Erica Gray

ERICA GRAY

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Coastal Keepsakes, Anthea Polson Art, Qld (March)
2022 Garden Vistas, Curious Critters, Fancy Rugs And Other Eclectic Things, Anthea Polson Art, QLD (July)
2021 life@home, Anthea Polson Art, QLD
2020 life.e.quatic.home Anthea Polson Art, QLD
2020 life.e.quatic Lapunyah Art Gallery, Qld
2019 Pipe Dreams Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2018 life.e.quatic Penny Contemporary, TAS
2018 Pipe Dreams Lapunyah Art Gallery, QLD
2016 Pipe Dreams Bundaberg Regional Gallery, QLD
2015 The Exotic Trophy Weswal Gallery, NSW
2014 Pipe Dreams Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
2014 The Skin We Are In Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, QLD
2013 Rubber Gloves, Sharp Teeth & Other Pointy Bits Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
2012 Pipe Dreams Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD

Group exhibitions

2020 Special Christmas Exhibition, Anthea Polson Art, QLD
2019 The Shape Of Things Anthea Polson Art, QLD
2019 Fashion Tech Week NY, New York USA
2018 UNO Exhibition – Centre Mars Modern Art Museum. Moscow, RU
2018 Fashion Tech Week NY. New York, USA
2017 sARTorial through DLUX media arts as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival
2017 Stitched (part 1) Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Philadelphia, USA
2017 Bodyhacking Con, Wearable exhibition, Austin Convention Centre. USA
2016 Fashioning Technology. Perth, WA
2016 Event Ambassador for sARTorial for DLUX Media Arts & part of the Sydney Fringe Festival
2015 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial, (touring exhibit as follows) Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW: Port Pirie Gallery, SA: Craft ACT Town Hall Gallery, Canberra: VIC -UTS Gallery, Sydney NSW: Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW: Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW: Wangaratta Art Gallery, VIC: TTT, touring exhibit cont. Glasshouse Port Macquarie, NSW
2013 SPARE PARTS, Brisbane Power House, QLD
2012 SPARE PARTS – The Rag Factory, exhibiting during the Paralympics, London, UK
2010 SPARE PARTS, Brisbane Powerhouse, QLD

Awards & Grants

2022 Finalist – Adam Portrait Award, NZ
2022 Finalist – Percival Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2021 Finalist – Brisbane Portrait Prize, QLD
2021 Solid Gold, HOTA, Home of the Arts – Artist Commission Finalist, Gold Coast, QLD
2021 Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast, QLD
2021 Finalist – Strand Ephemera, Townsville, QLD
2020 Rage Against The (V)irus, HOTA, Home of the Arts, Artist’s Fund
2020 Finalist – Percival Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2020 Finalist – Tension(s) Tamworth Textile Triennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW
2020 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2019 Semi-finalist – Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, NSW
2019 Finalist – World of Wearable Art Awards, Wellington, NZ
2019 Finalist – Strand Ephemera, Townsville, QLD
2018 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2018 Finalist – World of Wearable Art Awards, Wellington, NZ
2018 Finalist – Percival Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2017 RUNNER-UP Wearable Technology Award, World of WearableArt, NZ
2017 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2017 AWARD FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, Strand Ephemera exhibition, Townsville, QLD
2016 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2016 Finalist – World of Wearable Art Awards, Wellington, NZ
2016 Finalist – Percival Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2015 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2015 Finalist – Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 Finalist – World of Wearable Art Awards, Wellington, NZ
2015 Finalist – Strand Ephemera, Townsville, QLD
2015 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2014 Finalist – 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 Finalist – World of Wearable Art Awards, Wellington, NSW
2014 Finalist – Percival Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2014 Finalist – World of Wearable Art, WOW Exhibition, Nelson, NZ
2013 Semi-finalist – Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, NSW
2013 HONOURABLE MENTION Gen-I Creative Ex. Section – World of Wearable Art, NZ
2013 Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast, QLD
2013 Finalist – Strand Ephemera, Townsville, QLD
2012 EXCELLENCE AWARD Gen-I Creative – World of Wearable Art, NZ
2012 Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast, QLD
2012 PERMANENT COLLECTION – World of Wearable Art, Nelson, NZ
2012 Finalist – World of Wearable Art Awards, Wellington, NZ
2012 RADF – Regional Art Development Fund
2011 Finalist – Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
2011 Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast, QLD
2011 Joint recipient of the Award for Artistic Excellence – Strand Ephemera, Townsville, QLD
2011 Highly Commended – Sculpture in the Gaol, Sydney, NSW
2010 Finalist – Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
2010 Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast, QLD
2009 Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast, QLD

Public Forums, Workshops & Artist Talks

2016 Workshops FIBRE ARTS AUSTRALIA, on going 2017 Ballarat, VIC
2015 Workshop, Strand Ephemera, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2013 Fashion on the Edge of Art Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
2013 Artist talk & demonstration, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 Petcha Kucha, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD
2012 Sock Puppets Are Go! Workshops, Gold Coast Art Centre, QLD
2012 Public Forum, Swell Sculpture Festival, QLD
2011 Artist talk- Sponsor Night for Swell Sculpture Festival, QLD
2011 & 2013 Artist talk & workshops- Strand Ephemera, Townsville, QLD
2011 Petcha Kucha Presentation for the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2010 Artist talk at Sculpture By The Sea, Sydney NSW
2010 Artist talk, ‘Soft Sculpture’, Sculptors Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

Guest Judge:

2019 CrossXpollinatioN, Colac, VIC
2014 Sculptors Society Annual Exhibition, Gold Coast, QLD

Event Ambassador:

2017 3Doodler Brand Ambassador
2016 Dlux Media Arts for sARTorial, Vivid Sydney.

Residency:

2016 & 2017 FIBRE ARTS AUSTRALIA

Professional Development:

Soft Sculpture collection with Curator Lucina Ward, National Gallery of Australia, ACT.

Professional Memberships:

Flying Arts Queensland

Collections:

National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics, La Trobe University, (WOW) The World of Wearable Art collection, Tamworth Regional Gallery Collection & private collections

Bibliography:

2021 Work included in @MothMeister’s 2^nd hardcover book release “ Dark & Dystopian Post-Mortem Fairy Tales postmortem fairy tales photography by mothmeister on Etsy

2019 artist feature, Voition magazine #19 Print & online www.volitionmagazine.com.com/

2018 Dec. HI-FRUCTOSE Magazine Blog feature https://hifructose.com/2018/12/28/erica-grays-striking-wearable-art/

2017 Collaboration with photographic artist Karen Jerzyk http://www.boredpanda.com/i-spent-a-day-creating-sci-fi-scenes-in-a-200-year-old-asylum/

2016 blog feature: 3Doodler, http://the3doodler.com/creating-fine-art-fashion-erica-gray/

2016 Dlux Media Arts http://www.dlux.org.au/news/2016/10/17/erica-gray-jake-hempson-a-match-made-in-sartorial-heaven

2016 Blank Gold Coast http://blankgc.com.au/sartorial/

2016 blog feature: 3Doodler, http://the3doodler.com/3doodler-awards-spotlight-erica-gray/

2016 3ders.org http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160311-erica-gray-weaves-wild-wearable-art-with-3doodler-3d-printing-pen.html

2016 Michelle Matisons & 3DPRINT.COM http://3dprint.com/124288/erica-gray-3doodler-artist/

2016 Textile Fibre Forum Magazine and Evelina Kaganovich, included my work in an article on WOW issue – # 121

2015 http://www.3ders.org/articles/20151123-australian-artist-erica-gray-creates-amazing-wearable-art-using-the-3doodler.html

2015 Interview http://the3doodler.com/3doodler-community-spotlight-enter-the-crystal-matrix/

2015 One of 50 international textile artist included in E-Book, 3D Mixed Media Textile Art by Textile Artist.org

2015 Mr X Stitch. com Textile blog UK

2015 EXTRA, Couriermail.com.au full page Pipe Dreams exhibition interview by Fiona Purdon

2014 BLANK Gold Coast, interview by Anna Itkonen – both September & November issues.

2014 Radio 91.7 ABC Gold Coast, interview by Amy McDonald

2013 Radio 91.7 ABC Gold Coast, interview by Peter Scott

2013 Textile Artist.org  (UK based Blog)  www.textileartist.org/erica-gray-interview-not-just-beautiful/

11/11/13 Gold Coast Bulletin & Coast Confidential for ‘Fashion on the Edge of Art’

14,02,2013 ‘New Work Friday’ The Art Life and Sharne Wolff

2013 The Gold Coast Hinterlander ‘Rubber gloves, sharp teeth & other pointy bits’

13/012/13 The Reporter & 18/01/13 My News Daily ‘Rubber gloves, sharp teeth & other pointy bits’

2013 Channel Nine NBN news, interview for Rubber gloves, sharp teeth and other pointy bits

2012, Radio 91.7 ABC Gold Coast, interview by Peter Scott

2012 November issue TAFTA Magazine, interview by Janet De Boer

29/09/12 The Dominion Post, ‘Designers with the WOW factor

27/08/12 TNT Magazine-issue 1513 ‘Celebrating Spare Parts- Aussie Artist’s Exhibition’

26/08/12 U on Sunday & Sunday Mail full page interview by Sally Browne

2012 March – July issue Antiques & Art Qld magazine Pipe Dreams exhibit

24/08/11- 29/07/11 – 03/12/10 Gold Coast Bulletin Newspaper Stan & Maureen DUKE Art exhibit media