Helen Edwards artist www.helenedwards.com.au
career highlights
2023 Selected 'In the Round' Group Exhibition Red Gallery Melb
2023 Solo Exhibition 'Sleep' Red Gallery Fitzroy Melb 2023 Finalist Gippsland Sculpture Exhibition 2022 Finalist SBS Portrait Prize Vic 2021 Solo Exhibition Gallery 345 Mont Albert Vic 2021 Finalist SBS Portrait Prize Vic 2021 Finalist Gippsland Sculpture Exhibition 2021 Selected Still Life Award Exhibition Tacit Galleries 2020 Finalist SBS Portrait Prize Vic 2020 Group Exhibition 20x20 Tacit Galleries Collingwood 2019 Solo Exhibition Tacit Galleries Collingwood Vic 2019 Finalist Gippsland Sculpture Exhibition 2018 Solo Exhibition 'Leaves of Grass' Tacit Galleries Collingwood 2018 Group Exhibition (Drawing) Tacit Galleries Collingwood 2018 Solo Exhibition 'Physique' Tacit galleries Collingwood 2017 Semi finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2017 Finalist Yering Sculpture Award 2017 Finalist Nillumbik Art Award. Eltham Vic 2017 Finalist Gippsland Sculpture Prize 2017 Finalist Cambridge Portrait Prize Melbourne 2016 Finalist Kennedy Art Prize, Unley SA 2016 Finalist Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham ,Vic 2016 Printmaking Workshop, Il Bisonte Studio, Florence, Italy 2016 'Awesome Achievers' National Portrait Gallery touring 2016-17 2016 'Cast Off' Exhibition Nyora Studio Gallery Eltham Vic 2016 Finalist Cambridge Portrait Prize Melbourne 2015 Artist Residency at Nyora Studio Gallery Eltham Vic 2014 Selected Portrait Exhibition Australian Embassy Washington DC 2014 Published 'Luminous Color' Australian Pastel Artists Indah Pub 2013 Finalist Fleurieu Art Prize S.A 2013 Published 'The Artists' Book' Portrait Artists Australia 2013 Finalist 'Len Fox Painting Award' Castlemaine Regional Gallery Vic 2013 Selected 'Multicultural Australia' PAA Parliament House Sydney 2013 'The Seekers' National Portrait Gallery (Permanent Collection) 2012 Finalist A.M.E.Bale Art Prize Melbourne 2012 'Celebrating Innovators' PAA Federal Parliament House Canberra 2012 Finalist 'The Mortimore Prize' touring N.S.W 2012 Finalist 'Black Swan Portrait Prize' Perth W.A. 2012 Selected S.H.Ervin 'Salon des Refuses' Sydney 2011 Finalist A.M.E. Bale Art Prize Melbourne 2011 'Detour' Group Exhibition by Fusion Six Gallery 15 Melbourne 2011 'On Childhood' Group Exhibition Wishart Gallery Vic 2011 'All The World's a Stage' PAA Group Exhibition Melbourne 2011 Finalist ' Len Fox Award' Castlemaine Regional Gallery Vic 2011 Finalist 'Black Swan Portrait Prize' Perth W.A 2011 'The Face of Australia' PAA Group Exhibition Sydney N.S.W 2011 Selected 'Hidden Faces of the Archibald' Melbourne Vic |
2011 Group Exhibition 'Melba's Marvellous Melbourne' VAS Gallery
2010 Best Pastel Award St Kevins Art Show 2010 Selected 'The Artist's Muse' PAA Exhibition Sydney N.S.W 2010 Selected 'Hidden Faces of the Archibald' Melbourne Vic 2010 Finalist 'Black Swan Portrait Prize' Perth W.A.2010 2010 "Face Off' PAA Group Exhibition Sydney 2010 'About Face' Group Exhibition Latrobe Regional Gallery 2009 Finalist 'Hidden Faces of the Archibald' Melbourne 2009 Finalist Mt Buller Art Prize 2009 Finalist Black Swan Portrait Prize WA 2009 Selected 'Hidden Faces of The Archibald' Melbourne 2008 'About Face' Group Exhib Fusion Six Wangaratta Regional Gallery 2008 Finalist A.M.E. Bale Art Award Glen Eira City Gallery Melbourne 2007 Published 'About Face' Book Weston Media 2007 Solo Exhibition 'Arlington' Melbourne 2007 Best in Show Award Pastel Society of Victoria 2007 First Prize 'Peoples' Choice' Hidden Faces Archibald' Melbourne 2007 Finalist The Mortimore Prize N.S.W. 2007 Solo Exhibition 'Arlington' Melbourne Vic 2007 Finalist James Farrell Self Portrait Castlemaine Regional Gallery Vic 2007 Selected 'Hidden Faces of the Archibald' Melbourne Vic 2007 'About Face' Fusion Six Glen Eira City Gallery Melbourne Vic 2006 Selected S.H.Ervin 'Salon des Refuses' Sydney 2006 Solo Exhibition,Jenny Pihan Fine Art 2006 First Prize Pastel Heidelberg Heritage Award Vic 2006 Selected 'Hidden Faces of the Archibald' Melbourne 2006 Signatory Member Victorian Artists' Society 2006 Finalist 'Victorian Artist of the Year' Melbourne 2006 Finalist AGRA 'Art Excellence' Melbourne 2005 David Sumner Gallery group exhibition Adelaide 2005 Finalist Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize Bega NSW 2004 Terry Collins Award AGRA Vic 2003 Best Portrait Award Pastel Society Vic 2003 Art Cards Series 2 Art Publishing Australia 2003 Solo Exhibition AGRA Galleries Camberwell Vic 2003 Solo Exhibition Jenny Pihan Fine Art Frankston Vic 2003 Finalist 'Artist of the Year Exhibition' VAS Galleries 2003 Finalist A.M.E. Bale Art Award Melbourne Vic 2002 Solo Exhibition 'Boathouse' Gallery Frankston Vic 2001 Finalist A.M.E. Bale Travel Grant Melbourne 2000 Ming McKay Award Pastel Society Vic 2000 Solo Exhibition 'Boathouse' Gallery 1999 Solo Exhibition Sandstone Galleries Tawonga Vic 1998 'Australian in New York' Exhibition New York 1997 Warrnambool Regional Gallery Exhibition 1996 Solo Exhibition 'Spectrum Gallery' Balwyn Vic2010 1996 Selected 'Hidden Faces of the Archibald' Melbourne Vic |