CV:
Bonnita Gillard graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT,
majoring in Painting. In addition to a fine art, Bonnita is a curator and
Jewellery designer. Her art work can be found in many private collections
through out Australia and internationally from 1999.
Bonnita paints from a place of deeper knowing and communications with
source. It is here that viewers are drawn into her raw compositions, opulent
colour palettes and organic shapes as she illustrates metamorphosing
visions of past, present and future quests. It is the maturing of her
clairvoyant vision that assists her constantly evolving process, as it
continues to expand with each new series of work, and sometimes beyond
her own awareness. She draws her inspirations from the animal and plant
relatives, ancestral knowledge, metamorphosis, collective consciousness,
astral realms, human behavior, shamanism, ancient history, music, plant
medicine, metaphysics and the greater cosmology of this universe and
beyond. It is within these themes which manifests imagery with the
hypothesis forming between the artist and the viewer.
EDUCATION:
2004: Bachelor of Arts (Fine arts) at RMIT, Majoring in Painting
EXHIBITIONS:
2014: Maternus, 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne.
2013: Modern Times Gallery, Melbourne.
2012: Cosmic Dust, Limerence Gallery, Dandenong Ranges
2011: Surface Pop. Melbourne
2005: Chico Chica, Revolver upstairs. Melbourne
2005: Shady, Revolver upstairs. Melbourne
2005: Bits & pieces, Bright Gallery. Melbourne
2004: Freaks, Fiends and folly, Bright Gallery. Melbourne
2004: Retali 8, Citi lights & Hush Hush Gallery. Melbourne
2003: Deep Fried, Hudson Gallery. Melbourne
2003: Fatal 8, Early Gallery. Melbourne
2003: The sun in your eyes, Little Salon. Melbourne
2002: Bears & bunnies, Second Gallery. Japan
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1999:
Hamburger head, Brooklyn Gallery. Japan
Deep: fine arts painting graduation exhibition, Rmit. Melbourne
Time, space and clothes dryer, Adventure Gallery. Melbourne
Top arts, National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne
Without pier Gallery. Melbourne
Latrobe regional arts festival
Art Commissions, Projects & Publication:
2014: Album Cover Design. London
2013: Album Cover Design. America
2013: Album Cover Design. France
2013: Art direction & Interior Design, Cape Lounge. Melbourne
2013: Mural design, White cafe. Melbourne
2009: Set Design, Big Day Out. Australia
2008: Mural Design & Art Direction, Carlton Club. Geelong
2007: Art direction & Interior Design, Melbourne University. Melbourne
2006: Designing Graphics for Mambo Australia kids wear. Australia
2005: Breadwell cafe: - Assistant interior decorator & Mural Deign. Melbourne