Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Master of Fine Art (Drawing), National Art School, Sydney
  • Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
  • Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours), University of Canberra

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2025 The weight of her, Firstdraft, Sydney
  • 2025 Concrete, shroud, text, 4th Wall, Sydney
  • 2024 INCREMENT, Wentworth Galleries, Sydney
  • 2021 Close, Glassroom Projects, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2019 Entropy, Scratch Art Space, Sydney
  • 2011 Schematic, Paper Plane Gallery, Sydney
  • 2003 Wash, Newspace, Sydney

Select Group Exhibitions

  • 2026 EARTH, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
  • 2025 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Art (Arbor 4), Articulate Project Space, Sydney
  • 2025 Immersion, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2025 Present/Place, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth
  • 2025 Drawing (Paper) Show '25, Indie-Biennial Liverpool, UK
  • 2025 Fenestration, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 Walk/Create, Atelier des Empreintes, Montsoreau, France
  • 2024 Parallel, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 Monuments of Nature, Red Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2024 GRAPHITE, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 New Abstraction, Wentworth Galleries, Sydney
  • 2023 SOUND AS FORM / Saskia Shearer & Belinda Yee, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2023 Drawing in Relation, Loughborough University - Drawing Research Network, UK (online)
  • 2023 The Aesthetics of Silence, Hazelhurst Gallery, Sydney
  • 2023 DRAW, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
  • 2023 Care Structures, M16 Gallery, Canberra
  • 2022 Retrograde // Anterograde, Airspace Projects, Sydney
  • 2022 Postgrad Show, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2022 The Aesthetics of Silence, Goodspace, Sydney
  • 2021 You think you have something to tell me, Articulate Project Space, with Terry Hayes, Margaret Roberts and Aude Parichot
  • 2021 1+2 Postgraduate Drawing, The Drawing Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2021 mov.doc (decade show), Articulate Project Space, Sydney
  • 2021 Chronolinea, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2021 Threaded Charcoal, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2020 Contingence, Scratch Art Space, Sydney
  • 2020 Proximity, Articulate Project Space, Sydney

Prizes

  • 2026 Wyndham Art Prize (finalist), Melbourne
  • 2025 M16 Drawing Prize (winner - People's Choice Award), Canberra
  • 2025 Kedumba Prize (finalist), Blue Mountains
  • 2025 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award (finalist), Sydney
  • 2025 Omnia Art Prize (finalist), Melbourne
  • 2025 St Columba's Art Prize (finalist), Blue Mountains
  • 2024 Paul Guest Prize (finalist), Bendigo
  • 2024 JADA - Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (finalist), Grafton
  • 2024 Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart (finalist)
  • 2024 ART/EDIT magazine (#39) Self-Represented Artist Prize (winner), Australia
  • 2024 Mandorla Art Prize (finalist), Perth
  • 2024 North Sydney Art Prize (finalist), Sydney
  • 2024 Greenway Prize (finalist), Sydney
  • 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize (finalist), Muswellbrook
  • 2023 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Prize (finalist), Sydney
  • 2023 Environmental Art and Design Prize (Winner - Paper and Photography), Sydney
  • 2023 Burwood Art Prize (finalist), Sydney
  • 2023 Footscray Prize (finalist), Melbourne
  • 2023 Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Prize (finalist), Melbourne
  • 2022 Fisher's Ghost Art Award (finalist), Sydney
  • 2022 Arts in the Valley (finalist), Nowra
  • 2022 National Works on Paper Prize (finalist), Mornington Peninsula
  • 2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award (finalist), Sydney
  • 2022 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize (finalist), Sydney
  • 2022 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (finalist), Sydney
  • 2021 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Prize (finalist), Sydney
  • 2019 M16 Drawing Prize (finalist), Canberra
  • 2019 Northern Beaches Art Prize (finalist), Sydney

Curatorial Prizes

  • 2023 Imagine Awards - MAGIC SAUCE / Locust Jones at DRAW Space, Sydney (finalist)

