CAITLIN REILLY
b.1967 – Sydney Australia
Education
(2005-2009) BA Fine Art Degree Southern Cross University N.S.W. Australia (2015-16) BVA Honours Southern Cross University N.S.W. Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Down South, Gallery 3 Byron Bay
2023 Seaside Roadside Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina
2022 Streets of this town The Lone Goat Gallery Byron Bay
2022 I know you are here somewhere Gallery 3 Byron Bay
2020 Light at the end of the road Gallery 3 Byron Bay
2017 Hymn to the Horizon The Lone Goat Gallery Byron Bay, Australia
2017 Byron Bay Vignettes The Trailer Project @ Art Piece Gallery
2014 Scratching the Surface works on paper 195 Anfu Lu, Shanghai
Resprung 195 Anfu Lu, Shanghai
2013 Encrypted works on paper 195 Anfu Lu, Shanghai
Spring Collection of Paintings 195 Anfu Lu, Shanghai
2011 Village Of Bliss A Day In Blossom, Shanghai, China.
2010 Suspended Arrival Elisabeth De Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, China
2005 Naïve Muzzled Shetlands Barebones Art Space Bangalow, N.S.W. Australia
Selected group exhibitions
2023 National Emerging Art Prize Michael Reid Sydney
2023 Paddington Art Prize Finalist Exhibition
2023 BAM NRCG – Byron Arts Magazine Finalist Exhibition
2023 The Sea Gallery 3 Byron Bay
2023 National Capital Finalist Exhibition Aawun Gallery A.C.T
2023 ‘Here on in’ Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne
2023 Small works Art Prize Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne
2022 BAM NRCG Finalist Exhibition Byron Art Magazine Art Prize
2022 HIRAETH Collaboration with Liv Enqvist at Gallery 3 Byron Bay
2022 MAXXII Museum Rome Swatch 10th anniversary, Italy
2021-23 Brunswick Street Gallery Small Art Prize Melbourne
2020 Hurford Hardwood portrait prize Finalist Lismore Regional Gallery
2020 The Waverley Woollahra Art Prize, Finalist.
2020 SBS Portrait Prize, Finalist.
2018 The Black Swan Portrait Prize Art Gallery of Western Australia, Finalist
2018 The road takes us to where the quiet hills speak Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia
2017 Taikang Community Gallery, Songjiang, China
2015 Faces and Traces Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2014 Threaded Basel Museum, Shanghai, China
Art Fair Singapore, Asia Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2013 Silent music 195 Anfu Lu, Shanghai
Gestural Antics Drawing Performance at Fenglin Park, Shanghai
2011-16-17-18-19-20 Lethbridge Award, Finalist. Lethbridge Gallery, Australia
2011 Looking Up From the Other Side of the World, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai, China
12 Months in Shanghai, Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Australia 2010 Centennial Celebration of Women in Art, Shanghai Museum of Art. China
The Ground Beneath Our Feet, EDB Art Pavilion, Shanghai, China 2006 -16 -18 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery N.S.W. Australia
Residencies / Commissions
2023 Liawenee, Tasmania
2014 - Artist in Residence Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai 2014-15 Artist in Residence Shokay, China
2014-15 Artist in Residence Shokay, China
Publications and Catalogues
Zing China, Shanghai Daily Newspaper, Shanghai Courier, Northern Star Newspaper Riverside Quarterly China, Centennial Celebration of Women in Art China
Community Engagement
2020 Founder, Curator and Director Artist Run Initiative Gallery 3 Byron Bay 2015 Founder Container 13 Art Space Bangalow
Awards
2023 Finalist Byron Art Magazine Art Prize
2023 Finalist National Emerging Arts Prize
2023 Finalist Paddington Arts Prize
2023 Finalist National Capital Arts Prize
2022 Semi Finalist Korea Australia Arts Foundation
2022 Semi Finalist Doug Moran Portrait Prize
2022 Finalist Byron Art Magazine Art Prize
2018 Shirley Kennedy Award Border Arts Prize Tweed Regional Gallery
2006 Ministry of the Arts Emerging Artist Finalist
2005 Kasky Award Southern Cross University, Australia
In 2016 and 2017 Caitlin Reilly, Chinese based textile brand Shokay and the Taikang Community Group collaborated together in an inter-generational art exchange that connected young and old in a meaningful creative dialogue producing a collection of work that today is exhibited in The Taikang Songjiang premises in China. The scope of this project for cultural exchange and impact of ideas, and creative outcomes has pushed the boundaries of collaboration and made lasting relationships that continue to flourish beyond geographical, economical, age and social limitations.
A recipient of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist in Residence program in 2014, Caitlin’s emphasis was on developing a means to counteract peripheral isolation while developing a creative exchange, working creatively and living together with other artists in a dedicated environment in Shanghai. In the six months at Swatch Caitlin also travelled to Qinghai on the Western China and Tibetan plateau mapping the production chain for the Yak wool fiber company Shokay as the Shokay artist in residence. Caitlin and Shokay continue to collaborate and most recently in 2019 combining the mediums of painting and textile into a tactile meaningful creative exchange both culturally and cross disciplinary. These works will be exhibited again with the Taikang Group in Shanghai in 2020.
Whilst maintaining connection to China Caitlin continues to anchor her painting practice within the local landscape of the Byron Bay Hinterland and the local people. Insistence on daily practice takes her in situ to the edges of the roads that frame the countryside painting her journeying from Byron to her studio in Bangalow. Collaboration in the local for Reilly is a constant and her works are often exhibited in rural art prizes and regional Galleries holding a presence amongst peers connection is always the intention of her visual language.
“My work is an expression of my love for the area in which I live. It is the intention that this feeling comes to life through my painting, sculpture and drawings. In the last decade my understanding of home has been shared between Shanghai, China 2009-15 and Byron Bay, Australia 2015-19.”