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Maria Coyle CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Corporate Commissions/Collections:

    • Rendezvous Allegra Hotel, Adelaide
    • S.A.Brook Valley Vineyard
    • Willyabrup W.A
    • Carrington House Gold Coast Q’land
    • Yering Station Winery, Yarra Glen, Vic
    • Blackjack Winery, Harcourt,
    • VicByfas Lofts at Yarra Falls, Abbotsford, Vic.
    • Bendigo Base Hospital –Maternity Unit, Vic.
    • Penbank Independent School, Moorooduc, Vic.
    • Mt. Lilydale College, Lilydale, Vic.

Represented in private and corporate collections throughout Australia and internationally in U.S.A.,
United Kingdom, Italy, Holland, Japan, Asia and New Zealand.

Editorials:

  • ‘The Bendigo Magazine’ issue 21, November/December
  • Cover Image on Ceramic Glazes of Australia
  • March/ April ‘Craftarts International’ Magazine, No.63 issue
  • June ‘Vogue Living’ Magazine
  • November ‘Trends’ Magazine
  • ‘Victorian Lifestyle & Property’, 2002, Aug/Sept issue,
  • The Weekly Times, 2001, September
  • Mornington Peninsula Visitors Guide, 2001, Autumn/Winter
  • The Bendigo Advertiser, 2001, March
  • The Midlands Tourist News, 2001, March
  • Arts On View, Winter, 1998
  • Pottery In Australia, Vol.36, 1997, Winter
  • Sculptural work used in advertising for Tertiary Ceramic Courses in 1993

Awards:

  • 2011 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, – ASV Award – silver
  • 2008 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, – People’s Choice Award
  • 2004  Tesselaars Tulip Festival Sculpture Exhibition, – Peoples Choice Award
  • 2000  23rd Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award – Second Prize, Gold Coast, Q’land
  • 1996  Victorian Ceramics Exhibition, Wiregrass Gallery Eltham, – Pat Emery Ceramics Award,
  • 1996 Outer Eastern TAFE College – Outstanding Achievement Award

Education:

  • 2001 Sculpture welding – Bendigo TAFE
  • 1992-2000 10 week art/sculpture sabbatical Florence, Paris, London
  • 1994 Various workshops in sculpture techniques, mediums and surface treatments
  • 1993-1996, Ruth Lyons sculptor – wax sculpture, casting
  • 1982-1985, Diploma of Art – Ceramics (Eastern Tafe College, Wantirna)
  • 1982-1985, Frank Turtle sculptor – 3 years in-studio training

Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2011 “Maria Coyle Sculpture” Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine
  • 2009 “Sculpture – November 09″, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
  • 2008 “Maria Coyle Sculpture”, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine
  • 2008 “December Exhibition 08″, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
  • 2007 “Sculpture – November 07″, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
  • 2006 “Maria Coyle Sculpture”, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine
  • 2005 ‘Such Is Life’,  Tin Shed Arts Gallery, Malmsbury, Vic
  • 2005 “Sculpture – May Exhibition”,  Manyung Gallery,  Mount Eliza
  • 2003 “Maria Coyle Sculpture”,  Castlemaine State Festival,  Castlemaine
  • 2003 “Sculpture – December Exhibition”,   Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
  • 2001 “St. Kevins’ College Art Award”, Toorak
  • 2001 “La Fornace di Pievasciata”,  Castelnuovo Berardenga, Tuscany, Italy
  • 1998 “And All That Jazz”,   Kananook Creek Boathouse Gallery, Frankston
  • 1998 “Perceptions”,  Bendigo Regional Arts Centre,  Bendigo

Group Exhibitions:

  • 2011 ÄSV Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Light Factory Gallery, Eltham
  • 2011  Budafest Garden Sculpture Exhibition” Hunter Street, Castlemaine
  • 2009 “Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show” Exhibition Gardens Carlton
  • 2009 “Hybrid – Sculpture 2009″, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
  • 2010-2011 Ceramics Vic. 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Manningham Gallery, Doncaster
  • 2008 “Sculpture Among The Tulips Exhibition” Tesselaar’s
  • 2008 “Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture”, Toorak, Melbourne
  • 2006 “Sculpture At Heritage” Heritage Golf & Country Club, Chirnside Park
  • 2005 “Toorak Village Sculpture Festival”,  Toorak,  Melbourne
  • 2005 “Statements In Sculpture”,  Skepsi on Swanston Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2004 “Affordable Art Fair”,  Royal Exhibition Building,   Carlton
  • 2004 “Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award”, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Q’land
  • 2001-2005 “Composed”,  Gas Works Park,  South Melbourne
  • 2002 “Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards “, Yering Station Winery,Yarra Glen
  • 2001 “Clay At Montsalvat”, Montsalvat Gallery, Eltham
  • 2001 “Castlemaine State Festival” Buda Historic Home, Castlemaine
  • 2000 “26th Alice Craft Exhibition”, Alice Springs, N.T.
  • 1998-2000 “Inspiration”, Gannon House Gallery, Sydney, N.S.W.
  • 2000 “Art-Red Hill”, Red Hill Vic.
  • 2000 “VCG Exhibition, Wiregrass Gallery, Eltham
  • 1998-2000 “Goldfields Exhibition”, Bendigo
  • 1999 “Canterbury Art Exhibition”, Canterbury, Vic,
  • 1999 “Clay Fever 99″, Chapel on Chapel Gallery, Prahran,
  • 1999 “25th Alice Craft Acquisition”, Alice Springs, N.T.
  • 1999 “Impressions”, Framed Gallery, Darwin, N.T.
  • 1998 “Landmarks”, Liza Taylor Sculpture Gallery, Mt. Macedon
  • 1998 “Journey In Time”, Steps Gallery, Carlton
  • 1997 “Tidal”, Metro Craft centre, North Melbourne
  • 1997 “Sculpture 97″, Bendigo Easter Festival
  • 1996 “Clay Fever”, Steps Gallery, Carlton
  • 1996 “Revolutions” Blackwood Gallery, North Melbourne
  • 1994 “Intimate Sculpture” Manningham ArtSpace, Doncaster1994
  • 1994 “VCG Exhibition”, Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne