NICOLA CHATHAM

Nicola Chatham is a visual artist living and working in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland of Queensland, Australia. Chatham gained a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2005. She now works full time as an artist, freelance writer and co-director of the contemporary art project Moreton Street Spare Room [MSSR].

Her paintings, photographs and videos reflect themes of landscape, nature, intimacy and memory which she exhibit regularly in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Between Here and There, Logan Art Gallery (2010), Cohuna Diaries, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne (2009); With or With Drought You, Redland Art Gallery (2009); Over the Garden Fence, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (2008); Today we don’t have plans, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne (2008) and Uncommonplace, inTransit Gallery, Brisbane (2008). International highlights include the Orebro International Video Festival, Sweden (2008).

Chatham was awarded the Espresso Garage Award in the Thiess Art Prize in 2006 and has been a finalist in several national art competitions including the Churchie National Emerging Artists Competition, the Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, and Redland Art Awards. Her work is represented in public collections including the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery and the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital, and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States.

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2004
Bachelor of Fine Art - Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane

2003
Diploma of Visual Art – South bank Institute of Tafe, Brisbane

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
First Draft, video screening, Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich. Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Finalist, Brisbane. <1m, Flipbook, Brisbane. I AM..., Studio 13, Brisbane.
Exposure, Metro Arts Galleries, Brisbane. Orebro International Video Art Festival Showreel, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast. Landscape, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Bundaberg. Linden Postcard Show 2009, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, Victoria

2008
Orebro International Video Art Festival, Sweden

2007
N&A Present One Night Only - ARK Atelier, Brisbane
The Only Constant - ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY Melbourne

2006
It's a Spring Thing! - ARTEFACT Gallery, Melbourne
Churchie Emerging Art Award, Brisbane Discovery - Central Plaza One, Brisbane Art Spectacular - The Riverside Centre, QLD

2005
Chimaera - QLD College of Art Grad Show, Brisbane Six May - White Space Gallery, Brisbane Art Spectacular - The Riverside Centre, Brisbane Emerge - Central Plaza One, Brisbane
Barrier Reef - Riviera Nautic, Gippsland Lakes, VIC

2004
Immediatemix - Artworks Gallery, Southport, QLD
Artworks Gallery, Southport, QLD RBWH Art Award - Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital National Tertiary Art Prize - Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane Compact Print - Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art Retrospective - 60 Merivale Street, South Brisbane Compact Prints 2004 - International Print Exhibition, Townsville, QLD

2003
Ocean Works - Melaleuca Gallery, Victoria Recent Paintings - Kym Hart Gallery, Gold Coast March Exhibition - Manyung Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, VIC

2002
Drawing Synthesis - Southbank Tafe Gallery, Brisbane My Place - Eclectica Gallery, Brisbane

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Between here and there Logan Art Gallery, QLD

2009
Cohuna Diaries ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY, Melbourne

2008
Today,WeDon’tHavePlans ANITATRAVERSOGALLERY
Melbourne Over the Garden Fence Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg QLD Uncommonplace in-Transit Gallery, Brisbane

2007
Natural Instincts - ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY (formally ARTEFACT) Melbourne

2005
Burnt to Life - Neo Gallery, Brisbane 2003 Inquisitive by Nature - 60 Merivale St, Brisbane
Rainforest to Reef - Great Barrier Reef Research
Foundation

2002
Face the Ocean - S.B.I.T. Gallery, Brisbane
Townsville to Tasmania-Coastal Impressions -
Eclectica Gallery, Brisbane

2001
Exploration - Kuhn Corp Printing, Brisbane

MSSR Exposure Volume One, DVD Documentary, co-producer, co- director, co-editor, co-designer, co-distributor with Christopher Bennie through Moreton Street Spare Room, contemporary art projects.

Chatham, N. (2007) 'A Storehouse of Experience', Uncovering the once discovered: infozone residency + exhibition project, Christopher Bennie’s catalogue essay, State Library of Queensland.

Chatham, N. (2007) 'The Alien's Back', Christopher Bennie’s catalogue essay, New Work 3, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009
‘Road Trippin’’ Style Magazine, July 09, p. 16. ‘Be inspired by personalized art’ Bayside Bulletin, 30 June 2009, p. 28.

2008
‘People & events to watch in 2008’ Sunday Mail, 30 December 2008, pp. 24-25.

2007
Gentlemen’s Quarterly Australia 2006 Art for the Heart’ - Quest Newspapers
Cutting Edge Female Fashions - Quest Newspapers 2005 Artists Help Charities’ - Quest Newspapers

2004
What’s On Exhibition - Gold Coast Sun Newspaper

2002
Out There - Artworker
Art Donation to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation - The Reef Review

2009
Shortlisted, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club Brisbane.

2008
Presentation and Development Grant, Arts Queensland, for MSSR Exposure DVD series.

2006
Espresso Garage Award - Thiess Art Prize, Dell Gallery Brisbane

Bundaberg Arts Centre
Brian Tucker CPA
Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation
Ideas & Solutionsinc Pty Ltd
Mirvac
MLRSA - Medico Legal Reporting Services of Australia
Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Brisbane
Toyota Finance
Turner Gavin Human Resource Consultants

$700 - $6,000

It was a strangely happy day (30th March - 30 April 2011)
Cohuna Diaries (7 - 31 October 2009)
Today, We Don't Have Plans (29 October - 22 November 2008)
Natural Instincts (11 April - 5 May 2007)