Fran Callen - Visual Artist
Fran Callen CV
1 pg CV
(b. 1975 Australia) www.francallen.com | e.sketchyfran@gmail.com insta: @callenfran
Education (selected examples)
2019 TAE40116 Cert 4 in Training and Assessment
2009- Advanced Diploma Professional Writing, ACArts, TAFE SA
2006 Visual Arts BA Honours, Painting & Drawing, SASA University of South Australia
1999 Bachelor of Education Graduate Entry (Secondary Art/Eng) University of South Australia
2008 TAA Training and Assessment Cert 4 TAFE SA
1998 Bachelor of Visual Arts
Professional Development (selected examples)
2016 Guildhouse Limber Up Mentor Programme with Christopher Orchard
Masterclass at Central School of Art : Drawing Fact & Fiction with Chris Orchard
2013 Masterclass – Central School of Art: Painting Memory with Chelsea Lehmann
2010 Masterclass – Central School of Art: Drawing the Narrative with Anna Platten
Masterclass – Central School of Art: Pictorial Optics with Chelsea Lehmann
2009 Tauondi Aboriginal College - Cultural awareness and competency program for staff
ShortCourse - Central School of Art: Techniques of the Old Masters with Rob Gutteridge
Awards
2020 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Sydney
Adelaide Parklands Art Prize
2019 STILL National Still Life Award Finalist, Coffs Harbour
Finalist,Tatiara Art Prize,WalkwayGallery
Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize,Sydney
2018 Paul Guest Drawing Prize Finalist
Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize Finalist
2017 STILLL National Still Life Art Award Finalist, Coffs Harbour
Whyalla Art Prize Finalist, Middleback Theatre Gallery, Whyalla
Tatiara Art Prize Finalist, Walkway Gallery, Bordertown
Calleen Art Prize Finalist, Cowra Regional Gallery
2016 Fleurieu Food & Wine Art Prize Winner
Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize – 3rd Prize
Watershed Art Prize, Finalist
2013 Carclew Artists in Schools Residency, Trinity College - Drawing Workshops & SALA exhibition
2011 Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize Shortlisted portrait of Chrissy Amphlett
Adelaide City Council Community/Public Arts Grant for Common Ground mural project,
2007 Helpmann Academy Cultural Exchange, Sanskriti Kentra, New Delhi
Adelaide City Council Community/Public Arts Grant, Arts Theatre Mural on Angus St
2006 S.A.ArtEducatorsAwards Nomination,Mawson Lakes School/Helping HandAged Care mural
2003 Adelaide City Council Public/Community Arts Grant, Peel Street Mural
Country Arts Grant for Marree Aboriginal School Murals, Far North SA
2000 Country Arts Grant for Nipapahnha Community Murals, Adnyamathanha Country, SA
Residencies
2019 Newmarch Gallery, Prospect SA
Grindell's Hut Artist Residency, Country Arts SA
2018 Ed Tweddell Studio Residency Central Studios, Adelaide
Arts In Health Residency, Women's & Children's Hospital
2017 The Collections Project Flinders Art Museum, Guildhouse
2016 SALA Artist in Residence, Adelaide Central Market, SALA Festival
2013 Artist in Residence – mural artist, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
2003 Ruth Tuck Scholarship, Santa Repararta International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Solo Art Exhibitions
2020 'Just Add Water' Yarta Purtli Cultural Gallery, Port Augusta
2020 'Just Add Water' Collective Haunt Inc, Adelaide
2019 Newmarch Gallery, Artist Residency and Collaborative Exhibition
2018 BMG Gallery, with Zoe Woods and Michelle Jones, SALA Festival 2018
2017 The Collections Project-Flinders Art Museum at ‘The Studio’ Flinders University Campus
2017 BMG Gallery (with Glenn Kestell and Christopher Carapetis) Adelaide
2016 ‘Jam’ live-art & collaborative tabletop drawings from SALA residency, Adelaide Central Market
2012 ‘Her Nature to Decide’ IWD Red Rattler/Little Fish Gallery, Sydney
2010 ‘Social Intercourse’ AP Bond Gallery w. Ian Abdulla’s ‘Murray River Me’
2009 ‘Love Vomited’ w. Suzannah Jones, Wheatsheaf Hotel SALA Festival
2007 ‘Zoo’ Fox Creek Winery, Adelaide
‘Mapping Us’ SALA Festival 2007, Caos Café, Adelaide
2006 ‘Polyptich Jam’, Grace Emily Hotel, Adelaide
2005 ‘Icons’ Dorritt Black Building, SASA
2004 ‘Frenetic’ The Bank Space , Underdale Campus, University of South Australia
2003 ‘Riff Raff’ Exeter Hotel, Hindley Street, Adelaide
2002 ‘Gig’ Carclew Youth Arts Centre, Adelaide
‘North’ Travelling Exhibition, Mid & Far North SA,Funded by Country Arts SA
1999. 'New Works' with Jason Cordero, Greenhill Galleries, SA
