Resume in brief 2010
Sinead (Nee Siggins) Davies
Finalist:
2010 Salon des Refuses (Archibald Alternative Exhibition) S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney.
2009/06/05 Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney.
2008 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Exhibition State Library Sydney.
2008 Blake Art Prize for Religious Painting Exhibition. National Art School Gallery Sydney.
2009/08 ANL Marine Art Prize Exhibition Melbourne.
Group Exhibitions
2010 Face Off PAA Portrait Exhibition MLC Gallery Sydney
2009 Unsung Hero’s PAA Portrait Exhibition Parliament House Canberra
2008 Members of Parliament PAA Portrait Exhibition Parliament House Sydney
2009/8/7 Delmar Gallery On the Shelf
2007/8 Postcard Exhibition Grafton Regional Gallery
2006 Mixed Exhibition Maunsell Hughes Gallery Woollahra
2005 Mixed Exhibition Maunsell Hughes/Barry Stern Gallery Paddington.
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Moved to Australia in 1983.
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Pre- Sydney – British
Selected for British Drawing at the Hayward Gallery 1982.
Selected for Camden Arts Annual Exhibition London 1982.
Selected to represent Ireland in the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale 1981
Selected for the British National Travelling Exhibition Tolly Cobbold 1980.
Education
Studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art London 1976 to 1980
Now part of University of the Arts London.
Awarded the Byam Shaw Scholarship 1978-79.
Provided with a grant from the Inner London Education Authority 1976 -1980.
Awarded the British Foundation Institute Award Royal Academy of Art 1980
About the Artist
Born Ireland. Art Education London. Lives & works in Sydney. Australian Citizen.
Works as: Fine Artist, Creative Director & part time Lecturer at UNSW FBE for the past 15 years.
Currently working on first major solo exhibition.
Sinead’s work is focused on working from the figure, the land that often includes the figure & can include the sea. Still life is also a part of Sinead’s working genre.
Note: Paintings are signed at the back: Sinead (Siggins) Davies.