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David Hinchliffe

David Hinchliffe Biography

Born 1955, Queensland

 

David Hinchliffe is an Australian artist known for his contemporary impressionist streetscapes, cityscapes and landscapes. His paintings often depict bustling urban environments in their various manifestations around the world. Hinchliffe’s art captures fleeting moments of busy city life and magnificent landscapes from across Australia and the world through his unique style. Since his first solo exhibition in 1976 in Toowoomba Australia at the age of 21, David has had more than 65 solo exhibitions including paintings, sculpture and photographs in locations around the world. David's painitngs of Sydney, the harbour and its surrounds are favourites of his many avid collectors, as are his rainy, shimmering streetscapes.

Australian Artist David Hinchliffe has been painting, exhibiting and selling his work in galleries since the age of 12. He won numerous competitions as a young artist (Sunday Mail Art Prize, ABC Argonauts Award, Atlantic City Sculpture Award, Toowoomba Gemini prize). With the exception of the Tattersall's Landscape Prize, days David generally skips art prizes in favour of producing works for exhibition and commissions for his many galleries all over the world.

David has travelled and painted widely in the United States, Europe the UK and Asia and is represented extensively in collections both in Australia and overseas. While his work is principally oils and acrylic on canvas or linen, he has also produced many gouache works and sculpture as well as holding two exhibitions of his photographs (“Two to the Valley, 1992, and “Detours”, 2010). His painting style has been described as "contemporary impressionism".

He trained under Brisbane artist, John Rigby, painting as a teenager with contemporaries Tomas McAulay and Rex Backhaus Smith and also studied under premier Australian landscape artist and Archibald prize-winner, William Robinson at the University of Southern Queensland. 

David furthered his practical artistic study in both New York, Paris and London in the 1970s while working his way around the world painting portrait commissions until he returned home to pursue a successful career in politics. He has painted portraits of former Premier Campbell Newman, Poet Bruce Dawe, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, actor Bryan Nason and businessman, Sir Alex McKay.

Described by the late Australian Artist James Gleeson as having an "exceptional talent", he emerged from 3 decades of work in the public domain to return with renewed passion to his career as a painter. He won the Sunday Mail Colour Magazine Award (1972), Atlantic City Sculpture Award (1973) and Gemini Art Award (judged by James Gleeson in 1974) and has been a regular finalist in the Tattersall's Landscape Prize.

He has exhibited at galleries in Brisbane and the Gold Coast as well as at Harrods in London and at Village Art gallery in Greenwich Village 1996, at the Australian Consulate, New York and at Michael Ingbar Gallery on Broadway in Soho, New York and Paris. In Sydney, he is represented by Wentworth Galleries. Wentworth showcase David's work at both of their Sydney CBD spaces.
 David has a great passion for Australian Aboriginal art. He’s an avid collector of works from Australia’s central and western deserts. His collection of more than 300 works are on loan to many fine institutions throughout his home state of Queensland. In 2021, David had a 2 week residency at Wentworth Galleries painting alongside Debra McDonald Nangala after travelling to Uluru and beyond to paint the colours of the red centre.   


 

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