Studio: The Historic Old Courthouse Cnr Roderick and East Sts Ipswich Phone: 0449 067 171 Email: sharondraws@bigpond.com Web: sharonmckenzieartist.com
FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS
2017 Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Qld 2006 Part completed Graduate Diploma in Education, QUT 1998 Graduate Diploma in Painting, QCA 1996 Bachelor in Fine Art (major-Illustration) QCA 1993 Cert in Art and Design, Morningside TAFE
PRIZES
2017 Highly commended, Clayton Utz Art Award Drawing 2nd prize, Ipswich Art Awards 2016 Highly Commended, Ipswich Art Awards 2014 Winner, The Wayne Kratzmaan Award, The Qld Regional Art Awards through Flying Arts 2012 Highly Commended, Ipswich Art Awards Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2D
COLLECTIONS The Ipswich Art Gallery The Wayne Kratzmaan Collection
2013 Regional Arts Development funded project “Endangered”
WORKSHOPS
2014 Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign courses various, The Edge Qld 2013 Type by Hand at Shillington College Botanical Art at Brisbane Institute of Art Master class in painting with Pam Tippet at Lismore Art Space
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Consumed, The Crows Nest Regional Gallery, Qld 2014 Endangered, The Ipswich Community Gallery, Ipswich 2012 Drawing Fetish, The Swich Contemporary Art Space I.D. , The Old Courthouse Gallery, Ipswich ReBoot, Off the Kerb Gallery, Melbourne 2011 Permanent: tattoos and identity, The Old Courthouse Gallery Ipswich
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Ipswich Artists: from the collection Ipswich Art Gallery 2017 Clayton Utz Art Award Curios? at the Qld Museum and Science Centre 2016 Cream of the Crop Touring Exhibition, Queensland Regional Art Awards Ipswich Art Awards, St Pauls church Hall Ipswich 2015 Vital Signs Touring Exhibition, Queensland Regional Art Awards, Queensland People/Place, Ipswich Community Gallery through Ipswich Art Gallery Ipswich Art Awards, St Pauls Church Hall Ipswich 2014 Ipswich Art Awards, St Pauls Church Hall Ipswich Art Science Exhibition, the Eco Science Precinct, Brisbane 2013 Technotopia, Solerno Gallery with the Cache Collective, Sydney The Ipswich Art Awards, St Pauls Church Hall Ipswich Once Upon a Time, Art and Design Precinct, Brisbane Stimulate the Senses, the Community Gallery, Ipswich Home-grown, The Community Gallery, Ipswich 2012 Ipswich Art Awards, St Pauls Church Hall Ipswich Infused II, the Swich Contemporary Art Space Ipswich The Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2D, Caloundra Regional Gallery Size Matters, the Swich Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich 2011 Size Matters, The Swich Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich Resistance is Futile, the Swich Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich One, The Swich Contemporary Art Space, Ipswich Infused, The Swich Contemporary Art Space Ipswich Ipswich Art Awards, St Pauls Church Hall Ipswich
RESIDENCIES
2010 till current- The Old Courthouse Cultural Association Artist in Residence, Historic Courthouse, Ipswich March 2015 Jugglers Art Space Fortitude Valley Qld September 2015 Gunyah Residency North Arm Cove NSW