Sheila Whittam

Sheila Whittam is a South Australian , Adelaide Hills artist, originally from Britain. She has a long art career with solo exhibitions in SA and Victoria, awarded a BA Vis. Arts/ Hon. ACSA 2009 She designed an art course which contributed to community well - being 2013-19. She is confidently experimental in her approach to art making using mixed media with oils - monotypes, encaustic collages, oil sticks etc. She has been continuing to exhibit her new work in Adelaide recently in which these series , took her in directions which opened to her perception brought about by her own experiments in formal elements which moved her towards non- objective abstraction. My background includes a BA including an Honours year at Adelaide Central School of Art. ACSA. I have had 24 solo exhibitions in 40 Years. There has been a SALA Award , 3 arts residencies and am included in several artists finalist: including the Heysen Prize Art Awards and also the Landscape Prize at the Hahndorf Academy.

www.sheilawhittam.com www.nala.art Sheila Whittam CV Sheilawhittam44@gmail.com https://www.sheilawhittam.com Artist Art motivator/tutor Art tutor and tour guide at The Cedars, Hahndorf

Education.

2009 B.VA. Honors. Vis Arts. Adelaide Central School of Art. SA 2019 Mentorship. Professor Christopher Orchard.

Residencies.

2015-2018 Art tutor in residence. Worldview College, St Leonards. Tasmania. Summer schools art tutor in residence. 2014 ARTS SA Grant. E Tweddell Central Studios. 6months residency. 2010 The Cedars. six months residency/solo exhibition followed. 2009 Carrick Hill. SA. ACSA research graduate. SALA exhibition.

Finalist and art awards. 2023 National Contemporary Art Prize Finalist 2022 Kennedy Art Prize Finalist 2022 Hahndorf Academy Landscape Prize Finalist 2021 Contemporary Art Prize, Gallery M Finalist 2019 Hahndorf Academy Landscape Prize Finalist 2019. RSASA. SALA. in Portrait Prize Finalist 2017 Hahndorf Academy. Landscape Prize Finalist 2016 Gallery M. Marion. Finalist 2016 Sala Art Award. Unley Council Award 2016 RSASA. Portrait Prize Finalist 2013 RSASA Portrait Prize Finalist 2013 Sala Adelaide Review, article Finalist 2011. Heysen Prize. Hahndorf Academy Finalist 2009 Heysen Prize. Hahndorf Academy Finalist 2009 St Peter’s Cathedral. Adelaide Award 2008. St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide Award 1993 Dragan Miljanovic Prize. Adelaide Hills Award

Solo Exhibitions: 2024 Hahndorf Academy. Hahndorf. Mindscapes 2023 The Main Gallery. Adelaide. Silencing the Chaos 2021 BMG.Gallery. Adelaide. 2019 Nepenthe Cellar Door. Balhannah. SALA. 2017. Hugh’s Gallery exhibition. Unley. SA. SALA Award. 2017 Royal SA Society of Arts. . Poetics of the Interior. 2014 Gallery M. Marion, SA. Hacienda. 2013. Hahndorf Academy. Dwelling Places. 2010 Hahndorf Academy. Portrait of a House. 2009 Carrick Hill. Springfield, SA. You’ve Got to be Dreaming. 2008 South Coast Regional Art Centre. Goolwa. Country Arts: touring. 2007 Royal South Australian Society of Arts Negotiating Doorways. 2004 Hahndorf Academy, , Hahndorf, SA. Narrare. 2002 Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham, Victoria. 2000. John Dunn Gallery, Bridgewater, Butcher, Baker and Candlestick 1995 Rainmoth Gallery, Waikerie, SA. Home and Away. 1994 Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide, SA. Fertile Fragments. 1992 British Council Gallery, Accra, West Africa. The Konkombas. 1986/87 Jolly Frog/Reade Art, Melbourne St, Adelaide. Called to love. 1978/82/83 Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham, Victoria. Called to love.