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Elizabeth (Giz) James

Painter, printmaker and drawer


Elizabeth (Giz) James has been drawing professionally for 25 years. She has explored its nuances across several continents through the figure, portraiture, calligraphy, landscape and more recently, vast panoramas of the built environment. Following the completion of a B.A. Fine Arts (Drawing), at Victoria College, Praharan in 1987 she studied Traditional Chinese Painting for two years at the Zhe Jiang Fine Art Academy in Hangzhou, P.R.

China in the 1990’s. In 2009 she completed a Masters in Painting at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village, New York. Elizabeth continues to draw inspiration for her work from the Melbourne skyline, and a life long passion for portraiture and drawing from the figure. She has taught and run life drawing sessions in the community over many years and currently runs sessions at Breslin Gallery, Carnegie and Glen Eira U3A.

“Drawing is my main medium of expression, supported by painting and printmaking. My work is grounded in the connections between people and place, through exploration into Eastern and Western philosophies and styles, gesture and detail, and emotional and perceptual responses. Inclusion rather than specialization has extended and deepened the calibre of my oeuvre.  I invite the viewer to enter spaces both known and untravelled, through the use of observation, memory, and imagination. I often rework surfaces of unrelated histories, incorporating collage, found objects and shifting mediums, searching for new ways to combine a sense of human presence within the environment we inhabit.”


Curriculum Vitae



Education


2009 - 2007                   New York Studio School, Master of Fine Arts, Painting, New York, USA

2008                              New York Studio School, Summer Program, Orvieto, Italy

2008 - 2005                   New York Studio School, Summer Program, New York, USA

2004,  2001                    New York Studio School, Summer Program, Adelaide, Australia

1992 - 1990                   Zhe Jiang Academy of Fine Art, Traditional Chinese Painting,  Hang Zhou, PR China

1990 - 1988                   Victoria College, Chinese Mandarin Undergraduate Studies, Melbourne, Australia  

1988                              Su Zhou University, Chinese Mandarin Intensive, Su Zhou, PR China

1987 - 1985                   Victoria College, BA Fine Arts (Drawing), Melbourne, Australia





Selected solo & joint exhibitions


2013                             “Giz James @ Breslin Gallery”, Breslin Gallery, Carnegie

2011                              Pop Up Studio Show, Cheltenham

2010                             “Recent Works”, George Washington Hall, West Side YMCA, New York

2009, 2008                    “Solitude & Mayhem”, “Quan Bu – 1,000 Steps”, New York Studio School, NY

2007 - 2006                   "Exquisite Torso", "Summer in New York", Artsofar, Carlisle St Centre, St Kilda

2007                              “A Tale of Three Cities – Melbourne, New York, Ararat", Ararat Regional Art Gallery

2004                              "Distant Spaces", Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne 

2002                              "In the Company of Colour", Moran Gallery, Malvern

2001                              "Line Works in Progress", Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran

                                       "Ongoing Obsessions", Dancehouse, Carlton North

1999                              "Private Thoughts", Piccolo Gallery, Melbourne

1998                              "People on Paper", Adelaide Booksellers, Adelaide

1992                              "New Influences", Australian Embassy, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China




Selected solo and group exhibitions


2013                              Breslin Gallery, Carnegie

2012                              Annual Group Exhibition, U3A Glen Eira

2011                              Finalist, Archangel Prize, St Michael’s College, St Kilda

                                      “Butterfly Effect” Emerging Artists, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne

2011 - 2001                   "Linden Postcard Show", Linden Gallery, St Kilda

2010                              “Impressions, 2010”, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy “Drawing Venus”, Robarts-Bird Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park,
                                            
                                      South Melbourne, 18th Friends Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, Chelsea, New York                                  

2010 - 2009                   “Works on Paper”, NolanonLovel Gallery, Blue Mountains, NSW               

2009                              “Communication & Illusion”, 17th Friends Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, NY

