Gria Shead

GRIA SHEAD
IN AND OUT

Gria Shead’s work describes worlds-in-worlds and the thing-in-itself, whether she is capturing a moment in a well-known room in a house of her own or a salon in Monte Carlo’s casino—or a fragment of a life-story that warrants her unique investigation.

With a complex palette and consummate composition skills, Gria interrogates history to reveal the multivalent roles that women play in the formation of cultural identity, regardless of reduction, or she will turn to a moment and location in space and time to render tranquillity and the essence of inspiration.

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Born 1972

Lives and works in Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2019 En Plein Air - Nanda\Hobbs Sydney

2016 La Belle Epoque ~ Casinos and Cigars Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney

2015 Gold Dust - Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney

2014 Just Us - Australian High Commission Residence, Singapore

2014 Flash Kate - Nanda\Hobbs Sydney

2013 Damned Whores on a Fatal Shore - Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney 

2012 In the House - Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 

2011 She Is - James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 

2010 See That Woman - Tim Olsen Annex, Sydney 

2009 A Home on the Goldfields - The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney

2008 Once upon a time - James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 

2007 New Paintings - Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney

2006 From the Garden - Solander Gallery, Canberra 

2006 New Paintings - Lolli Redini’s, Orange, NSW 

2005 A Country Childhood - Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne

2004 Home - Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney 

2000 Paris to Sydney - Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney 

1996 It’s not easy being green - Selborne Chambers, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2021 Storylines - Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2021 National Art Part One - Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2021 National Art Part One - Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

2021 Place - Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney

2020 This is now - Grainger Gallery, Canberra

2020 Home - AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell N.S.W

2020 Myth - Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney 2019 Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne, Wales UK

2019 - 2020 Symbiosis - Informality Gallery, Henley on Thames, UK

2019 - 2020 Nanda Hobbs Summer Show, Sydney

2019 Fresh Art Fair - Ascot UK

2018 National Art - Part One, National Art School, Sydney NSW

2017-2018 Summer exhibition - Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney

2017 AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW

2017 Walcha Art Gallery, Walcha, NSW

2017 The Hill End Table Bathurst Regional art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW

2016 Meroogal Womens Art Prize

2015 Brave New World Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney

2014 Journeys West, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW

2013 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore

2012 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore

2011 Erotica Group Show, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2011 PRASAD Summer Auction, National Trust, Sydney

011 Jane Goodall's Saving Our Forests—Trees of Life exhibition.

2011 Harper’s Mansion Art Prize

2011 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize

2010 Art Melbourne, Melbourne Art Fair

2010 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

2010 Zoo Air, Taronga Zoo Artists-in-Residence, University of Newcastle

2010 Zoo Air, Sotheby’s, Sydney

2010 'The painted chairs', Sydney PEN, Ken Done Gallery, Sydney

2009 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

2009 Artists of Hill End, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

2009 Autumn Collection, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2008 Food For Thought, NG Art Gallery, Sydney

2007 Nature Morte, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2006 Art Melbourne, Melbourne Art Fair

2006 Art Sydney, Sydney Art Fair

2005 Bookscapes, Port Jackson Press Print Room, Vic.

2004 ASX Reuter’s Charity Auction

2003 Festival on Forbes, SCEGGS Art Show, Sydney

2003 Shell Fremantle Print Award, Prints and Artists’ Books, WA

1998 La Pommerie, Saint Settiers, France

1996 Testimony - New Parliament House, Canberra

1996 'Alumnation’, National Art School, Sydney

1996 St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Sydney

1995 St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Sydney

1994 Recent Graduates Exhibition, Cell Block Gallery, Sydney

1994 Functional Art, 10 Taylor St Gallery, Sydney

Prizes

2017 Finalist Manning Art Prize

2016 Finalist Meroogal Womens Art Prize

2011 Finalist, Harper’s Mansion Art Prize

2011 Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

2010 Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

2009 Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

2007 Finalist, Mosman Art Prize

1994 Prize for Printmaking, National Art School

1991 First Prize for Drawing, National Art School

1984 Finalist, Canberra Fashion Awards

Collections :

Sidney Nolan Trust

National Art School

Ballarat Art Gallery

University of Sydney

Private collections in Australia, US, UK and Southeast Asia

Publications

2018 National Art - Part One, National Art School, Sydney NSW

2017 The Hill End Table - Food Fire Art - Lino Alvarez with Kim Deacon

2014 Cover for Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police—eBook edition

2013 Limited edition of 6 original Jose Posada woodblocks (one set held in The Art Gallery of Ballarat).

2013 ‘Radio with Pictures’, Sydney Opera House collaborative project with Claudia Karven, based on Patti Miller’s The Mind of a Thief 2012 Artists in Collaboration HHT (Historic Houses Trust)—Set of 8 prints from Vaucluse House Paintings (exhibited 2012, Tim Olsen Gallery)

Robert Adamson, Mulberry Leaves—New and selected poems 1970–2001—poetry accompanying Just another day in paradise, 11 etchings by Gria Shead

2011 Critical Moments - essays and reviews on Art in Australia by Jeff Makin

Articles

Art Collector - Ashley Crawford, Collecting For the Diary Oct-Dec 2016

The Art of Healing Magazine - The Kate Kelly Story

Forbes Advocate - Kate’s Tale, 17 July 2014

Sydney Morning Herald - 5 July 2014, The Forgotten Kelly (Ralph Hobbs).

The Age - July 2014, The Forgotten Kelly (Ralph Hobbs).

Vault Magazine - Issue 4, August 2013 Subject of Desire: Investigating the Influence of Women in Australian Art History (Ralph Hobbs)

Daily Telegraph - Heart of Darkness 2013 (Elizabeth Fortescue).

Oyster Magazine - Issue #102, 2013 Silence (Alicia Alexander).

Belle Magazine - May 2012 In the House (Alex Speed).