Painting at Fowlers Gap, 2024.

Felicity’s images arise from an engagement with the external starting point of the landscape and arrive at something that is both non-representational yet simultaneously tied to a sense of place. While the focus of her work is usually based on the landscape, her process is often exploring the tensions between improvisation and composition. The efforts to let go of control while consciously composing a painting often results in the harmonious and awkward nature of the work.  

The process of layers being created on a surface through covering, erasing, revealing, and rediscovering creates an image which is not just internal or external but an other, third kind of landscape.

 

CV

Education 

2023 – July   Awarded Scholarship from The New York Studio School, summer school 

2022 – 2023  The New York Studio School Certificate Program (Painting)

2004 – 2008  Post Graduate Degree, Psychology, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia. 

1995 – 1997  Masters of Art Therapy, University of Western Sydney, Australia. 

1993 – 1995  Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia.

Solo exhibitions

2025 ‘Archaic Lands’, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth

2019  ‘Things of natural origin’, Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain, Sydney

2018  ‘My Wilderness’, Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain, Sydney 

2017   ‘Clouds & dirt: Australian landscapes’  Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain, Sydney 

2017 ‘Clouds & dirt: Australian landscapes’  Gallery Klei, Sydney 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 ‘Summer Salon’, Straitjacket Art Space, Newcastle, NSW.

2021 ‘Five at the Finke’, Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha, NSW.

2021 ‘After the Ashes’, Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain, Sydney. 

2020 ‘Painting Journeys’, Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha, NSW.

2019 ‘Land & Sea’, Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha, NSW.

2017, 2018, 2019   Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Museum. 

2016, 2017, 2018  Group show, Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain, Sydney. 

2016 ‘A Social Landscape’, The Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney. 

2016 ‘Room for Art’, Gosford Regional Gallery. . 

2015 ‘Gestures’, Hunters Hill Art Gallery, Hunters Hill, Sydney.

2015 ‘Elements’, The Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney.

2015 ‘Women Beneath the surface’, Art Shine Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney.

2014 Along Those Lines’, The Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney. 

2014 ‘4+1=1+4’ Group Exhibition, Gosford Regional Gallery.

2011  Christmas Show’, Gallery 41, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. 

2011  ‘The Way We See It’, Group Exhibition, Gosford Regional Gallery.

2007 – 2019  Annual 5 Lands Walk and exhibition, Avoca Beach, NSW.

2007 & 2008  ‘Art for Ethiopia’, Red Door Gallery, Sydney. 

2005 ‘Abstract Works’, Red Door Gallery, Sydney.

 

Art Awards

2023      Awarded a scholarship from The New York Studio School to attend summer school in NYC

2021       Finalist – Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tasmania. 

2019       Winner – First prize ‘Art in the Open’

2019       Finalist – John Villier’s Outback prize

2019, 2018, 2016  Finalist – Hunters Hill Art Prize

2018    Finalist – Muswellbrook Art Prize.

2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2008 & 2006  Finalist – Gosford Art Prize 

2018, 2017  Finalist – Kings School prize 

2016       Finalist – Australian Korean Foundation Art Prize (KAAF) Judged by John McDonald

2015       Highly Commended – Contemporary Art Prize. 

2015       Finalist – Blacktown Art Prize  (Judged by Edmund Capon).

2015       Finalist – Hornsby Art Prize.  

2015       Highly Commended  – Art Shine Gallery, ‘Works on board’. 

2012, 2000,1999  Finalist – Waverley Art Prize. 

2009       Highly Commended – Art in the Vines, Hunter Valley.

2006       Awarded Commission, 75 works for Sir Norman Foster building, ‘Lumiere’, Regent Place, Sydney.

2000       Finalist – Willoughby City Contemporary Art Prize. 

1999        Highly Commended – Lane Cove Art Award, Lane Cove.

 

Publications:

Rees, J. 2016. Contemporary Art Awards: Finalist Exhibition 2015. 23 January-23 June 2016, Contemporary Art Awards, Brisbane, Queensland.