Susan Simonini
SOLO EXHIBITION
Susan Simonini is a multi-disciplinary artist, who completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Griffith University and has exhibited widely for over two decades. Several years ago, a move to rural Tasmania provided Susan with a wealth of inspiration, and she is now re-examining themes of place and belonging that have been a constant thread in her work. Her abstract paintings are a series of layered and textured impressions of the gridded agricultural landscape and the geometric forms that appear within this landscape, that allow for the aggregation of moments of light and shadow, perspective and time, that all combine to inform Susan’s experience of and connection to the place she now calls home.
Susan’s work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Gold Coast City Art Gallery and The Mater Hospital and the Etsy Art Collection. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Border Art Prize and the Gold Coast Art and Design Awards, and has been a finalist in the prestigious Glover Prize and the Churchie Emerging Art Prize.
SUSAN SIMONINI CV
EDUCATION
2004 - 2008 Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2011 Graduate Diploma of Education
2018 Certificate IV in Ceramics, Tasmanian College of TAFE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Road to Somewhere – Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
2017 Double Happy – Paperboat Press, Brisbane, Qld
2009 Something More - 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Mermaid Beach, Qld Goddess in Suburbia - Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2008 Suburbium - Schubert Contemporary, Main Beach, Qld
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Locals – Australasian Invitational show, Outre Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2022 Locals – Australasian Invitational Show, Outre Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Vanguard – International Invitational Show, Outre Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
The Affordable Art Fair (Sketch Collective Gallery), Sydney and Melbourne
Ten, Paper Boat Press, Brisbane, Qld
2019 Manifest - The Art, Craft and Design of Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Featured exhibition of the 15th Australian Ceramics Triennale, Princes Wharf, Hobart, Tasmania
Endemic Earth – Contemporary Ceramics, Kingborough Community Hub, Kingston, Tasmania
Landscape and Memory – AK Bellinger Gallery, NSW
2016 Beyond the Surface, New Textiles and Ceramics, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Qld Still, Life, Paperboat Press, Brisbane, Qld
2010 Lightmares Exhibition and Residency, 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Qld 2008 After The Rain, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW
2006 Sold, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld
Interchange – Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld
SELECTED AWARDS AND PRIZES
2023 Finalist – The Glover Prize, Launceston, Tasmania
2022 Finalist – The Glover Prize, Launceston, Tasmania Finalist – The Henry Jones Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2021 Finalist – The Henry Jones Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2020 Finalist – Tidal.20 City of Devonport Art Prize, Devonport, Tasmania
2010 Shortlisted for Gold Coast University Hospital Public Art Project (managed by Urban Art Projects, Brisbane)
2009 Overall Winner, Emmanuel College Art Award, Gold Coast Finalist, CPM National Print Awards
2008 Finalist – Launch, Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship
2007 Winner, Border Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery First Prize, Queensland Villages Acquisitive Art Prize, Brisbane First Prize, 2D Section, Gold Coast Art and Design Awards Finalist – Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition
RESIDENCIES
2020 Arts Tasmania Education Residency and Grant, Launceston Church Grammar School
2019 Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery, Tasmania
COLLECTIONS
Etsy Art Collection, Etsy Headquarters, Brooklyn, New York
Mater Private Hospital Collection, Brisbane Qld Gold Coast City Art Gallery Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane