Shanelle Davis
Meet Shanelle
Shanelle Davis is a fine artist and muralist based in Kingston, Jamaica with a BFA (Honours) in Painting from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing arts. Using a variety of painting and drawing mediums in her work, she portrays the natural essence of people, social and cultural society. Her art allows individuals to relate and consciously assess what makes them act and think the way they do. She encourages transparency and acceptance of faults and the necessity of change alongside self and community improvement. Furthermore she has voluntarily and commercially completed a variety of cultural and beautification murals across the island of Jamaica including St. Ann, Kingston, Falmouth and St. Catherine, for companies such as Kingston Creative, Pepsi, Grace Kennedy, Supreme Ventures and PBCJ.
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Skills & Accomplishments
SHANELLE DAVIS
Born October 10, 2001 in Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Kingston Jamaica
EDUCATION
2020 - 2024 Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, BFA in Painting, Honors
2013 - 2020 Wolmer’s Trust High School For Girls, 9 CSEC and 5 CAPE subjects and a Certificate in Business
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 And I Resume the Struggle, Olympia Gallery Faces of love,
Summerhouse exhibition Creative Consciousness,
Final Year Exhibition at Edna Manley
2023 State of Mind, Edna Manley College student exhibition
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AWARDS
2024 Albert Huie Award for the Most Outstanding Student in Painting
2021 - 2023 Edna Manley College Honours’ Awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement
2019 - 2020 Marcia Dunn Award for Visual Arts at Wolmer’s Girls
GRANTS
2023 - 2024 Ebony G. Patterson Painters Grant
2023 Mandiville Art Fair - Julie Lyn Scholarship
2022 - 2024 Grace Kennedy Foundation Scholarship
2022 Liguanea Lodge Scholarship
PUBLIC MURALS
2024 Meeting of Styles Jamaica, Tivoli Gargens
Courts Ready Cash, Drax Hall
Lost in time Festival New Artisan Village, Falmouth
2023 Pepsi Jamaica
Grace Kennedy, Port Royal Street
Sagility Health BPO, Spanish Town
2022 Bumps Park, Tivolli Gardens
Brown’s Town, St. Ann
Supreme Ventures, Twin Gates Plaza, Half Way Tree
RIU Hotel
2021 PBCJ, Half Way Tree
Anchor Recording Studio
Red Pond, Frazer's Content, Kitson Town, Jamaica
2020 Kingston Creative, Barry Street
PRESS
2024 Artists talk Jamaican art, hopes for the future | Loop Jamaica (loopnews.com)https://jamaica.loopnews.com/content/artists-talk-jamaican-art-hopes-future-707545
2023 Pepsi Cola Jamaica and Don Dada collaborate with Edna Manley students for augmented reality mural - Our Today
2022 Brown’s Town comes alive with exciting murals | News | Jamaica Gleaner (jamaica-gleaner.com)2022Caribalent - Oil on canvas painting by Jamaican 🇯🇲 artist,... | Facebook
SOCIALS
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