Mel Brigg

curriculum vitae

Name
Mel Brigg

Vocation
Professional Artist

Address
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Web
www.melbrigg.com

Citizenship
Australian

Ethnicity
Born South Africa

Lives
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Works
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Consultancies
Peter Messer, Art Dealer

Gallery representation
Selected Artwork can be viewed at -

AUSTRALIA

Argyle Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Boyd Gallery, Camden, Australia
Framed Gallery, Darwin, Australia
Gallery Beneath, Sunshine Coast, Australia
Gallery One, Gold Coast, Austalia
Gannon House Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth, Australia
Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Seaforth, NSW, Australia
Wentworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia

INTERNATIONAL

The Cape Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
The Old Harbour Gallery, Hermanus, South Africa

Individual exhibitions
AUSTRALIA

Gallery Beneath, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast - 2011
Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney - 2011
Gallery One, Gold Coast - 2011
Art Nuvo Gallery, Buderim - 2008, 2010
Wentworth Gallery, Sydney - 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2008, 2009
Mary McKillop, A tribute 1995 commencing at Sydney Powerhouse, followed by a National Tour. Art Gallery of South Australia and Parliament House in Canberra.
SCEGGS REDLAND Art Award - 1997
Tattersalls Club Art Prize Brisbane - 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Wagner Art Gallery - 1995
Bush Childrens Art Exhibition - 1999
Von Bertouche Gallery - 2000
Porters Gallery - 2000
McGrath Gallery - 2001, 2003
Boyd Gallery - 2002
Ron Coles Gallery - 2004
Red Hill Gallery - 2004, 2010, 2012
Linton & Kay Gallery - 2005, 2007, 2011
David Hart Gallery - 2006
Work for the Blues
Bluecare

SOUTH AFRICA

Bloemfontein - 1971, 1975, 1977
Johannesburg - 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988
Nelspruit - 1976, 1978
Springs - 1974, 1975
Cape Town - 1974, 1975, 1980, 1990, 2001
Rustenberg - 1990, 1991
Swellendam - 1992
Portugal, Gallery Portimao - 1989

ENGLAND

Solent Gallery - 1989, 1990, 1991
Cannon Gallery - 1990
Oliver Swan Gallery, Cowes, Isle of Wight - 1991

SINGAPORE

South African Embassy - 1993

Selected group exhibitions
Moran National Portrait Prize (finalist) - 2012
Brisbane Boys Grammar - 2011
White Canvas Gallery, Brisbane - 2011
Queensland Health, Child Diabetes fundraising at Hyatt Coolum - 2010
Brisbane Lutheran College Art Show, People's Choice Award - 2010

Awards
Sorrento Art Exhibition, best in exhibition, 2010, 2011, 2012
Currabubula Art Exhibition, best in exhibition, 2010


Corporate Collections
South African Embassies in Singapore, Canada and Belgium
Royal Exchange, London
Total Oil Collection, South Africa
Pellisier Museum, South Africa
Universities of Orange Free State and Stellenbosch, South Africa
Barclays Bank of Australia and South Africa
Standard Bank of South Africa
Numerous town councils and corporations across South Africa
Queensland State Government
Grain Corporation, Sydney
Housing Loans Insurance Corporation, Sydney
Bayer Australia Ltd, Sydney
Sisters of St Joseph, North Sydney
Care Australia
Optus Communications and private collectors throughout Australia
Burrawang West Station Art Collection, NSW, Australia
Mural for Mary McKillop Supercat, Sydney Harbour, Australia
Ehime Women’s College Art Collection, Ehime, Japan

Selected Publications
Salt Magazine, July 2010
Profile Magazine, July 2008
Weekender Magazine, feature interview June 2008
Salt Magazine, interview Winter 2008
Noosa Style Magazine, interview June 2008
Style Magazine, interview June 2008
Buderim Weekly, June 2008
Buderim Chronicle, June 2008
Coast Magazine, interview Spring 2008
The Record, winter 2006 cover (St Vincent de Paul)
Australian Artist
Bulletin Magazine
Australian Art Collector
Art and Australia 1993
Mary Mc Killop, A Tribute. Limited Edition cover Published by Andrew Wilson. 1995
Mary Mc Killop College Yearbook 1999
In The Picture (Year 8 text book on Australian and International Art) Oxford Press 1996
Reproductions by Swan Press, 1974
Almanac Publishers 1979 - 1990
Associated Industries 1980 – 1990
Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, published by E Read 1988
The Bulletin magazine Australia 1996
The Promised Land by K Schoeman 1979
Auge International Feb 1982
Art and Artists of Southern Africa by Esme Berman
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