FINALIST - HAZELHURST ART ON PAPER AWARD 2021

It’s so wonderful to be selected as a finalist in this years ‘Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award’ amongst some of Australia’s finest artists working in the medium of paper.

Since 2001 The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award has been a significant national biennial exhibition that aims to elevate the status of works on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium.

The Awards include the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award of $15,000; the Young and Early Career Art Award of $5,000; the Local Artist Award of $5,000 (sponsored by the Friends of Hazelhurst); the Preparator’s Residency Award and the $1,000 People’s Choice Award.

This year Hazelhurst received entries from over 700 artists from throughout Australia. The following artists were selected for the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2021:

2021 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Finalists

WINNER - 2020 JOHN COPES PORTRAIT PRIZE - BOWRAL ART GALLERY

It’s still sinking in that I just won the John Copes Portrait Prize at Bowral Art Gallery today. Huge congratulations to all the wonderful finalists and other prize winners! It was such a beautiful opening thanks to all the lovely Southern Highlands Community who came along and congratulated me. Big thanks to Black Parrot Art Framing who did an amazing and immaculate job with framing my work (and even delivering it to the gallery for me), what a team! And lastly, huge gratitude to judge Ben Quilty.

The John Copes Prize for Representational Art is becoming recognised as a leading are prize for representational work. It was instigated as a memorial to his father John, by Tim Copes.

The Prize attracts some of the finest representational artists throughout the state as well as other states across Australia.

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2020 John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery

FINALIST - HAZELHURST ART ON PAPER AWARD 2019

Since 2001 The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award has been a significant national biennial exhibition that aims to elevate the status of works on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. So thrilled to be a finalist this year with my work ‘Fright and Delight-Bundanon’, a work that was inspired when I was artist-in-residence at Bundanon Trust last year. Congratulations and best wishes to all artists who are finalists. This will be an amazing exhibition.

Exhibition launch and announcement of award recipients will be held on Friday 20th Sept 6pm at Hazelhurst Gallery.

10 April 2017

I'm very honoured to have recently been invited to be apart of the judging panel for Hazelhurst Art On Paper Awards. The list of finalists look amazing and it's going to be a cracker of a show. Good luck to all the selected finalists! The opening for the Exhibition will be 19th May 2017 at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre. The winning works will be judged by acclaimed Australian artist Lindy Lee.

26 May 2016

Such a successful opening for 'Riversdale Dreaming' at PLC Croydon. Thank you to PLC Croydon and to all who came along, especially to Michael and Marilyn Reardon-Small who also came in support. I feel especially blessed to have had Michael officially open the show with his kind words.

November 2015

My exhibition “Interior Monologue – A Carousel” opens this Monday 9th November 6-8pm at the Moran Gallery Sylvania. The exhibition is a joint initiative between Moran Health Care Group and Hazelhurst Gallery and Regional Arts Centre, curated by Carrie Kibbler.