Robert Davis
Biography
I am an artist for 60 years. 30 years India has been my love and inspiration. It is said " when 1st you learn to pray, go to the Sea, I've found the fishermen of Kovalam home.
Awards
1962 Selected - Goya Art Award, Under 21 (painting)
1983 Selected - Cinzano Poster Exhibit for Australia Post -toured major Australian Galleries
1985 Prize winner - Claremont Foundation Award' (painting) Hon Mention - Print Making, Claremont Art School
1990 R&I and Royal Perth Hospital Portrait Prize
1993 Commissioned 3 150cmx150cm Landscapes of south west Australia Frazers Kings park WA
1997 Melville Art Award for Portraiture for Ursula Frayne Catholic College Mural
1998 Runner-up - Catholic Liturgy Art Award and Runner-up - Matilda Bay Art Prize
2000 Commissioned Portrait of Hardy Amies English Fashion Designer
2000 Finalist - Doug Moran Portrait Prize for portrait of Benazir Hussain Selected - City of Perth Art Prize
2004 Karrakatta, Midland & Guilford Cemeteries Board Mausoleum Dome Project
2005 Commissioned portrait of Principal of St Hilda's Anglican Girls' School
2010 Commissioned Chapel Design and Mural, Malankara Catholic College, Tamil Nadu, India
2010 Winner Open Section Cossack Art Prize Roebourne Western Australia
2011 3 Paintings on the Life of Christ for Archbishop Hickey’s Faith Centre, Perth, Western Australia
2011 Highly Commended City of Swan Art Awards
2012 Highly Commended Cossack Art Award Roebourne
2012 Selected Mandorla Art Prize Donated entry to New Norcia at the request of the Monks
2013 Painted Plein-aire Edward MillenHouse for Town of Victoria Festival donated painting
2014 Selected Mandorla Art Awards
2014 Highly Commended Cossack Art Award Karratha
2014 1 st Prize Spring in Margaret River
2018 Mandorla finalist Pro Hart finalist Broken hill Art GalleryExhibitions
1986 . One Man Exhibition - Film & Television Institute, Fremantle
1987 'Love a Duck' Art Auction - Croft Galleries, University of Western Australia
1987 Solo Exhibition Bay Galleries Nedlands WA
1988 'People Who Care' Art Auction - Burswood Casino,
1989 Four Man Show - Cunderdin WA
1990 Solo Exhibition -Anno Domini Gallery WA
1994 Solo Exhibition, 'India Enpassant' Painting of India - Anno Domini Gallery WA
1997 Solo Exhibition, 'India: 50 Years of Independence' - Melville Art Gallery WA
2004 Quartet Exhibition, 'Indian Summer Cottesloe' Gadfly Gallery Nedlands WA
2011 Artists for Peace, Moore’s Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia
2013 Exhibited at the Kurb Gallery with Sculptor Ken Sealey
2018 Solo exhibition Trinity College ‘Kerala ,India and it’s People ’part proceeds donated to kerala fishermen
Collections : Claremont Library; John XXIII Catholic School; Westpac; SGIO; Trinity College; New Norcia Monastery; Kovalam Catholic
College, Malangari, Tamil Nadu, Trivandrum, India; Karratha Contracting WA. New Norcia Art Gallery Town of Victoria ParkWebsite
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