Douglas grew up in Eden, on the Far South Coast of NSW, in his parent's rambling garden. This early immersion in Nature has resulted in a practice that reflects on the bodily experience in Landscape.
Schofield is an emerging artist currently based in Sydney, NSW. In 2017 he graduated Fine Art (Hons) at UNSW Art & Design, with a major in painting and a minor in printmaking.
He has had solo and group exhibitions nationally and has been exhibited internationally in China, Spain, and the Philippines. He currently has work on display in the Macquarie Group collection, Sydney.
Douglas is represented in Brisbane, QLD by Aster + Asha Gallery.
STATEMENT
Schofield’s ongoing body of work journals and ponders on the bodily experience in landscape in relation to his gardening practice. As a gardener and horticulturist, the climate and weather are determining factors in daily activities.
Douglas notes, “We are witnessing dramatic, unseasonal and severe weather nation and worldwide. My practices of gardening and painting put me in contact with this change daily.”
Their work is abstract, gestural and layered. Douglas prefers to work abstractly in an attempt to give non-figurative visual language to the contemporary experience of being in Landscape.
CV
Born 1993, Yuin Country (Eden, NSW) Australia
Lives and works in Wangal / Gadigal Country (Sydney, NSW) Australia
EDUCATION
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons), UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, New South Wales
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023- Weather Permitting, Aster & Asha Gallery, Online.
2022- Gentle Pruning, Post Space, Exeter, NSW.
2022- Movement Upward, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Woollahra, NSW.
2020- Garden Antics, AIRspace Projects, Marrickville, NSW.
2018- Garden Making, Scratch Art Space, Sydenham, NSW.
2017- A Trail of Petals and Dirt, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023- Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW
2023- MOTEL Art Fair Bermagui, South East Centre for Contemporary Art, NSW.
2023- Sunrise, Art 2 Muse, Woollahra, NSW
2022- Turrin Tindal group show, M2 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2022- Eden Unearthed 2022, Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park, NSW.
2022- Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW.
2022- Mellow Thoughts, Aster & Asha Gallery pop-up, Gold Coast, QLD.
2021- York Botanic Art Prize, Gallery 152, York, WA.
2021- Rhythms of Nature, Aster & Asha Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.
2021- Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW.
2021- Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove, Sydney.
2021- Emergent, Artsite Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney, NSW
2020- Summer, Gallery 44, Woollahra, Sydney, NSW.
2019- Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW.
2019- Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown.
2019- Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW.
2019- Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA.
2019- Sydney Contemporary, Cicada Press, Carriageworks, Redfern, NSW.
2019- Gentle Gestures, Good Space, Chippendale, Sydney
2019- Touch, Gaffa, Sydney
2019- In Our Nature, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sutherland.
2018- Return, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, Sydney. *Curator and participant*
2018- Encounter/Encuentro, Impact 10 International Printmaking Conference, Santander, Spain
2018- Lilli Stromland & Douglas Schofield Artwork Viewing Day, Collab Gallery, Comber Street Studios.
2018- Nothing Solid, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
2018- Enter the Picture: Emerging Sydney Artists, gaffa, Sydney *Producer and participant*
2018- By Hand: Rediscovering the Art of Printmaking, 12F Gallery, School of Design and Arts Campus, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Malate Manila, Philippines.
2017- Landscaping, AirSpace Projects, Marrickville, Sydney
2017- Aspects: Contemporary Landscapes, Collab Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney
2017- Greenway Art Prize, Art Est. Gallery and Art School, Leichhardt, Sydney
2017- Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown.
2017- The 4th Xi’an International Printmaking Workshop Student Exhibition, East Gallery, Xi’an Academy of Fine Art, Xi’an, China.
2017- Eden Unearthed, Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park, Sydney
2017- Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Awards, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2017- Jenny Birt Painting Prize, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2016- Mountain Mates, 107 Projects, Redfern, Sydney
2016- Kudos Awards, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2016- Re: Coloured, 541 Artspace, Sydney
2016- Recluse, Gaffa, Sydney
2016- Jenny Birt Painting Prize, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2015- Looking Out, Looking In, Gaffa, Sydney
2015- Waitlisted, Create or Die Gallery, Marrickville, Sydney
2015- 1200K West, AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, Sydney
VOLUNTEERING
2016-ongoing- Cicada Press, UNSW Art & Design Printmaking Studios, Sydney
PUBLIC SPEAKING
2017- KEMPSON, Michael and SCHOFIELD, Douglas; Public Program floor talk for Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscape, S. H. Ervin Gallery, July 9, Observatory Hill, Sydney, NSW.