Artist Statement

Samantha Nolan is a Toowoomba-based artist creating artworks around her love of wild and nurtured places. In oils and watercolour she recreates bright detailed landscape paintings of childhood haunts at the Bunya Mountains as well as quick expressive studies of the plants and flowers that fill her garden.

Biography

Samantha Nolan studied Fine Arts at Uni SQ and Honours of Fine Arts at Monash University. She has exhibited extensively ever since. She in currently teaching art at Toowoomba State High School while also tending her garden & two kids in Rangeville.

Influences

William Robinson Vincent Van Gogh Monica Rohan

Awards

2022, 2024 & 2026 Facets Art Prize Finalist 2017 2nd Prize – Oil Painting Section of Wondai Art Show 2016 Highly Commended – Watercolour Section of Wondai Art Show 2006 Hugh Child Memorial Award 2002 Fairholme College Art Prize

Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibition QATA Art Teachers Art Exhibition,Wooloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane Solo Exhibition 2022 Rewilding, Crows Nest Gallery, 2021 I need a dog, Barwunder, Toowoomba, 2020 Garden Joy, Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane 2018 Home, Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery, Kingaroy 2011 Ouroboros, Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran, 2010 Ego, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, 2007 Paintings for a Shelf, Toowoomba Regional Gallery Group Exhibitions 2026 Two of us, Wendlands Cafe, Toowoomba, Australia Another Dimension, Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee, Australia 2025 QATA Art Teachers Art Exhibition,Wooloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Create,Toowoomba State High School, Toowoomba, Australia 2024 Facets Art Prize, Fairholme College, Toowoomba, Australia RME Downlands Art Prize, Downlands College, Toowoomba, Australia Create,Toowoomba State High School, Toowoomba, Australia Renew, Refresh, Revitalize, Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee, Australia Incognito Art Show, Paddington, Sydney, Australia The Bradley, ABC Studios Brisbane, Australia Art In Bloom, Murrays Art and Framing, Toowoomba, Australia Bunya Mountains Art of the Forest Exhibition, Bunya Mountains, Australia 2023 Tiny Tree Gallery, Redland Bay, Australia Together, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba, Australia Create,Toowoomba State High School, Toowoomba, Australia 2022 Stolen Moments, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba, Australia Back to Earth, Resolute Fitness Studio, East Toowoomba, Australia All In!, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia Summits to Shores, Aspire Gallery, Paddington, Australia Facets Art Prize, Fairholme College, Toowoomba, Australia 2019 For the Love of It, Kingaroy Regional Gallery, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia From the Heart, Wondai Regional Art Gallery, Wondai, Australia 2017 Annual Wondai Art Competition, Wondai Regional Art Gallery, Wondai, Australia CWA Competition, CWA Hall Kingaroy, Kingaroy, Australia 2016 Annual Wondai Art Competition, Wondai Regional Art Gallery, Wondai, Australia 2013 Future Visions, USQ Artworx, Toowoomba, Australia 2012 Pride- The Art Show, Art Factory Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Burlesque, The Back Room, Brisbane Australia 2011 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda 2010 Graduand Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield, Australia Art at Burnley Harbor 10, Richmond, Australia Greater Than One, Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Australia Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, Australia 2009 Art at Burnley Harbour 09, Richmond, Australia Painting 09, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia Small Works 09, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia Silence Sound, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Australia The Collectors’ Exhibition, Steps Gallery, Carlton, Australia 2008 Art of the Nude, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, Australia Open Spaces, I.E. Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia 2007 USQ Exhibition, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, Warwick, Australia Myart Autumn Exhibition, Myart Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia 2006 Graduart, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia 2005 There and Back Again, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand Fundraiser, the office, Toowoomba, Australia Australia

Website

www.samanthanolanart.com