Colleen Guiney is an emerging artist living in the south-west coast of Victoria. She has exhibited widely including recent shows Boom Gallery, Geelong (2017/18/20). Career highlights include solo exhibitions at Pigment Gallery in the Nicholas Building (2009) and First Site Gallery, RMIT (2009). Colleen was recently a finalist in the Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize (2021) and has been featured in The Artist Issue of Country Style Magazine (2019). She has also been a finalist in the Williamstown and Waverley Art Prizes.
Colleen’s paintings represent the physical act of painting and the inner calmness that occurs when she paints. In the making of her paintings, she expresses something that is felt rather than observed and has developed a methodology through layers of texture, colour and intuitive marks and shapes that reference the natural landscape around her. Colour is the most important element of her work and getting it right is key to knowing when a painting is working, or when it is finished. Nature is the ultimate inspiration for the work, and what is left on the canvas reflects how Colleen experiences it through her own interior landscape.
Individual Exhibitions
2021- Boom Gallery
2020- Boom Gallery
2017- Boom Gallery
2015- South West Tafe Community Space, Warrnambool Vic
2009- Pigment Gallery, Nicholas Building, Melbourne
2009- RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2021- 'Summer Art Soiree', Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2019- 'Summer @ Flinders', Manyung Gallery, Flinders
2019- ArtToArt, group show, Melbourne
2011- CAS Annual Exhibition
2010- Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Emerging Artist Exhibition
2007- MLC Acquisitive Art Exhibition
2006- Herring Island Summer Festival Exhibition
2005- Gasworks, Discovery Art Show, Port Melbourne
2005- The Fitzroy Gallery ’Intrinsic Motivation’ group show, Melbourne
2005- Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Finalist Art Prizes
2021- Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize
2018- Cambridge Studio Gallery Life Abstracted Art Prize Collingwood, Vic
2010- St Michaels Exhibition and Archangel Prize , Prahran Vic
2009- Flanagan Art Prize, St Patricks College Ballarat Vic
2009- Waverley Art Prize, Bondi Road Art School NSW
2009- Mount Eyre Vineyards Art Prize NSW
2008- 6 Degrees Art Prize, Frankston Art Centre Vic July
2008- Williamstown Festival – Tattersalls Contemporary Art Prize, Vic
2007- Williamstown Festival – Tattersalls Contemporary Art Prize, Vic
Collections
Epworth Hospital, Melbourne
Private collections Australia, UK, Germany
Publication
Country Style Magazine March 2019 Art Issue