2004 Sleight. Redland Art Gallery
2004 Qld Photo-media: Maurice Ortega, Ray Cook and Deb Mansfield. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2004 Another viewpoint camera-less. Queensland Centre for Photography
2003 The Thiess Art Prize. Finalist. QCA Gallery
2003 Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award. Gold Coast Arts Centre
2003 Serendipity and Lunacy. Soapbox gallery, Brisbane.
2003 Platinum Photographs. 60 Merivale Street, Brisbane
2001 A Family Album. University of Queensland, Brisbane
2001 Buried in cotton. 482 Gallery, Brisbane. Group exhibition with David Michael Kennedy, Marian Drew, Annie Hogan and Jason Castro
1999 Possession. Herringbone Gallery, Sydney. Group exhibition with Ruark Lewis, Fiona Foley, Diane Loche and others
1998 Banalities.
Collaboration with Ruark Lewis and Christopher Gill. Stills Gallery,
Sydney & Eat Carpet, SBS Television. Video installation as of Still Moving, a joint
project between SBS Television and the Australian Film Commission.
Selected Publications
2004 Photofile
#72: Spring 2004 – Satire: laugh ‘til it hurts. “Mike
Gray, Greg Leong, Maurice
Ortega: A Crisis of Masculinity” by David Broker. Double spread on
page 48-49.
2003 Artworker. Published article on “Your Practice”, autumn 2003.
1989-1995 Australian Natural History Magazine. Regular contributor
1993 Oceanic
Art, vol. 1 & 2, published by Konemann.
Selected Education
2000-2003 Master of Visual Arts, Griffith University.
1995 Lighting for Commercials. The Australian Film, Television and Radio School
1995 Stage Lighting. National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)
1994 Arnold Newman Seminar. Australian Association of Photographers, Sydney
1993 Environmental Portraiture with Arnold Newman. Rockport, Maine, USA
1993 Platinum/Palladium one-to-one Workshop. David Michael Kennedy, Santa Fe Workshops New Mexico, USA
1987 Awarded scholarship to complete studies in Swedish. University of Stockholm and the Swedish Institute Helsingborg, Sweden
1986 University
Centre for Cinematography. Mexico City, Mexico
Subjects:
History of the Avant Guard in Modern Cinema, Introduction to Scriptwriting,
Analysis of Cinematic Text, Editing Techniques
Selected Employment
2002 Appointed
President of Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
(current)
2004 Public
Art Commission, Queensland Health, Sandgate project.
2004 Lecturer, Photojournalism. University of Queensland, School of Communications and Journalism.
2000-2003 Lecturer, Photography. Griffith University, Queensland College of Art and Gold Coast campuses.
2000-2002 Seminars in Art Theory (Photography, Sculpture and Curatorship). Griffith University, Queensland College of Art and Gold Coast campuses.
2000 Platinum/Palladium Workshops. Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
1989-1995 Photographer, Australian Museum
