Work History
Visual artist (2D), textile artist, hairdresser (own business), art gallery (proprietor), Social Science Degree (archaeology & anthropology), PhD environmental science.
- 1982-ongoing Visual Artist (received many first prizes, government acquisitions and other awards)
- 2000-2004 Social Science Degree Honours thesis "The Competing Understandings of Agricultural Activities on the Great Barrier Reef)
- 2006 Cyclone Larry Recovery Officer working for Growcom (peak horticultural body of Queensland based in Brisbane)
- 2007-2011 PhD Environmental Science by research "Sea- and Tree-change Landscapes; Environmental Thresholds in the Wet Tropics, Nth Qld Australia (study area Myola and the Barron Delta)
- 2011-2012 Mitchell River Watershed Management Group - Project Officer ( mainly cultural heritage with Mbabaram People)
- 2007-2012 Kuranda Envirocare (Landcare) - grant writer, website developer, bird surveys, weed management and seedling planting
- 2011-2013 - Southern Gulf Catchments - Cultural Heritage Officer
- 2014-2016 Cultural Heritage consultant and coordinator of Mitchell River Watershed Management Group - bird surveys, community engagement, grant writer, trainer,
- 2017-ongoing. Gouldian Finch research and grass research at the Australian Tropical Herbarium
