Filmography

Short form | Long form

2023 | DANELLE BERGSTROM - LAYERED LANDSCAPES, ABC LANDLINE, 13 May 2023 Made in association with the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Duration 11.18/15.38 minutes

2023 | RADIANCE – THE ART OF ELISABETH CUMMINGS Short film commissioned for the 2023 National Art School survey exhibition. Duration 11.11 minutes

2022 | LIAM BENSON – VIRTUE WITHOUT STAIN Short film made in association with a Bathurst Regional Art Gallery exhibition. Duration 13.25 minutes

 2022 | JEFFREY SMART One hour documentary on ABC TV, August 10 2022

 2022 | JOE FURLONGER – LANDSCAPE DREAMER,  Made in association with Qld Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art. LANDLINE ABC TV, 18 September 2022

2022 | LUKE SCIBERRAS – SIDE OF THE SKY Short film commissioned for the Campbelltown Arts Centre and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, June 2022, Duration 14.32 minutes 

 2022 | LUCY CULLITON – Cambalong Creek ABC LANDLINE , 8 May 2022. Duration 14.51 minutes

 2021 | THE COBAR SOUND CHAPEL COMPASS, ABC TV, Winner of  2022 Australian Institute of Architects Adrian Ashton Award for architectural journalism

 2021 | BRONWYN OLIVER – THE SHADOWS WITHIN . ABC TV October 13, 2022. Duration 60.00

 2021 | RHYL HINWOOD – A LEGACY IN STONE. COMPASS, ABC TV, 4 APRIL 2021

 2021 | CHESTER NEALIE – ETCHED IN FIRE. Made in association with Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. ABC LANDLINE  10 July 2021. Duration 13.22

 2021 | GLENN MURCUTT Short film in marking his naming as the Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate awarded by the Japan Art Association

 2021 | WENDY SHARPE – GHOSTS Commissioned by the Mosman Art Gallery Duration 12.28 

 2021 | JEFFREY SMART Short film for National Gallery of Australia’s Smart retrospective, Duration 17.29

 2020 | JUSTIN O’BRIEN – THE SACRED MUSIC OF COLOUR, COMPASS, ABC TV, 26 July 2020. Duration 29.00

 2020 | STREETON – A LIFE Made in association with the Art Gallery of NSW, ABC Landline program and SKY TV NZ. Duration 35.00

 2020 | ADRIENNE DOIG – IT’S ALL ABOUT ME! Commissioned by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. ABC Artworks. Duration 13.31

 2020 | BEN QUILTY – PAINTING MYALL CREEK Made for the National Gallery of Australia, Duration 20.47

 2020 | WILLIAM ROBINSON – Elixir of Light Commissioned by Qld University of Technology. Duration 10.18

 2019 | QUILTY – PAINTING THE SHADOWS. Commissioned and broadcast on ABC TV, 19 November 2019. Duration 59.00

 2019 | ARTHUR BOYD – LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL Made In association with the Bundanon Trust. ABC Landline February 20, 2019, Duration 15.14 minutes 

 2019 | THE HEYSEN LEGACY Made in association with the National Gallery of Victoria’s  exhibition Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art, ABC Landline, 12 March 2019 Duration 15.47

 2019 | THE KEEPERS OF THE FLAME: THE LEGACY OF MURCH & MIKSEVICIUS Commissioned by Manly Art Gallery and Museum

 2019 | WENDY SHARPE - WANDERLUST Commissioned by Manly Art Gallery and Museum Duration 11.36 minutes

 2018 | AUSTRALIA’S LOST IMPRESSIONIST – JOHN RUSSELL. Commissioned and broadcast on the ABC, 30 October 2018. Best Documentary – Biography, ATOM Awards. Duration 60.00

 2018 | UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES – AUSTRALIAN NOW,  Architecture Exhibition film for DFAT Japan & Mori Gallery. Duration 60.00

 2018| HARRIE FASHER, THE LAST CHARGE,  ABC Landline, 22 April 2018. Duration 9 minutes

 2018 | MICHELLE COLLOCOTT - Three Ponds Series C Commissioned by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Duration 9.55 minutes

 2018 |  RACHEL ELLIS: SUSTAINING LIGHT Commissioned by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Duration 10.00 minutes

 2018 | TERRY BURROWS: Objectivity Commissioned by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Duration 10.40 minutes 

 2018 | DAVID SERISIER – white dogs, hoarfrost, silver + gold Commissioned by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Duration 8.00 minutes 

2016 | GLENN MURCUTT- SPIRIT OF PLACE One hour documentary broadcast on ABC TV, 6 December, 2016. Selected for more than 40 international film festivals. Winner of  2019 Australian Institute of Architects Adrian Ashton Award for architectural journalism. Shortlisted for Walkley Documentary Award Duration 59.00

2016 | STANLEY SPENCER - Carrick Hill Celebrates a 20th Century Master Half hour documentary on Stanley Spencer made in conjunction with Samstag Museum and Carrick Hill Gallery in Adelaide, broadcast on the Nine Network,  Duration 26.22