Curatorial Projects

  • 2026 Alex Karaconji & Daniel Elliott / HERE & THERE presented simultaneously at Tamworth Regional Gallery outdoor projection gallery and DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2025 Laith MacGregor / DRAWING PARALLELS: A Conversation, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 Linda Matthews / Disrupting the Architectural Drawing, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 International Performance Drawing Series, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 GRAPHITE, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2024 Studio ARTES / A KIND OF MAGIC, co-curated + Amelia Skelton & Rowan Yeomans, DRAW Space
  • 2023 Tania Lou Smith / MOVING FREELY, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2023 Locust Jones / MAGIC SAUCE, DRAW Space, Sydney
  • 2021 1+2, The Drawing Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2021 Chronolinea, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
  • 2020 Contingence, Scratch Art Space, Sydney

Published Writing and Conference Papers

  • 2026 "Gesture Towards Haptic Attunement" in Art+Australa, Melbourne
  • 2024 "Sound Drawing" in Drawing, Theory, Research, Practice, Issue 10.1, UK
  • 2024 "SOUND AS FORM: Exploring Percussive Drawing and the Material Dynamics of Auditory Mark-Making," 8th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, Sydney
  • 2024 "Spotlight on Emerging Artist - Alison Smith" in Booker Magazine, Issue 002
  • 2024 "Spotlight on Emerging Artist – Chrystal Rimmer" in Booker Magazine, Issue 002

Other Writing

  • 2023 "A Duration Between Two Points - Tania Lou Smith" at drawspace.org (2023), https://drawspace.org/past-exhibitions-and-events/tania-lou-smith
  • 2023 "Sound as Form / PERCUSSIVE DRAWING" at drawspace.org (2023), https://drawspace.org/past-exhibitions-and-events/percussive-drawing
  • 2022 Masters Exegesis – "Drawing Time Through Matter: Reframing Experiences of Time Through an Expanded Practice in Drawing," available at National Art School
  • 2020 "Drawing Now" at contingence.com

Interviews

  • 2026 Arts Thursday, interviewed by Paula Towers, Eastside FM, Sydney (18 June)
  • 2025 Talk Drawing, interviewed by Collette Lilley, Instagram @talk.drawing, UK
  • 2024 Sympoiesis, interviewed by Ira Ferris, Eastside FM, Sydney (28 October)
  • 2024 Thursday Drive, interviewed by Nina Drakalovic, Eastside FM (January)
  • 2023 dither_, interviewed by Thomas Kusturin (June)
  • 2023 Arts Monday, interviewed by Ira Ferris, Eastside.fm (17 June)
  • 2023 Art.Wank, interviewed by Julie Nicholson and Fiona Verity (June)

Grants and Residencies

  • 2026 North Sydney Artist Studio Residency, Sydney
  • 2023 ArtsPay Foundation Individual Grant, Melbourne (winner)
  • 2022 Fringe Festival Artist in Residence, Sydney

Collections

  • National Art School, Sydney
  • Capella Group, Sydney
  • Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth
  • Private collections in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe

Arts Organisations

  • Founder, DRAW STORE (online), Sydney (2022 - ongoing)
  • Co-founder and Director, DRAW Space, Sydney (2022 - 2026)
  • Educator, Drawing and Painting – City of Parramatta, Sydney (2024-2025)
  • Associate Board Member, Articulate Project Space, Sydney (2021)
  • Sessional Lecturer, Drawing – University of Canberra, Canberra (1990-1991)

Bibliography

  • 2026 Wyndham Art Prize Catalogue, Victoria
  • 2025 Hazelhurst Prize Catalogue, Sydney
  • 2025 Omnia Art Prize Catalogue, Melbourne
  • 2025 Kedumba Prize Catalogue, Blue Mountains
  • 2024 Paul Guest Prize Catalogue, Bendigo
  • 2024 JADA Catalogue, Grafton
  • 2024 “Compassion and Community – Belinda Yee,” in Art / Edit, Issue #39 (2024)
  • 2024 Hadley’s Art Prize Catalogue, Hobart
  • 2024 Mandorla Art Award Catalogue, Perth
  • 2024 Musswellbrook Art Prize Catalogue, Musswellbrook
  • 2023 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Catalogue, Sydney
  • 2023 What’s on Living Arts, Locust Jones / MAGIC SAUCE (7 June)
  • 2022 National Works on Paper Prize Catalogue, Mornington Peninsula
  • 2022 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Catalogue, Sydney