
Loralee Jade
Painting
Lives and works in NW Tasmania, Australia
Loralee Jade draws upon memory and personal experience to explore how painting can be utilized to consider what can be represented beyond language. Through her work, she offers an evocative visual space that is suggestive of figuration while simultaneously dissolving into abstraction. She inspires to create works that are sensuous, luscious, bodily, and emotional to experience.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022, “This is the place”, Good Grief Studios, Tasmania
2021, “Reflection Pond”, STABLE Gallery, Brisbane
2020, “Devotional Pictures”, Wilderness Gallery, Tasmania
2017, “This is how the grape becomes wine”, Junior Space, Melbourne
2016, “Airing out your hoax”, Sawtooth ARI, Tasmania
2016, “Airing out your hoax”, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2015, “Shelter chooses you”, Fort Delta, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023, “Heart Collector”, Duo show with Jia Xin Nong, Gallery Jones Melbourne
2023, “Pause Pause”, Gallery Raye, Brisbane
2023, “Warm Dormancy”, Duo show with Georgia Bel, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2022, “Hunter & Folk Group show”, Rainbow Studio, Sydney
2022, “From Around Here”, Proud Bonney, South Australia
2022, “Deciduous”, Duo show with Adam Leng, Hake House, Sydney
2022, “Balmy”, Gallery Raye, Brisbane
2022, “Know Their Names”, Gallerie SeventyOne, Tasmania
2022, “Emerge”, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2022, “Company We Keep”, Hake House, Sydney
2020, “40 under 40”, Butter Factory Art Centre, Sunshine Coast
2020, “Small Works”, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2020, “Women of Art”, Thomas Surfboards, Noosaville
2018, “All Shape and Colour”, The Gallery Peregian Beach, Queensland
2018, “Henry Jones art prize”, Henry Jones Art Hotel, Tasmania
2017, “Massage Therapy”, Curated by Clare Longley, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2016, “Summer Projects”, Boom Gallery, Melbourne
2015, “Smell of an oily rag”, Curated by James Bowen, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015, “Perfect Lethargy of orbit”, Curated by Laura Skerlj and Anthea Kemp, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2015, “Tide” - curated by Justin Hinder, C3 contemporary Art space, Melbourne
2015, “So much staying alive and lovelessness”, Curated by Tristian Keonig, Tristian Keonig, Melbourne
2015, “In Nature”, Angela Fenwick Gallery, Melbourne
2014, “Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition”, Melbourne
2014, “Proud”, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2013, “New Acquisitions Vol.III”, Curated by James Bowen, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2013, “Dead Rubber”, Curated by Lisa Radford, Collingwood, Melbourne
2013, “Proud”, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2013, “CO-ED”, VCA student Gallery, Melbourne
2012, “Proud”, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2012, “50 Shades of White”, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2009, “RACT Youth Portraiture Prize”, Traveling Exhibition, Tasmania
AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2018, Henry Jones Art Prize Finalist
2014, Rosemary Ricker Graduate Award
2013, Lionel Gell Foundation Academic Excellence Scholarship
2013, Fort Delta Award, Proud VCA
2011, Award of excellence Creative Writing
2011, Award of Excellence Photography
2009/2010, RACT Youth Portraiture Prize Finalist
2008, Young Australian Art Award, Drawing
EDUCATION
2014, BFA, Victorian College of the Arts
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