Gary Shinfield during his residency at Big Ci, Bilpin NSW in 2020. Photo: Hawkesbury Gazette

Gary Shinfield is an Australian artist, who graduated in 2004 with a Masters in Fine Arts/Printmaking from the College of Fine Arts UNSW, Sydney. In 1990 he received a Post Graduate Diploma in Printmaking from the Australian National University, ACT.

His practice focuses on relief printmaking and mixed media works on paper. Works made are often large scale, made in series and shown unframed. Images map journeys to site specific places in Australia and overseas. His approach is to respond to place with intuitive, gestural mark making, and to explore the processes of making. The print media used are woodcut, linocut and etching. Mixed media works on paper explore drawing and painting techniques on various handmade papers.

His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and acquired in public and private collections.  Some of the work featured in Rochford Street Review will be exhibited at Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery in an exhibition titled Burnt into Memory. The exhibition runs from Friday 6 June to Sunday 17 August 2025 at the Deerubbin Centre, 1st Floor/300 George St, Windsor NSW 2756.

Gary can be found at http://www.garyshinfield.info/portfolio/landscapes-of-anxiety/

Recent Major Exhibitions:

• 2024 – Disquiet/Shelter, with I Conomos, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
• 2022 – Accretion/Abrasion, two New Zealand and two Australian artists, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Abbotsleigh, Sydney
• 2021 – Landscapes of Anxiety, solo exhibition, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery NSW
• 2020 – Big Ci Residency Exhibition, Bilpin NSW
• 2020 – 16 – As Far as the Eye Can See, Print Survey, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW and touring to Logan Art Gallery 2018, QLD; Noosa Regional Gallery QLD 2018; Redcliffe Art Gallery QLD 2018; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery QLD 2019; Tamworth Regional Gallery NSW 2019; Devonport Regional Gallery TAS 2019; Horsham Regional Art Gallery 2019: Riddoch Art Gallery SA 2019-20; and Cowra Regional Art Gallery 2020
• 2018 – Compeung Thailand, solo at Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
• 2016 – Certain Journeys, survey at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
• 2016 – Two Rivers, solo at Art Space on the Concourse, Sydney                     
• 2014,13 – Crossing Boundaries, Australian and New Zealand Prints, Northarts Gallery, Auckland NZ, Gaffa Gallery Sydney
• 2014 – Enclosures and other spaces, solo at Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, NSW

Recent Group Exhibitions:

• 2024, 2023, 2021, 2013, 2012 – Gosford Art Prize, finalist, Gosford Regional Art Gallery
• 2024, 2023 – Northern Beaches Environmental Art Award, finalist, Manly Art Gallery, NSW
• 2024, 2023 – Origin, Sydney Printmakers, Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Art Gallery, NSW and Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
• 2023, 2025 – Vibrations in Drawing, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney and Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
• 2023, 2019, 2017, 2013, 2007, 2004, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1987 –  Fremantle Print Award, finalist, Fremantle Arts, WA
• 2023 – Art Unlimited, First Prize for Printmaking, Dunedoo NSW
• 2023 – Convergent: the Hybrid Print, Articulate Art Space, Leichhardt Sydney
• 2022 – Contemplating Grace, Sydney Printmakers, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Abbotsleigh, Sydney
• 2022, 2019, 2013 – North Sydney Art Prize, finalist, Coal Loader, Sydney
• 2021 – Print Out Times: Taoyuan International Print Exchange, Taoyuan Arts Taiwan
• 2021 – To the Edges, Sydney Printmakers, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
• 2021, 2019, 2013, 2011, 2009 –  Burnie Print Prize, finalist, Burnie TAS

Recent Collections:

• 2020 – Maitland Regional Art Gallery
• 2019 – Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
• 2016 – Willoughby Council Art Collection
• 2015 – Borderless and Boundless Portfolio by Sydney Printmakers, AGNSW, NGA and MAGAM
• 2012 – Urban Animals Portfolio by Sydney Printmakers, AGNSW and MAGAM