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Artwork Description:
Wednesday nights come alive at the Kimberley Arts Network little green shed with our ever-expanding life drawing group. Observational drawing from life is brilliant for skill building in arts practice, and I have grown to love this weekly ritual. H.W. Janson was the leading authority on art his-story, I have attempted to correct his erasure of women from the annals of art history. Each sketch is quickly rendered between 10-20 minutes. I love the raw honesty of painting like this, breaking the rules and painting in a book.
Category: Works on Paper
Artwork Medium: Acrylic on paper (1962 History of Art book pages)
130h x 95w x 10d (cm)
Artist Bio:
Naomie Hatherley is a multidisciplinary artist living on Yawuru country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her practice is largely concerned with researching how systems of knowledge shape beliefs, identity and experiences of reality. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance and textiles, she plays with individual and collective methods of thinking, learning and doing to make meaning of experience.
Naomie holds a Master of Visual Arts from Monash University in 2012, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) and Dip Ed from University of Western Australia. She has exhibited locally and interstate, at The Courthouse Gallery & Studio, John Curtin Gallery, Cool Change Contemporary, Moore’s Contemporary Gallery, Brunswick Street Gallery, and Heathcote Goolugalup, and has participated in Fremantle Art Centre’s Artist in Residence Program twice. She was selected for WA Regional Art Survey exhibition The Alternative Archive, toured by ART ON THE MOVE, FORM’s s 2019 Hedland Art Awards, and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery’s South West Art Now in 2010.
Naomie received High Commendations at the Minnawarra Art Prize in 2010, 2011 and 2024, was awarded the Kimberley Art Prize in 2012, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2025, the Shinju Art Awards 2012, 2018 and 2020, The Jury Art Prize in 2024, and Art on the Move + North Midlands Project 8-week residency.
Education
2011 MVA Monash University (HD)
1995 Dip ED University of Western Australia
1994 BA University of Western Australia (Fine Art)
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Keeping Score, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne Vic
2022 Keeping Score, Moore’s Contemporary Gallery, Fremantle WA
2021 Keeping Score, Cool Change Contemporary, Perth WA
2008 Gnomesville, Forest Heritage Centre, Dwellingup; Great Expectations, Mullalyup
2007 The new religion, Old George Gallery, East Fremantle, WA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Radical Futures, Art Above the 26th, Shinju Art Awards Broome WA; Kimberley Art Prize, Derby WA
2024 Half Time, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring WA; The Jury Art Prize, Headland, WA; Minnawarra Art
Awards, Armadale, WA; Art Above the 26th, Broome WA; Kimberley Art Prize, Derby WA
2023 Ravenswood Art Prize, Ravenswood, NSW; Naked and Nude, Manning, VIC; Art Above the 26th Broome WA; Motherlode, Broome Fringe Festival, Broome WA; Lovely Creatures, Northcliffe WA; Kimberley Art Prize, Derby WA; Shinju Art Awards
2022 Alternative Archive, Art on the Move touring exhibition across regional WA; Shinju Art Awards, Broome WA;Kimberley Art Prize, Derby, WA; Art Above the 26th Broome WA; Shinju Art Awards, Broome WA; Premier and Cabinet reception: Kimberley Arts Showcase, Goolarri Media, Broome, WA
2021 Alternative Archive, John Curtin Gallery, Perth WA; Shinju Art Awards, Broome WA, Kimberley Art Prize, WA
2020 Shinju Art Awards, Broome WA
2019 Alternative Archive Broome Historical Museum; Shinju Art Award, Broome WA, Kimberley Art Prize, Derby
2018 Hedland Art Award, Hedland Courthouse Gallery, Broome Fringe Snapshot Auction, WA Shinju Matsuri Art Award, Broome WA Kimberley Art Prize, Derby, WA Kimberley Fine Art Broome Civic Centre
2017 Shinju Matsuri Art Award, Broome WA, Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Western Australia
2016 Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Western Australia
2012 Heathcote Gallery and Museum, WA , Marsh Arts Derby, WA, Shinju Matsuri Art Award, Broome WA
Kimberley Portrait Prize, Derby Western Australia, Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Western Australia
2011 Minnawarra Art Award, City of Armadale WA, Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Civic Centre Derby WA, Hedland Art Award, Courthouse Gallery, Pt Hedland , Bunbury Catholic College Art Extraordinaire Bunbury, Art Auction Jila Gallery and Café Derby WA, Art Auction, Sportsman’s Club Derby WA
2010 South West Showcase, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries South Western Times Survey, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Bunbury, Western Australia, Minnawarra Art Award, City of Armadale WA
2009 Minnawarra Art Award, City of Armadale WA, South Western Times Survey, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA, Linden Postcard, St Kilda, Victoria, Bunbury Catholic College Art Extraordinaire Bunbury WA
2008 Art PC, Perth College, Perth, Western Australia, Catholic College Art Extraordinaire, Bunbury, South Western Times Survey, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA Linden Postcard, St Kilda, Victoria
