FLEUR SCHELL CURRICULUM VITAE
PH: 0427334836
EMAIL: noonan@preciseit.com.au
INSTAGRAM: fleurschell
FACEBOOK: fleurschellartist
ABN: 23567938977
PROFILE
DOB: 2nd October 1973. Birthplace: Goomalling, Western Australia.
Studio Address: 27 McCabe Street, Mosman Park, Perth Western Australia.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1997 Postgraduate First Class Honours in Visual Art (Ceramics), University of Tasmania.
1994-96 Visual Arts Degree, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Western Australia
1991-93 Diploma of Fine Art, School of Art and Design, Perth Technical Institute Western Australia.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998-2025 Professional Ceramic Artist, Writer, Presenter and Educator.
2024- 25 Creative Director of BioSPHERE BOODJA Cultural Regional Arts Festival.
2024-25 Member of the Steering Committee - WEDGE National Australian Ceramics Triennial.
2024-25 Creative Director of ‘BioSPHERE’ a regional community arts event on Ballardong in WA.
2024 Judge of the Kalgoorlie/ Boulder $40,000.00 Art award.
2022 Master Presenter Gulgong International clay festival, New South Wales
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’ International Clay Centre
2013 NCECA – presenter National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Houston Texas.
2005 – 2018 Founding director of SODA - Sculptural Objects and Design Australia, International Ceramic Residency Program, WA.
2001-2002 Faculty position/Artist in Residence at Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada.
PRESENTATIONS
2025 Guest Presenter Mansfield Pottery Festival Victoria.
2024 Presenter 49th Wide Bay Burnett Pottery Association Convention, Bundeburg QLD.
2024 Presenter Mud Muster, Tasmania Ceramics Association, Bothwell Tasmania.
2023 Presenter Sturt residential short course winter programme, Mittagong, NSW.
2023 Gaya Ceramics workshop presenter, Ubud Indonesia.
2022 Clay Gulgong presenter NSW, Australia.
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.
2009 National Ceramics Triennial, National Art School, Sydney.
2009 Jindezhen International Clay Festival, Jiangxi province China.
2009 Clay Fever Sunshine Coast Conference, Queensland 2009.
2007 Clay Gulgong presenter NSW Australia.
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL RESIDENCIES
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- 2024 Curtin University Perth, ANU Canberra, RMIT Melbourne, The Jam Factory Adelaide, The University of South Australia, SCA Sydney, The National ASRt School Sydney NSW.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Feature Artist - The Ngoolark Festival Murdoch University WA.
2024 The Australian Environmental Art Design Award, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney NSW.
2023 ‘Empty teacups gathered around her’ Art Gallery of WA Design Store.
2023 ‘Siliceous’ National Selected Exhibition, Ceramic Arts Queensland.
2023 The Klytie Pate National Selected Ceramics Exhibition, NSW.
2023 Feature Artist, FOUND Fremantle Arts Centre.
2023 TERRA NOVA - celebrating 70 years of ceramics, a selective national show at Sturt Gallery NSW.
2021 ‘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, Tasmania.
2018 ‘Fluid State’ Gallery Central, Perth WA.
2017 ‘Imaginarium’ Linton and Kay Gallery, Subiaco Western Australia.
2017 ‘All Land/Omnus’ Terra exhibition, NCECA, Portland Oregon USA
2016 Singapore International Affordable Art Fair
2015 Red Sea Gallery, Singapore.
2011 ‘Close and Intimate in the Village – studies in porcelain’ Widnas Gallery, Fiskars Finland.
COLLECTIONS
Murdoch Children’s hospital 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
$35,00.00 Mindaroo Artist Fund Award.
$21,000.00 BioSPHERE BOODJA Australian Cultural Fund Grant.
Winner of the National Teapot Award - Lowe and Lee Gallery, Sydney NSW
The Klytie Pate National Ceramics Award, NSW – Winner of People’s Choice Award
Australian Environmental Art and Design Award, NSW - Winner of People’s Choice Award
$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.
PUBLICATIONS
Inspired by Light and Land 1970-2023 - Exceptional Craft partitioners of Western Australia.
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.
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.
500 Cups Lark Books pp 98, 2006.
500 Jugs Lark Books pp81, 2004.
Porcelain and Bone China by Sasha Wardell, Crowood Press, 2004