Fleur Schell Curriculum Vitae
Contact: www.fleurschell.com
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Profile
Birth date: 2nd October 1973.
Birth place: Northam, Western Australia.
Currently resides in Perth Western Australia
Educational Qualifications
Post Graduate First Class Honours in Visual Art (Ceramics), University of Tasmania.
Visual Arts Degree (ceramics), Curtin University of Technology, Perth Western Australia.
Diploma of Fine Art, School of Art and Design (ceramics), Perth Technical Institute Western Australia.
Professional Experience
1998-2022 Professional Ceramic Artist.
2021 Author and Illustrator - Independent self publication ‘Our Strangely Normal Home’
2019 Curator ‘Share my table’ Exhibition at the National Ceramics Triennial of Australia, Tasmania.
2019 Moderator ‘Authentically Mid-career’ at the National Ceramics Triennial, Australia 2019
2013- 2017 Founding director of ‘The Clay House’ Clay Centre
2013 NCECA – presenter National Council on Education For The Ceramic Arts, Houston Texas.
2005 – 2017 Founding director of SODA - Sculptural Objects and Design Australia, International Ceramic Residency Program, Western Australia.
1998 – 2011 Technician and Lecturer at Curtin University of technology
2001-2002 Faculty position/Artist in Residence at Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada.
Presentations
2022 Clay Gulgong presenter NSW Australia
2020 Gaya Ceramics workshop presenter, Ubud Indonesia (postponed due to COVID).
2019 Presenter ‘Authentically Midcareer’ at the National Ceramics Triennial of Australia.
2017 Sturt residential short course winter programme, Mittagong , NSW.
2013 NCECA - National Council on Education For The Ceramic Arts, Houston Texas 2013.
2013 National Ceramics Conference, South Australia.
2013 The Jam Factory, Adelaide.
2012 RMIT, Victoria
2009 National Ceramics Triennial, National Art School, Sydney.
2009 Jindezhen Clay Festival, Jiangxi province China.
2009 Clay Fever Sunshine Coast Conference, Queensland.
2007 Clay Gulgong presenter NSW Australia.
International and National Residencies and Visiting Artist opportunities
2018 Gaya International clay studio residency , Bali Indonesia.
2010 Fiskars Artist Village, Finland
2009 sculpture Factory, Jiangxi Province China
2002 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
2001 Alberta College of Art and design, Canada
2001 Red Dear College Alberta Canada
2001 Emily Carr institute, BC Canada
2001 The university of Manitoba, Winnipeg Canada;
2000 Australian National University Canberra.
Exhibitions
2021 Solo ‘The Elephants in the Room’ Linton and Kay Gallery, Subiaco Western Australia.
2020 Quartz Inversion – Pandemic ceramics 64 International Artists curated online.
2019 Solo ‘My strangely normal home’, Linton and Kay Gallery, Subiaco Western Australia.
2019 ‘Share my table’ exhibition National Ceramics Triennial of Australia 2019
2018 ‘Fluid State’ Gallery Central, Perth WA.
2017 ‘Imaginarium’ - from the studio, Linton and Kay Gallery, Subiaco Western Australia.
2017 ‘All Land/Omnus’ Terra exhibition, NCECA , Portland Oregon USA
2017 ‘Form | Surface | Structure’ Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney.
2016 Singapore International Affordable Art Fair
2015 Red Sea Gallery, Singapore.
2015 ‘The excellent Adventures of Heidi and Kilbey’ Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
2011 ‘The Ceramic Narrative’ Karen Widnas Gallery, Fiskars Finland.
2011 14 National Selective Exhibition, Skepsi Gallery, Victoria.
2010 Australian Survey at Dubbo Regional Gallery NSW.
Collections
Murdoch Children’s hospital from private collection
The Alberta College of Art and Design
The National University of Australia The University of Tasmania
Scotch College School, Western Australia.
Methodist Ladies College School, Western Australia.
Numerous state and national private collections
Awards/Grants
$20,000 Australian Council Grant
Bronze medal at Australian Print Media Award for a print Catalogue
Winner Ceramic Arts Association of Western Australia Selective exhibition
Winner of $10,000 New South Wales Braille Institute Acquisitive Art Award.
Principles Choice Award Methodist Ladies College Inaugural Art exhibition.
Winner of Teapot Flinders Teapot Award Victoria.
Winner of Teapot Award, Gallery on 8th Perth WA.
Publications
Flight by Paper Bird first Volume 1 Feb 2022 pg 07
‘Our Strangely Normal Home’ artist book, self published 2020
Artwork Education Assessment Resource, SCASA, Department of Education WA. 2021
The Ceramics Initiation Manual by Oficinas do Convento - Cultural Association of Art and Communication, Montemor-o-Novo, Potugal. 2021.
ARTEDIT Australia - ‘Best of Australian Ceramics’ Artist profile of the month issue SPRING 2017.
Relational Learning: ACAD Ceramics Visiting Artists The First 3 Decades 94-95, 2017
The Best of 500 Ceramics Lark Books Celebrating a decade in Clay pp147, 2012.
Ceramic Art and Perception, The Western Front, issue 70, pp69-74, 2007.
500 Cups Lark Books pp 98, 2006.
500 Jugs Lark Books pp81, 2004.
Porcelain and Bone China by Sasha Wardell, Crowood Press, 2004.