Artist Showcase | Simone Arnol
Clan group: Gunggandji
Language group: Gunggandji
Simone Arnol was born in Cairns, Queensland, where she continues to live and work.
Simone works across a range of mediums, including painting, photography, fashion and design, dyeing, weaving and ceramics. Through her work she recounts stories about the time of church missionaries in Queensland when they forcibly controlled the lives of many Aboriginal people during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Simone has participated in group and solo exhibitions, including the Cairns Art Gallery’s exhibitions Blak Portraiture in 2019, and Ritual in 2021. In 2019 she co-curated the fashion performance Bulmba-barra…When bare feet touch the earth for the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Queensland.
In 2021 Simone won the National Indigenous Fashion Award (NIFA) – Environmental and Sustainable Contribution Category and in the same year won the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Emerging Artist Award.
Group Exhibitions | Highlighted Works
Staged Photography
22 Apr – 11 Jun 2023
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Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
FACELESS Transforming Identity: Blak/Black Artists from North Australia, Africa and the African Diaspora 2022
25 Jun – 2 Oct 2022
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Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
Simone Arnol, Cross Country 2022, digital print, Courtesy the artist
FNQ Contemporaries 2022
29 Jan – 6 Mar 2022
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RITUAL: the past in the present
15 May – 22 Aug 2021
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Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton Jnr, Medicine clay, 2019-2020, digital print, Courtesy of the artists
Queen’s Land: Blak Portraiture
17 May – 11 Aug 2019
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Simone Arnol, Story place from the Through my eyes series, 2016, digital print, Courtesy of the artist
Simone Arnol, Story water from the Through my eyes series, 2016, digital print, Courtesy of the artist
Simone Arnol, Healing water from the Through my eyes series, 2016, digital print, Courtesy of the artist
Mara: Indigenous design, politics and food culture
29 Jun – 9 Sep 2018
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Mara: Indigenous design, politics and food culture installation, Cairns Art Gallery 2018
Collection Works
Simone Arnol, Bishop Arthur Malcolm from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Bishop Arthur Malcolm from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Bishop Arthur Malcolm from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Uncle David Mundraby from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Uncle David Mundraby from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Uncle David Mundraby from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Nathan Schrieber from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Nathan Schrieber from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
Simone Arnol, Nathan Schrieber from the Cross Country series 2022, digital print,
Purchased with funds donated by the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2022 Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery
