Sherrie Knipe, sculptor, was born at the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1970. She studied at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, completing a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art) from 1988 to 1990 and a Graduate Diploma of Education in Secondary Teaching (Art and English) in 1992. She attained a Masters of Fine Art (Sculpture) in 2006 and an Honorary Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2009 at Monash University, Melbourne.
Sherrie Knipe’s intricately carved wood and bronze sculptures are like quirky, three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles made up of ‘useful’ objects that she manipulates and rejuvenates into the seemingly ‘useless’. Often involving a distortion of scale, the puzzle pieces range from ordinary household items such as crockery, pegs or buttons, to tiny pieces of nature such as leaves, twigs or fish.
Sherrie Knipe has had several solo shows nationally as well as numerous group shows, including exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD and Devonport Regional Gallery, TAS. She was selected as a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize in 2011 and 2009 and for the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize, the City of Hobart Art Prize and the Wynne Prize in 2011. In 2010 Knipe received the People’s Choice Award in the Noosa Regional Gallery Travelling Scholarship and in 2009 she was a finalist in the Darebin La Trobe University Art Prize. She was selected as a finalist in the Stan and Maureen Duke Award and the Fisher’s Ghost Award in 2008, the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award in 2007 and the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize in 2006 and 2002.
Sherrie Knipe won the ROLCO Award for Casting from Monash University in 2004 and received Professional Development Grants from Arts Queensland in 2003 and 1999, as well as a Regional Arts Development Fund for Parks Victoria Artist in Residence Project and the Pat Corrigan Grant in 2003. She undertook a Parks Victoria Residency in 2002 and a McGregor Art Fellowship Residency at Newcastle-under-Lyme College in the United Kingdom in 2000. She has received commissions from Gold Coast University in 2009, Gold Coast City Council in 2003 and the Main Roads Department of Queensland in 2002. Knipe’s work is held in many collections including Artbank, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, The Derwent Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Council Libraries, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology, Logan City Council, Main Roads Department of Queensland, Museum of Brisbane, State Library of Queensland, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery and private collections Australia wide.
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- Date written:
- 2012
- Last updated:
- 2012
