Born 1945, Bristol, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024-2014 Artist’s Open Studio Exhibitions, Nedlands and Yallingup, WA
2020 Lesley Meaney – Becoming Australian, Holmes a Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Margaret River, WA
2019 Lesley Meaney – 50 year Survey, Holmes a Court Gallery, No.10, West Perth, WA
2013 Reason, Rhythm and Rhyme, Linton & Kay Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2012 In the Land of Plenty, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2010 Keyworks, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2008 New Works, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2007 To Vincent with a Handshake, Perth Galleries, WA
2005 Tag – the mark of the scribbly gum moth, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2005 Interior Country, Perth Galleries, WA
2004 Tree Memoirs from Red Dirt Country, Perth Galleries, WA
2003 The Shedding of Old Layers – The Growing of New, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2002 Ennobling the Gum, Pilbara Gallery of Fine Art, Karratha, WA
2000 The Kimberley Under Canvas, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
1999 The Studio Nude, The Naked Model, Perth Galleries, WA
1998 The Last Decade, Mountford Winery Gallery, Pemberton, WA
1997 Residue of a Journey, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
1995 Within One Mission, Perth Galleries, WA
1994 Sense and Sentiment, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
1991 Tapestries in Paint, New Collectables Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1990 Windows, Bay Gallery of Fine Art, Claremont, WA
1988 Homage to Rottnest, Tresillian Community Centre, Nedlands, WA
1985 Homage to Fiji, Arts Council, Suva, Fiji Islands
1984 Long Gallery, Regent of Fiji, Nadi, Fiji Islands
1983 Karratha Community Library, Karratha, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Jury Prize, Port Hedland, WA
2023 Murujuga, Holmes a Court Gallery no. 10, West Perth, WA
2023 ART IS, Christian Fletcher Gallery, Dunsborough, WA
2022/21 Sculpture at Wadjemup, Rottnest Island
2022/21 Homeless Art Auction, Fremantle WA
2022/20/18/16 Southwest Artist’s Now (Swan) Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA
2021/19/18/17/16/15/14 Busselton Art Award (finalist), Art Geo, Busselton, WA
2020 Sculpture @ Bathers, Fremantle, WA
2019 Essence of Rottnest, Holmes à Court Gallery no.10, West Perth, WA
2017 Inaugural Perth Royal Show Landscape Award, (finalist), WA
2017 Scratching the Surface, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA
2019-14 Busselton Art Award, (finalist), Art Geo, WA
2016 The Landscape Show, Linton & Kay Gallery, Perth, WA
2016 Custodians, Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Margaret River, WA
2018/14/13 Salon de Refuses, Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Perth, WA
2014/07/96 Mandorla Award for Contemporary Religious Art, (finalist), Perth, WA
2014 Blending Past and Present, Moores Building, Fremantle, WA
2013 Fire: Some kind of energy, Holmes a Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, WA
2017/15/13/11/08/07 Minnawarra Art Award, Armadale, WA
2012 Swan Song, Perth Galleries, WA
2011/09 The Great Deckchair Auction, Deckchair Theatre, Fremantle, WA
2010 Ten, (2000-2010 acquisitions) Holmes a Court Gallery, East Perth, WA
2008/98/91 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Invitational Art Prize Exhibitions, Perth, WA
2006 Assembled, Holmes a Court Gallery, East Perth, WA
2006 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, WA
2004 Miniatures, Perth Galleries, WA
2003 Finale, Perth Galleries, WA
2002 Winter Exhibition, Perth Galleries, WA
2002 Food in a Harsh Country, with Bujee-Nhoorr-Pu Karratha Airport, WA
2000 Hospice Foundation Fund Exhibition (featured artist), Perth, WA
1998 Artbridge, Northbridge, Perth, WA
1998/96 Love and the Art of Performance & Celebrate the Maj, His Majesty’s, Perth. WA
