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Education

Born: Western Australia

1992: Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) Art. Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.

1989-91: Bachelor of Arts - Visual Arts. Ceramics. Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

Professional Development

2021 Primary Visual Arts Specialist - Wembley Primary School. Monday. Education Department of WA

2019 2021 - to present day - Primary Visual Arts Specialist Landsdale Primary School Thursday and Friday. Education Department of WA.

2019 - 2020 - Primary Visual Arts Specialist - Churchlands Primary School.

2019 Ceramic tile Mural installation 6 m x 4m based on performance of Yirra Yakin Company - Noongar stories of sun, moon and stars. Churchlands Primary School.

2019 Large 3 x 4 m Ceramic wall mural: Landsdale Primary W.A – Yr 6 Gift to the school “tree of life” -106 Students.

2018 Rosalie Primary School: Artist in Residence Term 2. Students created their own sculpture based on their local environment and native flora and fauna. 500 students Pre Primary to Year 6.

2017 Dalkeith Primary School- Artist in Residence Term 2. Creation and installation of ceramic sculpture garden.320 students, P/Primary to Year 6.

2017 Penrhos College: Artist in residence. Working with Year 11 & 12 General and ATAR students.

2015 City of South Perth: selected artist for Mends Street: River Walls - public art – 3 two metre high bronze sculptures feature for South Perth foreshore. Resonance. Art consultant Artwise Helen Mathie

2015 Lake Joondalup Baptist College Invited ceramic workshop year 9.

2015 Churchlands Primary School: Artist In Residence. Term 2. Kindy - Year 6.

2014 Artist Talk @ Kidigo Art House - “Tattoo Exhibition” presented by Gallery East. Kidigo : Fremantle Bathers Beach, WA.

2014 Guest speaker: Kingsway Christian College student art exhibition.

2014 Independent art teachers assoc. artist workshop and presentation to WA art teachers.

2014 Santa Maria College - Attadale. Artist workshop with year 12 students. Western Australia.

2014 Lake Joondalup Baptist College. Artist Presentation and Demonstration Year 11 /12. Western Australia

2013 Applecross Primary School. Ceramic Hand Building workshop.Year 5 -7. Western Australia.

2012 Public Art Sculpture Unit. Term 2. Lecturer Tony Jones. Central TAFE, Western Australia.

2010 ANU Ceramic Department. Artist presentation invitation by Janet De Boos. Canberra, Australia.

2009 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Art Gallery. Western Australia.

2008 Panel member. “State of the West – Ceramic survey” Symposium. Central TAFE, Perth, Australia.

2008 Presenter - Artist talk “State of the West” Ceramic survey” Central TAFE Perth, Australia

2007 Scion Installation Space. Installed “Australian Characters” group exhibition. Los Angeles, U.S.A.

2007 Artist Talk: “Garden of Curiosities” FORM.Centre for Craft and Design, Perth. Western Australia

2006 Gallery Assistant. Art Taipei. Hua Shan Culture Park. Taipei, Taiwan. Installation of artworks for Fubon Banking corporation and gallery assistant for Raglan Gallery.

2002 Australia - Korea Foundation 10th Festival - Seoul, Korea - CRAFTWEST, Perth, Western Australia .

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / FEATURED ARTIST

2015 Amanda Shelsher and Linda Skroyls Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park, Western Australia.

2015 New works –Margaret River Art Gallery. Margaret River Art Gallery

2014 “Precarious” Solo exhibition. Beaver Galleries. Canberra, Australia.

2014 Tattoo – Kidogo Art House. Curated by Gallery East. Fremantle. Western Australia.

2013 Nature / Nurture. Solo. 19Karen Contemporary Art Gallery. Mermaid Beach. Queensland, Australia.

2012 Solo exhibition : Gallery Aloft. Rozelle NSW, Australia.

2011 Inked. Solo. Gallery East. North Fremantle, Western Australia

2010 Earthly Perspectives. Solo. Beaver Galleries. Canberra, Australia.

2009 Wild Surburbia. Solo exhibition.Greenhill Galleries Adelaide. Adelaide, South Australia.

2009 Bloom. L K Galleries, Subiaco, Western Australia.

2009 Stretch Festival. Feature artist. Solo exhibition. Mandurah Performing Arts Centre . West Australia

2007 Garden of Curiosities. Solo exhibition. FORM. Contemporary Craft and Design, Perth. Western Australia

2007 SOFA Chicago ,Navy Pier. Represented by Raglan Gallery, Manly, Sydney, Australia. Chicago, USA

2006 SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier Represented by Raglan Gallery, Manly, Sydney, Australia. Chicago, USA

