Nameer DAVIS
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Collections:
Queensland University of Technology
Queensland Government
Moreton Shire Council
Taipei Municipal Council
Numerous Private Collections
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 World Like This, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2012 Colour Series, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2010 China Vector, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2009 Random Streak, Metcalfe gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2006 The Movement of People, Gallery 482 at Michel Sourgnes Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Crowd, Gallery 482, Brisbane Australia
2003 Mimics +Models, Taipei International Artist Village Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 e- face, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
2001 15 Lights over Purple Mountain, 3M Gallery, Nanjing, China
2000 Wanton Painting, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Object/Paper/ Thought II, Umbrella Studio Gallery, Townsville
Object/Paper/Thought I, 46 Merivale St, South Brisbane
Flotilla, installation Breakfast Creek, Brisbane
1995 Sur-Name…Er…Davis, Metro Arts, Brisbane
1992 Emoh Morf, MOCA Loading Bay, Brisbane
1991 Ocean Floor, Fortitude Valley Shopfront Project, NAVA, Brisbane
1990 Drawing from travels in China, Palace Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Paintings, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1987 Paintings and constructions, BCAE Gallery, Brisbane
SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2014 Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane
2008 Fifteen Artists, Redcliffe City Gallery, Redcliffe Qld
2006 Models & Mimics, Austral Avenue, Melbourne
1999 Formless, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Screen, Collaborative venture with Barbara Penrose, smith + stoneley, Brisbane
1997 HABIDIMAP Public Sculpture, City Hall and 111 George St. Foyers, Brisbane
1996 No One Receiving Whitebox Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Words/Works, with Barbara Penrose, Palace Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Five, QUT Honours Exhibition, McWhirters Artspace, Brisbane
1987 Nameer Davis and George Balajka at That, That Space, Brisbane
1981 Predicaments, Dancing Bear Gallery, Toowoomba
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Qld
2011 Prometheus Foundation art prize, All Saints Anglican School Robina Qld
2010 Redlands Art Prize, Redlands Shire Gallery,Qld
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Qld
How artists see people, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe Qld
2009 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Qld
Moreton Shire Art Award, Strathpine Qld
Prometheus Foundation art prize, All Saints Anglican School Robina Qld
2007 Strand Ephemera, Townsville, Qld
Prometheus Foundation art prize, All Saints Anglican School Robina Qld
2006 Redlands Art Prize, Redlands Shire Gallery,Qld
2005 Prometheus Foundation art prize, All Saints Anglican School Robina Qld
2002 Surface Paradise, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast Queensland
Prospect Portrait Prize, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Experimental Australian Design, JamFactory, Adelaide
2000 Survey 2000, Global Arts Link, Ipswich
Against the Grain, Brisbane City Gallery
1999 Sculpture By the Sea – Sydney, Bondi Coastal Walk
1998 Sound & Text, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Political Boats, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
1986 First Birthday, That Gallery, Brisbane
1981 Cross-Sections, Art/Empire/Industry, Sydney
PUBLIC ART
2010 *Tuned Railings, Fitzgibbon Chase, Brisbane ULDA Art&Place
2007 *Qld State Tennis Centre, Design Development, Art Built-in Qld Govt
2007 *Gin Gin Hospital Redevelopment, Art Built-In Qld Health, Gin Gin
2006 Untitled Crowd: Egress – Painting acquired under Art Built-in, Stafford Police Station
*Caravan Qld Health, Eventide Aged Care Centre, Brighton
*Light House Qld Health, Redlands Aged Care Centre, Cleveland
*Rosebowl Qld Health, Warwick Aged Care Centre, Warwick
