SHAY DOWNER
Artist
Exhibitions
2018 Visible Mending, The Studio at 54, Ocean Grove, VIC
2017 Visible Mending, Gee Lee-Wik Doleen Gallery, Craigieburn VIC (17 Aug – 15 Oct 2017)
Group Exhibitions
2022 Talking in Pictures – Shay Downer & Students, Sunbury GLC Gallery, VIC
2020 Art Aid Gippsland, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
2019 Hume Cultural Commissions, Hume City Council, Global Learning Centre, Sunbury, VIC
2018 Lyn McCrae Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, QLD
2018 Bloom, Macedon Ranges Art Group, Mt Macedon, VIC
2018 Listen With Your Eyes, Macedon Ranges Art Group, Woodend, VIC
2018 Who’s Looking At You? Portrait Prize, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2018 Trentham Art & Craft Show, Trentham, VIC
2018 Eclectica, Macedon Ranges Art Trail, The Boilerhouse, Sunbury, VIC
2018 Emerge: First Edition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2017-18 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art Gallery, St Kilda, VIC
2017 Cliftons Art Prize, Cliftons Melbourne, VIC
2017 Annual Xmas Show, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2017 Flocked, Macedon Ranges Art Trail, The Old Auction House, Kyneton, VIC
2017 Who’s Looking At You? Portrait Prize, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2017 Trentham Art & Craft Show, Trentham, VIC
2016-17 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art Gallery, St Kilda, VIC
2016 Macedon Ranges Art Trail Group Exhibiton, Cope-Williams Winery & Gallery, Romsey, VIC
2016 Emerging Art Australia, Inner Space Gallery, Prahran, VIC
2016 Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo VIC
2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat VIC
2016 Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon, VIC
2016 Trentham Art & Craft show, Trentham, VIC
2016 Woodend Lions Art Show, Woodend, VIC
2016 Who’s Looking At You? Portrait Prize, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2015 Emerging Art Australia, Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2015 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art Gallery, St Kilda, VIC
2015 Camberwell Art Show, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, VIC
2013 Mortimore Art Prize, Dubbo, NSW & touring various venues
2013 Trentham Art & Craft show, Trentham, VIC
Awards & Prizes
2019 Finalist, Hume Cultural Commission (stage 1)
2018 Finalist, Lyn McCrae Drawing Prize
2018 Finalist, Who’s Looking At You? Portrait Prize
Award: Highly Commended
2018 Highly Commended Gweneth Wisewould
Portrait Prize, Trentham Art Show
Best in Show, Trentham Art Show
Best Other Media, Trentham Art Show
2017 Finalist, Cliftons Art Prize
2017 Finalist, Who’s Looking At You? Portrait Prize
Winner: People’s Choice Award
2017 Highly Commended Gweneth Wisewould
Portrait Prize, Trentham Art Show
Best Other Media, Trentham Art Show
Hangers Award, Trentham Art Show
2016 Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize
2016 Finalist, Paul Guest Prize
2016 Finalist, Who’s Looking At You? Portrait Prize
2013 Finalist, Mortimore Art Prize
Grants
2020 Creative Victoria – Sustaining Creative Workers
2020 Hume – Arts Activation Grant
2018 Hume Art Awards recipient
2016 Professional Development Grant – Hume City Council Art Awards
Collections
2019 Hume Cultural Commission – Hume City Council
Commissions
2018 – current Polymer banknote series portraits
2000 – current Various private portrait collections
Associations / Membership
Current member of NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts)
Current member of Macedon Ranges Art Trail
Teaching
Teacher at Art Classes 2U. For current classes go >here