Born Brisbane AU
Artist Education/Training:
2009-12 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours (1st Class), Queensland College of Art
2010 – International Exchange, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK
Grants, Awards and Residencies:
2018 – Flowstate/Deathfest residency, FLOWSTATE, Southbank QLD
2017 – Metro Arts Residency, Jul-Dec 2017, QLD
2016 – Queensland Arts Showcase Program Grant: Arts Ignite (as part of crosseXions)
2016 – Artist in Residence, SpiroGraceArtRooms Summer Residency, QLD
2011 – Recipient ADFAS Award in Painting, QLD
2010 – Recipient International Experiences Incentive Scheme Grant, Griffith University
Selected Exhibitions:
2021 - Things Have Been Better, Stable Art Space, QLD
2021 - Something More, curated group show, Outerspace ARI, QLD
2020 - A Show Called Daydream, solo exhibition, Wreckers Artspace, Woolloongabba, QLD
2020 - A Show Called Daydream, solo exhibition, Wreckers Artspace, Woolloongabba, QLD
2019/20 - New Woman, curated exhibition survey, Museum of Brisbane, QLD
2019 – Cats Do Not Go To Heaven, curated group exhibition, Outerspace ARI, QLD
2018 – Artist In Residence/Exhibition, FLOWSTATE, as part of Deathfest, Southbank, QLD
2018 – UNSTABLE, group exhibition curated by Stable Art Space, The Walls Artspace, Miami, GC
2018 – Grasp the Nettle (solo exhibition), Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD
2017 – Comfortable Silence, Ivory Street Window, Artisan, Fortitude Valley, QLD
2016 – Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, QLD
2016 – crosseXions, Alaska Projects/CrossArts Projects, Sydney, NSW
2016 – crosseXions, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD
2016 – Dirty Blonde, Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Spring Hill, QLD
2015 – Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, QLD
2015 – The Churchie Emerging Art Award, Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD
2014 – Light Touch, Dispatch Project, Odradekaeaf, Adelaide Experimental Art Foundation, SA
2013 – Christmas Show, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2013 – QARI Project, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, NSW
2013 – The Churchie Emerging Art Award, Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD
2012 - Art for Eva, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Fortitude Valley, QLD
2012 - Spread, Honours Graduate Show, Queensland College of Art, QLD
2012 - Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, QLD
2012 - Test Pattern, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Fortitude Valley, QLD
Publications:
Stack, M., ‘Arch Wife’, Catalogue essay Metro Arts, https://www.metroarts.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DanaLawrie_Catalogue_ArchwifeA5Online.pdf , 2018
Platz, W., ‘Posing Zombies: Life Drawing, Performance, and Technology’, Studio Research Journal, Issue #3, http://studioresearch.com.au/wp/
Lawrence A., ‘The Hourglass and the Sun: bodily alchemy in the work of Dana Lawrie’, http://www.dispatchproject.net.au/14-dana-lawrie.html, 2014