Isabelle Devos
Biography
Isabelle Devos has been a painter for more than 25 years and exhibits regularly with regional and commercial galleries in Sydney, across New South Wales as well as in Queensland. Her work is in the collection of the Art Bank in Canada and the University of New England in Australia as well as part of international collections. Most recently, the State Library of NSW has acquired one of Devos’ sketchbooks from the 2021 Panorama Project.
Devos was the 2020 recipient of the Helen Dangar Memorial Artist Bursary and has recently received a grant from Arts North West to work
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Biography
Isabelle Devos has been a painter for more than 25 years and exhibits regularly with regional and commercial galleries in Sydney, across New South Wales as well as in Queensland. Her work is in the collection of the Art Bank in Canada and the University of New England in Australia as well as part of international collections. Most recently, the State Library of NSW has acquired one of Devos’ sketchbooks from the 2021 Panorama Project.
Devos was the 2020 recipient of the Helen Dangar Memorial Artist Bursary and has recently received a grant from Arts North West to work on landscapes of local national parks. In 2021 she was awarded an artist residency with writer Helena Pastor at Gunyah Artist Residency.
Isabelle Devos has won the Unpacker’s Award at the Norvill Art Prize and the Still Life award in the Armidale Art Prize. Her work has been chosen as a finalist in several major Australian landscape awards including the Country Energy Landscape Prize and the Calleen Art Award. In 2003 Isabelle achieved international media attention for a conceptual photography project titled The Insecurities Project, with articles in Italian Vogue, New York Times and interviews on National Public Radio in USA, and BBC Radio.
PRIZES, AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2023 Finalist, Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD
2023 Finalist, Glover Landscape Art Prize, Tasmania, International prize,
2022 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Marlene Antico Gallery, Sydney NSW
2022 Sketchbook from Panorama Project, Acquisition, State Library of NSW, Australia
2021 Highly Commended, Lethbridge 20000 Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Helen Dangar Artist Bursary Award, New England Regional Art Museum, Australia
2020 Gunyah Artist Residency Program, NSW
2020 Arts North West Micro-grant, National Parks Project, NSW
2018 Commission for University of New England, Boilerhouse Portrait
2016 Winner, Armidale Art Prize, (still life) Armidale NSW
2014 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2012 Highly Commended, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi NSW
2012 Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, $15,000 Prize for Landscape Painting
2011 Finalist, Essential Energy $35,000 Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2010 Finalist, Country Energy $35,000 Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2009 Finalist, Country Energy $35,000 Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2009 Highly Commended, Warwick Art Prize
2009 Finalist, Tattersalls Art Prize
2008 Winner, Unpacker’s Prize, Norvill Art Prize
2008 Finalist, Country Energy $35,000 Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2008 Finalist, Stanthorpe Art Prize, Australia
2006 Finalist, Country Energy $35,000 Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2006 Finalist, Australian Artist Magazine Landscape Prize
2007 Finalist, Muswellbrook Open Art Prize
2005 Highly Commended, Country Energy $35,000 Art Prize for Landscape
2005 Highly Commended, Bellingen Art Prize
2005 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize
2003 Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Insecurities Project
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Stillness Within, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington (Brisbane), QLD
2022 While Standing in One Place, ARO Gallery (presented by Frances Keevil), Sydney NSW
2019 An Uncertain Stillness, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney NSW
2017 A Distant Summer, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney NSW
2016 Where the Road May Take You, Gallery 126, Armidale NSW
2016 Townscapes, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth NSW
2015 The Wait for Evening, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney NSW
2013 Calm Before the Storm, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
2011 From There to Here, Gallery 126, Armidale NSW
2008 On a Clear Day, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
2007 Latest Works, Lake Russell Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2006 A Sense of Quiet, Gallery 126, Armidale NSW
2003 Insecurities Project, Struts Gallery, NB Canada
1997 New Paintings, Gallery 96, Stratford, ON Canada
COLLECTIONS
State Library of NSW, Australia
University of New England, NSW, Australia
New Brunswick Art Bank, Canada
Anchorage Press, New Brunswick, Canada
Galerie d’Art de l’ Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Private collections in Canada, Australia, USA, Belgium, Russia and England
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