews
2024 – Grants from RANT and Arts Tasmania for The Ancestors tour
2022 – Performing Lines Residency, Tarraleah
2022 – Arts Tasmania residency & grant $8000 for Bing/Santospirito
2022 – Flinders Island, Tas. The Hangry Pelicans one month arts residency
2021 – Create NSW grant for organisations $10000 (for The Comic Art Workshop)
2021 – Arts residency at Cradle Mountain through Arts Tasmania ($3500)
2020 – Arts residency at the Q Bank Gallery, Queenstown Tasmania
2017 – Assistance to individuals grant ($11000), Arts Tasmania, for Sydney/Purgatorio project
2016 – Swallows Part One shortlisted for Ledger Awards
2016 – Swallows Part One review Radio National Arts and Books show
2015 – $2000 grant, Arts Tasmania (Swallows Part One)
2014 – ComicOz Award for Best Australian Original Comic Book (The Long Weekend in Alice Springs)
2014 – NT Read Non Fiction Book Award $2000 (The Long Weekend in Alice Springs)
2013 – Assistance to Individuals Grant ($2000) from Arts Tasmania
2013 – Major review in The Australian Newspaper Review Magazine (The Long Weekend in Alice Springs)
Festivals (appearances involving music, writing, performance and visual art)
2024 – Junction Festival
2024 – Mona Foma (also 2023, 2021, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010)
2024 – Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival (also 2021, 2015, 2013)
2023 – Perth Comic Arts Festival, WA
2023 – Unconformity Festival, Queenstown Tas (also 2021)
2023 – Dark MOFO (also 2022, 2021, 2017, 2013)
2022 – Squid Festival, Triabunna, Tas
2022 – Dragline, Queenstown, Tas
2022 – The Friends’ School Writers Festival (Keynote speaker)
2020 – Bleed Festival, Assembly for the Future
2017 – Yogyakarta Biennale, Indonesia
2017 – Something Somewhere Film Festival, Alice Springs
2017 – Comic Con-Versation, Sydney
2017 – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali
2016, 2015, 2014 – Directeur of Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival
2015 – Digital Writers Festival
2015 – Melbourne Writers Festival
2015 – NT Writers Festival, Darwin/Alice Springs (also 2014)
2013 – Wide Open Space, NT (also 2010, 2009)
2012 – Forest Festival
2012 – European/Aus music performance tour: Spain, France, Switzerland, Berlin, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart
2008 – European Music performance tour: Switzerland, Berlin
Music – Albums (digital, CD, LP) & Film/Theatre Composition
2024 – The Equinox Sound Baths, Bing/Santospirito at the Theatre Royal
2024 – Composer for Charcoal, dance performance by Keia McGrady (Performing Lines)
2023 – Music for Opera #1, EP by Bing/Santospirito (Scratch Match Records)
2023 – Composer/performer Street Pavilion by Feras Shaheen, Theatre Royal
2023 – Joint-composer (with Natalya Bing) for theatre play The Line by Nathan Maynard
2023 – Joint-composer (with Natalya Bing) for theatre play A Mouthful of ‘C’ Words
2022 – The Quoll, LP Album by Bing/Santospirito (Scratch Match Records)
2015 – Composer/performer The Shipwright & The Banshee with Chris Downes
2012 – Mt Wellington/kunanyi, LP Album by the Hobart Improv Collective (Rough Skies Records)
2012 – Acousmatic Ecology part 1 – a query, album
2012 – pardon? Acousmatic Ecology part 2, album
2011 – A shitload less understanding than what is required, album
2006 – Is this a desert? album
2005 – feather, album
2004 – The balloon, album
2003 – The child & the tractor, album