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Awards

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​2025 Finalist - Flying Arts Alliance Queensland Regional Artist Awards

2025 Winner– Macquarie Emerging Artist Prize Sydney

2025 First Prize – Facets- Fairholme Open Art Prize Toowoomba Queensland

2024 Local Excellence Award – UniSQ Biennial Art Exhibition University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba

 

Exhibitions

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2025 The Land & It's Psyche- The Art Space Macquarie Group Sydney

2025 National First Nations Weaving Salon - Kurdinthi - Light Square Gallery Adelaide

2025 Curator's Choice - The Toowoomba Gallery Queensland

2025 Facets – Fairholme Open Art Prize Toowoomba Queensland

2024 Park Perspectives - of Southern Queeensland

2024 Connections – University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba

2024 UniSQ Biennial Art Awards – University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba

2024  Other Sites & Destinations – University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba

2024 My Backyard - St Andrew’s Hospital Toowoomba Queensland

2024 Fill Your Eyes – University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba

2023 For Our Elders – The Write Gallery Toowoomba Queensland

2022  Centred – Form to Freedom & Fibre Arts Take Two (Online)

2021  Weaving Connections – Toowoomba Arts Footprint Artist in Residence Project Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery

 

Education

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Current Bachelor of Visual Arts - University of Southern Queensland

2025 Yolŋu Weaving with Milingimbi Arts & Bula 'bula Arts (Ramingining) - Ku Arts Light Square Adelaide

2025 Basket Weaving Workshop with Tjanpi Desert Weavers - Ku Arts Jam Factory Adelaide

2024 Exhibition Storytelling Workshop with Cara-Ann Simpson curator & artist

2023 McGregor School Weaving Workshop Kim Ah Sam – First Nations artist University of Southern Queensland

2022 Form to Freedom – Weaving for Fibre Sculpture Harriet Goodall – Australian artist

2021 Deadly Weavers Workshops Toowoomba Arts Footprint Artist in Residence Project – Felicity Chapman First Nations artist

2021 First Nations Weaving workshops – Barb Menz-Walker Wiradjuri artist and linguist

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I acknowledge the Giabal Jarowair People as traditional custodians of the lands on which I live and work. I also acknowledge the Ngiyampaa Nation and People of my Country,

                                                                                                                                                     and pay respect to all First Nations elders past, present and emerging.                                                                                                                                                                                                   

                  © 2025 by Marisa Ballinger                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Toowoomba Queensland Australia                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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