Group Art Exhibitions (selected examples since 2007)
2018 Mad For More, Light Square Gallery, SALA 2018
Good Mother, curated by Gabi Lane, Central School of Art, SALA 2018
2017 Side By Side, Prospect Gallery
Creatures Real and Imagined, Red Poles Gallery
2016 Wish You Were Here Postcard exhibition, Central School of Art
2015 Mad For, Light Square Gallery, co-ordinated by Eleanor Zecchin
Wish You Were Here Postcard exhibition, Central School of Art
2014 SALA Festival Open Studio, with Anne Newmarch
ArtParty Exhibition & Live Art at 4 Pop Up Galleries,Sydney
2013 ‘Red Threads’ – invited artist, Lincoln College, Adelaide
Loreto College SpringArt Exhibition, Invited Artist
2012 ‘Move’ Light Square Gallery with Megan O’Rourke, Marie Littlewood, Yusuf Hayat
Helpmann Acacemy Maestros & Apprentices Exhibition and Silent Auction
2011 Alpha Gallery, Alpha House, Newtown, Sydney
Helpmann Academy - Maestros and Apprentices Exhibition & Silent Auction
2010 Feltspace – Melbourne Artsfair Postcards, Melbourne
2009 Wishlist, Craftsouth Members, Central School of Art
Gallery 139, Selected Artists with Eleanor Zecchin
2008 Seedling Art Space, Fundraiser exhibition
Traces, Kerry Packer Gallery, SASA Staff Exhibition
Artroom 5 ‘Dogs and Cars’, Curated by Vivonne Thwaites, Henley Beach
‘Under the Banyan Tree’ – Artists from Helpmann Academy Cultural Exchange to New Delhi, Light Square Gallery, SALA
‘Gallery 139 Selected artists’, with Driller Jet Armstrong
2007 ‘International Elephant’ Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
‘Tales of the Decongested’, Exhibition/Booklaunch, Foyles Bookshop Gallery, London
Art Teaching and Tutoring (selected examples)
2018-2020 ACArts, Visual Arts Lecturer, Drawing/Painting
2007-18 University of S.A., S.A. School of Art, Architecture & Design – sessional staff, Drawing and Painting & mentoring of masters students
2016 ‘Sketchy Classes’ Private social-sketching classes in public places
2014 AGSA SketchClub Drawing Workshops – Drawing Musicians & Drawing from AGSA collection
2013 ACArts, TafeSA – Painting 3 & Certificate 2 Painting
2010 Helpmann Academy/Common Ground Mentorship Programme, Mentor in drawing/watercolour
2008-11 Tauondi Aboriginal College, Visual Arts Lecturer, Painting/Drawing Cert 2&3
2006 Community Art Volunteer & Art/English Teacher, World Youth International, Kathmandu, Nepal
Community/Public Art
2019 Eden Hills Kindergarten Mural with Kindergarten Children
2018 Enfield Community Mural with Therese Williams for Enfeild Council, Community Centre,
2017 Eden Hills Railway Station/Kindergarten Mural, Railcare Arts Grant
2015 Flaxmill School Mural with Indigenous Students
2012 Para Hills School Mural with Indigenous Students
2011 Team Building Art Workshops with GP Plus Marion
‘Sketch Walks’, workshops & mural, Common Ground, Light Square, Adelaide
2010 Co-ordinator, Tauondi Aboriginal College Mural for Marden Open Access College
2007 Jamquat Home for Street Boys, Mural designed and painted with residents,New Delhi, India
Danak Din Childrens Festival, Cultural picture/colouring in books, New Delhi, India
City of West Torrens/William Light School mural,opposite Villis Factory
2005 Event Co-ordinator, SALA Festival Art Geurillas & Art Attack Events, Whyalla
2004 Gilles Plains Redevelopment Public Art Project. Employed by Brock Urban Projects/Housing Trust SA to work with Wandana Primary & Windsor Gardens Vocational College to create murals, ceramic tiles, junk sculptures & mosaic benches for Windsor Green
2003 Marree Aboriginal School, community murals funded by CountryArts Grant
Ceiling Mural, Santa Repararta International School of Art (Florence, Italy)
2002 Nipapahnha Community Murals, Adnyamathanha Country
Live Drawing & Drawing ‘performances’ (examples)
2004-16 Live Drawing ‘performances’ at festivals and events nationally and internationally eg. in Adelaide, Sydney, New York, London, Florence. Eg.for ArtsSA, SA Museum, Womad, Feast Festival, Adelaide Festival, Fringe Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Big Day Out, Unley Council, Waterhouse Prize Launch, Rip it Up Magazine, DB Magazine, International Women’s Day Sydney, The Big Lunch, Helpmann Academy, Mavis Staple at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bars, New York Blues Clubs, and for many bands including The Church (CD Cover of album ‘Jammed’)
Permanent Collection - Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery