News
2026
Judges Maureen Varnavsky, Jo Chew and Katy Woodroffe with 2026 winner George Kennedy
Selected Tasmanian artist,
Spirit of Tasmania V
Art Collector magazine 117,
artist profile,
July – Sept 2026
Transplanted
The Gallows
Launceston College
June 11 – July 24
Transplanted exhibition opening
(with Rodney Lyne – another descendant of great-great-great Aunt Susan Lyne)
80th Birthday Celebration
Handmark
Hobart
September 18 – October 9
Looking Both Ways through French Windows 2026
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
92cms x 72cms
2025
Poochibald judging 2025
Group Exhibition Handmark 2025
2025 Finalist Burnie Print Prize
The Fragility of Memory
2024
125cms x 100cms
(141cms x 116cms framed dimensions)
Stencil printing
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
Beside Still Water: Seeking the Light
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
75cms x 39cms
(100cms x 64cms framed dimensions)
Tablet, Nanda Hobbs, Sydney
A Genuine Replica
2025
acrylic on board
Summer salon, Handmark, Hobart
Remembering Udaipur
2024
acrylic and ground pigment on paper
170cms x 90cms
2024 Group exhibitions
Summer Salon, Clarendon Arms Hotel, Evandale
Katy Woodroffe
Moonflowers
2024
acrylic and ground pigment on paper
116cms x 87cms
Behind the Scenes
2023
acrylic and ground pigment on paper
156cms x 118cms
Works on Paper Exhibition, Handmark, Hobart
Beneath the Flower Moon
2024
acrylic and ground pigment on paper
156cms (h) x 118ms (w)
2023
Henry Jones Art Prize Judge
November 2023
(courtesy of the Mercury)
Swan Lake Exhibition
Handmark Gallery
July 21 – August 7, 2023
Swan Lake at Malmaison. Succession.
2022
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
118cms (h) x 140ms (w)
Finalist Bay of Fires Art Prize
Josephine’s Hatchery
2023
acrylic and ground pigment on paper
148cms x 148cms
Struck Down
Book launch
Fullers Bookshop, Hobart, July 25, 5.30pm
www.fullersbookshop.com.au/events
Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
Space Gallery July 27, 5.30pm
Works on Paper Exhibition
Handmark Hobart March 2023
Orange Branches Light up the Salon
2023
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
94cms x 87cms
Pop Up Landscape Exhibition
Clarendon Arms Evandale March 2023
Prelude: Swan Lake
2023
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
153cms x 153cms
Still Life Exhibition
Clarendon Arms, Evandale 2022
Inside the Enclosure of the Blue Bird Collector
2021
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
153cms x 114cm
2022
FINALIST
Bay of Fires Art Award
Panorama Hotel
St Helens TAS
Paradise Lost 2021
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper 148cms x 148cms
STAND WITH UKRAINE – The Butterfly Effect Art Exhibition and Auction
Poimena Art Gallery, Launceston TAS
A Silent Vigil
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper 116cms x 75cms
Artworks donated to raise funds for the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Appeal.
HERSELF: an exhibition of inspiring artists from the collection
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
Herself is an exhibition showcasing the works of female artists from the QVMAG collection, including The Magnolia Tree of Henry Button (Katy Woodroffe)
FINALIST
2022 SWAN HILL PRINT & DRAWING AWARD
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Horseshoe Bend, Swan Hill VIC
The Fable of the Orange Tree. Bounty 2021
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper120cms x 100cms
Celebrating the Tasmanian Landscape, Clarendon Arms Hotel, Evandale
Van Diemens Land: Colonial Hunting Plate
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper 144 x 144cms
into the Light
Handmark Gallery
September 24 – October 13
Video To promote – Van Diemensland, Keg-Expo Gallery, Schijndel, the Netherlands
Exhibition – click here
Van Diemensland – opening July 2021 at KEG expo, Schijndel, the Netherlands (with Dutch artists Marielle van den Bergh and Mels Dees).
