Laura Phillips
LAURA PHILLIPS
In my childhood, both my parents taught me many crafts and gave me a great love of music, dance and the outdoors. From the age of three my father always made sure I cultivated a garden of pansies each winter. In my twenties I attended the then Canberra School of Art from 1974-76 where I studied ceramics and sculpture. One of my drawing tutors had studied drawing with Henry Moore for three years. I was very lucky in the teaching I had at CSA. The visual arts have restored and maintained me in hard times and are a continuous source of wonderment.
AWARDS & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Finalist, Taste of Art, Noosa Regional Gallery
2018 Kenilworth Art Prize FIRST PRIZE
2018 Royal Qld Art Society Abstract exhibition FIRST PRIZE
2017 Goondiwindi Aspects Art Show, Fox & Thomas ACQUISITION PRIZE
2017 Works on Paper, Somerset Bendigo Bank Art Awards, Esk, Qld FIRST PRIZE
2017 Siliceous Ceramic Art Award COMMENDED
2017 Sandgate Easter Art Show, Qld, 2D Open FIRST PRIZE
2016 Sandgate Expressions Art Festival, Qld, Wheel thrown ceramics FIRST PRIZE
2016 Nundah Village Art Festival, Qld PACKERS’ PRIZE
2016 Nundah Village Art Festival, Qld, Still Life FIRST PRIZE
2016 Dimensions Nudgee College Art Festival, Qld, 2D Open FIRST PRIZE
2016 Royal Qld Art Society Abstract exhibition PEOPLE’S CHOICE
2016 Blue Water Festival, Sandgate, Qld PACKERS’ PRIZE
HIGHLY COMMENDED
2015 Korea Australia Arts Foundation Art Prize, Sydney, NSW FINALIST
2015 Sandgate Expressions Art Festival, Qld, wheel thrown ceramics FIRST PRIZE
2015 Black Snake Creek Art Festival, Marburg, Qld, Environmental FIRST PRIZE
2015 Kenilworth Art Prize, Qld, Contemporary Category FIRST PRIZE
2015 Dimensions Nudgee College Art Show, Qld HIGHLY COMMENDED
2015 17th International Chawan Expo, Hemiksem, Belgium
2015 Master Expo, Message from Clay, Vichte, Belgium
2014 Ignition Ceramic Awards, Sunshine Coast, Qld FINALIST
2014 Scope Galleries (Art Concerning Environment), Warrnambool, Vic FINALIST
2014 Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane, Qld ` FINALIST
HIGHLY COMMENDED
2014 Blue Water Festival, Sandgate, Qld, 3D HIGHLY COMMENDED
2013 Brisbane Valley Art Awards, Moore, Qld, Abstract FIRST PRIZE
2012 Stanthorpe Art Gallery Art Awards, Qld FINALIST
2012 Kenilworth LGI Art Trophy, Qld CONTEMPORARY PRIZE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Transits Aspire Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
2014 Pensées Hanasho, Brisbane, Qld
2013 Spirit of Place Boonah Regional Art Gallery, Boonah, Qld
2013 Nature Ramble Percolator Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
2012 Nature Ramble Strathnairn Art Centre, Canberra, ACT
2010 Long Gaze Graydon Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
2008 Recently Gallery 419, Brisbane, Qld
2008 CBD Ellen Quinn Gallery, Ipswich, Qld