2005 * Millenium project, Design Development, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2002 Suncorp Stadium entry statement Design Development, Qld Govt
2001 * Shimmer Margate Foreshore, 7 Pergolas, Redcliffe City Council
2000 Sleeper, Roma Street Parklands: Public Sculpture, Art Built-In Qld Govt
Kedron Brook Public Sculpture Concept design, Brisbane City council
1997 HABIDIMAP Public Sculpture, City Hall Foyer and 111 George St. Foyer, Brisbane
Aeolian Harp (Sound Sculpture), St. Catherine’s, Middle Park, Brisbane
1994 Kangaroo Point Cliffs Boardwalk, Design Development, Qld Govt
* works in collaboration with Barbara Penrose through the partnership Inhouse Screenings
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 An Experiment In Living With Art, Jane O’neill, Emblem Press
2006 Suncorp Stadium Public Art Booklet, Writers, Glen Henderson and Keith Ward, Qld Govt Printers
2003 Stateline, Roma street Parklands ABC TV 5th July
Taipei Times, review by David Frazier 25th May
2002 Heterostrophic, Ed Ehmann & Holubinsky, IMA Publishing
Lives of the Artists 2, review by Jane Gallagher
2001 Object Magazine, August 2001
Jiangsu Evening Post, Nanjing China, 3/5/01
2000 Art Monthly on line review by Jane Gallagher, (www.artmonthly.org.au)
1999 Eyeline Magazine REVIEW by Elizabeth Ruinard, Formless curated by Franz Ehmann
Vogue Living, February Issue
1998 House and Garden, Katherine Victor-Perdraut, Divide & Conquer, November 1998 issue
Courier Mail, Our House, Brisbane, August 1998
1993 Eyeline Magazine no 22 Nicholas Zurbrugg, Nameer Davis- Visual Words/Works
PUBLICATIONS
1996 Eyeline Magazine no 32 review The Elephant in the Dark by Jihad Mohammed John Armstrong,
1994 Eyeline Magazine no 26 review Span, The Geometry of Labour an Installation by Barbara Penrose,
1992 Talbot Press, Authorized Poem, Brisbane
COMMERCIAL VENTURES
Inhouse Screenings is a partnership between myself and Barbara Penrose
2000 Inhouse Screenings Lotus Standing Screen, CQ Stores, Craft Queensland, Brunswick Street Brisbane
Inhouse Screenings Coquette Fan Screen, Concept, design and prototype
Inhouse Screenings, Lotus Standing Screens 1, 2 & 3 at CQ Stores, Craft Queensland
1999 Inhouse Screenings at the Queensland Furniture Expo, Cooroy Butter Factory, Cooroy
1998 Inhouse Screenings, decorative screens, first series exhibited Smith and Stoneley, Brisbane
TRAINING
2004 Mandarin language levels one and two, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Queensland, Brisbane
2003 Mandarin Language Course (Introduction) CLD, Taipei, Taiwan
1996 Master of Art by Research, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
1991 Honours Degree in Visual Art, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
89-90 Bachelor of Visual Art, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
80-82 Diploma of Visual Art (Painting), Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT
2005-16 Tutor in Painting, Brisbane Institute of Art, Qld
2004 Guest lecturer, Queensland College of Art Griffith University Qld
2003 Guest lecturer, Queensland College of Art Griffith University Qld
2001 Invitation lecturer at 4 university art colleges in the Peoples Republic of China: Nanjing Institute of Art, Nanjing;Sichuan University art department, Chengdu; Sichuan Institute of Art, Chongqing; South-West China Normal University Art Department, Bei Bei, Chongqing State
2000 Coordinator, Art and Design Program, The Bremer Institute of TAFE, Ipswich, Qld
95-00 Tutor in studio (part-time), Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
92-02 Teacher in Art and Design (part-time), The Bremer Institute of TAFE, Ipswich, Qld
92-94 Tutor in Art Theory (part-time), Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
AWARDS
2014 Margaret Burton Memorial Award, Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Qld
2007 Ergon Energy Award For Excellence, Winner, Strand Ephemera, Townsville
2003 Australia China Council Residency, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
1997 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
1996 Scholarship for Master of Arts degree, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane