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                                             Noni Drew - Art

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Noni Drew is a Melbourne based art therapist and contemporary visual artist whose works incorporate painting, sculpture and textiles.  

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Using colour as a key material focus, Noni explores themes such as memory, the domestic and motherhood to convey physical expressions of psychological states.

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Noni holds a Master of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours) from Victorian College of The Arts, University of Melbourne. 

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Noni's work is held in the University of Melbourne's George Paton Gallery collection, the University of Melbourne Southbank Student Union collection and numerous private collections in Australia and internationally. 

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Noni was a 2022 Artist in Residence at Billilla with Bayside City Council. 

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Noni lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

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EDUCATION

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2024 Master of Art Therapy, La Trobe University

 

2019 Master of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

 

2017 Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

 

2015 Painting Techniques, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

 

1996 Bachelor of Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021 Pandemic Paintings, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne

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2019 ‘Holi’, MSG Gallery, Melbourne

 

2017 ‘Sounds of the Souk’, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney

 

2016 ‘Living the Dream’, MSG Gallery, Melbourne

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2024  ‘Refuge, workshop, stage, site: Billilla artist studios 2022-23’, Bayside Gallery

         ‘Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize- Finalist Exhibition’, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne

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2023 ‘Bayside Local’, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne

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2022 'Fluid', Art to Art Gallery, Melbourne

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2021 Bayside Art Prize, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne

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2019 ‘VCA Grad Show’, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

 

‘Family and Friends’, Daine Singer, Melbourne

 

‘From Where I Stand’, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

 

2018 ‘Whatever (Doesn’t) Works!!/ Remixing the Already-Made’, Assembly Point Vitrines, Melbourne

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‘While They Decide’, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

 

2017 ‘Make Space, Hold Space, Claim Space’, The Artist’s Guild, Docklands Art Collective, Melbourne

 

‘GCVA Graduate Show’, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

 

‘Parameters and Frameworks’, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

 

2015 ‘Painting Graduate Exhibition’, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

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COLLECTIONS

 

George Paton Gallery Collection

University of Melbourne, Southbank Student Union Collection

Works held in private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and USA

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PRIZES

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2024 Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Painting Prize 

2021 Bayside Art Prize, People's Choice Award

2020 Finalist, Bayside Art Prize

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For commissions and sales enquiries contact Noni - hello@nonidrew.com

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Noni Drew Art Therapy acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this land in which we live, work and make art, the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge their art, stories, traditions and living culture and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

Noni Drew Art Therapy is based in the Bayside area of Melbourne, Australia and provides individual and group art therapy support for adults, children and adolescents. Private and NDIS funded clients.

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