Genevieve always wanted to be a Sculptor, but her family wanted her to be a Nurse. Making sculpture wasn’t seen as a good career option, and Genevieve’s family would not have their only daughter going to the big city (Hobart) as they knew no one there to take care of her.
Halfway through her nursing training, Genevieve moved to Perth, Western Australia with her husband and baby daughter.
After 11 wonderful years in Western Australia and two more children Genevieve and her husband moved to Hobart for 9 years then onto Melbourne in 1994.

It was through Genevieve’s daughter choosing to do her Fine Art Degree at Hobart University, that stimulated Genevieve to finally have a go at following her life-time desire to make art.
Genevieve completed her visual diploma at Box Hill Tafe (majoring in Painting)
Then went on to complete her Fine Art Degree at RMIT. (majoring in Drawing)

Finally Genevieve rented her own studio space and immediately began making sculptural work. She had come full circle, through her art studies, and sculpture has been the best format for her natural talent to express itself.

The attraction to pattern and fabrics and a quirky idea, led to her winning her first prize in sculpture at Yering Station Sculpture Awards, the year after completing her fine art degree. This has given her the confidence to go onto bigger and more detailed works using many different mediums, and to develop her many different ideas into full sculptural installations.

Genevieve enjoys combining mediums such as fabric, faux furs, wax, wire, paper mache and foam. These new medias, allow Genevieve to shape and define her work in a wonderful textural way, being quirky, imaginative and somewhat kitsch, she playfully morphs ideas of fauna and flora together, to express her concepts, making visually beautiful objects and environments.
She also loves to employ knitted or crocheted elements in her work. All these different mediums allow her to create wonderful opposing definitions and textures through the works.

Genevieve is currently constructing a new body of work for her first solo show later this year.