CV

MELISSA CLEMENTS

EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES

2017 – 2022: BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HONOURS), Philosophy & History of Art with First Class Honours in History of Art, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
2020: PAINTING FROM REAL LIFE, NATIONAL ART SCHOOL
2018: SUMMERY RESIDENCY, NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART

EXHIBITING HISTORY

GROUP:

2024: Lumiere, Highgate
2023: The Archibald Prize, Sydney
2022: The Darling Prize, Canberra
2022: The Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Melbourne
2022: The Pickle District Group Exhibition, West Perth
2022: Fine Art at Perth College, Mount Lawley
2021: The Lester Prize, Perth
2021: City of South Perth Art Award, South Perth
2021: October Group Exhibition, Corner Gallery, West Perth
2021: Juniper, Ellis House Art Gallery, Bayswater
2021: Fine Art at Perth College, Mount Lawley
2020: Fine Art at Perth College, Mount Lawley
2019: FAM 19 End of Year Exhibition, Crawley, November 2019
2018: New York Academy of Art, Summer Residency Group Show, New York, July 2018 2018: Fine Art at Perth College, Mount Lawley
2018: The Corsini Collection: Revisited, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2018

SOLO:

2023: To Rest on Far Sands, Koort Gallery, Subiaco, October 27th – November 12th 2023 2020: We Prepare a Face, Cleaver Street & Co Studio, West Perth, December 13 – 18TH 2019: Fracture, Plume Estate Vineyard, Bickley, September 13 – 18th

PRIZES:

2023: The Archibald Prize, Finalist
2023: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Annual Prize, London: Semi-Finalist 2022: The Darling Prize for Portraiture, Canberra: Finalist
2022: The Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Melbourne: Finalist
2021: The Lester Prize for Portraiture, Perth: Finalist
2021: City of South Perth Art Award, Open Prize, Perth: Winner
2020: The Lester Prize for Portraiture, Perth: Semi-Finalist
2019: The Lester Prize for Portraiture, Perth: Semi-Finalist
2017: The Lester Prize for Portraiture, Perth: Semi-Finalist

GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS:

2024-2025: PSAS Studio 7 Residency, Fremantle

2024: Blackbird Foundation, follow on funding to travel to Svalbard in 2024 for creative development

2023: Blackbird Foundation, Protostars grant supplied for the creative development of a series of oil paintings due to be exhibited in October, 2023

2020: Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Creative Development and production of solo exhibition We Prepare a Face. Duration: September 1– December 18

MAJOR COMMISSIONS:

2024: Scotch College, Official Portrait of Mrs Jane Alexander, Founder of Scotch College

2022: Supreme Court of Western Australia, Official portrait of the Honourable Chief Justice, Peter Quinlan.

PRESS:

April 2024: ABC Breakfast with Mark Gibson, Radio interview on creative development in Longyearbyen, Svalbard

October 2023: RTR.fm Artbeat, Radio interview on To Rest on Far Sands, solo exhibition

May 2023: Madeleine Lombardi, “XTRA EXCLUSIVE: “As I connect more with colder climates, I think being in Australia has felt very foreign to me,” a conversation with Archibald 2023 finalist Melissa Clements” (WAMN News, April 28th, 2023), https://wamnnews.com.au/wamn-xtra-news-club/xtra-exclusive-as-i-connect-more-with-colder-climates-i-think-being-in-australia-has-felt-very-foreign-to-me-a-conversation-with-archibald-2023-finalist-melissa-clements/

May 2023: Kellie Balaam, “Archibald Prize 2023 Perth artists Melissa Clements and Jill Ansell humbled to be recognised and represent WA” (The West Australian, May 10th, 2023), https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/art/archibald-prize-2023-perth-artists- melissa- clements-and-jill-ansell-humbled-to-be-recognised-and-represent-wa-c- 10553718

May 2023: Mark Naglazas, “Hot streak: How a sizzling summer’s day fired up a Perth Archibald finalist” (The Age, May 4th, 2023), https://www.theage.com.au/politics/western- australia/hot-streak- how-a-sizzling-summer-s-day-fired-up-a-perth-archibald-finalist- 20230503-p5d56a.html