DAVID GILES
Arts CV
Art Awards, Grants, Short Term Residencies, Major Publications and Film Media
2011 Cloudscapes: Mediations on the Mysical exhibition at Elements Art Gallery
2011 Mystic Journeys: Paintings by David Giles Published by Sonja Vujic
2010 1st Prize Works on Canvas Morawa Art Awards
2010 High Commendation Cockburn Art Awards
2010 High Commendation Melville Art Awards
2010 My Life, My Art, My Philosophy, Documentary Film by Kero TV
2010 The Ocean Within: Paintings 1994-2010 Published by Sonja Vujic,
2010 Mystic Waters: Paintings and Poems by David Giles Published by Sonja Vujic,
2010 The Sonja Vujic Collection Published by Sonja Vujic
2010 The Artist’s Collection Published by Sonja Vujic
2010 Artist in Residence Atwell Gallery, Alfred Cove
2010 Artist in Residence Moores Building, Fremantle
2009 1st Prize Acrylic Painting City of Cockburn Art Awards
2009 ArtsWA Arts Development Grant $27,000 Three Daves Project
(with Dave Guhl and David Mitchell)
2008 Country Arts WA Grant, Cannery Residency, $2,000
2008 Artist in Residence Cannery Art Centre, Esperance
2006 Artist in Residence Freight Gallery, Fremantle
2005 1st Prize Acrylic Painting, Melville Art Awards
2005 High Commendation Cossack Art Awards
2004 ArtsWA ArtFlight Grant Vast Exhibition Span Gallery Melbourne
2004 John Collis Prize for Abstract Painting, Cossack Art Awards
2004 Artist in Residence Packenham St Studios, Fremantle
2003 Artist in Residence Naragebup Environment Centre, Rockingham
2003 ArtsWA Residency Grant, Naragebup Residency, $2,500
2003 West Australian Local Government Association Innovation Award,
2003 High Commendation Cossack Art Awards
2001 John Collis Prize for Abstract Painting, Cossack Art Awards
2001 High Commendation Award, Leonora Art Awards
2000 Regional Award, WA Fringe Festival
2000 1st Prize 2D Award, Leonora Art Awards
2000 1st Prize Mixed Media, Gascoyne Art Awards
2000 Overall Runner Up, Gascoyne Art Awards
2000 High Commendation, Gascoyne Art Awards
2000 2nd Prize Oils/ Acrylic, Newdegate,
2000 High Commendation, City of Gosnells
1998 High Commendation, Cossack Art Awards
1998 1st Prize, Pilbara Photographic Awards
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Cloudscapes
2010 Homage
2010 Blue Waters
2009 Windows
2009 Harbour
2009 Mystic Waters
2009 Tranquil Waters
Atwell Gallery, Alfred Cove
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Mia Cafe, Perth
2009 Perspectives
2008 Hestia
2008 The Angel Paintings
2008 Drinking the Sweetness
2007 Deep Waters
2006 Moments
2006 Self Revelation
2006 Primordial
2006 Beneath the Surface
2006 Self Expression
2006 Colour Meditations
2005 Spiritual Reflections
2005 Suspend
2004 Histories and Mysteries
2003 The Fifth Dimension
2003 Art and Community Art
2002 Journeys
2002 Full Circle
2001 Cosmos Ecologie
2001 Middleton Beach
2000 Albany Sea Changes
2000 The Artist;s Dreaming
1999 Shades of Green
1994 Shamanic Journeys
Exomod, Barrack St, Perth
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Heathcote Art Studios, Applecross
Elements Gallery, Subiaco
Freight Gallery, East Fremantle
The WA Club, Perth
Sheraton Hotel, Perth
Gallery 307, Mosman, Sydney
Gallery 101, The WA Club, Perth
Royal George Gallery, East Fremantle
Monart Gallery, Dalkeith
Monet Gallery, South Guildford
Old Bakery on 8th, Maylands
Code Red, Claremont
Kings Art Café, Perth
Dorothy Liley Gallery, Rockingham
Hawthorn Gallery, Mt Hawthorn
Moores Building, Fremantle
Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith
The Esplanade Hotel, Albany
Albany Town Hall, Albany
Chameleon Gallery, Albany
Albany Town Hall, Albany
HEartspace, Fremantle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Artists from the Freedom School
2010 Artists from the Freedom School
2009 The Three Daves
2009 Destinazione Oz Land
2009 Catching the Sun
2008 Colours of Life
2007 David Giles and Jim Duddles
2006 McKay Milunovic and Giles
2006 Ebb and Flow
2006 Navigating Wellbeing
2005 New Offerings
2005 Art Sydney05
2005 Melbourne Art Show
2004 Elemental Abstraction
2004 Vast
2003 Artsay Artspeak
2002 Recycled Sculpture Exhibition
2001 Self
2001 Windows on Albany
2000 The Feast
2000 Albany Art Works
1999 To be an Artist
1996 Beyond the Edge
1995 The Edge
Moores Building, Fremantle
Moores Building, Fremantle
Perth Town Hall
Momentous Arts, Singapore
Intercontinetal Hotel, Burswood
Moores Buiilding, Fremantle
Elements Gallery, Subiaco
Elements Gallery, Subiaco
Gallery 360, Applecross
Perth Convention Centre
Hues Gallery, Sydney
Royal Hall of Industries,Sydney
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Agora Gallery, New York
Span Gallery, Melbourne
Gallery 274, Perth
Dorothy Liley Gallery, Rockingham
Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
Albany CBD
Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
Albany Town Hall, Albany
Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
Albany Town Hall, Albany
Albany Town Hall, Albany
Art Education
Associate Degree in Visual Arts Edith Cowan University 1994-1996
MA Creative Arts Edith Cowan University 2001-2001