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Melinda Schawel
Born 1970, Illinois, USA
Education
1996 Postgraduate Degree, Fine Arts (Honours) in Printmaking, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1993 BA, Fine Arts and Communication Studies (Honours), University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Weightless, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2023 Light as a Feather, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2022 Restraint, Flinders Lane Gallery
2020 Unravelling, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2020 The Flip Side, Flinders Lane Gallery
2019 Summertime in the Mountains, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2018 Boundless, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair with Wagner Contemporary
2018 Second Chances, Flinders Lane Gallery
2017 Silver Lining, Beaver Galleries
2017 Higher Ground II, Hill Smith Gallery
2017 Higher Ground, Wagner Contemporary
2016 Protected, Flinders Lane Gallery
2015 Out From Under Me, Hill Smith Gallery
2014 Traverse, Flinders Lane Gallery
2014 Traverse, Artspace Mackay Regional Gallery, Qld
2012 Torn, Flinders Lane Gallery
2009 Full Circle, Flinders Lane Gallery
2006 Out of Touch, Flinders Lane Gallery
2003 Lingua Franca, Global Art Source, Zürich, Switzerland
2000 Recent Works, Flinders Lane Gallery
1999 Etched, Helengory Galerie, Prahran
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, finalist, South Australia Art Museum, SA
2024 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, finalist, PLC, Sydney
2023 WAMA Environmental Art Prize finalist, Ararat Gallery TAMA, VIC
2022 Omnia Art Prize, finalist, St Kevin’s College, Toorak, VIC
2021 Spark, Explore Online, Sydney Contemporary with Wagner Contemporary
2021 Return, Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize, finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2020 Of Colour and Light 2020 Women Abstract Artists’ Biennial, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2020 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, finalist
2019 Paper: Cut, Stain, Fold, Press, Beaver Galleries
2018 Collins Place Summer Prize, Melbourne
2018 Subterrain, The Organic Sublime, FLG POPup, Collins Place, Melbourne
2018 Art Central Hong Kong International Art Fair with Hill Smith Gallery, HK
2017 Whyalla Art Prize, finalist, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide & Adelaide Airport, SA
2017 Denfair, with Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Convention Centre
2017 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, finalist & People's Choice Award
2016 Works on Paper, Hill Smith Gallery
2016 Of Colour & Light, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, VIC
2016 The Nillumbik Prize, finalist, Montsalvat
2015 Magical, Neospace, Collingwood, VIC
2015 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
2015 Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation V, Wagner Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2015 The Nillumbik Prize, finalist, Montsalvat
2015 Roots & Wings with Belinda Fox, Beaver Galleries, ACT
2015 Direction Now, Wagner Gallery
2014 The Portrait Show, Flinders Lane Gallery
2013 The Nillumbik Prize, finalist, Montsalvat
2013 Grounded, Australian High Commission, Singapore
2012 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2010 Four Squared, Gallery S.P.A.C.E., Savannah, GA, USA
2009 Obra Grafica Murtra Edicions, Collegid'Aparelladors, Barcelona (Mataró), Spain
2009 Four Squared, University Gallery, UNF, USA
2009 20Plus, Flinders Lane Gallery
2009 Paper Works, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2008 Surface Tension, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007 50, Exchange Folio, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
2006 Melbourne Art Fair with Flinders Lane Gallery
2006 Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre, Melbourne
2006 Slowly, Slowly, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2005 Art Sydney 05, Sydney
2005 Up to Speed, Beaver Galleries, ACT
2003 Del Mar, Kulturbüro Schaufensterprogramm, Bern, Switzerland
2003 Grafik und mehr, Galerie Vostry, Erfurt, Germany
2002 Works on Paper, Global Art Source, Zürich
2002 Land-line, Port Jackson Press Australia, Fitzroy
2002 Crossroads, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, VIC
2002 Confluence, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, VIC
2002 Sojourn, Beaver Galleries, ACT
Awards & Residencies
2016 Residency, The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria
2015 Residency, Chiang Mai Art on Paper Workshop, Chiang Mai Thailand
2012 Residency, Whitsunday Anglican School, MacKay, Australia
2004 Residency, Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium
2002 Colour Intaglio workshop at La Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro, Mallorca, Spain
2002 Recipient of Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant (NAVA), Australia
Fine Art Publishers
2006-7 Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
2003-4 Murtra Edicions, Arenys de Munt, Spain
Selected Collections/Commissions
St Vincent’s Hospital (Vic, Aus), City of Whitehorse (Vic), Felton Studio (NSW, Aus), City of Casey (Vic), Geelong Regional Gallery (Vic), Ritz Carlton (Fla, USA), Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp (Belgium), Frans Masereel Centre of Graphic Arts (Belgium), National Gallery of Australia (ACT, Aus), Artbank (NSW), Crown Towers Perth (WA, Aus), Charles Sturt University (NSW), Phillips Fox Lawyers (ACT), Mori Buildings (Tokyo, Japan), Dubai Address Downtown (UAE), Stockland Development (NSW), Grand Hyatt (Philippines)
Bibliography
Lei, Celina, So You Want My Arts Job: Paper Artist, Arts Hub 18-03-2024.
Grishin, Sasha, Melinda Schawel's Unravelling at Beaver Galleries Has Subtle Nuances, Canberra Times, 20-8-2020.
Sakkas, Helen, www.theartiststory.com.au, Aug 2020.
Cousins, Kerry-Anne, Many Magical Ways to Use Paper, Canberra Times, 16-08-2019.
McKenzie, Helen, Under 10K, Sydney Contemporary special ed., Art Collector Magazine, 2018.
Davies, Bridget, Do More Art. INK, Laurence King Publishing Limited, London, UK 2019.
Grishin, Sasha, Melinda Schawel's Silver Lining exhibition at Beaver Galleries is attractive & charming, Canberra Times, 13-11-2017.
Dunnill, Anna, Higher Ground II, Art Guide, May/June Issue 2017.
McCulloch, Alex, The Arts Show, 100.7 FM radio program & podcast, 09-03-2017.
Gall, Naomi, Exhibitions Not to Be Missed, Art Collector Magazine, Jan-Mar 2017 Issue 79.
Krysa, Danielle, The Jealous Curator arts blog Jul 2016.
Sweet, Sara, Artist Profile Magazine, Issue 33, 11-11-2015.
Grishin, Sasha, Two Unique Responses to Nature at Beaver, The Canberra Times, 5-6-2015.
Brown, Marguerite, Traverse, visual.artshub.com.au, 8-4-2014.
Walton, Natalie, Daily Imprint art & design blog, dailyimprint.com.au, 27-9-2012.
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