About the Artist

A Brief History

Born in Brisbane in 1963, Todd Whisson is an Australian landscape and coastal painter.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Griffith University Queensland in 2015, after working consistently for twenty- seven years exhibiting a significant body of work as an Australian Impressionist. Whisson paints in oils, intuitively using plasterers’ tools to describe the passing of time through his layering technique. Drawing influence from history and local stories, Todd evokes a spirit within the landscape - finding subjects in the overlooked or unnoticed.

His artistic achievements include winner Lethbridge Landscape $20,000 Art Prize Award 2022, finalist in Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize and Kennedy Art Prize in 2022 and finalist Clayton Utz Art Prize in 2022 and 2021. Corporate commissions include: a collection of works for the Ramsey Health Group, Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital at Kawana and The AVEO Group, throughout Queensland and New South Wales. Todd’s work is held in public institutions including, Queensland State Library, Moreton Bay Regional Council, TAFE Queensland, and private collections within Australia and overseas.

Awards & Prizes

2022       Winner, “The Road to Kilcoy”, Lethbridge Landscape $20,000 Art Prize

Finalist, “Riverbend, From the Other Side”, Lethbridge Small Scale $20000 Art Prize

Finalist, “Promised Land, Mount Greville, Moogerah”, Clayton Utz Art Prize

Finalist, “Magic Hour in Australia”, Kennedy Art Prize

2021       Finalist, “Standing Tall II”, Clayton Utz Art Prize

2015       QCA Representative Artist, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane

2014       2nd Prize, ADFAS Brisbane Young Arts Award – Painting, Brisbane

Acquisition -Private Collector “Eyes of the Beholder” Griffith University Student Exhibition, Brisbane

2012       Winner, Major Prize, “Scar Tissue- Series”, Brisbane North Institute of TAFE (BNIT) Student Exhibition (Ithaca), Brisbane

Highly Commended “Self Portrait”, Mathew Flinders Art Prize, Moreton Bay

2011       Winner, Major Prize, “Hidden Secrets - Series”, Brisbane North Institute of TAFE (BNIT) Student Exhibition (Ithaca),      Brisbane

Third Prize- Oil Painting, Maleny Art Awards

2010       Best Oil Painting, Murgon Rotary Art Exhibition

Best Oil Painting, Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards 

Highly Commended, Mathew Flinders Art Prize, Moreton Bay

Highly Commended, RASCO National Art Prize, Redcliffe

Second Prize, Maleny Art Awards, Maleny

First Prize, Pine Rivers Shire Council Art Awards, Pine Rivers

2007       First Prize, Maleny Art Awards, Maleny

2006       First Prize, Maleny Art Awards, Maleny

2003       Finalist, USQ McGregor Scholarship, Toowoomba

Solo Exhibitions

2022       Sign of the Times, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2018       Time & Place, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2017       Limitless, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2015       Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2014       Sea Change, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2012       Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2009       Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2007       Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane

2007       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2006       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2005       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2004       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2003       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2002       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2001       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

2000       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

1999       Plein Air- Seascape & Landscape, Beachside Art Gallery, Noosa

1998       White Patch Art Gallery, Bribie Island

1997       White Patch Art Gallery, Bribie Island

Collections

Moreton Bay Regional Gallery

Queensland State Library

TAFE Qld Corporate Collection

Toowoomba Grammar School

Education

2016       Merv Moriatry Colour Masterclass (selected by Invitation)

2015       Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), Brisbane

2012       Diploma of Visual Arts, Brisbane North Institute of TAFE (BNIT), Ithaca

Publications

Salt Magazine

Australian Artist Magazine

Art Collector Magazine

Professor Dewan, Nandana & Irises

Quest Newspapers

Commissions

Ramsey Health Group, Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital

AVEO Retirement Village – QLD & NSW

Norton White, Aerospace, Maritime & Commercial Lawyers

Grants

RADF- Research - Heritage of Mt Mee & Bellthorpe Areas

RADF- Paintings & Exhibition - Heritage of Mt Mee & Bellthorpe Areas