Artist Bio: Cathy Yarwood-Mahy |
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ARTIST STATEMENT Cathy is an award winning Melbourne based artist and her work ranges from realism to more intuitive and ethereal abstract and semi-abstract pieces. Cathy has been a finalist in several significant national art competitions and won several awards. CV EDUCATION 1980-1981 Bachelor of Education (Art major) Monash University AWARDS 2024 Winner Best Work on Canvas Roberts McCubbin Art Show Finalist Omnia Art Prize Semi Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Award 2023 Winner Best in Show Roberts McCubbin Art Show Finalist MAVA Art Prize Finalist The Doyles Art Award 2022 Finalist Art Lovers Australia Prize and the Omnia Art Prize 2021 Finalist in Wyndham Prize, the Kennedy Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Award and Art Lovers Australia Prize 2020 Finalist in Noel Counihan Art Award Joint Winner People's Choice Albert Park Art Show 2019 Winner : Australian Guild of Realist Artists' President's Challenge. Finalist in Ravenswood Women's Art Prize Finalist in Wyndham Art Prize 2018 Finalist in Kennedy Art Prize Winner Best 2D artwork, Swanpool Creative Recycled Art Prize 2017 Finalist in Kennedy Art Prize, Finalist in the St. John's Southbank Art Prize 2016 Finalist in Contemporary Art Awards SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Australian Skies, AGRA Galleries, Camberwell, Vic. 2020 Contemplation, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood. 2019 Finding the Light, Royal Women's Hospital, North Melbourne. 2017 Perspectives, Gallery Voltaire, North Melbourne. 2016 Diversity, Gallery Voltaire, North Melbourne. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria, Winter Days Omnia Art Show, Toorak, Vic. Albert Park Art Show, Albert Park, Vic. Post Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, Harmony 2021 Wyndham Prize, Wyndham Art gallery, Werribee, Vic. Lethbridge Landscape Prize,Lethbridge Gallery, Qld. Kennedy Prize, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, S.A. Renewal, Art Lovers Australia Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld. Winter, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, Vic. 2020 Albert Park Collega Art Show,(virtual)Albert Park, Vic. Passage of Time, AGRA Gallery, Camberwell, Vic. Truth to be Known, In.cube8r Gallery, Prahran, Vic. 2019 Ravenswood Women’s Art prize, Sydney, N.S.W. Wyndham Prize Exhibition, Werribee Art Gallery, Vic. A Walk in the Park, Manningham City Square, Doncaster, Vic. St. Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak, Vic. Modern Life, President’s Challenge, AGRA, Camberwell, Vic. 2018 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria Maldon and District Portrait Prize, Maldon, Victoria Moonee Valley Rotary Art Show, Essendon, Victoria Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn, Victoria Swanpool Creative Recycled Art Prize, Swanpool, Victoria 2017 Kennedy Prize exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia (finalist) St. John's Southgate Art Prize, Melbourne, Victoria (finalist) Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon, Victoria Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn, Victoria. Bayside Rotary Art Show, Sandringham, Victoria Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park, Victoria 2016 Contemporary Art Awards, Online Exhibition, Brisbane (finalist). Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon, Victoria Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn, Victoria. Bayside Rotary Art Show, Sandringham, Victoria Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park, Victoria Gallery 69 Smith St, Fitzroy, Victoria 2015 Her painting Radiant Dusk was chosen for publication in the Art Ascent, Art and Literature Journal Competition PRESS 2016, September, Art Edit magazine, Pièces de Résistance 2015, September, Art Ascent, Art and Literature Journal, Violet issue 2014, March 6, Herald Sun Leader newspaper, “Social Media meet- up inspires artists’ Kew Exhibition” |