SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Three Forces of the Soul, Collaboration Inspired by the works of Hildegard von Bingen
2015 October – Noosa Regional Gallery – Notion of an Ordinary Yarn
2014 June – Cooroora Institute – Materials of Place
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Tree Place (Curator & Facilitator)
2016 Lost Arts and Found, Wandinin Arts Space Eumundi
2016 Wild Flower Women CQU University Noosa
2016 Botanica, Tin Shed Galllery, Palmwood
2016 Wangaratta Art Gallery PETITE
2015 Botanical Inspired Art, Noosa Library,
2014 Lovingly Interupted (shared & mentored by Kim Schoenberger ‘Expressions of Love II) Gallery 159 Brisbane
2013 Materials of Place – Cooroora Institute
2013 Currency of Birdsong – Cooroora Institute
2012 Small Works, Small Town – Rosebed Gallery
2012 Weavery Baskets – Nambour Library
2012 Self Portrait, Leave Me Be – Gympie Gold Rush
2005 Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
2005 Sydney University Installation in Foyer
2004 Tom Bass Sculpture Studio
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2016 Finalist in The Moreton Bay Art Award, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
2016 Finalist in The Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art
2016 Finalist in The Cambridge Studio Portrait Prize
2015 Finalist in ‘The Churchie’ National Emerging Art Prize Catalogue
FACILITATING AND GRANTS
2017 Workshops & Community Art Project – Tree Place
2016 Australian Cultural Fund Recipient
2016 Horizon Festival – Three Forces RADF Grant
2016 RADF Grant – Project Development (Tree Project – Tree Place)
2015 Public Workshops, Noosa Regional Gallery
2015 Demonstration Natural Dyeing, Yandina Community Garden
2015 Various Dyeing & Fibre Workshops Sunspace Eco Cafe
2015 Screen Printing Workshop Class 8 at Noosa Pengari Steiner School
2015 RADF Grant – Tim Johnson Fibre Master Class (Victoria)
2014/2015 Community Childrens Craft at the Eumundi Markets
2014 Basket weaving Workshop Class 5 at Noosa Pengari Steiner School
2014 Facilitated Workshop Cooroora Institute, Eco Dyeing & Basket Weaving
2014 Facilitated Workshops in Eumundi, Stitching & Nest Making
2013 Facilitated Basket Weaving Workshops at Rosebed Gallery, Eudlo
2013 Balance Unbalance Conference Noosa – Currency of Birdsong Panel
2013 RADF Grant – ‘Selling Yarns, Weaving a Nations Story Attended Conference Canberra
2012 Noosa Biosphere Festival – Facilitated Community Weaving
EDUCATION
2016 Ruth Hadlow – Museum Interventions
2012 to Current – Cooroora Institute, Various
2015 Abou Bakar Fofana – Traditional African Mud Dyeing
2015 Tim Johnson (UK) – Masterclass Weaving and Twining
2014 Shona Wilson – Collaborations with Nature
2012 Graeme Priddle – Wood Turning Master Class
2012 Weavery – Rene Bahloo – Fibre Weaving Techniques
2012 India Flint – Eco Printing Workshop
2012 Graeme Priddle – Wood Surface Design
2012 Silas Kopf – Inlaid Wood Marquetry
2011 Sturt School for Wood – Various Weekend Workshops
2011 Jan Blum Glass Art Slumping – Kuringgai Arts Centre
2010 Jan French – Random Weaving
2005 Sydney College of the Arts – Bachelor in Fine Art – Glass
2004 Tom Bass NSW – Sculpture Studio School
2004 Jim Wallis – Traditional Basket Making
2003 Meadowbank TAFE NSW– Certificate in Fine Art Drawing
2003 Willoughby Arts Centre – Sculpture
2002 Hendermans Woodwork School
1996 – 2001 Monash University – Bachelor of Business – Marketing and Retail Management
1994 – 1995 Tea Tree Gully TAFE – Textiles and Apparel
RESIDENCIES
2014 June Winter Artist in Residence at the Cooroora Institute, Materials of Place
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Flying Arts Alliance Inc Qld
NAVA National Association fro the Visual Arts Ltd
TAFTA The Australian Forum for Textile Arts
Sunshine Coast Natural Dyers Group (SCNDG)
PUBLICATIONS
Harris, A 2016. Craft is not a Dirty Word, Textile Fibre Forum, Issue#123
Harris, A. 2016, String, Eumundi Green, 241, 13 April pg 11 (And Front Cover Image Inbetween)
www.issuu.com/eumundigreen/docs/241_the_green_web
Exhibition Review, Notions of Ordinary, 2016, Textile Fibre Forum, Issue #121 Artwear Publications
Harris, A 2015. Notion of an Ordinary Yarn Art Zine, Indpendent Publication
Harris, A 2015. The Process of Ordinary, http://earth-emag.com Ed7 June http://earth-emag.com/issue-7-artists-autodidacts/
Harris, A 2014. Lovingly Interrupted Art Zine, Independent Publication
Kerr, T. 2014. Dyeing to be extra green, Noosa News, 20 June p18
Read, L. 2014, Colour of Nature, Salt Magazine, Autumn 14, p 114-117
http://issuu.com/saltmagazineaustralia/docs/issuu_linked_salt_aut14_complete4/116?e=2842121/7345605
Harris, A. 2014, Womens Work, Eumundi Green, 190, 6 March pg 11
http://issuu.com/eumundigreen/docs/eg_190_lr
RADF Showreel 2013 – Sunshine Coast Art Projects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_62Wk6aZXY&feature=youtu.be
Creative Space, 2013 Eumundi Green Issue 193, 17 April, pg 13
http://issuu.com/eumundigreen/docs/eg_193_lr
Richmond, J. 2013. Support Your Local Creatives, Coolum & North Shore News, 29 November p19
Christmas Shopping in Eumundi. 2013. Eumundi Green, Issue 184, 27 November p 11