AWARD WINNING ARTIST & EDUCATOR
My awards
2025
Finalist at SWELL Art Prize 2025, Currumbin, QLD
2024
Winner of the Burnie Smith Memorial Award (Works on paper) in the Brigalow Arts Festival, Banana Shire Regional Gallery, Biloela, QLD
Highly Commended in the EKKA Royal Queensland Show 2024 (class Traditional Watercolour, Painting & Drawing Competition), Brisbane, QLD
Winner in the major prize in the Bentley Art Prize 2024 (The Richmond Dairies Australian Landscape Acquisitive Painting Prize), Bentley, NSW
Winner in three categories in the Bentley Art Prize 2024 (The Richmond Valley Council Acquisition Painting Prize, Dr Castagna Acquisition Portrait Drawing Prize and The Richmond Regional Library Acquisition Prize), Bentley, NSW
Category winner (2nd place) in two categories in the Annual Art Awards, Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery, Springsure, QLDCategory winner (2nd place) in the Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
Highly Commended in the CasinoRSM Club Acquisition Painting Prize, Bently, NSWHighly Commended in the Singleton Art Prize, Singleton, NSW
Finalist in The Doyles Art Award 2024, Mudgeeraba (Gold Coast), QLD
Finalist in The Fairholme Open Arts Prize - Facets, Toowoomba, QLD
Finalist in The John Villiers Outback Art Prize 2024, Winton, QLD
Finalist in the Signature Art Prize 2024, Armidale, NSW
2023
Finalist in The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art (QCA), Brisbane
2021
Merit Award in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
Highly Commended in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
Highly Commended in the Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery Awards, Springsure, QLD
2020
Winner of the Pamela Whitlock Memorial Acquisitive Award in the 45th Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards, Gladstone, QLD
Winner of the Moore Australia Acquisition Award in the Brigalow Arts Festival, Biloela, QLD
LimeLife 500 Grant sponsored by Latitude 23 Arts Inc and Arts Central Qld Inc.
Highly Commended in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
Finalist in the CQU Creates art exhibition, CQU, Rockhampton, QLD
2019
Category Winner in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald,
Category Winner in the Annual Art Awards, Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery, Springsure, QLD
Category Winner in the 43rd Annual Art Competition and Exhibition, Blackwater, QLD
Highly commended in the Blackall Cultural Association's Annual Art Exhibition & Competition, Blackall, QLD
2018
Winner of the Central Highlands Regional Council Acquisitive Art Award, Emerald, QLD
Category Winner in the 42nd Annual Art Competition and Exhibition, Blackwater
Category Winner in the Brigalow Arts Festival, Biloela, QLD
Highly Commended in the Central Highlands Annual Art Awards, Emerald, QLD
2017
Special Merit Category Winner at the 7th International "Figurative" Art Exhibition (April 2017), Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery