DAVID GILES - RESUME
Biography
Winner of sixteen art awards, David Giles has twenty three solo exhibitions to his name and has shown in New York, Sydney and Melbourne as well as throughout WA. Giles was recently cited as “One of Australia’s most exciting contemporary painters” and listed as a WA Leader for his achievements, leadership and contribution to the community (WA Leaders Sunday Times 31/7/05). Well known as an exhibition curator and community artist, Giles also teaches for Claremont School of Art, Challenger TAFE Centre for Adult Education and privately. He is currently permanent artist in residence at Studio1, Heathcote Art Studios in Applecross.
Artists Statement
For me a painting is resolved when every element contributes to the whole and the sum of all elements is fully integrated. The process of achieving this resolution is one of profound mystery. I approach painting with a sense of letting go and allowing, watching the process unfold so that the journey to resolution becomes for me, like an inner, spiritual journey, feeling my way intuitively through to that point when the painting becomes separate from me. Then I say the painting speaks for itself.
Art Awards
2005 1st Prize Acrylic Painting, Melville Art Awards
2005 High Commendation Award, Cossack Art Awards
2004 John Collis Prize for Abstract Painting, Cossack Art Awards
2003 West Australian Local Government Association Innovation Award, Aqua Jetty Community Art Wall (Concept Design, Project Manager)
2003 High Commendation Cossack Art Awards
2001 John Collis Prize for Abstract Painting, Cossack Art Awards
2001 High Commendation Award, Leonora Art Awards
2000 Regional Award, WA Fringe Festival
2000 1st Prize 2D Award, Leonora Art Awards
2000 1st Prize Mixed Media, Gascoyne Art Awards
2000 Overall Runner Up, Gascoyne Art Awards
2000 High Commendation, Gascoyne Art Awards
2000 2nd Prize Oils/ Acrylic, Newdegate,
2000 High Commendation Award, City of Gosnells
1998 High Commendation Award, Cossack Art Awards
1998 1st Prize, Pilbara Photographic Awards
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Hestia: Goddess of the Hearth Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
2008 The Angel Paintings Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
2007 Deep Waters Freight Gallery, East Fremantle
2006 Moments The WA Club, Perth
2006 Self Revelation Sheraton Hotel, Perth
2006 Primordial Gallery 307, Mosman, Sydney
2006 Beneath the Surface Gallery 101, The WA Club, Perth
2006 Self Expression Old Royal George Gallery, Fremantle
2006 Colour Meditations Monart Gallery, Dalkeith
2005 Spiritual Reflections Monet Gallery, South Guildford
2005 Suspend Old Bakery on 8th, Maylands
2004 Histories and Mysteries Code Red, Claremont
2003 The Fifth Dimension Kings Art Café, Perth
2003 Art and Community Art Dorothy Liley Gallery, Rockingham
2002 Journeys Hawthorn Gallery, Mt Hawthorn
2002 Full Circle Moores Building Contemporary Gallery, Fremantle
2001 Cosmos Ecologie Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith
2001 The Middleton Beach Collection The Esplanade Hotel, Albany
2000 Albany Sea Changes Albany Town Hall, Albany
2000 The Artists Dreaming Chameleon Gallery, Albany
1999 Landscape and Identity Venice Restaurant, Albany
1999 Shades of Green Albany Town Hall, Albany
1994 Shamanic Journeys HEartspace, Fremantle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Imagine Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, East Vic Park
2008 Essential Elements Elements Gallery, Subiaco
2008 Freedom Is Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, East Vic Park
2008 Colours of Life Moores Building Gallery, Fremantle
2007 David Giles and Jim Duddles Elements Gallery, Subiaco
2006 McKay Milunovic and Giles Elements Gallery, Subiaco
2006 Ebb and Flow Gallery 360, Applecross
2006 Navigating Wellbeing Perth Convention Centre
2005 New Offerings Hues Gallery, Sydney
2005 Art Sydney05 Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney
2005 Melbourne Art Show Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2004 Elemental Abstraction Agora Gallery, New York
2004 Vast Span Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Vast Moores Building Art Gallery, Fremantle
2003 Artsay Artspeak Gallery 274, Perth
2002 Recycled Sculpture Dorothy Liley Gallery, Rockingham
2001 Self Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
2001 Windows on Albany Albany CBD (WA Fringe Festival Event)
2000 The Feast Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
2000 Albany Art Works Albany Town Hall, Albany
1999 To be an Artist Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
1996 Beyond the Edge Albany Town Hall, Albany
Public / Community Art Projects
2005 Touhey Gardens Mural, Midland (Principal Artist, Concept Design, Facilitator)
2005 Bennet Brook Mural, Bennet Brook (Principal Artist, Concept Design, Facilitator)
2004 Hakea Prison Mural (Principal Artist, Concept Design, Facilitator)
2003 Derbal Nara Totem Poles, Rockingham (Concept Design, Project Manager)
2003 Aqua Jetty Community Art Wall, Rockingham (Concept Design, Project Manager)
2002 Port Kennedy Great Wall, Rockingham (Concept Design, Project Manager)
2001 Station Youth Centre Art Project, Rockingham (Concept Design, Project Manager)
2000 Albany Heritage Trail, Albany (Concept Design, Project Manager)
Selected Curatorial History (Major Group Exhibitions)
2008 Bayswater Art Awards Naranda Palms Centre, Bayswater
2008 Victoria Park Awards The Park Shopping Centre, Victoria Park
2008 Finally Freight Gallery Fremantle
2007 Bayswater Art Awards Naranda Palms Centre, Bayswater
2007 Victoria Park Awards The Park Shopping Centre, Victoria Park
2006 New Horizons Heathcote Gallery and Museum, Applecross
2006 Bayswater Art Awards Naranda Palms Centre, Bayswater
2006 Focus on Three The Old Royal George Gallery, East Fremantle
2005 Aspire Freight Gallery, Fremantle
2005 Focus The Old George Gallery, Fremantle
2005 Bayswater Art Awards Naranda Palms Centre, Bayswater
2005 Victoria Park Awards The Park Shopping Centre, Victoria Park
2004 Bayswater Art Awards Centro Galleria, Bayswater
2004 Victoria Park Awards The Park Shopping Centre, Victoria Park
2003 Bayswater Art Awards Centro Galleria, Bayswater
2003 Nyoongar Art Exhibition Moores Building Gallery, Fremantle
2002 Indigenous Arts Expo Rockingham Foreshore
2001 Indigenous Arts Expo Rockingham Foreshore
2000 Albany Art Works Albany Town Hall, Albany
1998 Coastcare Exhibition FeNaCLNG Festival, Karratha
Short Term Residencies
2003 Naragebup Environment Centre, Rockingham
2006 Freight Gallery, Fremantle
2008 Cannery Art Centre, Esperance
Art Teaching Experience
Claremont School of Art (February 2006 – current)
Challenger TAFE Centre for Adult (September 2004 – Current)
Art Education
2001 – current MA (Creative Arts) ECU School of Contemporary Art
1994 – 97 Associate Degree (Visual Arts) ECU School of Contemporary Art