Biography
Shaelene Murray's sculpture speaks of history, experience, nostalgia, gender and society.
She studied and taught ceramics at East Sydney Technical College, obtaining a First Class Honours Degree in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in 1995.
In 2000 Shaelene was a speaker at the Glass Art Society Conference in New York. She exhibited in 'Soft Sculpture' at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009 and was a finalist in the Wynne Prize in 2013.
An exhibitor of sculpture nationally and internationally 2016 saw Shaelene longlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize in the UK and a finalist in the 2017 Deakin Small Sculpture Prize and 2018 The University of Western Sydney Sculpture Prize.
Shaelene is represented by the Stanley Street Gallery
Education
1992-1995 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours, First Class) Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1991 Creative Jewellery, Randwick TAFE, Sydney NSW
1988 Post-Certificate, Ceramics, East Sydney TAFE, NSW
1987 Ceramics Certificate, East Sydney TAFE, NSW
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Kin, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW
2013 A Tracing of Thread, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW
2005 Bouquet, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2005 Ironic Inversion, Glass Art Society Conference, Lions Art Centre, Adelaide, SA
1998 Home on the Range, Centre for Contemporary Craft, Customs House, Sydney, NSW
1995 New Professional Grant Exhibition, Craftspace, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 University of Western Sydney Sculpture Prize, finalist, Campbelltown, NSW
2017 On point, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW
2017 Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, finalist, VIC
2016 Salon of Infectious Ideas, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW
2016 Aesthetica Art prize, Longlisted, York St Marys, York, UK
2015 The Kennedy Prize, Foundation Choice Finalist, Kidman Park, SA
2015 Portraits, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW
2015 sPIN, Australian National Capital Artist's Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2014 Finalist Kennedy Prize - SA
2013 Wynne Prize – finalist, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2009 Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
2004 Sister Sister, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
2003 City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart TAS
2002 Bag that! Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
2002 Guild Unlimited, touring to Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh UK for the Craft in the Twenty First Century;
xxxxx Theorising Change and Practice conference
1998 Past Tense – Future Perfect, National Emerging Artists’ Show, Craft West and Fremantle Arts Centre for Contemporary Craft,
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1992 Wearable Glass, Asa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Fifth International Triennial of Ceramics, Sopot, Poland
1990 National Ceramics Award Exhibition, Canberra, ACT
Collections
East Sydney Technical College
International and National Private Collections
Manly Gallery, NSW
The Barbara and Oscar Feldman Collection, Detroit, MI, USA
Selected Publications
2013 Art Almanac Exhibition Brief, 26 March 2013
2013 “it is what it is – beyond the debate”, featured exhibitions, artwhatson.com.au, June 2013
Career Development
2013 Speaker, Artist Panel, Wynne Prize Finalist, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
2000 Emerging Artist, Speaker, Glass Art Society of America Conference, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, USA