2013 - 2016 | Oil Painting, Monsalvat Eltham, Australia |
2005 | Graduate Diploma of Education, Art (Visual Arts) (Double Method) |
2002 | Art History, Latrobe Street College of Art and New Media. Melbourne, Australia |
2001 - 2002 | Oil Painting, Studio Art Methods & Techniques. Latrobe Street College of Art and New Media, Melbourne, Australia |
1990 - 1991 | Graduate Diploma Interior Design, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia. Two years |
1979 - 1982 | Bachelor of Arts Ceramic Design, Monash University Caulfield, Victoria, Australia. Majoring in; Clay & Glaze methods & techniques, drawing, art history, architectural ceramics, glass studies and concrete sculpture. |
Welcome to my Website
Shari Nye is an Australian painter whose work is deeply connected to the land, offering evocative and atmospheric interpretations of the landscape. Growing up in Eltham, Melbourne, amongst the Australian bush and connected to the Montsalvat artist colony, Nye began painting and working in ceramics as a teenager before establishing a successful ceramic practice. Her paintings and ceramics have been awarded and acquired by private and corporate collections.
She studied at Monash University (BA Ceramic Design), Interior Design RMIT, oil painting Latrobe Street College of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Melbourne University (Grad Dip Visual Art Education).
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Education
Painting trips & Master classes
Oil painting with Garin Baker, Art Students League Of New York, USA
Painting trips, with Idris Murphy, David Keeling, Ross Laurie, Australia
Solo exhibitions
2026 | Montsalvat, Long Gallery, Eltham, Australia |
2026 | The Little Accorn Terang, Australia |
2024 | The F Project Gallery, Warrnambool,Australia |
2022 | Atrium Gallery, Warrnambool, Australia |
2021 | Atrium Gallery, Warrnambool, Australia |
2019 | F Project Gallery Warrnambool |
2018 | Artist of the month, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Australia |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 | Finalist Waverley Art Prize Bondi Pavilion Gallery, NSW |
2026 | 50 x 50cm Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne |
2025 | Finalist, Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Art Prize NSW |
2023 | Finalist, Mount Eyre Art Prize NSW |
2022 | Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham Art Gallery Victoria, Australia |
2021 | Finalist, Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Art Prize NSW |
2021 | Warrnambool Base Hospital |
2021 | Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne |
2020 | Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery NSW |
2020 | 50 x 50cm Show Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne |
2019 | F Project Gallery Warrnambool, Australia |
2018 | Wishart Gallery Port Fairy, Australia |
2017 | Small works F Project Gallery Warrnambool, Austral |
2017 | Merri View Gallery, Warrnambool, Australia |
Other awards
2023 | 2nd Prize Warrnibald Portrait Prize |
2019 | 1st prize.Winner, Fletcher Jones en plein air painting award Artist in residence Warrnambool City council |
2018 | WADAS excellence award |