 2016 | LOUISE HEARMAN – STUDIO Short film on the 2016 Archibald Prize winner commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW, Duration 4.44

 2016 | ANNE GRAHAM  - whispering and rustling, the susserus of people, places and things Commissioned by the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Duration 13.30

2016 | MANDY MARTIN – Homeground Commissioned by the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Duration 10.19

2016 | ROBERT BRAIN – An Autobiographical Tapestry Commissioned by the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Duration 9.37 minutes

2015 | TRENT PARKE: THE BLACK ROSE. Commissioned by and broadcast on ABC, 21 April 2015. Duration 27.30

2014 | COX ARCHITECTURE – TRANSITIONS IN LANDSCAPE Documentary on 50 years of architecture by Philip Cox and partners in Australia Duration 60.00

2014 | Tocal Agricultural College celebrates 50 years  ABC Landline program 8 November 2014. Duration 10.00

2013 | TARRAWARRA MUSEUM OF ART: AN ENDURING PASSION Documentary commissioned by TarraWarra Museum to mark the ten year anniversary of Australia’s first significant privately-funded museum, Duration 26.00

2013 | THE HOLTERMANN LEGACY Commissioned by the State Library of NSW to accompany an exhibition of the Holtermann collection (the name given to a collection of more than 3500 glass-plate negatives and albumen prints many of which depict life in NSW goldfield towns). Broadcast on the ABC’s Landline program, Duration 14.46

2012 | JEFFREY SMART: MASTER OF STILLNESS Documentary commissioned by ABC’s Artscape program and screen on November 27, 2012. Made in conjunction with the 2012 Smart retrospective at Samstag Museum of Art and Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and TarraWarra Museum, Duration 27 minutes

2012 | DUXFORD STREET: THE HOME OF MARGARET OLLEY Made for the Museum of Sydney’s Margaret Olley exhibition and now part of the permanent installation at the Margaret Olley Art Centre, Tweed River Gallery, Duration 14.03 minutes 

2012 | MARGARET OLLEY - A LIFE IN PAINT ABC’s Artscape program, July 24, 2012 & the Australian Network, 54.00

2012 | WILLIAM ROBINSON - A PAINTER’S JOURNEY Commissioned by Queensland University of Technology for the William Robinson Gallery, Broadcast internationally on the Australian Network Duration 30.00

2012 | SAVANNAH COUNTRY: The Art of Julie Poulsen and Jenny Valmadre. Documentary commissioned by the Regional Arts Development Fund and Cairns Regional Gallery Duration 27.00

2011 | MARGARET OLLEY MEMORIAL FILM commissioned by the NSW Premier’s Department on the occasion of Margaret Olley’s memorial at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

2011 | ROGER LAW: A LAW UNTO HIMSELF A documentary on English artist and co-creator of Spitting Roger Law commissioned by the ABC’s Artscape program, May 15, 2012 Duration 28.00

2010 | INLAND HEART: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF JEFF CARTER Documentary on one of Australia’s greatest photographers, commissioned by the State Library of NSW. Screened on ABC Landline, August 14, 2012. Finalist 2012 ATOM AWARDS for Best Documentary Biography. Duration 27.00

2010 | JENNY SAGES: PATHS TO PORTRAITURE Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery (extended documentary acquired by the ABC’s Artscape Program. Screened August 21, 2012). Finalist 2013 ATOM AWARDS for Best Documentary Biography Duration 27.00

2010 | WENDY SHARPE: THE IMAGINED LIFE + Painting Venus Vamp Two short films on Archibald-winning artist Wendy Sharpe Duration 27.35

2010 | NICHOLAS HARDING - DRAWN FROM LIFE A short film made in conjunction with artist’s survey show at S.H. Ervin Gallery, Duration 11.37

2009 | GLENN MURCUTT – ARCHITECTURE FOR PLACE A short film to accompany exhibition of Glenn Murcutt’s drawings at the Museum of Sydney and to many international venues

2009 | SIDNEY NOLAN: MASK AND MEMORY  Screened on ABC, June 4, 2009, “Show of the Week” Sydney Morning Herald, “Pick of the week” The Daily Telegraph. Screened on RTE Ireland in January 2013. Duration 55.00

2009 | AUSTRALIAN STORY, ABC “Unfinished Business” Commissioned as freelance producer. The story of a man’s determination to fulfil a promise made to an Aboriginal elder to educate his grandchildren

2009 | AUSTRALIAN STORY, ABC “All in Your Mind” – commissioned as freelance producer. The story of Cyndi Shannon Weickert and her ground-breaking research into schizophrenia

2008 | CHINA’S AVANT-GARDE: THE NEW CULTURAL REVOLUTION  Documentary commissioned by the ABC’s Artscape program, Sept 9, 2008 Duration 27.30

2007 | SIDNEY NOLAN: IN HIS WORDS A short film made in conjunction with the Art Gallery of NSW’s Nolan Retrospective, Duration 13.33 minutes 

2007 | APERIATUR TERRA: THE ANSELM KIEFER PROJECT, short ilm made in association with The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

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