2006 Fubon Art Foundation.Taipei.“18th Feast of the Mind. Buffet of Art”. Taiwan.

2006 Collect V & A Museum, London. Represented by Raglan Gallery, Manly, NSW. Australia England.

2005 SOFA Chicago ,Navy Pier. Represented by Raglan Gallery, Manly, Sydney, Australia. Chicago, USA

2004 Precious. Solo exhibition. Beaver Galleries. Canberra, Australia.

2004 SOFA Chicago ,Navy Pier. Represented by Raglan Gallery, Manly, Sydney, Australia. Chicago, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INVITATIONAL AWARD EXHIBITIONS

2019 Hale School Invitational Annual Art Exhibition, Wembley Downs, West Australia

2019 Churchlands SHS Art Exhibition. West Australia

2019 Mount Lawley SHS Art Auction. West Australia

2018 Treasured : City of Wanneroo – Wanneroo Gallery , Western Australia.

2017 Art in Nature – Margaret River Gallery Margaret River .

2015 In -Material. 2015 Shire of Mundaring Art Acquisition award, Western Australia.


2014 Skepsi @ Montsalvat - Curated by Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.


2013 Artisans in the Gardens . Royal Botanic Gardens. Sydney, Australia.

2013 Unconscious Articulation. Melody Smith Gallery, Curator Zoe Barry. Perth, Australia.

2012 Gold Coast International Ceramic Award Finalist. Queensland. Australia

2012 Stations of the Cross – Wesley Church , Perth City, Western Australia.

2011 Narrative Knot Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly NSW, Australia.

2011 Homage to Frida – 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Mermaid Beach, Queensland.

2010 Ergon Energy CQ Ceramic Award. Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia.

2010 Down memory lane. Framed the Darwin Gallery. Darwin, Northern Territory. Australia

2010 Femme Folk and Fable. Linton and Kay Contemporary, Subiaco, Western Australia.

2009 Prometheus Visual Arts Award Finalist– Merrimac , Queensland, Australia.

2008 State of the West. Ceramic Survey. TAFE Gallery, Perth Central TAFE Perth, Western Australia.

2008 Mino International Ceramic Award.(First round judging) Japan.

2007 Australian Characters.Scion Installation L.A Space. Curator Stormie Mills. Los Angeles, U.S.A.

2007 Alice Craft Acquisition, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2006 Ananya Fine Arts. “Conversations in Clay”, Hong Kong.

2006 Sculpture by the Sea. Cottesloe, Western Australia.

2005, 2003, 2001, 2000 Gold Coast International Ceramic Award. Gold Coast City Art Gallery. Australia.

2005 Statements in Sculpture. Skepsi Gallery. Carlton, Victoria . Australia.

2003 Remembering: Women Working for Women. Moores Building, Fremantle. Western Australia

2003 Ceramics: The Australian and New Zealand Context .Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery.

2003 From the Fringe to the Centre. La Trobe University Art Collection. Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria.

2002 Off The Wall and Grounded. La Trobe University Art Museum, Glenn College, Victoria, Australia.

2002 Alice Craft Acquisition. Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2002 Sidney Myer Fund. International Ceramics Award. Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

2000 Cerebration. Manly Art Gallery and Museum. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, Australia.

City of Perth, Art Council Collection. Perth, Western Australia

National Australia Bank, Melbourne, Australia

La Trobe University Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia.

St John of God Hospital. Art Collection. Murdoch, Western Australia.

Perth College Art Collection. Perth, Western Australia

City Of Wanneroo. Perth, Australia

City of Belmont . Perth, Western Australia.

Penrhos College, Como, Western Australia.

Healthway. West Australian Health Promotion Foundation, Perth, Western Australia .

Perth College Art Collection. Perth, Western Australia.

Private collections in Australia, Europe, U.K, U.S.A and Middle East.

Private Collectors include Billy Connolly.

AWARDS / GRANTS

2013 Finalist Artsource “Telethon” public art work – Perth Art Foundation. Australia

2012 Finalist City of Cockburn Renewable Energy Public Art Sculpture

2009 Department of Culture and the Arts. Arts flight grant to Adelaide

2006 City of Wanneroo Art Award. Sculpture Prize, Perth, Western Australia.

2005 Gold Coast International Ceramic Award – Acquisition for Gold Coast City Art Gallery

2004 ArtsWA. Artflight grant, Canberra, Australia.

2001 Port Hacking Potters Group 40th Award, Sydney, Australia.

2001 Townsville Ceramic Competition, Queensland, Australia.

2000 ArtsWA. Artflight grant, Sydney, Australia

2000 Town of Vincent - Art Award Ceramic Commendation, Western Australia

1999 Town of Vincent - Art Award, Western Australia

1998 Victoria Park Sculpture Award, Western Australia

1998 Jah Roc Sculpture Prize York Art Awards, Western Australia

1997 Jah Roc Sculpture Prize York Art Awards, Western Australia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2014 Amanda Shelsher’s Ceramic Wonderland. Canberra Times, June 5th. Kerry Anne Cousins. Solo review

2014 500 Figures in Clay. Lark Books. Judge Nan Smith. Pg 95 and 99

2013 Paper clay art and practice : Rosette Gault, page 80. Bloomsbury Books.

2011 The West Australian: Arts today.”Tattoo art more than skin deep”, January 12th pg 2 by Lyn DiCiero

2010 The Canberra Times. Benign and quirky works. 25th August 2010. Kerry Anne Cousins.

2009 The Advertiser. “Arts encore” Pg 8 Exhibit presents artist work immersion in her work. By Tim Lloyd.

2009 The West Australian- Today Arts.”Sculptor eyes child’s eye view”. Pg 12 April 3rd 2009.By Ara Jansen.

2009 & 2007 Art seen in WA. Review of ‘Bloom’ and ‘Garden of Curiosities’ by Judith McGrath www.artseeninwa.com/shelsher.html

2009 The Journal of Australian Ceramics Issue 48#1 Pg 48 -51.By Rachel Schulze: ‘Primordial Yearnings’

2008 Ceramic Art and Perception. No 71.Pg 25 -28 by Judith McGrath. “Amanda Shelsher’s Friendly Forms”

2007 SOFA Catalogue –Chicago USA. International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional art.

2007 Ceramic Review Magazine . U. K. Issue Sept / Oct 227. Review gallery, page 20.

2007 The West Australian Visual Arts “Shining Sprit of Collaboration”.review by Ric Spencer. June 23rd.

2007 Art seen in WA Review “Garden of Curiosities” by Judith McGrath July. www.artseeninwa.com/shelsher.html

2007 Homes and Living Year Book Pg 68 “Fine Figure”.

2007 Arts Hub Australia - Proust Pin- Up June 26th www.artshub.com.au/au/news.

2006 The Journal of Australian Ceramics. ‘Home is where the heart is’.By A.Shelsher Vol 45#3. pp22-23

2006 Art Taipei. Exhibition Catalogue 2006. pp 124 – 125.

2006 “Oh my Deer 18th Feast of the mind Buffet of Art” Taipei Catalogue.Pg 11-12 FUBON Arts Foundation.

2006 Sculpture by the Sea. Exhibition catalogue, Western Australia.

2006 Craft Arts International magazine. Issue 66: 24th Gold Coast International Ceramics Award: pg113.

2005 Craft Arts International magazine. Issue 64.SOFA Chicago 2004 Exposition p87.Kevin Wallace

2004 Canberra Times. “Capturing the Untouched.” August 21st Panorama Arts. By Sonia Barron.

2004 SOFA Catalogue –Chicago. pg 238

2004 The Journal of Australian Ceramics..Vol 43 # 3.“Precious” Sue Buckle. Feature article pgs 6- 9.

2003 Ceramics Art And Perception: Vol 52 pg 55:“Ceramics in the Australian & New Zealand Context”.By R.Reason.

2002 Craft Arts International magazine. Issue 55. pg 54-57. Article by Fleur Downs.

2002 Ceramics Art And Perception: issue 48. pg 63: Gold Coast Ceramics Award. By Rosemary Macfarlane.