New solo exhibition
Into the Light, Handmark Gallery, 24th September – 13th October
The Power of a Dream
2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
96cms x 85cms
Handmark Hobart 2021
Dreaming of Spring 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
96cms x 85cms
Clarendon Arms, Evandale, (Handmark) 2020
Pop Up Christmas Exhibition
Treasure Island 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
68cms x 68cms
Clarendon Arms, Evandale, (Handmark) 2020
Short listed 2021– Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie
Colonisation by Seed: Adventure Bay 1788, 2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 150cms x 4cms
From the Tide Pool to the Stars and Back Again 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 150cms
Recent exhibitions at Handmark Gallery, Hobart 2020
Short listed – Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize
A Corona Dream 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
96cms x 85cms
Short Listed – Women’s Art Prize Tasmania
Bird Call Theatre: The Inheritors Act 1 and 2 (diptych)
2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms x 100cms
Summer 2020 – at Saffron Walden Gallery, England (with British artists Richard Barrett and Debbie Baxter)
“Bleak times but hopefully a ray of sunshine at The Saffron Walden Gallery with this group exhibition of uplifting artwork”
Great to be included in the Sketch Book Project Collection at the Brooklyn Art Library in New York
Tasmania – always was, always will be Aboriginal Land
And looking forward to having work in three different exhibitions in the north of the state in early 2020
- Thrilled to be a selected finalist in the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania (March) Academy Gallery, Launceston then touring to Burnie and Hobart
- Memories: an artistic and scientific exploration of how we connect, communicate, grow and share at the Academy Gallery, Launceston February – March)
- Landscape Exhibition, Handmark, Evandale (March)
Bird Call Theatre: The Inheritors Act 1 and 2 (diptych)
2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms x 100cms
Circle of Misse Residency
Loire Valley, France
October 2019
Very honored to be the opening speaker at this extraordinary exhibition – Sunday, October 27, 2019
Primal Nature
Marielle van den Bergh
Rijswijk Museum
The Netherlands
October 29 to January 12, 2020
Rijswijk Museum
2282 BR Rijswijk
The Netherlands
www.museumrijswijk.nl
Selected finalist, Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tidal Waters, St Helens
Oranges and Sunshine: A Pattern of Lies
2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 114cms
Selected finalist, Vincent Prize, Duckrabbit Gallery, Redfern, Sydney
Selected finalist, Women’s Art Prize, Tasmania 2019
In Search of Utopia: Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land Circa 1825
2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms (h) x 100cms (w)
Selected finalist, Burnie Print Prize, Burnie 2019
In the Courtyard of Odysseus Elytis: The Mad Pomegranate Tree
Unique state
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms x 150cms
Selected finalist, Megalo International Print Prize, Canberra 2019
Inside the Courtyard of Odysseus Elytis
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 150cms
Selected finalist, Korea-Australia Foundation Prize KAAF, Sydney 2018
The Porcelain Life Raft
2017
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms (h) x 100cms (w)
Selected finalist in the 2018 Kennedy Prize at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts in Adelaide (celebrating beauty) September 9 – September 23, 2018
In the Palace Garden: Dusk in the Courtyard
2017
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
50cms (h) x 50cms (w)
Landscape Exhibition
July 6 – 23, 2018
Handmark Gallery, Salamanca
Memory Pool
2017
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
137cms x 134cms
It was great to have a studio visit from the Sydney based Culture Scouts as part of their Dark Mofo tour – June 17, 2018 (culturescouts.com.au)
And then into Portugal’s Algarve, Faro, Porto, Coimbra and Lisbon
May 17 – May 31, 2018
Continuing the journey through Spain – Madrid, Segura de la Sierra and Granada
May 6 – 17, 2018
Travelling through Jordan – Amman, Jerash, the desert castles, Dead Sea, Madaba, Mt Nebo, Petra and Wadi Rum
April 29 – May 6, 2018
The Porcelain Room
Handmark Gallery, Evandale
2pm Sunday April 8 until May 3, 2018
Winter in the Orangery
2017
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms (h) x 75cms (w)
Mystery Walls
“Extraordinary art from private collections”
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk, Launceston
March 17 to June 3 2018
The Crossing: Parade
2014
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
118cms (h) x 75cms (w)
The Well
Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney
July/August 2017
Festival of the Eight Moons
2017
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms (h) x 150cms (w)
Winner of the Bay of Fires Art Award
Tidal Waters, St Helens
June 2017
At the Edge of Memory: Slowly Rising to the Surface
2017
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms (h) x 150cms (w)
Selected finalist in the Burnie Print Prize
Burnie Regionals Arts Centre, Burnie
February 2017
Memory Pool. A detour through my childhood
2016
Multiple screenprints on paper
140cms (h) x 140cms (w)
Selected finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW
March 2017
Memory Pool
2016
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
137cms (h) x 134cms (w)
Selected finalist in the Sulman Prize
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
July 2016
Colonial Aftermath
2016
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
147cms (h) x 135cms (w)
Selected finalist in the Blake Prize
Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Liverpool NSW
February 2016
The Empty Chair: Whose God?
2015
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
148 (h) x 94cm (w)
Lola Greeno and Friends
70th Birthday Celebrations Exhibition
Handmark Gallery, May 2016
Aftermath
2016
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
130cms (h) x 126cms (w)
Selected Finalist in the Glover Prize
Falls Pavilion, Evandale
March 2015
The Healing Landscape of Great Great Aunt Susan
2014
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
118cms (h) x 75cms (w)