Damien Minton Gallery

Upon arrival late 2008 from Europe, Shonah Trescott flew straight to Adelaide and was awarded first prize for the 2008 Fleurieu Water Prize. Shonah then visited her family in Maitland and painted in a temporary studio.

She has a busy schedule for the rest of the 2009 which has included an artist trip to New Zealand organised by the magazine Artist Profile and paint suppliers Windsor and Newton. She travelled with artists including Euan Macleod, Lucy Culliton, Steve Lopes, Idris Murphy, Jan Senbergs, Julie Harris, Ann Thompson and David Keeling.

Trescott is now back in Germany where she will settle, live and work. The prestigious gallery EIGEN + ART will be exhibiting her new work in May at the Berlin Art Weekend and its gallery in Leipzig. Then, in June, Shonah will participate in major celebrations for the art complex, the Spinnerei Leipzig, at Eigen + Art Gallery.

Earlier this year Shonah was featured in a group exhibition at the Rostock Kunsthalle (a city in North Germany) which featured young emerging artists who have been living, working and studying in Leipzig.

The growing interest in her work in Germany will be consolidated with these exhibitions and we wish her well for 2009.

Date of Birth: 1982

Selected Exhibitions

2009Recent work, solo exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery 2007‘From the Studio, Spinnerei, Leipzig’, solo exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery 2007Tres temps galleria, Mallorca, Spain 2006‘Placement – Europe’, solo exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2006Tres temps galleria, Mallorca, Spain 2006‘Works from the Cité Paris’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2005‘New Talent’ Robin Gibson Gallery group show, Sydney 2004Degree show 2004, National Art School, Sydney

Academic Record

2002-2004Bachelor of Fine Arts, painting major
National Art School, Sydney 1999-2001Diploma of Fine Arts Hunter Institute of Technology, Sydney

Prizes and Awards

2005‘La Cite Internationale des Arts’, Paris studio residency 2005‘Martin Bequest Travelling Art Scholarship/Cauzgroup’ 2005‘Friends of the National Art School’ Studio residency at La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris 20043rd Year NAS Paris Studio Residency 2004Reg Richardson Travelling art scholarship 2004Robin Gibson Gallery award 2004Art on the Rocks Young Artist award 2004Highly commended, Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2004Finalist – Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2004William Fletcher Trust painting Grant 2003Australian Children’s Health and Welfare Painting Award 2003Finalist – John Olsen Life Drawing Prize

Collections

Macquarie Bank Art Collection, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, private collections in Sydney, Paris, New York, Washington, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Cologne, Mallorca and London

Commissions

2005Artist in residence during the making of ‘Jindabyne’a film by Ray Lawrence