Awards & Other Relevant Experience
2024 Judges Award, The Jury Prize, Port Hedland WA; Highly Commended, Minnawarra Art Award, Armadale; Percent for Art mural, BSHS (school workshop coordinator working with lead artist, Michael Torres) Head of Arts, Broome Senior High School; Vice president, Kimberley Arts Network
2023 Highly Commended – Overall, Kimberley Art Prize; Facilitator community painting workshop For our Elders NAIDOC celebration in Minyirr Park, Broome WA
2022 ‘Keeping Score’ Artist talk with the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jody Haydon about body of work exhibited at Art Above the 26th in Broome, WA
Winner – Kimberley Art Prize (Mixed Media) ‘Keeping Score, Derby Tigers’
Melbourne Cricket Club acquisition of ‘2013’ and ‘2010’ scoreboards
2020 Shinju Art Award (overall - acquisitive prize)
FAC Artist in residence @ Moore’s Building apartment July/ November
Public art project : Town Beach re-development, facilitated community ceramic tiles
2019 Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Western Australia : Winner (Oil & Acrylic)
Curator – Alternative Archive exhibition (Broome)
Public art project (Chinatown Look out ) coordinated student artwork designs
2018 Shinju Matsuri Art Award, Broome WA: Winner (Oil & Acrylic)
Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Western Australia : Winner (Oil & Acrylic)
2012 Shinju Matsuri Art Award, Broome WA: Winner (Painting)
Kimberley Portrait Prize, Derby Western Australia : Highly Commended
2011 Kimberley Art Prize, Derby Western Australia : Winner (Drawing)
Founding committee: Derby Arts Collective Incorporated
2010 Panel member, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries Art Summit
2010 Highly Commended, City of Armadale Minnawarra Art Prize,
2009 Highly Commended, Minnawarra Art Prize;
2008 Winner, Mixed Media, Nannup Art Prize
2004-08 Owner/Director, Mullalyup Gallery; Freelance writer, The Artist’s Chronicle
2007 Project Coordinator: Banners in the Terrace (Donnybrook-Balingup Shire /Country Arts WA Grant)
2006 Project Coordinator: Growing Up Art (Country Arts WA Grant)
Bibliography & Publications
Kristen Brownfield, Art on the Move https://artonthemove.art/2024/02/artist-profile-naomie-hatherley/ , February 28, 2024
Brianna Dugan, Broome Advertiser https://www.broomead.com.au/news/broome-advertiser/broome-artist-naomie-hatherleykick-goals-for-womens-footy-in-successful-melbourne-exhibit-c-8382119 Wed, 28 September 2022
Kimberley Caines, PerthNow, https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/anthony-albanese/anthony-albanese-lavishes-praise-onkimberley-wa-as-pm-prepares-to-end-nine-day-break-c-7862539 August 13, 2022
Mark Readings, WA Football Commission Broome Artist’s Tribute to Women’s Football Thursday, August 4, 2022
Taylah Strano Keeping Score: Women’s Footy Exhibition March 3rd,2022
Celia Drummond ‘Keeping Score: Art exhibition celebrates women's footy in WA’
Grace Hendry, Broome Advertiser, https://www.broomead.com.au/news/broome-advertiser/broome-artist-naomi-hatherleymakes-her-mark-with-solo-exhibition-paying-tribute-to-womens-football-ng-b881917093z Mon, 12 July 2021
Paul Lukas, ‘Paint by Numbers: Amazing Women’s Footy Scoreboard Art’ March 2, 2021
Fremantle Arts Centre https://www.fac.org.au/2020/12/artists-in-residence-jacky-cheng-and-naomie-hatherley/ Dec 18, 2020
ABC Radio ‘Women's football moment wins prestigious regional art prize’ Wed 2 Sep 2020
Shire of Broome, 24 September 2020 https://www.broome.wa.gov.au/Home/Tabs/Latest-news/Local-artist-claims-2020-Shireof-Broome-Acquisitive-Art-Award
The Broome Advertiser 07.07.2019 Sublime creativity wins over judges; 13.06.2019 Alternative take on history; 23.05.2019
Bringing life back to the heart; 19.06.2018 Big field of artists contest awards; 06.09.2018 Awards celebrate great art
D Bromfield & P Tandy Over There: Art in the South West Brown Art 2010 p80
L Kuntyj & B Harcourt Visual Arts: A resource Impact Publishing 2008 p207-217
Artist’s Chronicle Sept 10 Retrospective The South Western Times 15.7.10 Tea towels place art in a spin; ABC Radio 31.07.10
10.50 am Interview; The Bunbury Mail 23.6.10 Raising awareness and eyebrows; Bunbury Herald 1.6.10 Maidens join cancer
fight; ABC Radio 6.02.08 10.50am Interview; The Bunbury Mail 4.02.08 The Art of Romance; The Manjimup-Bridgetown Times,
30.01.08 Clash of Romance and Reality Revealed; The South Western Times 31.1.08 Artworks Explore Romantic Notions; The
South Western Times 7.9.08 Building on a Dream; WIN News 28.08.07 The New Religion; The West Australian W Magazine
25.08.07 Art Treads Sacred Ground; ABC Stateline 24.8.07 The New Religion; The West Australian Inside Cover 22.8.07 Art
Treads Sacred Ground; ABC Radio 16.08.07 11am Interview ; The Artist’s Chronicle Nov 06 Retrospective; DonnybrookBridgetown Mail 26.09.06 Iconography Exhibition; Preston Press Oct 06 Iconography Explored; Greenbushes Balingup
Newsletter Oct ’06 Iconography Exhibition; Bunbury Herald 10.10.06 Top 10 Things to Do: Iconography Exhibition; Busselton
Margaret River Times 05.04.07 Hatherley Provokes a Response; South Western Times 22.11.05 Old is new again; Bunbury Mail
17.12.03 Sea-swept theme for local artists. 6.9.05 ; The Mail 19.10.05 What’s Old is New Again; The West Australian. 7.10.05
Old, used and abused; The Sunday Times STM Magazine 9.10.05 Creative Space