Cassandra Brooker, artist curriculum vitae

1991 Technical Drawing - six months short course

1993 NZQA School Certificate Practical Art

1994 NZQA Sixth Form Certificate Practical Art

1995 CCES Desktop Publishing Competition - second place

1995 Desktop Publishing Class and production of school magazine

1995 The Open Polytechnic of NZ Sign Writing Course

2003-2005 Member: Townsville Art Society – monthly exhibits/competitions

2009-2012 Member: Queanbeyan Art Society – monthly exhibits/competitions, Governor General's Open House exhibition

2013-2015 Member: Redcliffe Seaside Artists’ Gallery – monthly exhibits, featured artist exhibition (September 2015)

2013 Second prize: Veterans Art and Photography Exhibition and Fundraising Expo

2015 Graduate Diploma Geographic Information Science

2015 Developed interactive story webmap - https://uqmaps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=bc47e91f545a4dd3ba109551fc5a6b65

2016 Second Prize: Army Media Competition

2018 Shortlisted (35) for the Napier Waller Art Prize, Australian War Memorial - received a coin & certificate of commendation

2018 Selected (18) for the Australian National Veterans Art Museum's IVAE18 'Make your Mark' exhibition for the Invictus Games

2018 Commissioned by the Australian National Veterans Art Museum for their third annual exhibition series,'March to Art' in 2019

2019 Finalist (44) in The Bald Archy Prize

2019 My 'Mortar Fire Mission' painting in the IVAE18 'Make your Mark' exhibition tours to Darwin, as part of the ’Territory Tribute’ event

2019 ANVAM March to Art 'Narratives' exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

2019 Donation ceremony of my painting 'By the Left. Eyes Right' from the WVNA to the Bendigo Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum

2019 'GEO: The Art of the Collection' exhibition, Foyer Gallery, ANU School of Art & Design

2019 Donation of 'Mortar Fire Mission' to Soldier On's National Fundraising Ball Silent Auction

2019 ANVAM's IVAE18 exhibition tours to Melbourne (mid-late October 2019), opposite the Shrine of Remembrance

2019 ANVAM's IVAE18 exhibition tours to Canberra as part of the Veterans' Film Festival, 6-9 November 2019

2020 Official sketchbook artist of the Brooklyn Art Library, which can be found on the shelves with a call number of: 407.4-4

2020 VSW14 Fine Art Studio Methods, Curtin University (HD)

2020 VSW100 Art & Creativity, Curtin University (HD)

2020 Finalist in Gunning's Art Festival Picture House Art Prize https://gunningartsfestival.wishpondpages.com/the-picture-house-art-prize-2020/

2020 Participating in the 100 ARTWORKS for a KOALA project https://livingwithkoalas.com.au/100-artworks-for-a-koala/

2020 Participated in RSL Woden's Veterans' Art Program

2020 Creation of Stop Motion Animation "War & Peace" to support PTSD awareness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ho2wk0yfYQ

2020 Finalist in the Ginninderry Drawing Prize

2020 Veterans Art Grid Square Exhibition - Deception Bay Library, 1st December 2020-29th January 2021

2020 Veterans Art Artist Profile

2020 ADF ARRTS 20.1 Program

2020 Exhibition at Gundaroo Colonial Inn

2021 Belconnen Arts Centre 'Traces V' exhibition

2021 Light & Dark 2021 fundraising exhibition - donation of Grid Square artworks to 42 for 42

2021 Finalist in the Gunning Picture House Art Prize

2021 Member: ADF Creative Arts Association (and volunteered as web manager)

2021 Belconnen Arts Centre's 'Place - Unframed' exhibition

2022 Selected for Adelaide Fringe Festival's ADFCAA Exhibition: 'Defending the Arts: contemporary works by members of the ADF'

2022 Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership & CAAL Military Philosophy Roundtable exhibition - 29 August 2022

2022 Wildcare 30th Anniversary Art exhibition, Rusden House Art Centre - 02-24 September 2022

2023 PERSONA - Contemporary Veteran Artists: Volume 1 officially launched at Admiralty House - 20 February 2023

2023 Selected for Adelaide Fringe Festival's ADFCAA Exhibition: 'Defending the Arts: contemporary works by members of the ADF'

2023 Commenced PhD by Creative Practice at the University of New England - Link to Survey 1

2023 Winner of the 2023 UNE RPC Artwork Competition

2023 'ADF to V of Creative Conversations' at Australian Parliament House by @anvam310

2024 ADF Creative Arts Association's 'Defending the Arts' exhibition at ANVAM's Festival of Veterans' Arts (FOVA) - 15-24 March 2024

2024 Winner of the 2024 UNE RPC Artwork Competition

2024 Hand in Hand: Peace with Justice Exhibition, Armidale Art Gallery

Various Classes: Scratchboard, Rainforest Drawing & Cyanotypes, Watercolour study of magpies, Cartooning, Life Drawing, Acrylic Inks, Pottery, Woodcuts, Linocuts, Screen-printing, Leatherwork, traditional paint making workshop, Maori bone and wood carving, stop motion animation.

Various Commissions including: portraits, landscapes, calendars, greeting cards, bedroom wall mural, children’s décor mixed media paintings, community and private murals, ball decorations, mailboxes, jewellery, masquerade ball masks, tee-shirt & tattoo designs, designing colouring-in competitions, school recipe book, school prize giving program, scratchboards of pets, children's book illustration, and event posters.

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