Artist Profile

Cecile Pauly

Artist Statement

Short bursts of concentration by necessity are my usual method of work. I love colour, tone, texture, contrast in its many forms, and Movement. Particular interests include environment, health, and gender.

I was able to examine my major interest in female perspectives through my art in 1980’s, especially at Newcastle CAE, where I ‘majored’ in the Sculpture department because it did at that time allow me to pursue a mixed media perspective—painting, drawing, performance, installations, books—great variety and done quickly and often with colleagues.

My artwork is the most personally entertaining, meditational, fulfilling, central and thus far, continuous point in my life.

Artist Profile

Exhibitions – Sola

2007 ‘RE-VIEW’, Crossbay Gallery, Sydney
2006 ‘Compost II’, Sydney (Kings Cross) Council, Sydney / ‘Kings Cross Garden’ Sydney (Kings Cross) Council, Sydney
2005 ‘Compost I’, Spud and Douglas Café Gallery, Sydney

Exhibitions – Group

2006 Christmas Exhibition‘, Crossbay Gallery, Sydney / Group Exhibition, Crossbay Gallery, Sydney / ‘Swomp Diving’ Cecile P and Choofla E, Joe’s Cafe, Potts Point / ‘Enviro-flections’ environmental exhibition, Kirribilli Community Centre Gallery, Sydney / ‘ ’Compost II’, Art Moment Gallery, Bondi Beach
2004 Kings Cross Arts Festival exhibition, TAP Gallery, Sydney
2003 ‘Nudes Exhibition’, life drawings, TAP Gallery, Sydney
1998 Blackheath Arts Society Exhibition, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
1995 Blackheath Arts Society Exhibition, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
1986 – 1996 ‘Bluebeard Exhibition’, etc, by ‘School of Women Artists Network’ (SWAN), PACT Theatre, Erskineville, and other venues, Sydney 1985 Post Grad Exhibition, mixed media installation, Newcastle CAE, Newcastle 1982 Women and Arts Festival, Newcastle CAE students, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
1981 End of Year Performance Show, Bondi Pavilion adapted performance piece with Newcastle CAE colleague Yvonne Doolan, Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
1977 Gunnedah Art Society Art Prize, ’highly commended’ by L Parker, Gunnedah Council Hall, Gunnedah

Publication

2005 ‘Flamingo’ acrylic on paper, No 38, ‘Open 24 Hours’ by Robert Balas

Education

1989 Certificate, Billy Blue School of Graphic Art
1985 Post Grad, NCAE Art School
1978 – 81 Dip Visual Arts, Newcastle CAE Art School
1977, 1974, 1973 Armidale Summer Art Schools: Painting by Andrew Sibley (RMIT) & Experimental Workshop by Lesley Kossatz (RMIT)
1975 Drawing and Sketching Correspondence, East Sydney Technical College
1975-77 Pastel studies, H Frost
1968 Drawing and Sketching class by R Ruiz, Bakersfield College, California
1967 Gouache on paper, private tuition by J. Gallardo, Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico: