NARELLE PENDLEBURY
Narelle Pendlebury is an established West Australian artist with a background in Fine Arts and Art Education. Her uniquemixed media artworks are created through a process that layers and fuses the traditional disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles. An integral part of the work is the concept and activity of layering. Vibrant, transparent colours are layered over detailed areas of printed and stitched pattern resulting in highly worked, jewel-like images with a subtle interplay of surface, material and texture.
Pendlebury’s images explore the themes of land, sea and sky, and the movement from one stratum to the next; the fluidic nature of dream-states and the subconscious; and the decorative and symbolic elements of the human form.
Narelle has held several solo exhibitions and her work is celebrated in many corporate and private collections throughout Australia and overseas.
EXHIBITIONS- MIXED, INVITATION
1984 Perth Technical College Printmaking Exhibition
1985 Craft Council of Western Australia
1996 South Perth Art Fiesta
1997 Waratah Red Cross Exhibition, Dalkeith
1998 Salec Minc Art Exhibition, Mount Lawley
Waratah Red Cross Exhibition, Dalkeith
1999 Brunswick Agricultural Society Art Show
Salec Minc Art Exhibition, Mount Lawley
Waratah Red Cross Exhibition, Dalkeith
2000 ‘Art In The Park’, King’s Park, Perth
‘Art At Aranmore’, Aranmore College, Leederville
Waratah Red Cross Exhibition, Dalkeith
Salec Minc Exhibition, Mount Lawley
Brunswick Agricultural Art Show
2001 ‘Art At Aranmore’,Aranmore College, Leederville
Salec Minc Art Exhibition, Mount Lawley
‘Artcenta’, Newman College, Churchlands
‘Art of Humanity’, Red Cross Exhibition, University of WA
Salec Minc Exhibition, Mount Lawley
‘Family Ties’, Christchurch Grammar School, Claremont
Gallery 360 Subiaco, Feature Artist for December
‘The Life, The Land, The People’, Mosman Park Art Awards
2003 ‘Artcenta’, Newman College, Churchlands
2003 Salec Minc Art Exhbition, Mount Lawley
Gallery 360, Mount Lawley, Feature Artist for June, December
Town of Cambridge Art Awards, Floreat
‘Celebrations’, MLC Exhibition, Claremont
St Hilda’s Art Show, Mosman Park
‘Fine Art At Hale’, Hale School, Wembley Downs
‘The Art Show’, Campbell Barracks, Swanbourne
Trinity college Inaugural Art Exhibition, East Perth
Guildford Grammar Art Show, Guildford
2004 Gallery 360, Feature Artist for February
Town of Cambridge Art Awards, Floreat
‘Art Divine’, Anglican Parish of St Nicolas, Carine
Mindarie Art Awards, Mindarie
Gallery 360, Applecross, Feature Artist for July
‘Fine Art At Hale’, Hale School, Wembley Downs
‘The Art Show’, Swanbourne Barracks, Swanbourne
2005 ‘Artitude’, Perth Convention Centre
‘Stop The Cane Toad’, Challen and Rafferty, Subiaco
‘The Art Show’, Campbell Barracks, Swanbourne
Trinity Art Exhibition, East Perth
‘Fine Art At Hale’, Hale School, Wembley Downs
2006 Gallery 360, Joondalup, Feature Artist for January
‘Art At PC’, Perth College, Mount Lawley
‘Fine Art at Hale’, Hale School, Wembley Downs
Guildford Grammar Art Exhbition, Guildford
‘Artitude’, Perth Convention Centre
2007 ‘Art At PC’, Perth College, Mount Lawley
‘Artitude, Burswood, Perth
‘Fine Art at Hale’, Hale School, Wembley Downs
2008 ‘ Artitude’, Burswood, Perth
‘Fine Art At Hale’, Hale School, Wembley Downs
2009 ‘Fine Art At Hale,’ Hale School, Wembley Downs
‘Creative Tides,” Iona Presentation College, Mosman Park
SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2000 ‘Rhythm In Chaos’, 4 Person Exhibition, Moores Building, Fremantle
2004 ‘The Journey’, Gallery 360, Mount Lawley
‘Battle of the Sexes’, Gallery 360, Subiaco
2005 ‘Life’s A Beach’, Gallery 360, Subiaco
‘Art Melbourne’, Fusion Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 ‘Art Sydney’, Fusion Gallery, Sydney
‘Summer Exhibition’, LK Galleries, Subiaco
2009 Summer Exhibition,’ LK Galleries, Subiaco
2010 ‘Under The Sun’ Fusion Fine Arts, Mandurah
2010 ‘Easter Exhibition,’ LK Contemporary, Subiaco
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 ‘Transparence’, Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park
2005 ‘New Layers’, LK Galleries, Subiaco
2006 ‘Embellish’, Fusion Fine Arts, Dolphin Marina, Mandurah
2007 ‘Dreams and Destinations’, LK Galleries, Subiaco
COMMISSIONS
Dome Restaurant, Claremont WA – Ceramic Tile Wall Mural
WA Marble and Granite- paintings for Board Room
Medical Specialist Suites – West Perth – paintings
St John of God Hospital, Subiaco
Private commissions for paintings, ceramics, mosaics, murals
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
St Stephens Primary School, Duncraig 2007
COLLECTIONS
Aranmore College Art Department, Leederville
Medical Specialist Suites, Perth
Legal Offices, Bar Chambers, Perth
Notre Dame University, Fremantle – sculpture
Summit Homes, Perth
Newman College Senior, Churchlands
Perth College, Mount Lawley
St John of God Hospital, Subiaco
Private collections in WA, interstate, Switzerland, Sweden, Dubai, France,
South Africa, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore.London
ART QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
1979- St Mary’s Anglican Girl’s School Year 12 Art Prize
1980-81 3 Semesters BA Fine Arts – Curtin University (WAIT)
major – painting minor- printmaking
1984 Perth Technical College – part-time Diploma in Art units in Printmaking,
Art Studio and Business Practice, Drawing
1984-86 Diploma of Teaching (Secondary) Edith Cowan University
major – painting, minor - textiles
1988 0nwards – continued professional development in short courses – watercolour,
photoshop, majolica and ceramics, glass slumping and fusing, courses for
professional artists run by Artsource, AFWA.
1984-86 Head of Department-Art , Sacred Heart College, Sorrento
1995-96 Taught adult evening classes in ceramics – Joan Watters Community
Centre, Wembley
2007-07 Committee member and Curator (07) Fine Art at Hale
2005-06 Art Technician, Hale School Art Dept Senior School.
2006 Artist in Residence term 4 – St Stephen’s College Duncraig
2008 Part-time secondary Art teaching St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School
CURRENTLY EXHIBITING
Linton and Kay Contemporary, Hay Street, Subiaco
Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup
Jah Roc, Margaret River
Fusion Fine Arts, Dolphin Quay, Mandurah