1997 Aspects of Fremantle, Moore’s Building, WA
1995 Landscape as Metaphor, Claremont School of Art, WA
1994/95 The Fabulous Concoction Auction & Decorated Bowls, Craft Council, Perth, WA
1989 Matilda Bay Restaurant Art Prize, (finalist), Perth, WA
1985 Retrospective Exhibition, Fiji Arts Council, Suva, Fiji
1985/84 National Art Exhibition, Suva, Fiji Islands
1966 Young Contemporaries, London, UK
SELECTED AWARDS
2021 Overall Winner, Margaret River Art Prize
2018 Homegrown Prize, Vasse Art Award, Vasse, WA
2014 Joint Winner, Sculpture, Wanneroo Art Award, WA
2014 Overall Winner, Vasse Art Award, WA
2012 Overall winner, Shire of Morawa Acquisitive Award, WA
2012 Winner, Acrylics, Beverley Art Award, WA
2008 Winner, Mixed Media, Kondinin Art Prize, WA
2008/06 Overall winner, The Evan Owen Memorial Art Award, WA
2006 Joint Winner, Vasse Art Award, Vasse, WA
2001 Overall winner, Town of East Fremantle Acquisition Award, WA
1999/90 Winner, Hospice Health Credit Selection Prize, WA
1997 Winner, Water Based Media, Katanning Art Prize, WA
1995 Excellence in Mixed Media, City of Melville Art Award, WA
1995 Winner, John Hughes Art Award, WA
1994 Acquisition Prize, Creative Hot Shop, WA
1992 Art Purchase Award, South Perth Primary School, WA
1985/86 Carlton Brewery Fiji Open Calendar Award, Fiji
1983 Overall winner, Painting, National Rotary Art Exhibition, Port Hedland, WA
1983/82/81 Winner, Drawing, Karratha & Dampier Art Awards, WA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS
2022/20/18 Southwest Artist’s Now, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA
2022/21/17/15/14/13/12 Minnawarra Art Award, Finalists catalogue
2021 Geelong Independent, Friday feature, 10/9/21
2019 Lesley Meaney ‘Becoming Australian – an artist’s journey”
2019 Craig McKeough, Seesaw Digital Magazine
2019 Lyn Di Ciero, Artist’s Chronicle issue 187
2019 David Cohen, The Post Newspaper, Oct 26
2017 ‘Muse’, UWA Press, p64-65
2017 ‘World’s Best’, Ric Charlesworth, RC Sports, p161
2016 Artists of the Margaret River Region, M&P Publishing, p74-75
2014 ‘Champions & Everyday Heroes’, RCSA & Fremantle Press, several pages
2013 ‘Swimming helps Lesley’s art flow’, David Cohen, Post Newspaper, 9 Feb
2009 ‘Janet Holmes à Court in conversation with Lesley Meaney’, artist in residence catalogue
2007 ‘To Vincent with a handshake’, David Bromfield, catalogue essay
2005 Ric Spencer, Weekend Extra, The West Australian, 16 Jul
2004 Simon Blond, Weekend Extra, The West Australian, 28 Aug
2003 ShelfLife, Woodside Magazine January/February edition
1999 David Bromfield, Weekend Extra, The West Australian, 21 Aug
1999 Robert Cook, The West Australian, 25 Aug
1999 ‘Artbridge’, Artist’s Chronicle, WA, issue 64
1998 ‘Artbeat’, Rosemary Hunter, Perth Weekly, 9 Dec
1994 ‘Art Effects’, Jean Drysdale Green, Watson Guptill, New York, p79
1989 ‘Australian Watercolour Painters- 1790 to the present day’, Jean Campbell, Craftsman House, p342
1988 ‘Australian Artist’, Elladrent Pty.Ltd, November, p31-34
1985 ‘Conversations with an artist’, Fiji Sunday Times, 17 March
QUALIFICATIONS
1966 National Diploma in Design, Twickenham College of Technology NDD (Eng)
1968 Art Teachers Diploma, Liverpool University, ATD (Eng)
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2021 Sound & Waves Concert – in collaboration with Perth Symphony Orchestra
2000-2005 Course Presenter, University of WA Extension
2003 Curator, Food in a Harsh Country, Karratha Airport, WA
2002-2003 Lecturer, Aboriginal Public Art, Pilbara TAFE, WA
2002 Mural Coordinator, Cheeditha Aboriginal Community and WA Police Force, WA
1991-1994 Gallery Guide, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1887 Lecturer, Carine TAFE, WA
1980 –1983 Art Coordinator, Karratha College
1973-1979 Head of Art Department/Senior Lecturer, Fremantle TAFE, WA
1968-1972 Art Teacher (secondary education) England and Australia
