Nominated for Senior Volunteer, NSW Volunteer of the Year
Nominated for Museums and Galleries NSW Imagination Awards in the category of Individual Achievement: Volunteer, for Services to Sydney Living Museums
2018: Highly Commended - Tasmanian Art Quilt Prize
2006: Artist in Residence for North Sydney Council 2002: Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Award - National Quilt Register website (contributed to original research)
2001:National Sponsorship Awards, Australian Financial Review Magazine , national finalist - Commercial Bravery
2001: Australian Sports Medal for Fundraising - Fundraising Institute of Australia
2001: Commercial Bravery Award, Quilts - Australian Financial Review Magazine
2001: Volunteer of the Year finalist - National Sponsorship Awards
2000:Most Outstanding Fundraising Project for Fundraising - Institute of Australia
2000: Australian Sports Medal for fundraising - Sydney Paralympic Games
1998: Best Member’s Quilt, the Hunters Hill Quilt Show
1996: Best Member’s Quilt, the Hunters Hill Quilt Show
1993/4: Jewel Pearce Patterson International Quilt Teacher Scholarship, Houston, USA,
1993: Best Local Quilt - Hunters Hill Quilt Show Artist in Residence, The Scots School, Albury
1988: Australian Bicentennial Award, Woman of Achievement
1988: Quilt Australia Award in the first national quilt exhibition
JUDGE 2018: Photographic exhibition, Royal North /Shore Hospital
2008: The Quilters Guild Calendar Quilts
2001:Royal Canberra Show, Narrabri Cotton Expo
2000: Melbourne Quilt Show, QUILTS 2000
1996: The Quilters’ Guild Exhibition Melbourne Quilt Exhibition, juror
1995: Chairman of subcommittee to select a quilt for the Atlanta Olympic Committee
1994: Chairman of selectors of Colours of Australia, touring quilt exhibition, member of subcommittee Royal Canberra Show, St Ives Show
1990: Royal Sydney Horticultural and Agricultural Show, St Ives Agricultural Show
1989: Hunters Hill Quilt Show Royal Sydney Horticultural and Agricultural Show
1988: Quilt Australia
VOLUNTARY WORK
2021: Secretary, textiles Sydney
2018: Consultant to Ben Quilty, work with Syrian refugees' life jackets
2012: Arts and Heritage Committee Royal North Shore Hospital, artist representative
2006: 2018 Team leader, Soft Furnishings Group, Sydney Living Museums
2001 -2: Committee, Australian Quilt Study Group
2001: Consultant, Australian Quilt document Register Editor, committee member, Furniture History society of Australia Board member, The Good Age Foundation, Royal North Shore Hospital
1998-2000: Executive, Exhibition Secretary QUILTS 2000, special fundraising project for the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games
1997: Exhibition committee, catalogue for Sydney Quilt Stories at Elizabeth Bay House Historic Houses Trust
1994: Colours Exhibition committee and author of book, The Quilters' Guild
1992: President and Exhibition Secretary, Hunters Hill Quilters
1990: Newsletter editor, Hunters Hill Quilters
1989: Coordinator, community quilts for palliative care ward, Greenwich Hospital
1988 - 2019: Fundraising for charities and museum quilt collections
1986 - 88: President, The Quilters" Guild Convenor, Quilt Australia '88, the first national quilt exhibition
1985:Publicity officer, The Quilters Guild
1984: President, Lane cove Centrehouse Community Arts and Craft Centre
EDUCATION 2001: Diploma in Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diploma in the History of Decorative Arts, University of Sydney, Continuing Education
1996: Workshop with Elisabeth Busch
1993: Workshop with Nancy Crow at the International Quilt Festival, Houston
1988: Colour and design course, School of Colour and Design, Sydney
1983-94: Courses and workshops in colour and design, quiltmaking
1980-82: Learnt quilting in Canada, taking courses and workshops from major teaching artists in Canada and USA
1982: Certificate of Achievement in Fibre Arts, Canada
1980: Diploma of Education (University of Adelaide)