Unfolding the Layers
Pam Wapole
PAM WALPOLE
Visual Artist www.pamwalpole.com
Born – Nhill, Victoria, Australia. Diploma Commercial Illustration. Diploma Fine Art
The natural habit is the inspiration for my work – pared down and portrayed in a bold, vigorous style.
I have focused on small sections of the bigger picture – reflections in a creek – cast shadows or a tidal flow.
Solo exhibitions
2016 Manly Gallery – ‘Reflections’
2016 Lasting Impressions Gallery, Kenilworth – ‘Moods and marks’
2014 Lasting Impressions gallery, Kenilworth – ‘Brushstrokes and barbed wire’
2012 Lasting Impressions Gallery, Kenilworth – ‘Panoramas
2011 Lasting Impressions Gallery, Kenilworth – ‘Bungles and beyond’
2009 Lasting Impressions Gallery, Kenilworth – ’Track, tides & territories’
2006 Neo Gallery – Brisbane – ‘tracks and tides’
2005 Maria Perides Gallery – Newstead, Brisbane – ‘A walk thru spinifex’
2004 Manly Gallery – ‘Kakadu Kaleidoscope’
2004 Cool Art Gallery – Coolum, Qld – ‘Landmarks’
2003 Maria Perides Gallery – Newstead, Brisbane –‘Abandoned spaces’
2002 Cool Art Gallery – Coolum Qld – ‘Desert Places’
1999 Christina Mitchell Gallery, Milton, Brisbane– ‘Rhythm of life’
1997 Baguette Gallery, Ascot, Brisbane – ‘Brisbane River’
1989 Latrobe Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane –‘Underwater images.
Awards
2018 Taste of Art – Noosa Regional gallery – 1st Prize 2D
2017 Taste of Art’ – Noosa Regional Gallery – 2nd Prize 2D
2015 Sunshine Coast – Local Art, Local content, 1st Prize Oil painting & Open Prize.
2014 Noosa Regional Gallery – ‘Taste of Art’ – Ist prize 2D
2011 Noosa Regional Gallery – ‘Show us your Art’- People’s choice Award
2010 Noosa Art Award- 1st Prize – oil, acrylic, mixed media painting
2006 Caloundra Art Festival – Open Prize
2005 Caloundra Art Festival – Open Prize & Drawing Prize
- 2003 Caloundra Art Festival – 1st Prize Modern/Abstract painting
2003 Society of Sculptors – Environment Award – Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens
2001 Work for the Blues’ Award – 1st Prize Acrylic or Oil painting
2001 Pine Rivers Art Award – Open Prize
1999 QPAC Society of Sculptors Exhibition- Ist Prize Open, & Best wood, Best bronze sculpture
Commissions
Corporate and Private commissions include Sunshine Coast University Public and Private Hospitals, Royal Brisbane Womens, Greenslopes Private Hospitals, Cairns International Airport, Hotels, resorts and many others.
Collections –
Queensland Treasury; Brisbane City Council Civic Art Gallery; Moreton Bay & Esk Shire Councils;
Sunshine Coast Council, University of the Sunshine Coast; St George Bank Sydney, NSW;
Bank of Qld; Caltex; Downfall Creek Bushland Centre, Brisbane; Dept Main Roads, Qld.
Nillumbik Shire Council, Victoria Public & private collections locally, interstate &overseas.
2018/’19/’20 Selected to represent Australia – International Acquarello in Fabriano watercolour Exhibition, Italy
2008 Oral History – Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
2007 Artist exchange program, Ulsan, South Korea. 2007 Selected exhibition Tabayashi, Japan
1994 & 1995 – President, Society of Sculptors, Queensland
Art Installations – A collaboration under Art ForARTsake,
2019 – SWELL sculpture festival, Currumbin – Sculpture on the edge, Maleny – Floating Land, Noosa
2018 – Mobiles for the Commonwealth Games Baton Relay,Tewantin –
2018 – HORIZON Festival ,USC Sippy Downs
2017 – Horizon festival, Coolum – Floating Land, Noosa. – Woodfordia,.
2017 – Sculpture on the Edge, Maleny
2015/2016 – Noosa long Weekend festivals ……..Numerous pop-up works throughout the Sunshine Coast