1966-68 Freelance Graphic Designer, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024-2014 Artist’s Open Studio Exhibitions, Nedlands and Yallingup, WA
2020 Lesley Meaney – Becoming Australian, Holmes a Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Margaret River, WA
2019 Lesley Meaney – 50 year Survey, Holmes a Court Gallery, No.10, West Perth, WA
2013 Reason, Rhythm and Rhyme, Linton & Kay Galleries, Subiaco, WA
2012 In the Land of Plenty, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2010 Keyworks, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2008 New Works, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2007 To Vincent with a Handshake, Perth Galleries, WA
2005 Tag – the mark of the scribbly gum moth, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2005 Interior Country, Perth Galleries, WA
2004 Tree Memoirs from Red Dirt Country, Perth Galleries, WA
2003 The Shedding of Old Layers – The Growing of New, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2002 Ennobling the Gum, Pilbara Gallery of Fine Art, Karratha, WA
2000 The Kimberley Under Canvas, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
1999 The Studio Nude, The Naked Model, Perth Galleries, WA
1998 The Last Decade, Mountford Winery Gallery, Pemberton, WA
1997 Residue of a Journey, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
1995 Within One Mission, Perth Galleries, WA
1994 Sense and Sentiment, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
1991 Tapestries in Paint, New Collectables Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1990 Windows, Bay Gallery of Fine Art, Claremont, WA
1988 Homage to Rottnest, Tresillian Community Centre, Nedlands, WA
1985 Homage to Fiji, Arts Council, Suva, Fiji Islands
1984 Long Gallery, Regent of Fiji, Nadi, Fiji Islands
1983 Karratha Community Library, Karratha, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Jury Prize, Port Hedland, WA
2023 Murujuga, Holmes a Court Gallery no. 10, West Perth, WA
2023 ART IS, Christian Fletcher Gallery, Dunsborough, WA
2022/21 Sculpture at Wadjemup, Rottnest Island
2022/21 Homeless Art Auction, Fremantle WA
2022/20/18/16 Southwest Artist’s Now (Swan) Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA
2021/19/18/17/16/15/14 Busselton Art Award (finalist), Art Geo, Busselton, WA
2020 Sculpture @ Bathers, Fremantle, WA
2019 Essence of Rottnest, Holmes à Court Gallery no.10, West Perth, WA
2017 Inaugural Perth Royal Show Landscape Award, (finalist), WA
2017 Scratching the Surface, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA
2019-14 Busselton Art Award, (finalist), Art Geo, WA
2016 The Landscape Show, Linton & Kay Gallery, Perth, WA
2016 Custodians, Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Margaret River, WA
2018/14/13 Salon de Refuses, Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, Perth, WA
2014/07/96 Mandorla Award for Contemporary Religious Art, (finalist), Perth, WA
2014 Blending Past and Present, Moores Building, Fremantle, WA
2013 Fire: Some kind of energy, Holmes a Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, WA
2017/15/13/11/08/07 Minnawarra Art Award, Armadale, WA
2012 Swan Song, Perth Galleries, WA
2011/09 The Great Deckchair Auction, Deckchair Theatre, Fremantle, WA
2010 Ten, (2000-2010 acquisitions) Holmes a Court Gallery, East Perth, WA
2008/98/91 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Invitational Art Prize Exhibitions, Perth, WA
2006 Assembled, Holmes a Court Gallery, East Perth, WA
2006 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, WA
2004 Miniatures, Perth Galleries, WA
2003 Finale, Perth Galleries, WA
2002 Winter Exhibition, Perth Galleries, WA
2002 Food in a Harsh Country, with Bujee-Nhoorr-Pu Karratha Airport, WA
2000 Hospice Foundation Fund Exhibition (featured artist), Perth, WA
1998 Artbridge, Northbridge, Perth, WA
1998/96 Love and the Art of Performance & Celebrate the Maj, His Majesty’s, Perth. WA
