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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
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
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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.
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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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Art Activities:
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Nature journal sketching at the Australian National Botanic Gardens
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'Drawn In' life drawing sessions at the National Portrait Gallery
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International Nature Journaling Week 2020
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Contribution to Hawarden Area School mural
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Photographed for ANVAM's Persona Series
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Urban Sketchers (USK) Canberra
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Children's book pitch (unsuccessful)
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New England Illustration Prize (unsuccessful)
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Napier Waller Art Prize 2022 (unsuccessful)
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Children's book illustrations commission
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Conducted an art class for the military spouses of those attending the Chief of Army's Land Forum - 4th October 2022
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ANVAM's Persona Volume 1 goes live online
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Botanical Monoprinting
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Inktober 2023
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(Click on the in-text links for more details & pictures, also see blog for more details around recent events and activities)
Image: Persona, an ANVAM and Michael Christofas collaboration
