ARTIST STATEMENT
Cathy is an award winning Melbourne based artist and her work ranges from realism to more intuitive and ethereal abstract and semi-abstract pieces. Cathy has been a finalist in several significant national art competitions and won several awards.
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EDUCATION
1980-1981 Bachelor of Education (Art major) Monash University
AWARDS
2024 Winner Best Work on Canvas Roberts McCubbin Art Show
Finalist Omnia Art Prize
Semi Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Award
2023 Winner Best in Show Roberts McCubbin Art Show
Finalist MAVA Art Prize
Finalist The Doyles Art Award
2022 Finalist Art Lovers Australia Prize and the Omnia Art Prize
2021 Finalist in Wyndham Prize, the Kennedy Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Award and Art Lovers Australia Prize
2020 Finalist in Noel Counihan Art Award
Joint Winner People's Choice Albert Park Art Show
2019 Winner : Australian Guild of Realist Artists' President's Challenge.
Finalist in Ravenswood Women's Art Prize
Finalist in Wyndham Art Prize
2018 Finalist in Kennedy Art Prize
Winner Best 2D artwork, Swanpool Creative Recycled Art Prize
2017 Finalist in Kennedy Art Prize, Finalist in the St. John's Southbank Art Prize
2016 Finalist in Contemporary Art Awards
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Australian Skies, AGRA Galleries, Camberwell, Vic.
2020 Contemplation, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood.
2019 Finding the Light, Royal Women's Hospital, North Melbourne.
2017 Perspectives, Gallery Voltaire, North Melbourne.
2016 Diversity, Gallery Voltaire, North Melbourne.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria, Winter Days
Omnia Art Show, Toorak, Vic.
Albert Park Art Show, Albert Park, Vic.
Post Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, Harmony
2021 Wyndham Prize, Wyndham Art gallery, Werribee, Vic.
Lethbridge Landscape Prize,Lethbridge Gallery, Qld.
Kennedy Prize, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, S.A.
Renewal, Art Lovers Australia Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld.
Winter, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, Vic.
2020 Albert Park Collega Art Show,(virtual)Albert Park, Vic.
Passage of Time, AGRA Gallery, Camberwell, Vic.
Truth to be Known, In.cube8r Gallery, Prahran, Vic.
2019 Ravenswood Women’s Art prize, Sydney, N.S.W.
Wyndham Prize Exhibition, Werribee Art Gallery, Vic.
A Walk in the Park, Manningham City Square, Doncaster, Vic.
St. Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak, Vic.
Modern Life, President’s Challenge, AGRA, Camberwell, Vic.
2018 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
Maldon and District Portrait Prize, Maldon, Victoria
Moonee Valley Rotary Art Show, Essendon, Victoria
Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn, Victoria
Swanpool Creative Recycled Art Prize, Swanpool, Victoria
2017 Kennedy Prize exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia (finalist)
St. John's Southgate Art Prize, Melbourne, Victoria (finalist)
Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon, Victoria
Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Bayside Rotary Art Show, Sandringham, Victoria
Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park, Victoria
2016 Contemporary Art Awards, Online Exhibition, Brisbane (finalist).
Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon, Victoria
Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Bayside Rotary Art Show, Sandringham, Victoria
Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park, Victoria
Gallery 69 Smith St, Fitzroy, Victoria
2015 Her painting Radiant Dusk was chosen for publication in the Art Ascent, Art and Literature Journal Competition
PRESS
2016, September, Art Edit magazine, Pièces de Résistance
2015, September, Art Ascent, Art and Literature Journal, Violet issue
2014, March 6, Herald Sun Leader newspaper, “Social Media meet- up inspires artists’ Kew Exhibition” | 