                                      “MFA Thesis Exhibition”, “Hohenberg Art Award”, New York Studio School, NY

                                      New York Studio School Exhibition, Patton Boggs Legal, NY

2007                              “Aspects Art Show”, Goondawindi, Queensland

2007 - 2000                   "Bowling Club Studio Artists" annual group exhibitions, Office of the Deputy Premier,

                                       various Melbourne Galleries and Business Centres

2006 - 2005                   "NY Studio School Selected Works" Governors Island, NY

2006 - 2004                   “Chinese Artists Society” Australian Chinese History Museum, Queens Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne

2005 - 2004                   "Expansion", “Between a Rock & a Hard Place", Lancaster Press, Brooklyn, Melbourne

2005, 2001,                   "Chiaroscuro", "50 Most Collectable Artists", "A Charcoal Sea I & 2", Goya Galleries, Melbourne
2000, 1999


2005                              "Melbourne Affordable Art Fair", Exhibition Building, "Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize", Williamstown

2005, 1994                    "Dominique Segan Drawing Prize", Castlemaine State Festival, Victoria

2004, 2002                    "Impressions", "25th Birthday Exhibition", Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy

2004                              "Silk Cut Award, Glen Eira City Gallery “120º of Separation", Linden Gallery, St Kilda

2003                              "City of Banyule Works on Paper Prize" Ivanhoe

1997                               "Nillumbik Expatriates" Eltham Library, Eltham

1995, 1993, 1986           Mornington Drawing Prize

1993                               Diamond Valley Art Awards

1992                               Graduate Exhibition, Zhe Jiang Fine Arts Academy, Hang Zhou, PR China

1987                               Graduate Exhibition, Victoria College, Prahran Campus, Victoria, Australia


             
International Projects


2010                             Vermont Studio Center, Printmaking Residency, Johnson, USA

2010 - 2007                  Private travel and art research in NY, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Miami, USA

2008                             Private travel and art research in Rome, Venice, and Florence, Italy

2005                             Private travel and art research in London, Manchester, the Peaks, the Cotswalds, Kent,

                                     Canterbury, Dover, England, Paris, France and Hong Kong.

2004 - 2002                  Project Manager/Curator – "Nü Horizons - Australian Women Artists" Hangzhou Academy

                                     of Art, Hangzhou, Dong Hua University, Shanghai,  P.R. China,  Manningham Gallery, Melbourne,
                                     Tins Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.

2003                             "Women of the World" Exhibition, Setageya Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1996                             Private travel and art research across Zimbabwe and Kenya, Africa

1992 - 1990, 1988        Extensive travel and art research across Peoples Republic of China         

 

                              Awards



2011                             Summer Residency Program, Victoria University, Flinders St Campus

2010                             Vermont Studio Center, Printmaking Residency Grant, Johnson, USA

2008                             New York Studio School, Summer Marathon, Orvieto, Italy, Merit Award

2007, 2008                   New York Studio School, Ramapo Scholarship, Merit Award, New York

2007                             Aspects Art Show, Goondiwindi, Queensland, Human Form Prize, Print Prize

2006                             Private landscape residency, Ararat (in preparation for 2007 survey exhibition).

2006, 2005                   "Summer Intensive’, "Drawing Marathon", New York Studio School, New York

2005                             Linden Postcard Show, 3rd Prize

2002                             Arts Victoria Cultural Development Grant – Nu Horizons Project. City of Port Phillip Mentorship Program

1991 - 1990                  Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australia-China Study Grant - Zhe Jiang Fine Art Academy, Hangzhou, China



Collections

                                      National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, City of Port Phillip Urban Art Collection, City of Banyule, Hotel Sofitel Australia

   
                                      Peter McCallum Hospital, S.A. Department of Education, New York Studio School, New York,

                                      Zhe Jiang Fine Art Academy and Hang Zhou Artists Academy, Hang Zhou, Australian Embassy, Beijing, P.R. China.

                                      Private collections in Australia, USA, England, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Japan, China, Hong Kong