Curriculum Vitae

Queenscliff Gallery 

https://qgallery.com.au/portfolio-item/trudy-rice/

Lauriston Press, Prints & Drawings https://lauristonpress.com.au

Education

CAE, Diploma & Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, Completed 2012

Exhibition History

Solo and Selected Exhibitions
Sept 2023 Sydney Contemporary PAPER with Print Council of Australia. Melbourne Studios
June 2023 Pastoral & Flight, Queenscliff Gallery
Sept 2022 Sydney Contemporary PAPER with Print Council of Australia. Melbourne Studios
Nov 2021 Sydney Contemporary, DISCOVER PAPER, MELBOURNE STUDIOS
Feb/March 2021 Eagles Nest Gallery, Aireys Inlet ‘Memories of a Forest Walk’
November 2020 Queenscliff Gallery with Kate Hudson and Gwen Scott
Sept 2020 Sydney Contemporary, MELBOURNE STUDIOS (online exhibition)
Sept 2019 Sydney Contemporary, MELBOURNE STUDIOS (online exhibition)
Oct 2018 ‘In my Garden’, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery, Collingwood
Sept 2018 Sydney Contemporary, MELBOURNE STUDIOS #trudyrice
Aug 2018 ‘Gardens’ Carlisle Street Art Gallery, St Kilda
Aug 2017 ‘Coming into Spring’ Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery
Feb 2016 Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery
July 2015 OCEANUS, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery
May 2014 DRAGONS & BANKSIAS, Firestation Print Studio
Sept/Oct 2012 FRAGILITY, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Victoria, Australia
Selected GROUP Exhibitions & Events
Jan-Feb 2024 Selected a Curated Exhibition by Andrew Totman, CDB Gallery, Sydney
Dec 2023 Off the Wall, Firestation Print Studio
October 2023 Gardens, New England Contemporary Print Gallery
Oct 2023/Mar 2024 Interlude ‘The Chapel’, Melbourne
August 2023 Winter Express, Queenscliff Gallery
May 2023 The Other Art Fair, Sydney
April 2023 Wall of Wings included in the permanent installation at the Altona Meadows Library.
August 2022 Divine Creatures, New England Contemporary Print Gallery
Sept 2022 Scotch College Art Show
Sept 2022 Eltham Art Show
May 2022 The Other Art Fair, Melbourne
May 2022 OMNIA Art Prize, St Kevins
Jan-Dec 2021 Linden Postcards Exhibition
Dec 2021 Still Life Prize, TACIT Galleries
Oct 2021 Albert Park College Art Show (by selection)
May 2021 St Kevin’s Art Show, Moonga Rd, Toorak
May 2020 Sydney Botanic Gardens PLANTS Exhibition
March 2020 Eagles Nest Gallery, Aireys Inlet
Feb 2020 ‘EDITIONS 2020’ Tacit Galleries

Awards
2023 Finalist, Burnie Print Prize (Judges: Milan Milojevic, Artist, Printmaker, former Head of
Printmaking, Senior Lecturer Printmaking, and Chief Investigator of the Digital Art
Research Facility at the Tasmanian School of Art | Ashley Bird, Artist, Senior Curator Visual
Art and Design at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery | Annika Romeyn, Artist,
printmaker, 2021 Burnie Print Prize winner

