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
2025
Finalist “For My Friend: A Legacy from Vincent
Finalist “What Want Be Tamed, Bulloo River, Quilpie
2024
Finalist “Price of Paradise: After Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Clayton Utz Art Prize
2023
Finalist “Eternal Ember,” Clayton Utz Art Prize
Finalist “Natures Reverence, Neara Creek, Kilcoy,” Lethbridge Landscape $20,000 Art Prize
Finalist “Still Waters at Moogerah Dam,” Lethbridge Small Scale $20000 Art Prize
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
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