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Roz McQuillan

Roz graduated from R.M.I.T. in the late 60’s with the Diploma of Illustration, and worked in children’s book illustration for a number of years. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and group shows including:

  • the Burke Hall Acquisitive

  • Mornington Peninsula Gallery

  • Camberwell Rotary Art Show

  • Hawthorn Artists Society Member’s Exhibition

  • Waverley Rotary Art Show

  • Carey Arts Council Exhibition

  • St. Kevins Art Show

  • Dandenong Rotary Art Show

  • Victorian Artists Society Member’s Exhibitions

  • Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors Annual Exhibition and Member’s shows

  • Group show “Unwrapped at Roar”

  • Solo exhibition of nudes at the New Zealand Ice Cream Parlour

  • Group show of nudes entitled  ‘The Body’ at Images United

  • The Alice Bale Prize

  • Group show of nudes entitled  ‘One Man’s Meat’ at Art Affairs Gallery in Carlton

  • Group show of nudes entitled  ‘Figuratively Speaking’ at the Highway Gallery

  • Gallery 112 –stock held

  • Strathcona Art Show

  • the Discovery Show 2005 at Gasworks

  • Nowa Nowa Nudes 2005

Her work is represented in private collections, including commissioned portraits.

Roz attends painting and life-drawing groups in Melbourne, and monitors a painting group at Hawthorn Artists Society.

She has always had a special affinity for portraits and the nude, and has worked in a number of mediums, including pastel, charcoal and conte, pen and ink, gouache, watercolour, acrylics, pencil, photography, and mixed media, and is currently painting in oils.

She has studied oil painting with Peter Churcher, Lee Machelak, and Maxwell Wilkes, and drawing with Godwin Bradbeer.

Awards include:

  • Best oil painting in the Victorian Artists Society Student Show 1999,

  • Highly Commended at Dandenong Rotary Art Show 2001,

  • Best Picture in any Medium under $1000 at the Camberwell Rotary Art Show 2002.

  • Selected to hang in the Alice Bale Art Award in 2001 and 2003.

  • Best Painting under $500 at the St. Kevin’s College Art Show 2003,

  • Highly Commended at Ivanhoe Art Show 2003,

  • Dean’s Encouragement Award at Camberwell Rotary Art Show 2004

  • Highly Commended at Bayside Art Show 2006

  • Best in Show Brighton Art Society 2006

  • Highly Commended at Aust. Guild of Realist Artists Summer Show 2006

  • Commended Aust. Guild of Realist Artists Winter Show 2007

  • Two Highly Commended Aust. Guild of Realist Artists Spring Show 2007