Felicia Aroney is Western Australian born, now living and working in Sydney as a leading contemporary artist. Felicia draws inspiration from her European heritage, channeling the distressed and peeled painted facades of classical architecture. Working with oils and acrylics, her distinctive abstracted floral works utilise a highly sculptural mark-making process. Using a palette knife to layer and shape the paint until it stands relief from the canvas. Felicia’s love of her Australian environment is her choice of exploration. Felicia paintings evoke a sense of history and antiquity mixed with all things Australian. A wonderful synergy of her European heritage and Australian background.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Solo “Winmark Gallery” Broke NSW
2021 Solo “Hydrangea” Exhibition Aroney Art Gallery NSW
2021 Solo “Linton & Kay Gallery” WA
2020 “Abstraction” Aroney Art Gallery Oct
2019 -2020 “Hydrangea season” Aroney Art gallery
2019 Linton & Kay Gallery WA August
2019 Art2Muse Gallery NSW October – November
2018 Milk Factory Gallery Bowral NSW September
2017 Mandoon Estate Linton and Kay Gallery WA Sept- Oct
2017 “Cape Lodge Hotel” WA Sept – Nov
2017 Art2Muse Gallery NSW November
2016 Art2Muse Gallery NSW 24th May – 7th June
2015 Art2Muse Gallery NSW April
2014 Napoleon Perdis Lifestyle Store NSW January
2014 Napoleon Perdis Lifestyle store VIC Feb/ March
2014 Gadfly Gallery WA May
2014 Milk Factory Gallery NSW Nov
2014 Sydney Childrens Hospital NSW Dec / Jan
2013 Girls with Gems store NSW
2013 Balmain Art Fair (feature artist)
2013 Art2Muse Gallery NSW
2013 Tusk Gallery VIC
2012 Art2Muse Gallery NSW
2011 Art2Muse Gallery NSW
AWARDS AND PROJECTS
2021 Lethbridge Small scale Art Prize Finalist
2021 Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize Finalist
2020 Blacktown Art Prize Finalist
2020 Invited installation at BOND University QLD
2020 Lethbridge Art Prize Finalist
2020 Installation “Fendi Showroom” Palazzo Collezioni NSW
2020 Installation at Eggersmannaustralia NSW
2019 Exhibiting works at Sofitel Hotel Broadbeach QLD
2019 Front cover for Audrey Magazine
2018 Ambassador for YOU CAN SIT WITH ME Foundation
2018 Denfair Australia (with Studio Gallery Melbourne VIC)
2018 Collaboration with “Designer Rugs’
2018 Work featured on TV 9life “Open Homes Australia”
2017 Collaboration with Lavender Hill Interiors
2017 Design on national Napoleon Perdis promotion.
2016 Hong Kong Asia International Art Fair March
2016 Singapore Art Fair April
2016 Hong Kong AAF May
2016 Seoul AFF International
2016 Gallery 360 group show Florence Italy Dec/ Jan 2017
2015 Guest Speaker Queen Victoria Buliding NSW (fundraiser)
2015 Asia Contempotay Hong Kong
2015 Hong Kong AAF International
2015 Seoul AFF International
2014 Mosman Art Prize Finalist
2014 Hornsby Art Prize Finalist
2014 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair
2014 Singapore Contemporary Art Fair
2014 Joint project with Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics (Australia and USA)
2014 Roving exhibition with Napoleon Perdis
2014 Solo Exhibition Sydney Childrens Hospital NSW
2013 Invitation to exhibit at NSW Parliament House
2013 Waverley Art Prize Finalist
2013 Balmain Art Fair – Feature Artist
2013 Walker St Gallery VIC Finalist
Felicia donates to several charity events a year
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Australia, Asia and USA
SELECT GROUP SHOWS
2021 Linton & Kay WA Mandoon Estate Jan
2021 Milk Factory Gallery NSW” Summer show” Dec – Jan
2021 Grainger Gallery ACT Group show
2021 Grainger Gallery ACT Abstract Group show
2021 Live in Art Gallery NSW (Intercontinental Hotel Double Bay)
2021 Winmark Gallery Broke NSW
2020 Gallery One QLD “End of year group show” Dec
2020 Linton and Kay “Light and shade” Ex Dec
2020 Rochfort Gallery NSW “group show” Dec
2020 Grainger Gallery ACT “group show” Oct – Nov
2020 Rochfort Gallery “group show” NSW June
COLLECTIONS
2024 The Star Casino Brisbane, Queens Wharf Development
Featured articles:
• Sydney Morning Herald
• Sun Herald
• Sydney Daily Telegraph
• Wentworth Courier NSW
• Daily Telegraph Magazine
• The West Australian
• Age Newspaper VIC
• The New York Times Interviewed about her work FOX “Sky News” Sydney
Featured editorials:
• Home Beautiful Magazine
• Belle Magazine
• House and Garden Magazine
• OK Magazine
• Front cover Audrey Magazine Work featured in “Cape Lodge” Margaret River WA
Invited to exhibit “Government House” NSW
Work featured in Palazzo Collezioni NSW, Fendi showroom Felicia work featured in FOXTEL 9 LIFE (Hamptons home series) and OPEN HOMES AUSTRALIA Collaboration with Designer Rugs, “Aroney Art Collection”
Featured in Belle Magazine Works commissioned for “Star Casino” NSW Works commissioned for “Bangangaroo” Project NSW Casino Penthouse