Education
2022 Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Solo Exhibitions and Graduation Exhibitions
‘Sacrificial Bodies’, PhD examination exhibition, SCA Project Space, Camperdown, 2022.
‘Alchemical Abstraction’, SNO, Marrickville, 2012.
‘Critical Tension’, ESP Gallery, Marrickville, 2010.
‘Collected’ (2008), Undergraduate Degree Show (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, 2008.
Seminal Fluids, collaboration with Sach Catts, First Draft, Surry Hills, 2008.
‘Notes from the Fall’, Silver Spoon Gallery, Balmain, 2008.
‘Collected’ (2006), Undergraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, 2006.
Group Exhibitions and Performances
Shivah, LIVE DREAMS: THRESHOLD, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, 2022.
Emergency Blankets, ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’, Cementa22, Kandos, 2022.
Chashmal, ‘Mirrors Unstill of the Eternal Change’, Backspace, Sydney, 2022.
Ruach Redux, ‘per.doc’, Articulate, Leichhardt, 2022.
Tehom [the Deep], ‘Cessnock Contemporary’, Cessnock, 2021.
Pietà, ‘BLUE TOO’, WAYOUT, Kandos, 2021.
Reverse Alchemy, ‘SEWNUP 2’, Lyttleton Stores, Lawson, 2020.
Pietà, ‘BLUE’, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, 2020.
Reverse Alchemy, ‘SEWNUP’, Lyttleton Stores, Lawson, 2020.
Dead Man Talking, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, 2020.
Dream Analysis, ‘Holding Space’, The Kiosk, Katoomba, 2018.
Aphanisis (Disappearance), ‘The Open Body’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, 2018.
Love is a battlefield, collaboration with Danica Knezevic, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, 2018.
Lazarus has fallen asleep, ‘Proximity’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, 2017.
Talking Cure, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, 2017.
Night Soil II, Sydney Festival of Death and Dying, Critical Path, Darling Point, 2016.
Can these bones live? ‘Rubberneck’, 107 Projects, Redfern, 2016.
Night Soil, ‘Intercessions Open’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, 2016.
Hypercube, Colour, Line, Form, Articulate, Leichhardt, 2014.
For those who’ve come across the sea, ‘Free Fall’, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, 2014.
Prima Materia, ‘Hungry For Art’, Top Ryde City, 2013.
All Creation, Cementa 13, Kandos, 2013.
Eat, and live forever, ‘Eat Your Art Out’, Articulate, Leichhardt, 2012.
Shekinah Glory, ‘Free Fall’, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, 2011.
St Joseph, ‘EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys’, INDEX, St Peters, 2011.
Breaking Bread, ‘EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys’, INDEX, St Peters, 2011.
Ruach, Articulate, Leichhardt, 2011.
Chashmal, ‘Intersections’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2011.
Strange Bedfellows, ‘Small Works for a Large Universe’, INDEX, St Peters, 2011.
The Transformation Of Things, ‘Abstract/Object’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2010.
Chisel Piece, ‘actingUP’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2010.
In Exitu Israel de Aegypto, ‘Hidden: A Rookwood Sculpture Walk’, Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, 2010.
Hand Piece #1, ‘Living Space’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2010.
Circumcision, ‘ReImag(in)ing SomaSex’, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Macquarie University, 2009.
Tiresias, ‘hello’, ESP Gallery, Marrickville, 2009.
Leviathan/Ouroboros, ‘Untitled’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2008.
Circumcision, ‘My Body, My Business’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2008.
Curatorial Projects
‘The Open Body’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, 2018.
‘Proximity’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, 2017.
‘EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys’, INDEX, St Peters, 2011.
‘Living Space’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, 2010.
Grants and Awards
CreateNSW’s Small Project Grant (Quick Response), 2021.
The Inner West Council’s Arts and Culture Grant, 2018/2019.
The Inner West Council’s Arts and Culture Grant, 2017/2018.
PRSS Grant, The University of Sydney, 2017.
PRSS Grant, The University of Sydney, 2016.
Residencies
Cloudbough Art Residency, Kandos, 2022.
The Kiosk 3×6 Projects, The Kiosk, Katoomba, 2018.
Intercessions Lab (led by Julie Vulcan and Alan Schacher), BigCi, Bilpin, 2016.
Residential Performance Lab (led by Alan Schacher), BigCi, Bilpin, 2016.
Conference Papers
Suelo Común (Common Ground): The death drive in the body art of Regina José Galindo, Bodies of Work 2019, Sydney, 2019.
The Overflowing Body: Transgression in Body Art, Performance Studies International conference, Hamburg, 2017.
Indeterminate Identities: Body Art, Ritual and the Subject, The Fifth Euroacademia International conference, Rome, 2016.
Publications
Isaacs, David, and Thomas G Isaacs. “Is Child Nudity in Art Ever Pornographic?: Child Nudity in Art.” Journal of paediatrics and child health 46, no. 7-8 (2010): 369–371.
Other Projects
Participated as a mentor in the School Contemporary Art Mentoring Program, organised by Dr Merryn Hull, 2021.
Co-directed and -facilitated an informal performance workshop for undergraduates at Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, 2007.
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