thanks!
i got it to work, there was one extra step (comments on more efficient methods welcomed)
i added page.php to the child theme folder, i added the acceptable names (for me ‘EXHIBITIONS’,’Exhibitions’,’exhibitions’ to the child theme version of the page.php file.
when i did this it still wasn’t calling the cv-style from the parent theme, so i just copied the div.cv-style code from the resume to the child theme .css and it works just fine now (so far).
cheers, s