Current
2007 working with SIAL - including Poise studio and Post Graduate  support and supervision
2004+ Leacturer BA Textile Design - Textile Arts and Culture
2004+ Lecturer School of Archictecture and Design, RMIT
2004 occaisional lectures in cultural explorations in fashion - School of Fashion
2004  speaking to honours program School of Fashion
2004  supervision postgraduate students Textile Design
2004 Lecturing in the BA Textile Design Course RMIT University to first year students BA Textile Design
2003-2004 On organising committee for RMIT INTERMESH Symposium 
2003 Researcher  RMIT Enterprise Grant - Sportsgirl 1950s -1970s 
2001-2003 Assisting in planning and organising the Monthly Lecture series for Frances Burke Textile Resource Centre 
2001-2004 Collections Management Assistant-   Textile Resource Centre and Postgraduate student supervision,  Department of Fashion and Textile Design, RMIT. 
1996+ Victorian editorial consultant and Victorian review editor for Artlink

2001 Co-curator, researcher and writer for "A Monash Century" exhibition sponsored by the City of Monash to commemorate the Centenary of Federation .

1994-2001 Lecturer in art and design history, RMIT University, Department of Fashion and Textile Design, to first and second year undergraduate students

1997-1999  Lecturer in Fashion history, Whitehorse Institute
1998-1999 Lecturer in History of Australian Decorative Arts, Whitehorse Institute
1999- 2000 Tutoring Third Year Textile Design students RMIT University and supervising their half-theses

1998-1999 Working as exhibition consultant for proposed regional gallery touring exhibition of the 2 Pi R group of women artists
1997  Guest Editor of Craft # 2 Craft and the Body for Crafts Council of Victoria
1997 Organised with Leigh Summers of the History Department, University of Melbourne, a one day inter-disciplinary colloquium on Barbie and other dolls.
1997 On steering committee for Lilith Feminist History Conference, History Department, University of Melbourne
1996 On steering committee for Mass Historia! 96 national Australian post graduate history conference
1995 Guest Editor of Artlink Kitsch and Bad Taste issue
1995 Worked with a number of regional galleries, Benalla, Mornington Peninsula, La Trobe Valley and McClelland viewing and selecting works for National Women's Art Event exhibitions
1993 Historical researcher, script consultant for Australian Film Commission Funded Short Film A Parade, produced and directed by Tony Twigg and Euan Upston
1990-1993 Work on major touring exhibition Completing the Picture Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era including art historical and biographical research, location of paintings, courier work, lecturing and writing interpretative panels.
1990: Research for combined McClelland/Castlemaine regional galleries exhibition on radical and conservative art of the 1930s
1990: Curator, McClelland Gallery during permanent curator's annual leave.
1989: Administrator, Alice Bale Art Award, McClelland Gallery
1989: Curator, McClelland Gallery, during Director's leave of absence
1988-93: Historian and researcher for Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
1989-93: Cataloguer of Costume and Textile collection, National Trust of Victoria. Collection comprised original garments and accessories, female, male and children's from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
1988: Research for A Complimentary Caste - Queensland Women Artists Gold Coast Regional Gallery
1987: Research for major national touring exhibition Australia's Italians curated by Co. As. It., Carlton
1987: Curator McClelland Gallery responsible for negotiating loans of 19th century sculpture from major public collections for exhibition The New Sculpture and Australia
1986: Department of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria.

Occasional lectures and tutorials for tertiary institutions and public galleries

Lectures:

2007: August In Conversation at Heide Museum of Modern Art sympoisum on modern style in 1930s Melbourne on panel with Nanette Carter, Harriet Edquist and Jennifer Phipps
2006 lecture on women printmakers of the 1950s for the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

2005 June - Brighton Art Gallery Museum England -lecture- "Doll History and Fashion Theory"

2004  National Gallery of Victoria  - Marrying Degas to the Dance 
2004 February Bendigo Art Gallery – Images of Women in the Howard Hinton Collection of Australian Art

2003 May  – floor talk and tour Douglas Annand Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art at Heide

2002 October – spoke at forum at Museum of Modern Art at Heide on Opp art and Fashion in the 1960s
2002:  Bayside City Council Charles Douglas Richardson and Margaret Baskerille turn of the century sculptors

2001:  National Gallery of Victoria on Julia Margaret Cameron, Victorian Photographer
2001:  University of Ballarat, Faculty of Arts, Australian Identity Through the Visual Arts From Colonial to Post Colonial eras

Current engagements
1996 + Lecture on the New Sculpture at the Fine Arts Department, University of Melbourne for course on British Nineteenth Century Art
1998 +  University of Melbourne Fine Arts Department on Australian Women Artists of the 1890s-1900s, Heidelberg School

1987-1997: on Victorian sculpture at the Fine Arts Department University of Melbourne for course "Australian Artists at Home and Abroad"
1995: University of Melbourne Summer School on Australian women artists

Lectures on the Heidelberg School
1992: Deakin University undergraduate course "The Australian City"
1992: Monash University Gippsland
1993: University of Western Australia

Sculptural/Art Installations
2003 Abjection and Transcendence – sculpture installation of antique bisque dolls for eCHO exhibition Brisbane QUT Faculty of Creative Industries, Old Government House around destruction and its moral ambiguity – broken bisque dolls to W.G.Sebald, the Dean Brothers to Bomber Command/RAAF to Terra Nullius.
1996 Installation “Enlightenment Barbie” at the Women’s Art Register exhibition space
1996 Barbie installation at the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Centre

Other Skills and Interests:
Computer Literate in Word, Word perfect, Web Page Design and FTP, Efficient Internet Researcher
Theatrical Costume Design, Choral Singing, Millinery.
Opera and Classical Music Appreciation.
Gardening - Antique Roses and Jam Making
Barbie Doll collector
Reads and writes and speaks German