Pamela Horsley - Artist’s Bio 2018
Pamela grew up in Stawell, Victoria. A talent for visual art was apparent from an early age, however, only in the last four years has she seriously pursued her childhood dream. She has drawn heavily on her interim life in several developing countries and working at the coalface in health care. This has informed her creative expression and led to her passion in using art for advocacy and revisiting history.
She has been a finalist in the Bay of Fires Art Prize (2016 and 2017) Tasmania, the Sulman Prize (2012) at the Art Gallery of NSW and the Create to Advocate Prize (2008), at Parliament House, Canberra. In 2015 Pamela was invited to exhibit a work inspired by her Victorian, colonial artist, ancestor Wilbraham Liardet’s watercolours in the ‘Executed in Franklin Street’ exhibition at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall.
In 2014 a change of career and an Artist Residency at Poatina Artist Colony brought her to Tasmania, where she now lives. Since her move she has had 5 solo exhibitions at galleries including, the Gasworks, Melbourne, Sawtooth Ari, Launceston and Poatina Tree Gallery, Tasmania and has exhibited in 18 group shows.
Pamela works mostly in 2D, in various media such as oils, acrylics, enamel and mixed media which are used to create paintings that often lend themselves to varied interpretations.
She enjoys collaborating with other artists. To this end she has worked with the performance arts company, RockSalt Arts with two of their extensively toured works.
Her art training has been mostly through attending numerous art workshops in Australia and abroad. She is currently studying Bachelor Fine Arts/Honours at UTAS.