2010 - 2012 Managed and curated exhibitions at the Firestation Print Studio Gallery
2010 Managed and curated the Melbourne Fashion Incubator Gallery at Melbourne Central, CBD
2023 Finalist, Castlemaine Museum, Experimental Print Prize (Judges: Beverley Knight | Richard
Harding)
2023 Finalist Firestation Print Studio, Monoprint Prize (Judges: Anthony Fitzpatrick, Curator, Tarra
Warra Museum of Art | Brent Harris, Renowned Australian Painter and Printmaker
2023 Finalist, Gippsland Art Gallery, Spring Collection (Judges: Dr Lesley Duxbury, Artist and
Emeritus Professor, RMIT University | Simon Gregg, Director, Gippsland Art Gallery | Louisa
Waters, Collections Curator, Gippsland Art Gallery)
2021 Selected artworks, TACIT Still Life Prize
2017 Selected artwork, Peebles Print Prize, Queenscliff Gallery
2017 Style Guide Winner, House & Garden Magazine (Dec issue)
2016 Best “Other Medium”, LIONS CLUB ART SHOW, Lorne Surf Coast
2015 Firestation Print Studio, Best Etching, Judged by Neil Wallace
2012 Firestation Print Studio, Best Mixed Media on Paper, Judged by Robert Clinch
2011 Firestation Print Studio, 2nd Prize Summer Salon, Judged Exhibition

Jan 2024 Ashdene Product Launch
Sept 2022 Australia Post Product Launch
2021-2022 Blacktown Acute Mental Hospital, non-repeat 109 meter Wall Mural
Aug-Nov 2021 Private Collector commission - Eucalyptus Tree artwork
Mar 2021 Life InStyle Gift Fair
2020 Gumnut Gully preschool cubby house outdoor painted mural
2020 5.6mtr x 3mtr mural, Proper and Son café and the South Melbourne Market
2019 8-metre artwork for Queens Domain Apartment Lobby
2019 Landream Property, The International. Commissioned design, homewares range to gift to
new apartment owners
2018 Florence, Italy artwork
2016 Work featured in the “BIRD” book, FPS, Acquired at the State Library of Victoria
2015 Bay Street Traders Association – Banners in Bay Street Project
2015 Waterfront Project, City of Port Phillip, ‘Art on the Fence’
2014 City of Port Phillip, Waterfront Activation Project, POSTCARDS TO PORT
2012 Property Development Analysis, Yarra Street office installation

2023 Wall of Wings, Shorebirds
2020 EMOTIONS, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
2019 HISTORIA, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
2017 Rona Green Print Exchange ‘Imaginings’ 66 Prints
2017 Global Oceans, Hahndorf Academy, South Australian International Print Exchange
2016 Print Council of Australia, Australia wide print exchange
2016 Firestation Print Studio & Atlanta Printmakers Studio “Deep South & Down Under” Print
Exchange
2016 The Lettered Print, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
Collections
2019-2021 Overwintering Project. Artwork included 31 exhibitions in every state and territory of Australia
(except the ACT), two in New Zealand, and future exhibitions scheduled for NSW, SA and WA.
Over 250 participating artists in the Portfolio and hundreds of others, through their involvement
in exhibitions, raised $37,000 donated to the Australian Wader Study Group from selling artist
prints.
2018 Artwork included in a unique state artist book assembled by the Firestation Print Studio,
purchased by a private collector from Hardcastle, West Hobart, and acquired by the State
Library (Victoria) and Stonnington Council Victoria.
2017 Artwork included in a unique state artist book Firestation in Florence, acquired by the State

2016 Work was also acquired by the Olivia Newton-John Cancer & Wellness Centre, Austin
Hospital, and various Private Collections.

