Graham Sinclair

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Email: artbarebones@gmail.com
Instagram: @graham_sinclair_art  

A visual artist with a specific passion for reconstructing the landscape and still life through painting or sculpture.  I seek inspiration from the typical such as the sea and the bush, as well as the nuances of the natural and built environments not always apparent but always around us.   I have exhibited work across NSW and Australia, and am privileged to have my works held in public and private art collections both in Australia and overseas.

AWARDS
2022 First Prize – Thirroul Seaside Arts Festival Art Prize (Judge: Lee Bethel)  

2022 Second Prize – Small Abstract Sculpture, Sydney Royal Easter Show (Judge: Matthew Crawford)  

2022 Finalist – North Sydney Art Prize (Judges: Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Bronwyn Tuohy, Susan Milne)  

2022 Commended – Bowral Small Sculpture Prize (Judge: Michael Purdy)  

2021 Commended – John Copes Watercolour Prize, Bowral Art Gallery (Judge: Ian Grant)  

2019 Highly Commended – Bowral Art Society Spring Fundraiser Show (Judge: Ben Quilty) 

2019 Commended – Open Section, Camden Art Prize (Judges: Warwick Fuller, Catherine Harry, Hamish Ta-Me) 

2019 3rd Prize – Abstract Sculpture, Sydney Royal Easter Show (Judge: Luke Storrier) 

2018 Highly Commended – Belle Property Bowral Art Prize (Landscape), Bowral Art Gallery (Judges: Di Dixon, Helen Gauchat) 

2018 Highly Commended – Sculpture, Camden Art Prize (Judges: Peter Griffen, Helen Grant) 

2017 Highly Commended – Sculpture, Thirroul Seaside Arts Festival 

1994 First Prize – Local Artist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Acquisitive Prize) 

1993 Second Prize – Still Life, Royal Agricultural Society of NSW Art Prize 

EDUCATION & PRESENTATIONS
Feb 2020 – Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts, Artist Talk (invited speaker of Michelle Dubois), Wollongong Art Gallery  

2009 – Diploma of Fine Arts St George College of TAFE 

Short courses
Painting – Portraiture, Dave Thomas
Painting – Landscape, John Wilson
Painting – Landscape, Kasey Sealy
Painting – Landscape, Patrick Carrol
Life Drawing – Paddington Art School 

EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
2021 – current: Member, Barracks Art Studios Thirroul NSW  

2021 Oct – Dec 2020: King & Ayres, ‘Transforming’ Exhibition and Sale (with Nikki Main, Judy Bourke, Gitte Backhausen, Odette Smith, Skye Zaracostas), Wollongong NSW  

Sept 2019: ‘Artist Concept’ Art Show (with Michelle Dubois, Irene White, Nicole Bil), Clifton School of Arts, Clifton NSW  

2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023: Scarborough Art Show, Scarborough Public School, NSW 

2017, 2019 Solo Exhibition, Wollongong City Council – Thirroul Library, NSW 

2016-17 Artist in Residence, Barracks Art Studios Thirroul NSW 

2005 ‘Bark!’ Exhibition, A-SPACE on Cleveland, Surry Hills NSW