1997 Aspects of Fremantle, Moore’s Building, WA
1995 Landscape as Metaphor, Claremont School of Art, WA
1994/95 The Fabulous Concoction Auction & Decorated Bowls, Craft Council, Perth, WA
1989 Matilda Bay Restaurant Art Prize, (finalist), Perth, WA
1985 Retrospective Exhibition, Fiji Arts Council, Suva, Fiji
1985/84 National Art Exhibition, Suva, Fiji Islands
1966 Young Contemporaries, London, UK
SELECTED AWARDS
2021 Overall Winner, Margaret River Art Prize
2018 Homegrown Prize, Vasse Art Award, Vasse, WA
2014 Joint Winner, Sculpture, Wanneroo Art Award, WA
2014 Overall Winner, Vasse Art Award, WA
2012 Overall winner, Shire of Morawa Acquisitive Award, WA
2012 Winner, Acrylics, Beverley Art Award, WA
2008 Winner, Mixed Media, Kondinin Art Prize, WA
2008/06 Overall winner, The Evan Owen Memorial Art Award, WA
2006 Joint Winner, Vasse Art Award, Vasse, WA
2001 Overall winner, Town of East Fremantle Acquisition Award, WA
1999/90 Winner, Hospice Health Credit Selection Prize, WA
1997 Winner, Water Based Media, Katanning Art Prize, WA
1995 Excellence in Mixed Media, City of Melville Art Award, WA
1995 Winner, John Hughes Art Award, WA
1994 Acquisition Prize, Creative Hot Shop, WA
1992 Art Purchase Award, South Perth Primary School, WA
1985/86 Carlton Brewery Fiji Open Calendar Award, Fiji
1983 Overall winner, Painting, National Rotary Art Exhibition, Port Hedland, WA
1983/82/81 Winner, Drawing, Karratha & Dampier Art Awards, WA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS
2022/20/18 Southwest Artist’s Now, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA
2022/21/17/15/14/13/12 Minnawarra Art Award, Finalists catalogue
2021 Geelong Independent, Friday feature, 10/9/21
2019 Lesley Meaney ‘Becoming Australian – an artist’s journey”
2019 Craig McKeough, Seesaw Digital Magazine
2019 Lyn Di Ciero, Artist’s Chronicle issue 187
2019 David Cohen, The Post Newspaper, Oct 26
2017 ‘Muse’, UWA Press, p64-65
2017 ‘World’s Best’, Ric Charlesworth, RC Sports, p161
2016 Artists of the Margaret River Region, M&P Publishing, p74-75
2014 ‘Champions & Everyday Heroes’, RCSA & Fremantle Press, several pages
2013 ‘Swimming helps Lesley’s art flow’, David Cohen, Post Newspaper, 9 Feb
2009 ‘Janet Holmes à Court in conversation with Lesley Meaney’, artist in residence catalogue
2007 ‘To Vincent with a handshake’, David Bromfield, catalogue essay
2005 Ric Spencer, Weekend Extra, The West Australian, 16 Jul
2004 Simon Blond, Weekend Extra, The West Australian, 28 Aug
2003 ShelfLife, Woodside Magazine January/February edition
1999 David Bromfield, Weekend Extra, The West Australian, 21 Aug
1999 Robert Cook, The West Australian, 25 Aug
1999 ‘Artbridge’, Artist’s Chronicle, WA, issue 64
1998 ‘Artbeat’, Rosemary Hunter, Perth Weekly, 9 Dec
1994 ‘Art Effects’, Jean Drysdale Green, Watson Guptill, New York, p79
1989 ‘Australian Watercolour Painters- 1790 to the present day’, Jean Campbell, Craftsman House, p342
1988 ‘Australian Artist’, Elladrent Pty.Ltd, November, p31-34
1985 ‘Conversations with an artist’, Fiji Sunday Times, 17 March
QUALIFICATIONS
1966 National Diploma in Design, Twickenham College of Technology NDD (Eng)
1968 Art Teachers Diploma, Liverpool University, ATD (Eng)
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2021 Sound & Waves Concert – in collaboration with Perth Symphony Orchestra
2000-2005 Course Presenter, University of WA Extension
2003 Curator, Food in a Harsh Country, Karratha Airport, WA
2002-2003 Lecturer, Aboriginal Public Art, Pilbara TAFE, WA
2002 Mural Coordinator, Cheeditha Aboriginal Community and WA Police Force, WA
1991-1994 Gallery Guide, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1887 Lecturer, Carine TAFE, WA
1980 –1983 Art Coordinator, Karratha College
1973-1979 Head of Art Department/Senior Lecturer, Fremantle TAFE, WA
1968-1972 Art Teacher (secondary education) England and Australia
1966-68 Freelance Graphic Designer, London