ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alison Murphy
Experienced in the use of Oils, Pastel, graphite, pen, coloured pencils and acrylics, Alison’s early works were commissions of historic buildings and other rural subjects.
While living in the Central Burnett she served as an Art Steward for the Mundubbera Show Society and was a member of the Regional Arts Development Fund Committee. Awarded the Australia Day Senior Cultural Award-Mundubbera Shire. Encouraged by prizes and sales at numerous regional shows, exhibitions and commissions, she continued to paint in different media, and her work has been acquired by Shire Councils, City Councils and Regional Government Departments as well as by private collectors nationally.
She has been selected as an exhibiting finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular every year since 2013 with multiple sales at these events.
Selected as an exhibiting finalist at the Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2021 and 2022 with sales. Recent works are landscapes, beach scenes and florals using Oils or Pastels, with an interest in figure studies and fine pen detail work. Commissions are accepted.
She is a member of the artist collective that opened the Margaret Street Gallery in Toowoomba and an artist with the newly opened The Chapel Gallery at Highfields Toowoomba.
