SHANI NOTTINGHAM

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

More Little Nothings Grenfell Gallery, Grenfell

2025

LOOP SLOT Window Gallery, Alexandria Sydney

2024

Plasticus Organicus and beyond  The Hive, Ulverstone, Tasmania - Installations

Artefact Of The Anthropocene  Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Clusters Rosby Gallery, Mudgee, 

2023 

A Lot of Little Nothings Western Plains Cultural Centre Dubbo, HOMEGROUND program

More Little Nothings Cowra Regional Art Gallery

Plasticus Organicus Belconnen Arts Centre Canberra, ACT

2020 

Polychromatics Cowra Japanese Garden & Cultural Centre   

INSIDElifeINSIDE  Grenfell Art Gallery

2018 

Whimsy & Wonder  Cowra Japanese Garden & Cultural Centre

The Breadtag Project multi-platform environmental project begins

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Welcome To The Suburbs (curated group exhibition) Newcastle Artspace 

Here/Now  Orange Regional Gallery

Luminous Revolution Cowra Regional Gallery(invited/curated) group show

Waste 2 Art Finalists Regional Showcase Albert Kersten Museum, Broken Hill

Central Belonging Art Award Finalist exhibition Cowra Regional Gallery (Winner)

Domestic Dreams (curated) WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos 

2025

Untitled Connect Committee Members Group Show WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos 

Before Now, After (curated) WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos Broadbeach Community Space

Swell Art Prize Art Prize Finalist Exhibition Broadbeach Community Space, QLD

Central Belonging Art Award Finalist Exhibition Cowra Regional Art Gallery 

Bell Beats Art and Music Festival (selected) temporary art installation, Central West NSW 

Patterns and Play (curated) Little Magpie Gallery, Cowra

2024

Remagine Art Prize Finalists Exhibition Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre  

Textures Of One Platform Gallery/Odd Sock Gallery Blayney (Highly Commended)

CLOUDS3 (curated) Newcastle ARTSPACE

While The World Waits (curated) NSW State Parliament House Sydney 

Cementa Festival : Souvenirs Of Kandos, Kandos, Curated Contemporary Arts Festival

Work Of Art Showcase REGIONAL ARTS NSW, Orange NSW 

Fisher's Ghost Art Prize Finalist, Contemporary Campbelltown Arts Centre Orange

Here/Now  Orange Regional Gallery

Inoffensive Name Art Show Cowra Micro Gallery, Cowra

2023 

While The World Waits  (curated)ArtsOutWest, travelling NSW for 18 months 

Unearthed Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra ACT

MYCOLOGY - Fine arts fungi with Lachlan Landcare, Rosnay Vineyard, Canowindra 

Northern Beaches Environmental Art Design Award Finalists Manly Art Gallery & Museum (Winner:ceramics/small sculpture)

Here/Now  Orange Regional Gallery

Uberlastung collaboration with Freya Jobbins,  M16 Gallery, Canberra ACT

The Hornsby Art Prize Finalist Exhibition Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre

Fisher's Ghost Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Contemporary, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2022

While The World Waits (curated)ArtsOutWest, travelling NSW for 18 months

TRACES Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT

Here/Now  Orange Regional Gallery

2021

Cementa Spirit of 21 OPEN MIKE short video/films Cementa Arts Festival

Regional Finalists Showcase Exhibition OutbackArtsCentre, Coonamble NSW, (winner 3D installation)

Here/Now  Orange Regional Gallery

Reduce, Reuse (curated) Fringe Festival, Pepper St Gallery, Adelaide South Australia

Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Exhibition Cowra Regional Art Gallery (Highly Commended)

2019 

8 X 10 (curated) Corner Store Gallery, Orange

Endangered (curated) Spiral Gallery, Bega NSW  

Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Exhibition Cowra Regional Art Gallery (Highly Commended)

2018

TRACES Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT

Works On Paper (curated) Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

The Sketchbook Project, Participant, Brooklyn, New York USA

 

AWARDS

2026 - Waste 2 Art WINNER of Professional Artist /Functional, Bathurst NSW

2026 - Central Belonging Art Award WINNER, Cowra Regional Gallery

2025 - Swell Art Prize Art Prize Finalist, Broadbeach QLD

2025  - Central Belonging Art Award Finalist, Cowra Regional Art Gallery 

2024 - Textures Of One, Highly Commended, Platform Gallery Blayney 

2024 - Remagine Art Prize Finalist,  Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre 

2024 - Fisher's Ghost Art Prize Finalist, Contemporary, Campbelltown Arts Centre Orange

