CURRICULUM VITAE

ARTIST STATEMENT

Emily Shannon is a Melbourne professional artist who loves to experiment with bold palettes, botanical forms, and digital techniques. Nature’s inspiration informs both her art practise and direction. Her previous works explore themes of flourishing, humanity, and demography.
She is always experimenting with ways to extend her art practice sustainably in making papers, foraging inks, and crafting her own mark making implements. She has held several solo art exhibitions, ran workshops for children, developed and ran art courses, and won awards and prizes. She is currently enjoying fulfilling a large scale community art project. Her background science and education degrees steer her art making practises in exciting innovative ways often with smaller artists by her side.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

  • Proficiency in traditional art mediums including (but not limited to) acrylic, oil and watercolour painting, monoprinting techniques, drawing techniques, plaster casting, and collage.
  • Proficiency in digital mediums including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Procreate.
  • Diploma of Education (Prep-12) Latrobe Uni 2009
  • Bachelor of applied science (Physiotherapy) CSU 2007
  • Auslan 2 Certificate awarded in 2007– fluent in communication using Auslan

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

HEALTH & PE TEACHER (SECONDARY / PRIMARY) 2021 - CURRENT
  • Develop and implement VCE curriculum for Unit 3 & 4 Physical Education
  • Develop and implement VCE curriculum for Unit 3 & 4 Health & Human Development
  • Teach year 9/10 Health and year 5/6 Health & PE
  • Voluntarily involved in developing 'Enviro Day' - a day of creative sustainable celebration
  • Step in for teaching

​ART TEACHING - mentioned below

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST EXPERIENCE ​

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: SOLE TRADER 2018 - CURRENT
  • Creates artwork using varied mediums for sale or as a commission
  • Built and maintains a website and online store and social media presence, regularly selling a variety of fine art prints, cards, and commissioned works
  • Manages accounts and book keeping as a sole trader
  • Launched ‘Made By Me’ in 2019, a service that transforms children’s drawings into repeat patterns that can be applied to products and material
  • Successfully enters art shows and submits EOI proposals
  • Collaborates with other professionals on projects - such as CNC router service, fine art printers, curators, and a drama specialist
  • Creates Youtube videos for an upcoming channel on transforming rubbish into art materials - see a preview here
  • Writes articles, blog posts and conducts interviews on art practise
FORMAL ART TEACHING
  • 2020-ongoing: Wrote ‘Beginner’ and ‘Advanced’ 10 week courses for Procreate, ran weekly as 90 minute sessions via zoom at Ashburton Community Centre each term this year.
  • 2020: Created 6 online art tutorials with accompanying illustrated instruction pages as part of larger community art project ‘If These Leaves Could Talk’ during COVID lockdown 
  • 2020-ongoing: facilitate unique adult art workshops at The Guild Of Objects, Fitzroy
  • 2019-ongoing: facilitate unique one-off school holiday workshops featuring up cycling items found at home into craft projects at Boroondara Arts, Hawthorn
INFORMAL ART TEACHING
  • Volunteering time to help with craft and art projects at 3 & 4 year old kinder programs and primary school
  • Getting my lockdown 'assistants' (aged 3, 6 & 8) to help me keep creating - watch a video of us making paper together, or you can read about some of our journey here
RECENT ART PROJECTS
  • 2020: The successful Boroondara Arts Initiative Project Recipient of $12000 for delivery of community art project ‘If These Leaves Could Talk’. Collaborated with the community to produce an art installation open to public from Dec 2020 to May 2021 in the Hawthorn Arts Centre foyer space.
  • FEB 2020: Head Hole mural for the Boroondara sustainability department measuring 2m x 1.5m featuring indigenous local flora & fauna
NOTABLE PROJECTS
  • Coordinated a team of 15 health professional students to design and complete a mural on the walls of a Vietnamese orphanage for children with disabilities that incorporated treatment goals over a 2 week period in 2007
ART PRIZES & AWARDS
  • JUNE 2019: Camberwell Art Show ‘Lionfish’ entry exhibited and sold
  • APRIL 2019 : Selected to be a participant in Melbourne’s first ‘Artbattle’
  • JAN 2019: Community Wall Exhibtion ‘Off The Leash’
  • NOV 2018 : Awarded Highly Commended for ‘Climate Changed’ mixed media entry in the Australian Guild of Realist Artists President Competition
  • JUNE 2018 : Winner of Kew Court House Art Prize for ‘Engage With Your Census’  including $1500 bursary and 4 month exhibition at Kew Courthouse

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

PHYSIOTHERAPIST - in both private and public settings 2008-2011
  • Provided treatement to a diverse patient load in accordance with the referring practitioner and results of verbal and physical assessments
  • Clearly communicated with referral sources and other disciplines in various meetings, requesting their services when needed
  • Created and delivered a number of in-services and community group education sessions
KIDS PROGRAM COORDINATOR - at Camberwell South Anglican Church
  • Mentored & trained 14 adult helpers through developing and implementing a 25 page training manual, meeting up individually, and conducting group training sessions
  • Wrote lesson plans & delivered content to a wide spectrum of ages that met learning objectives and included formative and summative assessments
  • Continuously evaluated & improved teaching program structure through self reflection and taking on feedback from paid staff, peers and parents
  • Created teaching resources using Adobe Illustrator
  • Communicated with parents regarding outcomes and points of concern
VOLUNTEER
  • Directed 14 volunteer actors to conduct 90 minute play interspersed with carols as part of 2019 carols event in Bowen Gardens (attendance ~500)
  • Created online resources for kids, by kids like this stopmotion video written, directed & acted by kids!
  • Co-compere of ‘Carols In The Park’ event at Bowen Gardens in 2017  (attendance ~500)
  • Volunteer graphic designer for a community organisation for 3 years (& ongoing), creating high standard promotional materials for advertising of upcoming events on various large scale and specialised products
  • Coordinated and ran a weekly toddler music group for up to 30 families for 1 year (2015) overseeing training, rostering, and content

PREVIOUS WORKS PORTFOLIO

Please click here to access my Dropbox detailing some of my previous works and projects.
As previously outlined, you can also find some of my work here:

REFEREES

Bridget Rasmussan
Cultural Development Officer
City Of Boroondara
(03) 9278 4770 

​Paul Lock
Head of Secondary School
Mountain District Christian School
(03) 9756 7244

Rachel Morley
Manager
Ashburton Community Centre
(03) 9885 7952