Vanessa (Ness) is a Sydney based, award winning, emerging artist. After years of teaching Ness now works out of her home studio where she is able to balance family life with her love of painting.
Ness loves working mainly with oils and explores still life, portraiture and sometimes landscape themes. Her work mainly centres around ideas of the home, featuring common everyday subjects such as lemons foraged from her mother's citrus trees or shells found on long walks on the beach.
Ness is interested in the small moments, often overlooked and seen as mundane she finds beauty, exploring and celebrating these simple, quiet moments and objects in life that are often underappreciated. Portrait subjects are often captured in their everyday surroundings, tapping into both the personal and relatable.
Vanessa's use of strong, vibrant colours showcases the ordinary and celebrates its beauty and place in our lives.
Vanessa has been chosen as a finialist in a number of prestigious art awards and prizes and named the Winner of the SBS 2020 Portrait Prize for her work ‘Will (Reclining)’ with Southern Buoys Studios and was also awarded Second Prize in the Gosford Art Prize 2022 for her work ‘Crocheted Camouflage’ with Gosford Regional Art Gallery. Her works are in private collections across Australia, America, The UK, Europe, The Middle East and China.
Recent Awards/Prizes
SEP 2023 -FINALIST - STILL: NATIONAL STILL LIFE AWARD
AUG 2023 - FINISLIST - SMALL WORKS ART PRIZE
JUNE 2023 - LETHBRIDGE SMALL SCALE 20000 AWARD
APRIL 2022 – FINALIST – SBS PORTRAIT PRIZE
OCT-JAN 2022 – SECOND PRIZE WINNER – GOSFORD ART PRIZE
APRIL 2021- FINALIST – SBS PORTRAIT PRIZE
NOV 2020 - FINALIST - BLACKTOWN CITY ART PRIZE
JUNE 2020 - FINALIST – LETHBRIDGE 20000 SMALL SCALE ART AWARD
APRIL 2020 – WINNER – SBS PORTRAIT PRIZE 2020
NOVEMBER 2019 – FINALIST – FISHERS GHOST ART AWARD 2019
SEPTEMBER 2019 – FINALIST – HAWKESBURY ART PRIZE 2019
AUG-SEP 2018 – FINALIST – ‘LITTLE THINGS ART PRIZE’
APRIL 2018 – FINALIST – SBS PORTRAIT PRIZE
SEP 2015 – FINALIST – LITTLE THINGS ART PRIZE
Group Exhibitions
AUG 2023 - AFFORDABLE ART FAIR MELBOURNE JUNE 2023 - AFFORDABLE ART FAIR SYDNEY
APRIL 2023 – COLOUR LOVER – MIA OATLEY’S PETITE COLLECTION
MARCH 2023- -TOOWOOMBA GRAMMA ART SHOW
MAR 2023 FEED THE SOUL – NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ART MUSEUM
DEC 2022 BRIGHTER DAYS – THE INTERIORS ASSEMBLY
NOV 2022 XMAS SHOW – MIA OATLEY’S PETITE COLLECTION
SEP2 2022 IN FULL BLOOM – THE INTERIORS ASSEMBLY
MAY 2022 BLOOMING BRILLIANT - MIA OATLEY’S PETITE COLLECTION
MAY 2022 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE – INVERELL ART GALLERY
MAY 2022 UNTITLED 2022 – TRAFFIC JAM GALLERIES
MARCH 2022 ART FOR FLOODS
MARCH 2022- ITOOWOOMBA GRAMMA ART SHOW
FEB 2022- ‘SMALL WONDER’ ONLINE EXHIBITION CURATED BY MIA
OATLEY
DEC -JAN 2022 –‘THE BANQUET’ WESWAL GALLERY
JUNE 2021- INCOGNITO ART SHOW
MARCH 2021- -TOOWOOMBA GRAMMA ART SHOW
OCT 2020 - ‘WHAT THE FOX’ EXHIBITION - PAPER PEAR GALLERY AT
ART GALLERY ON DARLING
AUG 2020 - SELECTED - ‘HOME’ EXHIBITION - THE CORNER STORE
GALLERY
MARCH 2020 –PAPER PEAR GALLERY POP UP EXHIBITION – THE
CORNER STORE GALLERY
FEBRUARY 2020 - SELECTED – 8 “X10” GROUP EXHIBITION THE
CORNER STORE GALLERY
AUGUST 2019 – ‘AUSTRALAIAN’ GROUP EXHIBITION – THE CORNER
STORE GALLERY
JUNE 2019 – SELECTED – ‘THE LANDSCAPE’ GROUP EXHIBITION – THE
CORNER STORE GALLERY
MAY 2019 - ‘BETWIXT AND BETWEEN’ GROUP EXHIBITION –
PURPLENOON GALLERY
MAY 2019 - INVERELL CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION 2019 _INVERELL
ART GALLERY
MARCH 2019 –- PAPER PEAR GALLERY POP UP EXHIBITION – THE
CORNER STORE GALLERY
FEB 2019 – SELECTED – ‘8” X 10” GROUP EXHIBITION – THE CORNER
STORE GALLERY
NOV 2018 – SELECTED – ‘WORKS ON PAPER’ GROUP EXHIBITION –
THE CORNER STORE GALLERY
SEP – NOV 2018 –- GROUP EXHIBITION ‘SPRING TEA PARTY’ DARLING
MILLS STUDIO GALLERY
AUG 2018 – SELECTED – ‘JUST A SQUARE’ GROUP EXHIBITION –
DARLING MILLS STUDIO
AUG 2018 - SELECTED – ‘BLUE’ GROUP EXHIBITION – THE CORNER
STORE GALLERY
JULY 2018 – GROUP ‘STOCK ROOM’ EXHIBITION – DARLING MILLS
STUDIO GALLERY
MAY 2018 – ‘ART FOR EPILEPSY’ ONLINE AUCTION – EPILEPSY ACTION
AUSTRALIA
FEB 2018 – SELECTED– ‘8 X 10’ GROUP EXHIBITION – THE CORNER
STORE GALLERY
JUN 2OI7 – SELECTED– ‘PORTRAITS’ GROUP EXHBITION – THE
CORNER STORE GALLERY
MAR 2017 – SELECTED– ‘8 X 10’ GROUP EXHIBITION – THE CORNER
STORE GALLERY
FEB 2017 – ‘ART FOR EPILEPSY’ ONLINE AUCTION – EPILEPSY ACTION
AUSTRALIA
OCTOBER 2016 – PARRAMATTA ART SHOW – PARRAMATTA ART
SOCIETY