EDUCATION
PhD Deakin University - The Soldier Artists of WW1: sexuality, masculinity, performance and the aftermath (2016-2020)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Prahran College of Advanced Education (1981-1983)
FACING AUSTRALIA, Co-Founder with Raimond de Weerdt & Tony Nott
In progress - Faces of Australia - Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Past Commissions
Albury City - Aftermath
Museum of Brisbane - Facing WW1: stories of loyalty, loss and love
Charles Sturt University - The Face of a University
City of Sydney - The Face of Sydney
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder - The Face of Kalgoorlie
National Rural Health Alliance - The Face of Rural Health
Willoughby City Council - The Faces of Willoughby
Country Arts SA - The Face of the Barossa
Facing Australia Initiated projects
The Face of Albury
The Face of Brewarrina
The Face of the Melbourne Football Club
The Face of the Female Volunteer
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2020 (upcoming) Faces of Australia, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
2018 Facing World War One: stories of loyalty, loss and love, Lismore Regional Gallery
2016 Finalist - acquired, National Portrait Prize (MAMA)
2016 Up Top: A sense of place for Mayday Hills Hospital, Albury LibraryMuseum
2015 Facing World War One: stories of loyalty, loss and love, Museum of Brisbane
2009 Finalist, National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2009 Finalist (Facing Australia), Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery
2009 Finalist - Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery
2009 A Street called Tobruk, Karen Donnelly(curator) Albury Library Museum, Albury
2009 The History of the National Photography Prize Exhibition, Albury Art Gallery
2008 Finalist, The Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2007 Finalist, New Scientist Eureka Prize for Photography, touring to Australian Museum - Sydney,
Scitech - Perth, Questacon - Canberra, RMIT Gallery - Melbourne & Australian Centre for Photography - Sydney
2007 Finalist, National Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2007 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
2007 Finalist (Highly Commended - acquired), Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery
2007 The Face of Rural Health, 9th National Conference, Albury Convention Centre
2006 The Face of the City of Sydney, AMP Tower & Customs House, Sydney
2006 Finalist, William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2006 Pick of the Crop, Albury Art Gallery
2005 Finalist, National Photographic Purchase Prize, Albury Art Gallery
2004 The Face of the Barossa, Barossa Regional Art Gallery
2003 The Face of Brisbane, Museum of Brisbane
2003 Finalist, National Photographic Purchase Prize, Albury City Art Gallery
2003 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
2003 Finalist, Archibald Citigroup Photographic Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
2002 'Lost then found', Albury Regional Art Gallery
2002 Finalist, Josephine Ulrick National Photography Prize, Tweed River Gallery
2002 'Momento Flori', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2001 Finalist - acquired, National Photographic Purchase Prize, Albury City Art Gallery
1997 'Dead Buildings: The Mayday Hills Asylum', Creators Gallery
1995 'Trading Places', Albury Railway Station
1996 Australian Academy of the Humanities - Travel Grant
1991 Finalist, Agfa National Photographic Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre
1989 'Portraits in Progress', Albury Regional Art Gallery
1987 Finalist, National Photographic Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre
COLLECTIONS
National Library of Australia, Performing Arts Museum, MAMA, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, Private Collections in Australia & Ireland
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Contemporary Circus, (eds. Katie Lavers, Louis Patrick Leroux, Jon Burtt), Routledge, 2019
Six events you can’t miss at Sydney Festival, Richard Watts, Arts Hub, 2018
Karen Donnelly, "Review of Jane Lydon’s Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians." History Australia, 2016
Comic Descent, Real Time issue #126 April-May, 2015
Kate Mulvaney, The Web, Currency Press, 2011
Michael Desmond, Present Tense: An Imagined Grammar of Portraiture in the Digital Age,National Portrait Gallery, 2010
Snapshot - The Faces of Brewarrina, Australian Geographic, #95, 2009
National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, 2009
The History of the National Photography Prize, Dr Isobel Crombie (ed.) Albury City, 2009
Tweed River Art Gallery: 20 Years, 2008
Michael Desmond, Conflicting Images, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra June, 2008
Steve Meacham, Revealed - how you built the face of Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald Oct 6, 2006
Wouter Klijin, Sydney - - krijgt een gezicht, Pf, Rotterdam, Holland, 2006
Deborah Smith, Face it: We’ve changed, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 7, 2006
Brendan O’Keefe, Aiming for an Average Face, The Australian, Feb 9, 2005
The Griffith Review, The Face of Brisbane, ABC Books, 2004
Kate Rhodes,The Face of Brisbane, Photofile #71, Australian Centre for Photography, 2004
Louise Thompson, Thomas Cleary’s Tableaux, New Zealand Journal of Photography, 2002/3
Murray Time: a novel - Letao Press, 2003
Anne Lim, Composite effort, white effect, The Australian, May 13, 2002
Megan Backhouse, Town faces up to its identity, The Age, May 14, 2002
Momento Flori, Sydney Morning Herald, March, 2002
Flora photographs, Capture, March, 2002
Robert McFarlane, The identity parade that doesn’t click, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Feb, 2002
Craig Judd, The Face of Albury, Photofile, Australian Centre Photography, 2002
Robert Nelson, Turning a lens on Australia, The Age, Sept 1, 2001
Karen Donnelly, (ed.) The Faces and the Streets, The McPherson Studio Project, VAPA Press, 2000
Karen Donnelly, 'The Aboriginal Photographs of Thomas Cleary' contained in Picturing the Primitive:images of race in Daily Life, Julie Marcus (ed.), LHR Press, Sydney, 2000
Karen Donnelly, ‘The Discovery of Thomas Cleary’, Bulletin of the Olive Pink Society, 1995
RECENT CONFERENCES & PANELS
2020 Presenter, Move over Priscilla: the female impersonators of WW1, Albury LibraryMuseum
2020 Artist panel member, Consequences, Albury LibraryMuseum
2019 Presenter, ‘Move over Priscilla: the female impersonators of WW1’, Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Conference
Before Mardi Gras: Gay + in the 1970s, ANU, Canberra
2018 Presenter, ‘The AIF Concert Parties of WW1’, Australian History Association History Conference
The Scale of History, ANU, Canberra
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
A Street called Tobruk, Albury LibraryMuseum
Albury24hrs
The Faces and the Streets - The McPherson Studio Project
The Dean Street panoramas
FREELANCE WORK
Casting associate ‘The Sapphires’ - 2011 Albury shoot
Hot House Theatre – show photographer 2003-09
Australia!The Show, The Berry Man, Disarming Rosetta
Embers, Propaganda, It’s Not for Everyone, The Glory
The Web, Steel and Rust, Skylight
Body of Desire, Big Hair in America, Parallax Island
Skin, The Bridge, A Midsummers Night’s Dream
Biting Dog Theatre Festival, The Messiah
Alive at the Williamstown Pier, Mouse, Body of Desire
Storm, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Rich Kids - stills photographer
The Expression, With Closed Eyes
The Reels, Quasimodo’s Dream
Real Life, Send me an Angel
Murray Arts - doumentary photography
Dis-assemble, Falling like a Bird, Six
Amy Hollingsworth/Master Class, Bright Sparks
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus - show photography
Les Clowns, Control Alt Delete
National Training Project, 3 Way Exchange
Bring it On (Creative Development), Crunch
Limelight, APAM Conference 2012
The year of 2005 - FFFC company portrait project
A4 Circus Ensemble - show photography
Turning in Time
Down Pour
NAISDA Dance College
Graduate Tributes (2010-16) - design
Book covers
Eccentric Minds, Graham Jackson, Letao Publishing
The Web, Kate Mulvany, Currency Press
Accounting for Terror, Graham Jackson, Letao Publishing
Boys by the Sea, Barry Donnelly, Collins
Murray Time:a novel, Letao Publishing
1988 Bi-Centennial Exhibition - Official Albury site photographer
Day in the life of Albury Wodonga, Border Mail
CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT & ARTS MANAGEMENT
2011-13 Board Member, Flying Fruit Fly Circus Foundation
2009 Artist-in-Residence Flying Fruit Fly School (Creative Victoria)
2003-04 Chair, Flying Fruit Fly Circus Foundation
2001-03 Board Member, Flying Fruit Fly Circus Foundation
1995-2000 Board Member, Albury Regional Art Gallery Advisory Committee
2000 Member, City of the Arts Reference Group, Albury City
1992-95 Inaugural Board Member, Albury Wodonga Regional Arts Board (Murray Arts Inc.)
EMPLOYMENT - ACADEMIC
1984-2004 Lecturer in Photography, Charles Sturt University, Albury & Wagga Wagga campuses
EMPLOYMENT - ANIMATION
1972 Hanna-Barbara Animation Studio, Sydney
1973-76 Richard Williams Animation Studio,London
1976-77 Freelance Animation/London
CrunchyFrog Productions
Bob GodfreyProductions
Watership Down Studios
Richard Williams Animation
1977-78 Freelance Animation, Sydney
Yoram Gross Film Studio
Film Graphics Productions
Spectrum Films
Zap Productions
Sydney Air Programmes International
1981-83 Freelance Animation, Melbourne
Alex Stitt Productions
Ray Strong Productions
All This and More
Red Nose Productions
Viska Incorporated
Dennis Tupicoff Productions
EMPLOYMENT - FILM/TELEVISION/THEATRE
2010-14
Executive Producer - A4 Circus Ensemble
Tours to Montréal Cirque Festival, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide & regional tours
1977-78
Stand-by Wardrobe, Reg Grundy Productions, Sydney
Young Doctors
Glenview High
1978
Stand-by Wardrobe Freelance, Sydney
Fatty Fin
Odd Angry Shot
Stand-by Wardrobe Channel 7, Sydney
Naked Vicar Show
Don’t Ask Us
Doctors Down Under
Love Thy Neighbour
Norman Gunston Show
Father Dear Father
1978-81
Stand-by Wardrobe, Crawford Productions, Melbourne
The Sullivans
Jovan -The John Sullivan Story
Special Squad
1972
Royal Court Theatre, London (front of house)
1970
Chicago, La Mama, Melbourne (performer)