Summary of arts-based practice

• Death Literacy zine, Death Literacy Institute, 2025

• Proposed ecological grief installation project, PUNCTURE: land, loss & love, with dan eleni carey, 2025-2026

• Solo Exhibition, Temper the generations, paintings on paper and digital drawings, digital drawing workshops. RoseyRavelston, 2024

• Masters Therapeutic Arts Practice, MIECAT (current candidate)

• Winner, Regenisis poetry prize, 2023

• Consultant and performer, Beneath the Surface: a floating art installation and immersive performance adventure by canoe, FOCK, Kangaroo Valley, 2023

• Writer and collaborator, Death Literacy film series, Death Literacy Institute, 2023

• Creator and facilitator, Wild Ground Art and Loss workshop, Blue Mountains, 2021

• Arts and Health Masterclass, Arts Health Network NSW/ACT, CadFactory and Clive Parkinson, NSW, 2021

• Recovery and Resilience Community Cultural Development, incl. Resilience & Recovery Handbook: Art & Nature Nourishment for disaster(ous) times. Resilience and Recovery Hub, Springwood Neighbourhood Centre, Blue Mountains, 2021

• The Making Effect Speaker Series: Niki Read on ‘Art, Death & Dying’, Interview, Arts and Health Network NSW/ACT, 2020

• Artist in Residence, Wild Ground, Blue Mountains, 2018

• Director, From the Brink: A Fringe Festival about ageing, dying, grief and our community, Blue Mountains, 2019

• Co- Creative Director, 6th International Public Health Palliative Care Conference, Blue Mountains, 2019

• Reflective Legacy Artist in Residence, Liverpool Hospital Acute Palliative Care Ward, NSW, 2018

• Creative Legacy Artist in Residence Coordinator, Liverpool Hospital Acute Palliative Care Ward, 2018-19
  Winner SWSLHD Quality Award; Enhancing patient experience through the Arts, 2018

• Project Lead, Surprising Lives, Living Histories Museum, forum, exhibition and podcast , Lower Mountains Neighbourhood Centre, 2017

• Touching Stories, Grant recipient, Blue Mountains Community Cultural Partnership with Gillian Hand, Blue Mountains Libraries and Blue Mountains Palliative Volunteer Services, 2013

• Adrien Abbott Poetry prize, Highly Commended, 2010

• Busting Cancer: arts workshop for breast cancer survivors, arts worker,
  Winner The Art of Good Health Wellbeing Conference; Best Project, 2015

• Exhibitor, International Women’s Day Exhibition, Braemar Gallery, Springwood, NSW, 2012

• Digital Story-telling and social media training , CuriousWorks, Sydney, 2011

• Director, Festival of Remembrance | Blue Mountains, Alice Springs, Mt Dandenong, Mt Druitt, 2001, 2009, 2010

• Biographical writing workshops for carers and terminally ill cancer patients, creator and facilitator, Cancer Council NSW - Penrith,| 2010

• Blue Fringe Writing Award, First Prize short story 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Writing Group Member, Varuna | Peter Bishop, Blue Mountains, 2007 - 2009

• Theatre Designer, production manager; “Night on Bald Mountain”, Theatreworks, 2000, This Distracted Globe, La Mama, 2000, Bold Girls, Chapel off Chapel, 2001, with Auteur Suzanne Kersten.

• Solo exhibition, Sydney Rudolf Steiner College, Sydney NSW, 1998