RESUME
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Holly Siles is a Sydney-based designer & artist who currently teaches at TAFE NSW, specialising in illustration and design.
In the field of art, Siles is on a journey of exploration through self-regarding work, employing a variety of media such as video, sculptural textiles, and drawings.
Siles shares intimate and familial stories, interrogating the role clothing plays with the projection of self-identity and exploring and blurring the boundaries between fashion and art.
Skills
MANUAL ILLUSTRATION
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR & PREMIERE
Work
experience
TAFE NSW - Teacher
1991 – Present
Responsible for all aspects of program delivery, subject content writing and assessments & student welfare. Specialising in fashion illustration and design
TAFE NSW Acting Head Teacher
2013 - 2018
Responsible for the management of staff, students and delivery of programmes (TAFE NSW, Ultimo and St George fashion schools)
Laugh ‘n’ Learn Randwick - Art Teacher
2007 – 2010
Developed and conducted children’s art lessons
Self-employed - Freelance Designer
1986 – 1999
Fashion design with various companies and private clientele
Sport Fashions - Designer
1989 - 1991
Sportswear designer - Product Development
Image clothing & Charlie Brown - Designer
1989
Sportswear designer - Product Development
Bracewell. Labels: Novacloves, Poles Apart and Tomika – Head Designer
1985 – 1989
Design of all collections and management of design room.
Education
Sydney College of the Arts
1981-1985
Bachelor of Art - Fashion & Textile Design
UNSW Art & Design
2017-2021
Postgraduate Degree Master of Art - with Excellence
Prizes: UNSW Dean’s List 2019
TAFE NSW
2013
Certificate IV – Training & Assessment TAE40110
Group Exhibtions
Encountering
2019
GAFFA Gallery
Her Story
2020
Comber Street Gallery
A&D Annual
2020
UNSW Galleries
Commission Work
Humble Beginnings (Homewares Retailer)
2012-2013
Private Commissions
2010- 2016
Publications
Encounterings
2019
Forward by Tonee Messiah ISBN: 978-0-7334-3892-9
Her Story
2020
Forward by Tonee Messiah ISBN: 978-0-646-83035-3
Related Experience
TAFE NSW - Facilitator and curator of annual student exhibitions
2000 – present
Art & Design Faculty Board member - Postgraduate student representative
2020
Memberships
Nava
current