Personal Summary
Kirrily works as an animator, illustrator, and lecturer. She also creates comics, etchings, and gesso panel paintings.

Curriculum Vitae
Kirrily Schell

Education
2004 Masters (by Coursework) in Animation and Interactive Media RMIT
2004 Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Investigation. Honours, Painting.
Canberra Institute of the Arts Australian National University
1996 Exchange to Kyoto Seika University, Japan (September)

Profile
2008 Lecturer: Animation, RMIT, ADOM & BaAIM
2007-2008 Lecturer: Animation, Victoria University
2005-2007 Lecturer: Imaging, and Animation Studio BA(AIM) Ba in Animation and Interactive Media School of Creative Media,RMIT University
1996-2008 Freelance work: illustration, comics, and animation. Practicing artist – working with gesso panels and etchings.
2007 Animation trainer. Animation and Film Workshop with the students and community in Aurukun, Far North Queensland. May-June
2007 Animator. Need a Miracle, animated filmclip for Melbourne band Machine Translations. April.
2006 Animator. Child Neglect, animated TVadvert for channels 7 & 10. 2D Flash animation.
2006 Animation tutor. Megalo Print Workshop. Part of Megalo artist in residence. Canberra. Feb and July
2006 Animation trainer. My Mob Media workshops for kids in Port Augusta, and Whyalla Community Centre, SA. August/November.
2005 Animator. A Stowaways Guide to The Pacific. ABC/AFC funded online educational series. Linked to ABC website.
2005 Animation tutor. Flash animation 3-day workshop. Storyboards 1-day workshop. Digital story telling, 2-day workshop. Open Channel October
2004 Comics tutor. Jewish Museum of Australia, comics workshops. March-June
2002 Comics tutor. YSAS. One day guest teaching comic book making. Melbourne
1999 Comics tutor. “A Girl’s Own Mini Comic Workshop”, three day workshop. Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT
1998 Printmaking tutor. Studio One Printmaking. Three day workshop, ACT
1995 Guest Lecturer. Topic: Comic books. Dept Environmental Design, University of Canberra.
1994 Guest Lecturer. Topic: Comic books Dept Environmental Design, University of Canberra
1993-2000 Singer/Songwriter/Musician in Cuss, Canberra

Other
2005 Judge. ATOM awards. (Animation category)
1997-98 Assessor. Demonstration Tape Assessment Panel, ACT Arts Development funding. artsACT

Residencies, Grants and Awards
2006 Hardcopy. Digital art exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park. October. Winner of the Judges award.
2006 Render Project. A four-week residency that involved creating copper plate etchings and animating them digitally. Megalo Access Arts (printmaking workshop), Canberra, Jan-Feb
1996 Emerging Artists Support Scheme, A three month residency, Studio One Printmaking Workshop, ACT
1995 Institute of the Arts Association Grant to fund Fruity Murmurs# 2 publication. An anthology of Comix by Canberra Women.
1994 ANU student Association grant to fund Fruity Murmurs#1.
An anthology of Comix created by Canberra Women.

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2008 Galloping. Bloodlines Art and the Horse, regional tour.
2007 Galloping. A 2D hand drawn animated loop of a horse. Bloodlines Art and the Horse, at the Hawkesbury Gallery, Sydney Curated by Peter Fay. August - October
2007 Matrix 6. The Artist in Residence 2006 exhibition, Megalo Gallery. Displayed the resulting animation from the Render Project residencey, Marks, a five-minute loop of animated etchings. Also included two etchings used to create the animation.
2006 Hardcopy. Ink drawings, digitally manipulated. Digital art exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park. October. Winner of the Judges award.
2005 Comics to animation screening. A program of animations created by animator/comic artists. Including my film, Toots, 7:43 minute hand drawn 2D animation. Screened at: Cinema Nova (Carlton, July13), National Young Writers Festival (Newcastle, 29 Sep-3 Oct) and Supanova Pop Culture Expo (Sydney, 14-17 Oct).
2005 Tranz-it, (tram-card drawings) Melbourne Artists Supplies Upstairs Gallery, 34 Lt Latrobe St Melbourne
2004 - 2007 Toots. 7:43 minute hand drawn animation. On display at the Memory-grid, ACMI, Federation Square
2004 Braddock Rainbow, group exhibition, Early (gallery) Melbourne - February
2003 Toots. AIM screening, RMIT Melbourne-November
Open Channel, Love Your Work short film festival, Melbourne-December
2002 Inside Out, sequential art, group exhibition, West Space Gallery, Melbourne-July
2002 Women’s Salon. Gesso panels, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne-March
2001 Savage Pencils. Drawings. Silicon Pulp Gallery, Sydney-February
2000 The Drawing Show, Spiral Arm Gallery, ACT-February
1999 Miss. Solo exhibition. Etchings/paintings, Artspace 71, ACT- October
1998 Aloof. Woodblock prints, etchings, and lithographs, Spiral Arm Gallery, ACT- September
1997 Eye-saw. Etchings and paintings. Emerging Artists Support Scheme group exhibition, Gorman House Arts Centre, ACT-September
1996 Seed. Etchings and paintings. Spiral Arm Gallery, ACT - October
1993 Strip Tease. Ink drawings. Photospace, CSA, ACT - October

Comics Work: Selected Publications
Fruity Murmurs#1#2 – Editor/contributer – Canberra 1994/5
W.A.M. 4 issues. Self published mini-comic – Canberra 1996 –2001
Cartoon Swizzle Publication MUSE Newspaper - Canberra 1996
Northbourne and Glory Bound – Canberra 1999
Story Changelings Exhibition at 69 Smith Street - Melbourne 2001
Stories Useby Date and Clickity Clix. Publication Cornerfold SBS (online zine) – Melbourne 2002
Story Rapscallion Publication Silent Army – Melbourne 2002
Story Words Publication Going Down Swinging - Melbourne 2004
The Webcomics Examiner Interactive/animated cover. - (American) 2004
Story Phoenix Meat Co Publication Tango #5 – Melbourne 2005
Story Love Egg Publication Tango#6 – Melbourne 2005
Story Goodship Lollypop Publication Operation Funnybone – Melbourne 2005
Story Ferret Face and the Glass Slipper Saga Publication My Soiled Sample – New Zealand 2006

Current and Up and coming.
2008 Tomorrow by Mark Macleod, Illustrations by Kirrily Schell, published by ABC books, April
2007 Animation in exhibition and comic in Tango 7 publication. Melbourne Underground Comics and Animation Art Exhibition - Aggressively Strange Fables. As part of the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival, "Aggressively Strange Fables" 2007
2008 Illustrations currently in production for an ABC Children’s Book’s publication – due to be published 2009.

Kirrily Schell website: www.inkwinks.com
Blog: www.kirrilyblog.blogspot.com/
Contact: inkwinks@gmail.com