Eleesa Howard - Curriculum Vitae

·2026

  • Solo Exhibition: Hold Me, Hold Me Close, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC

 

2025

  • Solo Exhibition: Mother’s Hands, Kingston Arts Centre, VIC

  • Finalist, Ripper Prize, Gallery Jones, Ripponlea, VIC

  • Group Show: Assembly, Jacky Winter Gallery, Collingwood, VIC

  • HerStory IWD Mural – Public Art Commission, Mornington Peninsula Shire

2024

  • Finalist, National Works on Paper (NWOP), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

  • Solo Exhibition: Mothers Hands, The Blackroom Gallery at Cook St Collective

  • Group Exhibition: You Look Good on Paper, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North

  • Residency: Monmar, Police Point Artist in Residence, Point Nepean

  • Art Assistant: The Interior by Natalya Hughes, MPRG

2023

  • Group Show: Limitless, 26 Advantage Gallery, Highett

  • Solo Exhibition: Resilience, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington

    • Supported by Mornington Peninsula Shire Arts Grant

  • Solo Exhibition: Edge of Colour, Frankston Arts Centre

    • Supported by Frankston City Council Arts Grant

2022

  • Group Exhibition: Somers Art Fair, Somers

  • Group Exhibition: Emerge, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy

  • Residency: Monmar, Police Point, Point Nepean

  • Group Show: Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery

  • Group Exhibition: Belonging, Frankston Arts Centre

  • Solo Exhibition: Memories are Made, Little Oberon, Fish Creek

  • Group Exhibition: Art Red Hill, Red Hill

2021

  • Open Studio Exhibitions: Mornington

  • Group Exhibition: Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda

  • Solo Exhibition: Sentimental, Blackroom Gallery at Cook St Collective

  • Group Exhibition: Somers Art Show, Somers

  • Group Exhibition: Red Hill Art Show, Red Hill

  • Group Exhibition: Ron Rodo Memorial Acquisitive Prize, Dandenong

2020

  • Group Show: Brunswick 50 x 50, Brunswick

2019

  • Group Exhibition: Ron Rodo Memorial Acquisitive Prize, Dandenong

  • Group Exhibition: 9 x 5 Show, Cube Gallery, Frankston Arts Centre

Workshops & Community Engagement

  • Parking Day – Public Art Project (September 2024)

  •  Workshops and Public Programs (2017–Ongoing)

    • Delivered in schools, council programs, galleries, and private settings

Early Practice

Textiles, Quilt Making, and Furniture Upcycling (1993–2010)

Education

  • Diploma of Visual Arts – Chisholm Institute 2018-2019