Victoria Watts
Victoria Watts has been exhibiting since 2002, with her first solo painting exhibition in 2005, followed by numerous solo exhibitions in both Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. Watts’ works encompass urban and rural landscapes as well as portraits and the occasional still life.
Paintings regularly selected as Finalist works in various art competitions including: the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture; Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Award, The Hidden Faces of the Archibald the Victorian refusès exhibition; Albany Art Prize; invitational Tattersall Club Landscape Prize; Muswellbrook Art Prize; Callen Art Award, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Refusès exhibition (Wynne). Painting have also been selected as Semi-Finalists for The Royal Society of Portrait Painter, London; and the Doug Moran Portrait Prize.
“Modernist Icon” a painting of the brutalist Council House building in Perth won the Black Swan Prize for Heritage, (2014).
“Heroes” a painting depicting three war veterans participating in industrial therapy, making clothes pegs as part of Work Group at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, won the Popular Choice Award in the Albany Art Prize, (2016)
Selected Solo Exhibition
2016 ‘From Out f The Trees’ at Metro Gallery, High St Armadale, Vic
2015 Harvison Gallery, 195 Brisbane St, Perth, WA, December 2015
2015 ‘Three Years’ The Lyceum Club, Ridgeway Place, Melbourne, Vic
2011 ‘Exploring subject, size and scale’ The Lyceum Club, Ridgway Place, Melbourne, Vic.
2011 ‘Modern Melbourne’ Red Cube Gallery, Malvern Road, Malvern, Vic.
2008 ‘Melbourne Scenes’ at Lyceum Club, Ridgway Place, Melbourne, Vic.
2007 ‘AnotherDay’,Paddington Contemporary Gallery,Glenmore Rd,Paddington,NSW
2006 ‘Cinque’ at Lynne Wilton Gallery, High St, Armadale, Vic.
2005 ‘Shades of Italy’ at Lynne Wilton Gallery, High St, Armadale, Vic.
Selected Recent Group Shows
2018 Selected, 7 works in Marvellous Melbourne Exhibition Pan Pacific, South Wharf and Media House Gallery, The Age, 655 Collins Street, October 8 - January 31 2019.
2018 Selected, Portrait of 'Mimm Bartlett' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refuses Exhibition.
2018 Selected, Portrait of 'Tony Gooch' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refuses Exhibition.
2018 Selected, Portrait of 'Professor Malcolm Hopwood' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refuses Exhibition.
2017 Selected, Portrait of 'Professor Malcolm Hopwood' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refuses Exhibition.
2017 Selected, Portrait of 'Dr Tovey' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refuses Exhibition.
2017 Finalist, 'Mt Buangor #9', Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Coloundra Art Gallery, QLD, 17 August - 8 October
2017 Finalist, 'Tree #7 Hepburn Regional Park', Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2017 Finalist, 'Mt Cole Forest #3', Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize' Brighton, Victoria, 6 May - 18 June
2016 Semi-Finalist, Doug Moran Portrait Prize 2016
2015 Joint exhibition, ‘Landscapes and Life’, 20 Sept – 12 Oct, Metro Gallery, High St Armadale, Vic.
2015 Selected, Portrait of ‘Frank Cox AOM’ Hidden Faces of the Archibald, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2015 Selected, Portrait of ‘David Ohaion’ Hidden Faces of the Archibald, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2015 Finalist, ‘Calleen Art Award’ , 3May-14 June 2015, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW.
2015 Finalist, ‘43rd Muswellbrook Art Prize’ Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre March 1- April 19, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW.
2014 Finalist, ‘Black Swan Swan Prize for Portraiture’ 9-19 October, 137 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA.
2014 by invitation, Tattersalls Club Landscape Prize, Joint exhibition, Brisbane, Qld.
2014 Selected, Portrait of ‘Dr Gregory Lyon’, Hidden Faces of the Archibald 2014, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2013 Finalist, ‘Portia Geach Memorial Award’ with a self-portrait, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2013 by invitation, Tattersalls Club Landscape Prize, Joint exhibition, Waterfront Place, Brisbane, Qld.
2013 Selected, self-portrait in a London Cab, Hidden Faces of the Archibald, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2013 Selected, Joint exhibition, Salon des Refusès (landscape), SH Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW.
2012 Joint exhibition, Arte Contempo Gallery, 8 Ross Street, South Melbourne, Vic.
2012 Finalist, ‘Albany Art Prize’ Albany, WA
2012 Selected, Portrait of ‘Jeremy Bonwick’ Hidden Faces of the Archibald, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2011 Finalist, ‘Portia Geach Memorial Award’ portrait of ‘Senex – Jack Watts’ SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2010 Finalist, ‘Paddington Art Prize’ Exhibition, Sydney, NSW.
2010 Finalist, ‘Portia Geach Memorial Award’ with portrait of ‘Jesse Spencer, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2010 Selected, Portrait of ‘Jesse Spencer, Christmas 2009’ Hidden Faces of the Archibald, Victorian Refusès
2009 Joint exhibition, ‘Footy in a frame’, Red Cube Gallery, Malvern Rd, Malvern, Vic.
2009 Selected, Portrait of John Elliott, ‘How Far?’ Hidden Faces of the Archibald, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2008 Joint exhibition, ‘Beyond the tea tree’ , Red Cube Gallery, Malvern Rd, Malvern, Vic.
2007 Finalist, ‘Portia Geach Memorial Award’ with portrait of Sally-Anne Russell as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Australia, exhibition at S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2007 Joint exhibition, ‘Italian Festival’ Paddington Contemporary Gallery, Glenmore Rd, Paddington, NSW.
2005 Joint exhibition, ‘Art for Hearts’ at Lynne Wilton Gallery, High St, Armadale, Vic.
2004 Selected, Portrait of ‘Paul Mac, ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ , Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2002 Finalist, Joint exhibition, ‘Sallys Paddock’ George Hotel, St Kilda, Vic.
Awards and Prizes
2017 Selected, Portrait of ‘Professor Malcolm Hopwood' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2017 Selected, Portrait of ‘Dr Tovey' Hidden Faces, Victorian Refusès Exhibition.
2017 Finalist, ‘Mt Buangor #9’ Sunshine Coast Art Prize’, Coloundra Art Gallery, QLD, 17 Aug - 8 Oct
2017 Finalist, ‘Tree #7 Hepburn Regional Park’ Lloyd Rees Art Prize’, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2017 Finalist ‘Mt Cole Forest #3’ Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize’ Brighton, Victoria, 6 May-18 June
2016 Winner, ‘Popular choice Award’ Albany Art Prize, Albany WA
2014 Winner, ‘Black Swan Swan, $20,000 Etihad Airways Heritage Prize’ Joint exhibition 9-19 October, 125 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA
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