SELECTED AWARDS

2026 Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, VIC
2025 Finalist, M16 Drawing Prize, M16 Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2025 Second Prize, Beautiful Bizarre Prize, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, NSW
2025 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery, NSW
2025 Finalist, Maquette Sculpture Award, McClelland Gallery, VIC
2025 Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2025 Second Prize, Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2025 Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth, WA
2024 Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth, WA
2024 Highly Commended & Winner of People’s Choice Award, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, SA Museum, SA
2023 Second Prize Winner, MAKE Award, Australian Design Centre, Sydney, NSW
2023 Postgraduate Award Winner, Helpmann Graduate Exhibition, ACE, SA
2022 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, NSW
2022 Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, SA Museum, SA
2022 Finalist, Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
2020 Highly Commended, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, SA Museum, SA
2020 Highly Commended, National Emerging Glass Prize, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
2020 Finalist, MilanoVetro -35 Prize, Sforza Castle – Museum of Decorative Arts, Milan, Italy
2020 Finalist, Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize, Juniper Hall, Paddington, NSW
2019 Winner, Vicki Torr Emerging Artist Art Prize, Ausglass, www.ausglass.com.au
2019 Finalist, Pro Hart Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Self-titled, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2024 Afterimages of Familiar Tales, Grainger Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2024 What Will Remain, The David Roche Foundation Gallery and Museum, Adelaide, SA
2023 Self-titled, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2023 Collective Histories in Blue, Grainger Gallery, Canberra, ACT

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2025 Create SA, Independent Artist Grant for solo exhibition at JamFactory, SA
2024 Creative Australia, Independent Artists Grant for JamFactory show and solo exhibition in ACT
2022 Independent Arts Foundation Grant for solo exhibition at Grainger Gallery, ACT
2022 Arts SA Independent Artists Grant for solo exhibition at Grainger Gallery, ACT
2020 Thomas Foundation Artist in Residence, Canberra Glassworks, ACT
2020 USASA Leadership Grant for Thomas Foundation Residency at Canberra Glassworks
2020 National Program for the Arts Grant, Sidney Myer Fund & Myer Foundation, Sydney
2019 Carclew Project and Development Grant to attend international glass conference in Whanganui, New Zealand

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Interior Landscapes, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2025 Pour, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2025 She Paints Her, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2025 Gather, Wonderground, Barossa Valley, SA
2024 Gathering Light, JamFactory, Adelaide, SA
2023 NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria
2023 FOCUS, Melbourne Design Fair (NGV) as part of Melbourne Design Week, Victoria
2023 Net Worth, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT
2022 Trust: A Generous Legacy, Hamilton Regional Gallery, VIC
2022 Glass Chrysalis, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
2022 Modern Antiquity, Fletcher Arts, Melbourne, Victoria
2022 Nascent Glass, JamFactory, Adelaide, South Australia
2022 Melbourne Design Fair (Craft Victoria) as part of Melbourne Design Week, Victoria
2021 Shaped, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Future Inheritance: 20 Speculative Objects for a Time to Come, Melbourne Design Week, VIC

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

2025 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2025 Art Gallery of Ballarat
2023 Art Gallery of Geelong
2022 Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (The Powerhouse Museum)
2022 National Gallery of Victoria
2022 Hamilton Regional Art Gallery
2022 Parliament House Art Collection
2022 Australian Catholic University Collection
2021 National Gallery of Victoria

PUBLICATIONS

2024 ‘Playing with Fire’, Grace Macpherson, The Australian Review
2024 ‘Murtagh’s Work an Instant Classic’, Sophia Hallaway, Canberra City News (https://tinyurl.com/48j44p5v)
2024 ‘Our Chihuly-inspired Artist’s Brave Career Move’, Laura Dare, The Post (https://tinyurl.com/thepostSA)
2024 New Glass Review 44 magazine, featured artist, Corning Museum of Glass, New York
2022 The Chrysalis Effect: Thinking Through New Practices in Glass, Art Monthly Australia
2022 ‘Artist Blasts Glass to Make Modern Relics’, Canberra Times (https://tinyurl.com/3ur4duub)
2022 New Glass Review 42 magazine, featured artist, Corning Museum of Glass, New York
2022 Contemporary Australian Glass, The Tom Malone Prize 2018–2022, AGWA, WA
2021 National Gallery of Victoria Magazine, Nov–Dec issue
2020 New Glass Review 41 magazine, featured artist, Corning Museum of Glass, New York

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2023 Dissecting Simple: Masterclass with Granite Calimpong, JamFactory, South Australia
2023 Master of Design (Contemporary Art), University of South Australia
2022 Time Spent on Subtleties with Annette Blair, JamFactory, South Australia
2021 Pattern Making and Bowls with Ben Edols, JamFactory, South Australia
2019 Form + Color with Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz, Corning Museum of Glass, USA
2018 Colouring in the Fundamentals with Lewis Batchelar and Madeline Prowd, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA
2018 Tumblers: Simple Perfection with Powell Scott, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
2014 Master of Marketing, University of South Australia