In October 08, Dawn’s solo exhibition “Ink,Tea and Coal” was held at the Australian Embassy in Beijing. The show was opened by the Australian Ambassador, Dr Geoff Raby and MP Bill Shorten.

In the following 3 weeks Dawn travelled along the Silk Road from Beijing to Xian the original capital, onto Hua Shan, one of the 5 sacred Taoist mountain, through the Gobi Desert to Dunhuang an oasis town where she viewed one of the worlds largest collections of sacred Buddhist cave paintings and ancient manuscripts, finally ending Tain Chi Lake in the very north west of China.

Her travels are part of an ongoing project exploring links between Europe and Asia interfacing these influences along the Silk Road.
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Dawn’s upcoming show Poetics of Space will be exhibitied in Sydney at Dickerson Gallery.

Presence, acrylic on linen, 90 x 122 cm

Dawn recently had the opportunity to visit the community of Oenpelli (Gumbalanya) in Western Arnhem Land. She spent time exploring the landscape, studying traditional rock art, visiting ancient sites and creating some drawings which subsequently turned into a series on her return to Melbourne. Dawn hopes to return to Gumbalanya early next year to further develop her painting series.

Dawn is pictured on Injalak Hill overlooking the Gumbalanya community.