CV Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
1991 Solo exhibition, Queenscliff Fine Art Gallery, Curator Russell Davis
2001 Solo exhibition, “Country Life”, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2004 Solo exhibition, Broken Hill City Art Gallery. The Land, the People, the Race 2006 Solo exhibition “Country Landscapes and People”, Mildura City Art Gallery
2013 Solo exhibition “Seaview Gallery”, Queenscliff,
2021 Solo exhibition "Re-imagined Spaces", St James Gallery, Geelong
2021-22 Solo exhibition "Re-imagined Narratives", Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill
2022 Solo exhibition "Re-Imagined Landscapes", The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove
2023 Solo exhibition "Stories from Yonder", The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove
2025 Solo Exhibition "Urban", The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibitions
1992 Group exhibition- Art Naïve Gallery; Malvern
1995 Group Exhibition-Ant Hill Gallery, Broken Hill
1996 "A Sporting Chance exhibition”, Libby Edwards Gallery, Toorak
1997 Group exhibition-Artist’s Garden, Fitzroy
1998 “Games People Play” Global Gallery, Sydney
2000 “Australian Landscapes”, New Century Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Group exhibition, Port Pirie regional gallery,” curated by Malcolm McKinnon & Lucia Pichler
Group exhibition - Alice Springs Contemporary Art prize
2003 Geelong College Art Show
2004 Group exhibition - “Queens Gallery”, Queenscliff.
2005 Group exhibition - Broken Hill Art Gallery
Short listed Warrnambool Art Gallery Exhibition
2008 Group exhibition- Geelong College Art Show
2010 Group exhibition - 2010 Cricket Art Prize, Sydney, Melbourne and Bowral
Group exhibition - Artist’s Garden, Fitzroy
2011 Group Exhibition - Geelong College 150th Anniversary Art Show
Group Exhibition - 2011 Cricket Art Prize, Sydney, Melbourne and Bowral
2012 Group Exhibition - Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, “The story so far”
2014 Group Exhibition - Art Naïf festival, Katowice, Poland
Group Exhibition - 'The Footy Art Show', Artist's Garden, Fitzroy
2015 Group Exhibition - "Salon Art in the Square", Gutman Art, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition - Art Naïf Festival, Katowice, Poland
2016 Group Exhibition -"Salon Art in the Square", Gutman Art, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition - Art Naïf Festival, Katowice, Poland
2017 Group Exhibition - The Hive Art Gallery, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition - The Art of Football, The Vault, Mildura
Group Exhibition - Gallery Voltaire, Melbourne
2018 Group Exhibition - Art on a Postcard, "The Other Art Fair" London, UK
Group Exhibition - International Art Naif Festival, Katowice, Poland
Group Exhibition - "The Art of Football", Red Rock Gallery, Cororooke
Group Exhibition - "Australian Art Show" Scotch College, Melbourne
Group Exhibition - "Aussie Rules: Passion and Pain, Glen Eira Gallery, Caufield
Group Exhibition- " The Art of Football", Museum of Innocence, Mildura
Group Exhibition- " Exhibition Of Naive Art, House Of Culture, Imatra, Finland
2019 Group Exhibition- "Museum International collection of Naif Art in Magog,
Canada"
Group Exhibition- "Inside to Outside" Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Group Exhibition- "International Art Naif Festival, Katowice, Poland
Group Exhibition- "Poland to Tennant Creek, Barkly Arts", Tennant Creek, N.T
Group Exhibition- "Ocean Grove Industrial Estate", The Hive, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- "2nd Triennial of Self- Taught Visionary Art, Museum of Naive
and Marginal Art, Jagodina, Serbia.
2020 Group Exhibition- "How's That", The Hive, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- "Bespoke", The Hive, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- "Celebration of the Moonah Trees", Barwon Heads
Group Exhibition- "Living in Covid Times", Museum International collection of Naif Art in Magog, Canada (virtual exhibition)
Group Exhibition- Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2021 Group Exhibition- "Five year Birthday The Hive Gallery", Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- "Celebrating sporting Art", Bridget McDonnell Gallery,
Melbourne
2021-22 Group Exhibition- "Queenscliff Art prize", On the pier, Queenscliff,
2022 Group Exhibition- "The story so far....... Part II", Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Group Exhibition- "Bellarine Arts Trail", The Hive Gallery Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- " Sporting works" Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Group Exhibition- "Biennale Naive Bulgaria, Salon of naive and Intuitive art,
Group Exhibition- "Queenscliff Art prize", On the pier, Queenscliff,
Group Exhibition- " Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne
2024 Group Exhibition- "Stories from the wetlands", The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- "Pro Hart Outback Art Prize", Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Group Exhibition- "Bellarine Art's Trail", The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove
Group Exhibition- "The Footy Art Show", Neon Parlour Gallery, Thornbury
2025 Group Exhibition- "Flanagan Art Prize", Ballarat
"Incognito Art Show, Sydney
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Awards
1998 Winner Kevin Murray Art Prize, Artists Garden, Fitzroy, Judges Lewis Miller,
Senator John Button
2002 Short listed Alice Springs Contemporary Art prize
2003 Geelong College Art Show, Best Acrylic painting.
Judged by Dr. Geoffrey Edwards, Director Geelong Art Gallery
2005 Short listed Broken Hill City Gallery Art Prize
Short listed Warrnambool Art Gallery “Racing Exhibition”
2010 Short listed $20,000 Cricket Art Prize, Sydney
2011 Short listed inaugural “Rural Art Prize”
2011 Short listed $20,000 International Cricket Art Prize, Sydney
2012 Shortlisted $20,000 International Cricket Art Prize, Sydney
2020 Shortlisted $23,000 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2023 Finalist Biennale Naive Bulgaria
2024 Finalist Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2025 Finalist Biennale Intuitive Bulgaria, Salon of Naive and Intuitive Art, Bulgaria
Runner up Flanagan Art Prize, Panel award, Ballarat, Judge Dr. Vincent Alessi
Finalist "Flanagan Art Prize", Ballarat
Finalist Pro Hart Outback Art prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2026 Finalist $15,000 Harden Landscape Art Prize
Art Installations
2003 Arts Victoria- Our Lady Star of the Sea School, Ocean Grove
2010 Art Box Project- Geelong for World Cycling Championships
2015 Art Box Project- Belmont
Artist Talks/Interviews
2006 Mildura City Art Gallery
2010 Springdale Business Breakfast –“Art and Business”
2018 The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove
2021 "Let's Talk Art" with Amy Reshefsky, Florida, USA
2022 Arts Workshop, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill,
2024 "Stories from the wetlands", Artist talk
Artist In-Residence
2003 Arts Victoria, Artist in Residence, Our Lady Star of the Sea
Primary School, Ocean Grove, Vic
2019 Barkly Arts, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
2019 Wexford Northern Bay College, Corio, Vic
Museum Collections (In permanent collection)
2014 Museum International collection of Naif Art in Magog, Canada.
2019 Museum of Naive and Marginal Art, Jagodina, Serbia
2022 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill Australia
Curated Exhibitions by Wayne Elliott
2018 The Art Naif Festival, Katowice, Poland
2019 Poland to Tennant Creek Exhibition, Desert Harmony Festival, Tennant Creek
Publications by Wayne Elliott
2024 Pedagogical Propositions, Playful Walking with a/r/tography,
A/r/tography as a platform for movement pedagogy by Wayne Elliott pg 30-47
Link: https://www.insea.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Book-2-final-Apr25.pdf
Media
1991 Geelong Advertiser “Wayne Elliott “15/12/91
1998 Geelong Advertiser “Football becomes Wayne’s art form” 19/9/98
1999 Sunday Age Agenda “Give me a race among the gum trees”
Pages 1-2 by Martin Flanagan 24/10/1999
Melbourne Age,” Spirit of sleepy Hollow” by Martin Flanagan
1/7/99
2003 Education Today “Sea Change” pg 11
2006 Sunraysia Daily “Wayne Elliott: Simple Truth’ Pages 7-8
By Stephen Naylor Lecturer Art Theory at James Cook University
2011 “International World Contemporary Masters Volume V”, selected artist
ABC Australia Website, February –Selected artist, “New works”
2018 Catalogue- "International Art Naif Festival Poland",
2019 Video , "My Arts My Culture " Barkly Arts- https://vimeo.com/356075162
2019 Book " 2nd Triennial of Self- Taught Visionary Art, Museum of Naive
and Marginal Art"
2019 Catalogue- International Art Festival, Katowice, Poland
2021 "Heart and Soul, a history of the Lang Lang Football Club, By Bob Utber
2022 "Elliott's re-imaginings at the Hive", Surf Coast Times, 6th May, 2022
2023 "Geelong Advertiser- "Wayne Elliott, colourful review", 5th August,2023
2025 "Painting stories of place", Ocean Grove Voice, 1st May, 2025