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Petalia Humphreys

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Petalia Humphreys  Bio Petalia Humphreys lives and works on Gubbi Gubbi country. Born and raised in Queensland, she graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Art, Visual Art (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts) in the late 1990s. Humphreys has worked as an art educator and has exhibited at the Brisbane Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Metro Arts, and Brisbane Powerhouse. More recently Humphreys has been commissioned for multiple public art projects on the Sunshine Coast and exhibited at Noosa Regional Gallery, Webb Gallery, Metro Arts Brisbane and Outer Space. Humphreys’ is a producer and curator for Studio 26, a project that curates critical conversation and exhibitions for local artists whose works fall within a reductive practice. In addition to pursing an arts practice Humphreys is a sessional teacher in Design at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Artist Statement Petalia Humphreys creates three-dimensional reductive abstract paintings that reveal a concern for location, colour, light and space. Humphreys’ hard-edge, geometric forms encourage an interactive approach, inviting the audience to engage in playful ways, considering ways of seeing, perceiving and viewing. Aiming to engage inquisitiveness and challenge perception through mapping of spaces her works spark curiosity and invite the viewer to renegotiate their experience of the familiar. Working with building materials, Humphreys’ practice spans from small-scale hand-crafted paintings through to large site-specific public art installations.

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Prompt, SUPERCUT, Outer Space Window Gallery, Brisbane
2022 A-part-ment, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2022 Artist in Session, Studio 26 Project, Peregian Beach
2021 Inhabit solo exhibition, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, supported by Noosa RADF
2019 Flying Arts Seasonal Sittings of Tiny Art, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
1999 Protrusions, Shop 49B, Fortitude Valley, a project by Peter Alwast
1998 a work, Someone Else’s Studio, Fortitude Valley, curated by Gail Hastings
1997 flat, Palace Gallery, Southbank

Group Exhibitions
2022 EDIT-ism, Outer Space Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, Finalist, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Glimpse, The Side Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Betwixt, Webb Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Mutual Intent, The Design Conference, Brisbane Powerhouse
2020 Abstraction, Finalist & Viewer’s Choice Award, Petrie Terrace Gallery
2019 Brook Andrew’s Travelling Colony Project, Floating Land, Noosa
2019 Mayo Postcard Project, St Margaret’s School, Brisbane
2019 Milburn Art Prize, Finalist, Brisbane Institute of Art
2002 No Space, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
2000 No Noise, !Metro Arts, Brisbane, Curated by Max Delany
1999 Mannerism, Smith & Stoneley, Newstead, Curated by Chris Worfold
1998 Fresh Cut, Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley
1998 Suite, Smith & Stoneley, Newstead
1997 Utopia/Dystopia, Whitebox Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Absence, Whitebox Gallery, Brisbane
1995 Compact, University of Sydney, Nepean

Public Art
2022 Field of Vision, Currie Street permanent installation for Reimagine Nambour
2022 Affinite, Concept Design for AVID, Harmony District Recreation Park
2021 Occupation: Observances in Counterpart, Commissioned work for SunCentral, The Met, Maroochydore City Centre
2021 Sightlines, Key commissioned work, Floating Land, Noosa

Residencies and Projects
2022 Critical Light, Horizon Festival
2022 The Keeper Project, facilitated by Field Theory
2022 SC Creative Spaces Artist in residence, The Old Lock Up, Maroochydore
2022 EDIT-ism, Outer Space, Co-curator
2022 Studio 26 Project Founder & producer, Studio 26, Peregian Beach, supported by Sunshine Coast RADF ($10,000)
2021 Liminal States Co-curator, The Old Lockup, Maroochydore
2021 Curator Program, Professional development facilitated by Hamish Sawyer
2021 The Path, Project development facilitated by Kellie O’Dempsey
2021 The Refinery , Creative Arts Business Incubator, The Met, Maroochydore
2020 DisRupt, Mentor development faciliatated by Alison Mooney
2002–2020 Visual Art Masterclass coordinator: St Andrew’s Anglican College, Clayfield College (Head of Department)
2003–2007 Clayfield College Graduate Art Exhibition Coordinator, !Metro Arts, Brisbane

Publications
Bai, P 2022, Form, Object and an Open Space — Geometric Abstraction by Petalia Humphreys
Hine, M 2022, EDIT-ism, exhibition essay, Outer Space
Mayhew, L 2021, Painting is Dead. Long Love Painting!
Brennan, M 2021, Precision Painting, In Noosa Issue 28 Winter 2021
Delany, M 2000, No Noise: Light, Colour, Action, !Metro Arts
Anderson, P 2000, No Noise, Eyeline Isuue 42, Autumn/Winter
McNamara, A 1999, Looking for an opening, www.artdes.monash.edu.au/globe/issue9/amctxt
Kubler, A 1998, Suite, exhibition essay, Smith & Stoneley

Collections and Teaching
2022 Sessional Teacher, The University of the Sunshine Coast
Private commissions, United Kingdom
Private collections Australia (Brisbane and Sunshine Coast), United Kingdom, Denmark, Sunshine Coast Public Art Collection 

Work

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