About
Fleurieu Peninsula Emerging Artist
Donna is an interdisciplinary artist and intermodal arts therapist whose practice spans visual art, movement, sound, poetry, play, drama, textiles, installation, photography, and video. Grounded in the belief that art is a form of knowing, her work explores the intuitive, embodied, and atmospheric dimensions of human experience, with a focus on connection and communication between ourselves, others, and the world.
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Having made art throughout her life, Donna formally committed to establishing her professional art practice in 2022. Alongside this, she brings over 15 years of experience supporting people as an arts therapist, using creative processes as a way to reflect, make meaning, and find healing. These parallel practices inform one another, shaping a deeply relational and process-led approach to both art-making and therapeutic work.
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Donna is also a dancer, poet, and songwriter, and enjoys exploring movement, language and sound as vital forms of expression. She is currently working towards publishing a book of poems. Today, Donna balances life as an artist and arts therapist among other roles, and can often be found visiting galleries locally and interstate.
Artist CV
Education
2026 - Adelaide Central School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art - Adelaide SA
2024 – Richard Claremont landscape workshop – Shell Harbour, NSW 2022 - Alpay Efe portrait workshop - Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 - current - Life Drawing - Port Noarlunga, SA
2020 - 2024 - Panorama art group - Flagstaff Hill, SA
2017- 2022 - Arts Therapy teacher -The Ikon Institute, SA
2016 Masters of Therapeutic arts practice – The MIECAT Institute, VIC
2013 Graduate Diploma of Therapeutic Arts Practice – The MIECAT Institute, VIC 2011 Diploma of Arts Therapy – Phoenix Institute, VIC 2010 Bachelor of Arts – Latrobe University, VIC
2006 Certificate of Fashion Design – Melbourne School of Fashion, VIC
​​ Exhibitions and Commissions 2025 -The Mill - Limitless (Group exhibition)
2024 - Fleurieu Art House - AWE (group exhibition)
2024 Port Noarlunga Art Gallery – Mapping the Landscape – (solo)
2023 Fleurieu Art House – The therapeutic artist (Group exhibition) 2022 Couples portrait in oil (commission)
2022 Claire Valley Portrait prize entrant (Group exhibition)
2018 The wild rose (commission)
2017 Embracing the mother (commission)
2017 Masters Study Exhibition – Intimacy Installation
2017 Stella Art Award entrant (Group exhibition)
2014 The sisterhood (commission)
2014 Precious jewel (commission) ​