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Contact

Jan Manton Gallery
info@janmantonart.com

or

Natalie Lavelle (she/her)
natalielavelle@gmail.com​



CV

Education
2020 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Class I, Queensland College of Art
2019 Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art
2016 Diploma of Visual Art, Tafe Queensland

Academic Appointments
Sessional Tutor, Queensland College of Art and Design

Workshop Facilitator, Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM)

Visual Arts Educator, TAFE Queensland Southbank

Studio Practice & Professional Activities 
2025 Studio Artist, The Paint Factory, Yeronga (Qld)
2020 Installation - The Storytellers Exhibition, Museum of Brisbane (MoB)
2019 Artist Assistant to Richard Bell, Milani Gallery (Qld)
2018 Installation - The 9th Asian Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art
2018 Installation, Research and Gallery Services - Griffith University Art Museum
2018 Internship - Griffith University Art Museum and Collections Office
2016 Visual Art and Set Design Team - Brisbane Festival
2018-current Member of National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA)

Solo Exhibitions
2027 (upcoming) A Choreography, Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NSW)
2026 Divine Divide, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe (Qld)
2025 Field Work, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe
2025 Sensate, Good Grief Studios, Hobart (TAS)
2025 In The Making, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery (Qld)
2024 Total Other, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe 
2023 Flesh For Fantasy, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe
2022 Ways of Being, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe
2021 Pictorial Space, Five Walls, Footscray (VIC)
2021 Physical Perception, STABLE Artspace partnered with Brisbane Art Design, Kangaroo Point (Qld)
2021 Rekindle, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe 
2020 Deliberate Pictures, Jan Manton Gallery, Teneriffe
2020 Flatform, Grey Street Gallery, Queensland College of Art 
2019 Brushstrokes on Paper, Zonta Club of Brisbane, West End (Qld)
2018 Dark Nuance, The Third Quarter, Petrie Terrace (Qld)
 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Outer Space Auction, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley (Qld)
2025 Ten Fold, Side Gallery, Red Hill (Qld)
2025 Outer Space Auction, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley
2025 To be continued by TBC Collective, Vacant Assembly, West End (Qld)
2024 Outer Space Auction, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley 
2024 About Nothing, IN | ARI The Old Lock Up, Maroochydore (Qld)
2024 Absent, Vacant Assembly, West End (Qld)
2023 Outer Space Auction, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley
2023 ABSTRACTI♀︎N, Five Walls, Footscray (VIC)
2022 Interlude, Galeria Azur, Berlin (GER)
2022 Coast to Coast, Saint Cloche, Paddington (NSW)
2022 Brisbane Club Members Exhibition, Brisbane Club (Qld)
2021 Co-curator & artist for the exhibition, Something More, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley
2021 Look At/Look Through, Byron School of Art, Mullumbimby (NSW)
2020 Loom, Side Gallery, Red Hill 
2020 Honours Graduate Exhibition, Queensland College of Art
2020 Abstraction, Royal Queensland Art Society
2020 Boiling Point, The Third Quarter, Petrie Terrace
2019 Materiality, Agency and the Body, Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art
2018 Undergraduate Exhibition, Queensland College of Art
2018 Green, Percolator Gallery, Paddington (Qld)
2018 Expanded, POP Gallery, Woolloongabba (Qld)
 

Public Art, Commissions & Projects
2026 Good Light, Public Art Commission, Health Infrastructure Queensland, Hervey Bay Hospital (Qld)
2025 Untitled (Elegance) and Untitled (Luxury), Commission for Lexus, Rockhampton (Qld)
2023 Public Art Professional, Queensland Rail: Simon Degroot, Nundah Train Station (Qld)
2023 Public Art Mentor, Queensland College of Art, Auchenflower Train Station Mural (Qld)
2022 Public Art Professional, Arts in Health: Xoe Mazzoni, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Mural (Qld)
2022 Public Art Mentor, Queensland College of Art, John Reid Pavilion Mural (Qld)
2021 Something More, Curatorial Project, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley
2020 Public Art Professional, iAM Projects: Kyra Mancktelow, Ipswich (Qld)
2019 Public Art Professional, iAM Projects: Sam Songailo, Ipswich (Qld)
2019 Public Art Professional, Griffith University Integrity 20: Ms Saffaa, Fish Lane (Qld)

2019 Mindful Trace, Public Art Commission, Queensland Children’s Hospital (Qld)
2018 Public Art Professional, Queensland Rail: Simon Degroot, Brisbane (Qld)
2018 Public Art Professional, W Hotel: Lucas Grogan, Brisbane (Qld)
2017 Make Your Mark, Web Centre Mural, Queensland College of Art 

Awards
2026 Finalist - Ipswich Art Awards, Ipswich Regional Gallery (Qld)
2026 Finalist - Du Rietz Art Awards, Gympie Regional Gallery (Qld)

2024-25 Finalist - Redland Art Award, Redland Art Gallery (Qld)
2023 Finalist - Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery (NSW)
2022 Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, 60th Annual, Campbelltown Arts Centre (NSW)
2020 Winner - Abstraction Art Prize Exhibition, Royal Queensland Art Society (Qld)
2018 Winner - The Zonta Club Brisbane River Acquisitive Prize, Queensland College of Art
2017-19 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence in Fine Art – Queensland College of Art

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Collections
Artbank, Gadigal/Sydney (NSW)
Queensland Children's Hospital, Magandjin/Brisbane (Qld)

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay (Qld)
The Justin Art House Museum, Naarm/Melbourne (VIC)
Hervey Bay Hospital, Hervey Bay (Qld)
Lexus, Rockhampton (Qld)
Various corporate and private collections
 

Publications

Reid, Felix. Material Encounters. In Divine Divide | Natalie Lavelle, Jan Manton Gallery, August 2026.
Baker, Isabella. Soft edges, shimmering planes. In Field Work | Natalie Lavelle, Jan Manton Gallery, July 2025.
Lavelle, Natalie. Natalie Lavelle: Sensate. Exhibition essay for Sensate, Good Grief Studios, May 2025.
Dias-Jayasinha, Elena. See more, hear more, feel more; 
Matthews, Zali. The lightness of colour, the weight of clouds, and;
Bakharia, Tess. Deconstructing Colour – Black & White Works. In Natalie Lavelle: In the Making, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, February 2025. 
Cassidy, Dr. Camilla. Nothing; Exhibition essay for About Nothing, IN | ARI, August 2024. 
Thomas, Dr. David M. Flesh For Fantasy: An Exhibition of Works by Natalie Lavelle. In Flesh For Fantasy, Jan Manton Gallery, May 2023.
Mayhew, Dr. Louise R. Ways of Being: Natalie Lavelle. In Ways of Being, Jan Manton Gallery, March 2022.
Matthews, Zali. Silhouettes of a Rectangle. Published on Fivewalls.com.au, September 2021.
Hall, Taylor. Under Her Skin. Exhibition essay for Something More, June 2021. 
Bai, Dr. Paul. Painting in Space. Published on Outerspacebrisbane.org, June 2021.
Matthews, Zali. The Weight of Paint. In Rekindle, Jan Manton Gallery, 2021.
O’Brien, Jonathan. Lavelle. In Physical Perception, Stable Artspace, 2021.