Shannon Smiley

Shannon Smiley was born in Melbourne, Australia, 1977

Artist Statement
As an artist who deals with the landscape as a subject for paintings, I see my practice as a response to both a predilection for the tradition of landscape painting and a questioning of the inherent values within it. In my work I depict specifically the neglected and overgrown niches found in the urban environment and am looking for, via lived experience the sentiment of the idyll.

Education

2007
Bachelor Fine Arts (Honours) Victorian College of the Arts

2002
Diploma of Visual Art, Victoria University TAFE

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Across From the Path, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2011
Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2010
Level 17 Art space, Victoria University, Melbourne, “Wilderlust”
Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne, “Ordinary World”

Group Exhibitions
2017
'Uneasy Idyll', Art Central Hong Kong for Hill Smith Gallery Booth

2015
The Lay of the Land, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Somewhere in the City, Arts Projects, Melbourne
Tattersall's Club Landscape, Art Prize, Brisbane
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne
Salon des Refuses Exhibition, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Salon des Refuses Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
John Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania

2014
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale,

2013
Chapman & Baily Gallery, "We Are Here"
West Space, Melbourne, "The Sixth Sense"

2012
Melbourne Art Fair, Hill Smith Gallery
Paradise Hills Gallery Melbourne, “High Definition”

2010
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, John Leslie Art Prize, “The Vision Splendid - Beauty in the Natural World”
Not Fair  (Art Fair) 2010, Richmond, Melbourne

2009
Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne, “Seppuku”

2008
Level 17 Art Space, Victoria University, Melbourne, “The Road Less Travelled”
Brunswick Arts ARI, Brunswick, Melbourne, “B Grade”
Level 17 Art Space, Victoria University, Melbourne “Re Connect”

2007
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Graduate Exhibition
Student Gallery, VCA, Melbourne, “Hungry Like the Wolf”

2006
Spectrum Project Space, Perth, “Thinning Distance”
Viewing Space ARI Gallery, Melbourne, “What Now”
Margret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne, finalists of the Wallara Travelling Scholarship

2005
Radnor Street Tenement Flat, Glasgow

2003
69 Smith Street Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne “Dreamtracing”

Awards

2015
Finalist, John Glover Art Prize
Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
Winner, People's Choice, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize

2014
Winner, John Leslie Art Prize

2012
Finalist, Metro Art Prize

2010
Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize

2007
Rosemary Ricker Award

2006
Rosemary Ricker Award
Roger Kemp Memorial Art Prize
Finalist, Wallara Travelling Scholarship

2002
Caroline Williams Award

Commissions

2007
Portrait of Eric Lund, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Technology, (1991-95)