COSIMA SCALES
MUSHROOM SKIN
Cosima is a Brisbane-based painter who produces intimate works from observation. The paintings in Mushroom Skin form part of an ongoing series of still life works made from close contemplation of objects to explore colour, shape and mark-making. The primary focus of these new paintings is on the texture of ordinary things, using gestural marks to describe varied surfaces like the soft crumb and icing of a cake, or the tender surface of a mushroom.
Cosima completed a Master of Visual Art by research at the Queensland College of Art in 2018, and has since held solo exhibitions in Inverell, Brisbane and Melbourne. In 2020, she was a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
25 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $650
25 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $650
27 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $675
25 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $650
17.5 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $550
17.5 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $550
17.5 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $550
21 x 25 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $650
25 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $650
17.5 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $550
17.5 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $550
17.5 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $550
48 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $950
48 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $950
48 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $950
48 x 21 cm Oil on Aluminium Framed $950
Cosima Scales CV
Education
2018 Master of Visual Art by research, (postgraduate research scholarship), QCA
2015 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours (First Class), QCA
2012 Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School
Solo exhibitions
2020 Sunroom Paintings, Allison Kate Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2019 Bench Space, Wreckers Artspace, Brisbane
Indoors, C3 Artspace, Melbourne
2018 Portals, Project Gallery, QCA Galleries, Brisbane
Selected group exhibitions
2021 Still Life, The Brickworks Gallery, Castlemaine, VIC
2020 Christmas Show, Allison Kate Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2020 Form and Function, STABLE, Brisbane
2020 Small Acts, Innerspace Contemporary Art, Brisbane
2019 Outer Space Fundraiser, Outer Space ARI, Brisbane
The Utopian Object, C3 Artspace, Melbourne
2018 Outer Space Fundraiser, Outer Space, Brisbane
2017 Pieces, curated by Cut Thumb Laundry, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Empathy Toward Plants, Project Gallery, QCA, Brisbane
2016 Interrupted Horizons, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
We are not Ourselves, Byron School of Art Project Space, Mullumbimby, NSW
2015 Everything is Connected, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane
What’s Out There, The Laundry Artspace, Brisbane
Awards
2020 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, finalist
2015 The St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Art Prize, winner
Residencies
2018 Outer Space ARI, Brisbane
2016 BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2014 Listhús Artspace, Olafsfjordur, Iceland