Isobel Clement
Isobel Clement‘s still life paintings are quiet meditations. Beyond shape and form, her works consider modest compositions and delicate propositions such as the space between objects, the fall of shadow or the play of light on a surface. Clement draws from her small collection of domestic tableware which is painted time and again at different angles and in differing light, with each new work an attempt to understand the myriad possibilities within the picture plane.
Clement’s work is included in collections such as National Gallery of Australia, the Australian Print Workshop Archive, Art Bank Australia and The Bundanon Trust. She has been shortlisted for the contemporary painting prize, the Bayside Art Award, on three occasions in recent years.
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Isobel Clement
Qualifications
1989 B.A. Fine Arts – Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
Phillip Institute of Technology, Bundoora Victoria
1991 Graduate Diploma – Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
Phillip Institute of Technology, Bundoora Victoria
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Shift,
Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2019 The Space
Between, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2017 The Mystery of
Balance, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2010 Intervals in
Space, Ochre and Mix Gallery Melbourne
2007 Inhabited
Space, Ochre and Mix Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Oceanic,
Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Of a larger,
shapeless abstract thought, Eltham Victoria
2000 To Locate and
Remember, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Across the River,
Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Views of Vladivostok,
Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1996 The Opacity of other
histories, The Transparence of one’s own, Pitspace Gallery, Bundoora
1995 Flux, elements
of a floating world, Pitspace Gallery, Bundoora Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2023 XV: PAST
PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2023 Omnia Art Prize,
finalist, Melbourne
2019 Rick Amor Self
Portrait Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria
2017 Bayside Painting
Prize, finalist
2016 M Collection
Award, Finalist.
2016 Bayside
Acquisitive Art Prize Finalist, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre. Brighton,
Victoria
2016 Kilgour Prize,
finalist, Newcastle Gallery, NSW
2016 EMSLA, finalist,
Coffs Harbour NSW
2016 arc Yinnar,
finalist Victoria
2016 Re /collected,
curated by Petra Nicel at the Long Gallery, Montsalvat
2015 Bayside
Acquisitive Art Prize Finalist, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre. Brighton,
Victoria
2014 Transience,
with Dena Ashbolt, Emmy Mavroidis at
Montsalvat
2013 Doug Moran
Portrait Prize, Semi finalist
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, finalist, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Belle Arti, Chapman and Bailey, Abbotsford, Victoria
2012 Take Two,
Nyora Gallery with Emmy Mavroidis, Eltham, Victoria
Artist and Mentor, Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton, Victoria
2011 Symbols of
Loss and Recovery, Montsalvat, Victoria
2010 Light Factory
Gallery, Eltham
Nillumbik Prize Montsalvat Eltham, Victoria
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, PLC Sydney
2009 Belle Arte
Prize, Chapman & Bailey, Abbotsford
Naked, Dante’s, 20 years of the Artist Model Society
Nude, Ochre Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria
Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat Eltham, Victoria
Montsalvat Bushfire Fund raiser, Montsalvat, Victoria
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour
2008 According to my book of
Rules, Shifted, Victoria
Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat Eltham Victoria
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour
Paperwork, Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW
The inaugural Affordable Art Show, Montsalvat, Eltham, Vic
2007 Nillumbik
Prize, Montsalvat, Eltham Victoria.
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour
Modern Mix Contemporary Paintings, Ochre Gallery
James Farrell Self Portrait, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Vic
2006 Salon de
Montsalvat, Landscape painting and Printmaking, Montsalvat, Eltham
Victoria
Life Forms, ArtStreams Gallery, Warrandyte Victoria
2005 Something True,
with Kerry Holland, Ochre Gallery Melbourne
9 x 5, at Art Streams Gallery, Warrandyte, Melbourne
Salon de Montsalvat, Eltham Victoria
Lasting Impressions, Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham Victoria
2004 Bei Gao I.D.
with Denise Keele-Bedford Manningham Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
10 Years at the Studio, stART Gallery, Collingwood
Interface, Ochre and Mix Gallery, Melbourne
Heidelberg School Artists Trail, Eltham Wiregrass Gallery
2003 Dominique
Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival Victoria
R & M McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood Victoria
Nillumbik Prize, Eltham Victoria
Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora, Victoria
Western International School, Beijing China
2002 Made Here – Ten
Years in the studio, Johnston St Collingwood
2000 Art Fair 2000,
Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2001 Self-portraits,
Prospect Gallery, S.A
1999 We are
Australian travelling from the George Adams Gallery, Melbourne
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1998 Making Waves
Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
ACAF# 6 Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
The Australian Arts Crawl, Kyneton Victoria
Making a Spectacle of Ourselves, Eltham Library, Victoria
1997 The Blu Stone
Show, Fringe Festival Melbourne, Victoria
Mornington Spring Festival of Drawing, Victoria
Logan Art Award, Logan Regional Gallery, Queensland.
Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham Victoria
International Works on Paper Fair, State Library of NSW
By Invitation, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
1996 12th Biennial
Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery,
Victoria
Portia Geach Memorial Award S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Out of the Box, Fringe Festival Yume Ya Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Dominique Segan Castlemaine State Festival Drawing Prize
Ether ohnetitel fundraiser, ether ohnetitel Gallery Fitzroy
1995 Four
Printmakers: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne Victoria
Spring Festival of Drawing Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery Victoria
1994 Masterposes,
Roar 2 Studios Fitzroy Victoria
City of Footscray Acquisitive Art Award, Footscray Victoria
Methodist Ladies College Acquisitive Art Exhibition, Kew, Victoria
Recent Work, with Antoinette de Morton, ether ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne
Imitation of Christ series Mario’s Restaurant Fitzroy Victoria
1993 V.I.T.A.E @
7A.I.P. Fifth Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
City of Footscray Acquisitive Art Award, Footscray, Victoria
City of Richmond Acquisitive Art Award, Richmond, Victoria
Posthead, ether ohnetitel Gallery, Fitzroy Victoria
Recent Paintings, with Antoinette de Morton ether ohnetitel Gallery,
Victoria
Artists using sound, installation, video, painting and sculpture Lost
Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
1992 Monash
University Inaugural Exhibition Laser Prints, Cambridge Street,
Collingwood, Victoria
Diamond Valley Acquisitive Art Award, Greensborough, Victoria
City of Richmond Acquisitive Art Award, Richmond, Victoria
City of Footscray Acquisitive Art Award, Footscray, Victoria
1991 Post Graduate
Exhibition – Final Presentation Roar 11 Studios, Fitzroy,
Victoria
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Gallery,
Victoria
1989 Graduate
Exhibition Phillip Institute of Technology, Bundoora, Victoria
1988 8 x 8 in 88
Curator – Mike Brown, Victoria and New South Wales
Prizes
2008 Nillumbik Prize,
Montsalvat, Eltham
2010 Highly Commended
Nillumbik Prize
Press
2008 Imprint, Spring,
In accordance with my book of rules. Pge 16
2006 Imprint, Autumn
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing Page 17
2005 ArtStreams Vol.10
No 4 Summer Edition
2004 Artstreams Vol 9.
No 1 March/April Page 26 I.D
Sightlines Exhibition guide, October 1 2004q
Sightlines, Penny Webb The Age, A3 Friday 1st October
96.5 inner FM interview with Gail Humpreys 10 Years at the Studio
2003 The ArtsPeter
Dougherty Diamond Valley Leader Feb 26
Art Streams, Peter Dougherty, Artin About page 28
Beijing International Art Camp publication page 245
2002 Notes on the
Oceanic Caroline Durre catalogue essay August Imprint
What’s On, The Age August
2001 Between, ELCG Art
Streams page 28
2000 Art Streams,
March/April, To locate and remember, pg 29
Art Streams, July/August, The experience of Bundanon Page 14
1999 Art Streams,
Mar/Apr Interview
ABC Radio National interview, Sunday Arts with Sian Prior
1998 The Future is
Ours, Nick Richardson Herald/Sun July 4
New Artists Boosted by Survey View, Robert Rooney
The Australian February 20
1997 ABC Sunday Arts
with Sian Prior and Mary Lou Jelbart
Views of Vladivostok, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Imprint, Spring,
commissioned print
Radio National Arts Today Sian Prior Out of the Box Exhibition
Fringe Festival Yume Ya Gallery Melbourne
1994 Flux:
Elements of a Floating World Joseph De Lutiis Catalogue Essay 24th
April
1994 The Wall Crawl
Fiona Donnelly The Age June 10
1993 Exploiters of
Exotica Robert Rooney The Weekend Review, The Australian August 21
Collections
NGA Australian Print Workshop Archive 2
Art Bank Australia
Bundanon Trust
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Central Queensland University
Print Council of Australia Inc
Nillumbik Shire Council, Victoria
City of Footscray, Victoria
St. Catherine’s Melbourne
Star of the Sea Convent, Melbourne
Balcatta Senior High W.A
Brisbane Grammar Qld
Methodist Ladies College, Victoria
Western Metropolitan Institute of TAFE
Private Collections Australia, Canada and China
Commissions, Grans & Residencies
Print Council of Australia Inc Member Print
Western Metropolitan Institute of TAFE 1996
Victorian Ministry of the Arts Group Project Grant, 1993
Bundanon April/May, 1999 Residency
Bundanon April 2000 Residency
Red Gate Gallery, Bei Gao Beijing China August 2003 Residency