Shelagh Lummis grew up in New Zealand, mainly in Christchurch and Palmerston North. She has lived in Australia since 1973, moving to Newcastle from Sydney in 1986.
ARTS EDUCATION:
Tertiary:
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), University of Newcastle, NSW, 2015
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Newcastle, NSW, 2013
Advanced Diploma of Fine Art, Newcastle Art School, NSW, 2011
AWARDS:
- Finalist, Newcastle Club Foundation Art Prize, 2021
- Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, 2019
- Finalist, Newcastle Club Foundation Art Prize, 2019
- 3rd Prize, 5 Lands Art in the Open Prize, 2019
- Winner, 5 Lands Art in the Open Art Prize, 2018
- Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, 2018
- Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, 2017
- Semi-finalist, NSW Parliament En Plein Air Painting Prize, 2017
- Highly Commended, Newcastle Emerging Artist Prize, 2013
- $1,000 Ford Scholarship, Newcastle Art School (TAFE), 2011
- Sandhills Community Garden Exhibition, Winner People’s Choice Award, 2008
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo:
- 'Southern Reflections'. Art Systems Wickham, NSW, April 2023
- 'Catharsis'. Art Systems Wickham, NSW, May 2021
- ‘Strangers in Paradise’. Art Systems Wickham, NSW, June 2019
- ‘Wet’. Art Systems Wickham, NSW, May 2017
- ‘Of Mist and Illusion’. Art Systems Wickham, NSW, April 2015
- ‘The Promised Land’. Suko Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, August 2014
- ‘Landscape: by Spatial/Special Arrangement’. Watt Space Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW, February 2013
Group:
'Summer Salon 22'. Straitjacket, Broadmeadow, NSW, December 2022
‘Newcastle the Beautiful’. Lighthouse Arts, December 2022
'Clouds 2022'. NAS Gallery, Tighes Hill, September 2022
‘After Fieldwork’. The Owens Collective, June 2022
'A Place in Mind', with Lyn Fabian, Hunter Wetlands Centre, Shortland, NSW, March 2020
‘Gallery 139 at the Owens Collective’, Maitland Road, Islington, NSW, November 2019
‘On Her Shoulders’. Newcastle Art Space, Tighes Hill, NSW, November 2019
‘The Land’, Gallery 139 at Project Gallery 90, Sydney, curated by Kate Hopkinson-Pointer, October 2018
‘What Remains’, Gallery 139, Hamilton, NSW, April 2018.
‘Gallery 139 Presents’. Janet Clayton Gallery, Paddington, NSW, November 2017
‘Genius Loci – Spirit of Place’, Back to Back Galleries, Cooks Hill, NSW, November 2017.
‘Big Bad Land’. Gallery 139, Hamilton, NSW, July 2017
‘Landscape Meditations’. Nanshe Studio Gallery, Hamilton, NSW, June 2016
‘Between the Cracks’. Curve Gallery, 61 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW, June 2016
‘Nexus’. Newcastle Grammar School, Newcastle, NSW, May 2016
‘Nature Stirred’. Gallery 139, Hamilton, NSW, April 2016
‘Dogs in Art’. Gallery 139, Hamilton, NSW, January 2016
‘The Birds’. Nanshe Studio Gallery, Hamilton, NSW, February 2016
‘Liminal’. University of Newcastle Gallery Honours exhibition, November 2015
Annual Student Art Prize, Watt Space, Newcastle, NSW, November 2015
‘The Bigger Picture’. Back to Back Galleries, Cooks Hill, NSW, (Painters Ink Group), February 2015
‘Verve’. Back to Back Galleries, Cooks Hill, NSW, (Painters Ink Group), June 2014
‘Plurality’. Front Room Gallery, Newcastle Art School, Newcastle, NSW, December 2011
‘Random Nature’. Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle West, NSW, July 2011
‘Fifth Dimension’. Back to Back Galleries, Cooks Hill, NSW, (Painters Ink Group), June 2011
‘Atelier’. Studio 48, September 2009
‘Near and Far’. Studio 48, New Lambton, NSW, May 2009
‘People, Places and Spaces’. Studio 48, New Lambton, NSW, March 2009
‘Drawing the Figure’. Studio 48, New Lambton, NSW, 2008
Sandhills Community Garden Exhibition, View Factory, Newcastle, NSW, September 2008
‘Spectrum’. Studio 48, New Lambton, NSW, February 2008