2023 - Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award, WINNER:ceramics/small sculpture) Manly Art Gallery & Museum                  2023 - Hornsby Art Prize Finalist, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre

2023 - Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize Finalist Contemporary, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2022 - FRANKIE MAGAZINE National Good Stuff Awards WINNER - People's Choice & Craft categories

2021  - Waste To Art , Overall WINNER 3D installation, OutbackArtsCentre, Coonamble NSW

2015 -  KIDSPOT#voices of 2015, WINNER national online creatives  (Home and Wellbeing)

 

SELECTIONS

2026  - REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - selected participant  ARTLANDS September Sunshine Coast QLD

2026  - RALLY - selected as member of RALLY, a collaborative initiative - Regional Arts NSW (RANSW) and Alex Wisser, Rural Arts led Regeneration (creativity, collaboration, and community leadership)

2024/23 - REGIONAL ARTS NSW - selected for Work Of Art program

2024 - REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - Selected participant for Creative Regions National Summit, Canberra ACT

2024 - GROUNDFLOOR - Selected participant for Groundfloor, Regional Art Symposium, Kandos NSW March 2024

2023 REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - selected participant ARTLANDS September Canberra ACT

 

GRANTS

• ARTS OUT WEST  - CASP GRANT recipient for 2025 Community Art Project 'Cowra Creates’

• ORANA ARTS - Grant recipient for CASP GRANT May 2024

• ORANA ARTS - Grant recipient for Artist Residency, a collaboration with Freya Jobbins

• ORANA ARTS - 2021, recipient of Studio Grant for arts practice

• REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA - 2021, grant recipient to attend ARTLANDS, Tasmania

• ORANA ARTS and Mudgee Art House - 2021,  recipient of Studio Co!lab print collaboration

 

RESIDENCIES

• THE HIVE, ULVERSTONE TASMANIA - January 2024

• CEMENTA Contemporary Arts Festival, KANDOS NSW -  November 2023 

• CORRIDOR PROJECT/ORANA ARTS  NSW- collaboration with Freya Jobbins 2023

• CORRIDOR PROJECT/ORANA ARTS  NSW September 2022

• LIGHTHOUSE ARTS / Hunter Writers Group, Newcastle NSW 2022

• CORRIDOR PROJECT AIR + PDLab  - 2020

 

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• HOST - WASTE TO ART WORKSHOPs, community workshops for Waste To Art, across multiple venues and years

• MEMBER - @ECOARTSPACE International Arts Collective, and presenter/ participant ‘Wicked Monstrous Dialogues’ 

• FACILITATOR/CREATOR  - Community Arts Project: Cowra Creates

• CURATOR -   Before Now, After Exhibition, WAYOUT Artspace Kandos NSW

• MEMBER WAYOUT  - Artspace AIR Committee 

• FOUNDING COMMITTEE MEMBER  - (Treasurer 2026) Sidetrack Arts Inc. - Artist Run Initiative,

• HOST/FACILITATOR/CURATOR - workshops and exhibition,  'ARTSPACE' for Cowra HEADSPACE 2024

• AMBASSADOR  - Micador Art  2018 - 2026  featured artwork on packaging, content creation, tutorials

 

PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

• CONTRIBUTOR - 'Wicked Monstrous', directory of International Artists/curators/scientists addressing plastics and environment, Ecoartspace (USA) curated by Patricia Watts and Aurora Robson

• TAG ART - PUBLISHED - photography/co-creator 'Tag Art' Children's book, Firefly Educational Publishers 2022

• AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM AND RESEARCH ASSOC. (ACARA) - collaboration to create lesson plans/educational resources with breadtags

• ARTSOUTWEST - selected as contributor to Art book for distribution to heath services

• THE SUBURBAN REVIEW - selected for cover of issue #28 Leaven 2022

• PERIPHERIES  anthologies - Inscribe/Orana Arts  - selected as illustrator - collaboration with Helena Pastor

• MAGAZINES - various, including JIMMY HORNET, GALAH, FRANKIE, SMALL COLLECTIVE, SLOW JOURNAL (Australia) and Uppercase (Canada)

• TELEVISION - various including ABC Australia , SBS Australia, Channel 7, Channel 10

• RADIO  and BLOGS  etc - various, from local regional to national and international broadcasters.

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COLLECTIONS

The Hive  Gallery and Museum -, Tasmania . Australia

Works purchased for Permanent Collection 2024

 

EDUCATION

2006 - Bachelor of Education, Charles Sturt University

1993 - Bachelor Arts/Visual Arts, Newcastle University