Awards & Exhibitions

2025 – Don Dunstan Foundation Climate Justice Award
2025 – LAND WORKS SALA, Red Poles Gallery Mclaren Vale
2025 – Australian Life, Customs House Sydney
2025 – 1976 National Art Collection Acquisition, Parliament House Canberra
2024 – Outback Community Authority Commission
2024 – CLIP Awards, Perth Centre for Contemporary Photography
2024 – Hornsby Reimagine Art Prize – Crossroads of Consumption
2024 – Royal South Australian Society of Art – Finalist
2023 – Olive Cotton Award – Still Standing Strong
2023 – DEVElemental Exhibition – Yarta Purtli, Port Augusta
2023 – DEVElemental Exhibition – Port Adelaide
2022 – Regional Art Fund Cultural Tourism Experience Project
2022 – Heysen Landscape Prize
2022 – Adelaide Festival NEOTERIC Exhibition
2021 – 1st Place Winner – Goolwa Art & Photographic Exhibition \ The Pioneer
2021 – Country Arts SA Regional Art Fund Recipient
2020 – National Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery Canberra – 1967
2020 – Country Arts SA 5 Year Commission Award ~ Official Report
2019 – Fremantle International Portrait Prize Finalist – The Pioneer / Invisible
2019 – To Be Continued… Photography from Indigenous Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre
2019 – REVEALED: ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION, Fremantle Arts Centre
2019 – TWO WAYS – Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
2019 – TWO WAYS – Tarnanthi, Adelaide Airport
2019 – National Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery Canberra– Unbreakable
2018 – National Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery Canberra – TWO WAYS
2018 – Limitless Photographic Exhibition – The Barracks Yarta Purtli, Port Augusta
2018 – TWO WAYS – Shimmer Photographic Biennale, Red Poles Mclaren Vale
2017 – Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, HOMELAND \ The Importance of Place
2017 – Australian Photography Awards – Documentary Winner
2017 – HEADON Portrait Finalist
2016 – HEADON International Photo Journalism Prize Finalist \ Two Entries
2016 – Australian Photography Awards – People and Culture Winner – HOPE
2016 – HEADON Portrait Finalist
2015 – National Portrait Prize, NPG Canberra – HOMELAND \ The Importance of Place
2015 – Fremantle International Portrait Prize Finalist – My Ngurra

MENTORING \ PROJECTS

2023 – Desert Voices Photography Mentoring / Regional Art Fund with Country Arts SA
2022 – Painting a Picture Arts Ceduna / Ku Arts
2019 – Revealed Lighting Workshops \ Exposure Key Note Speaker WA
2019 – Yurtu Ardla Exhibition in partnership with Ku Arts and the South Australian Museum
2018 – Tarnanthi Symposium Panelist, Port Augusta
2018 – First Nations Empowering Photographic Mentoring Program, Umeewarra Media
2017 – Barngarla Songs & Language Project
2017 – Yurtu \ Ardla Carving Ku Arts Documentary
2017 – CityMag, Adelaide – The Act of Knowing
2016 – Photographic Empowering Mentor Program – Davenport Community, Port Augusta
2016 – Spirit Festival Official Photographer
2016 – Umeewarra Documentary / Tji Tji Wiru
2015 – Spirit Festival Official Photographer
2015 – SA Aboriginal Sporting Carnival Official Photographer
2015 – Language Films \ Filmmaking and Photography Mentoring – FWLC, Ceduna
2014 – Camera Mentoring and Practical – Deadly Centre, Coober Pedy Area School
2014 – Centacare Healing Camp Documentary
2013 – Mentoring Indigenous photographers and artists in Adelaide and Coober Pedy
2013 – Umoona Aged Care Residency
2012 – Umoona Tjutagku Health Service Aboriginal Corporation
2012 – COBRA Ride Documentary