October 2023 Solar Plate Etching 2-day workshop, Firestation Print Studio
Sept 2023 Sydney Contemporary Printing Demonstration and Artist Table Talk with Bronwyn Rees
Jan 2023 Solar Plate Etching 2-day workshop, Adelaide, South Australia
Nov 2022 Solar Plate Etching 2-day workshop, Firestation Print Studio
Sept 2022 Demonstration, Sydney Contemporary
April 2021 Demonstration, Open Studio Event, Ingles Street, Port Melbourne
Mar 2021 Solar Plate Etching 2-day workshop, Firestation Print Studio
Nov 2020 Demonstration, Open Studio Event, Ingles Street, Port Melbourne
Oct 2020 Albert Park College Curator, speech for Opening Night Online Event with audience of 250
April 2020 Online workshop ‘Make a Linocut Concertina Artists Book’
Mar 2020 Online Workshop ‘an introduction to Linocut Printing’
Mar 2020 Solar Plate Workshop at Canberra Arts Society
Jan 2020 Solar Plate Etching 1:4, 1-day workshop, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
Sept 2019 Demonstration, Sydney Contemporary
June 2019 Presentation, Kardinia International College, Geelong, Senior Art Department
June 2019 Solar Plate Etching 1:2, 1-day workshop, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
April 2019 Solar Plate Etching 2-day workshop, Firestation Print Studio
March 2019 Solar Plate Etching 2-day workshop, Emerald Art Society, Victoria
Feb 2019 Solar Plate Etching 1:1, 1-day workshop, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
Jan 2019 Solar Plate Etching 1:1, 1-day workshop, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop
Sept 2018 Demonstration, Sydney Contemporary
Sept 2017 Demonstration, Sydney Contemporary
Aug 2017 Demonstration, Lorne Information Centre during the Otway Open Studio
Nov 2016 Demonstration, STUDIO #Artist Proof
Jan 2011- 2020 Artists’ Salon (Albert Park) – Trudy initiated this group to enable artists to share and critique
their ideas and concepts in a supportive, confidential environment.

Current Member of the National Association for Visual Artists (NAVA)
Current Member PCA – Print Council of Australia
2012 - 2015 President of the Firestation Print Studio
2010 - Current Member Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Victoria

2010 - Current Remote Member Warringah Print Studio, Sydney, NSW

Variety, the Childrens Charity, Greens Party Macnamara fundraiser, Koala Tea Towel (all profits going to the
Hanson Bay Koala Sanctuary in Kangaroo Island), Lungitude, Cancer Council, Black Cockatoo Conservation
Centre, Collingwood College, Pink Lady (Breast Cancer), Lions Club of Lorne, Angelsea Flora & Fauna,
Lighthouse Foundation, Care for Kids, Think Pink (Breast Cancer), Albert Park Secondary College, Albert Park
Primary School, St Michaels Grammar School, Port Melbourne Primary School and The Margaret Pratt
Foundation.

109 Metre Wall Mural
‘IN HARMONY WITH NATURE’
BLACKTOWN ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL, Sydney, Australia

I was commissioned to create a concept drawing for the Blacktown Acute Mental Health Hospital in Sydney,
Australia. Liaising with the client and art consultant to produce a 109-metre mural artwork to line the corridors
of the renovated building.

Statement about the artwork

Nature has so much to share with us with all its beauty and intricacy. I love walking into the bush to stand and
listen. Often the birds take a while to settle, enough for me to catch more than a fleeting glimpse. Picking up
a dried twig or leaf with a history fills my heart with a contemplative joy, that sigh of relief that I'm again one
with Nature.

My original artworks on paper are created with mindful observation; the initial drawings are etched in the
same sun and water my specimens found, forming the many layers in the final piece.
‘I love to create a sense of texture and depth, taking the viewer into the natural world. This 109-meter art
mural for Blacktown Hospital was a delight to bring to life. I hope this work gives the staff and patients a deep
sense of peace and wellness that comes with time spent out in nature.

I have known Trudy Rice for over ten years and, in that time, have witnessed an incredible period of growth in
her practice and professional life. At the core of all her work is an incredible love for Australia’s flora and
fauna and a passion to share this with her audience through engaging and sensitive representations in her
work.

I recently contracted Trudy to commission a custom-designed wall mural for my business, a café in South
Melbourne. The brief we provided was to focus on Australian natives (we requested eucalyptus in particular),
to create a sense of calm, and to include lots of green. Trudy managed the process skilfully, creating a
wonderfully vibrant and interesting image that even included birds and plants native to the City of Port Phillip
area where the business is located. In addition to creating the design, Trudy worked with our printers and
contractors to ensure the production process went as smoothly as possible, which ensured a very professional
result.

Now more than ever, artists require support through private avenues as one of the industries hardest hit by 

COVID-19. The events of 2020-21 have increased desire and appreciation for the natural beauty we have in
this country, and people will look towards projects and artworks that support this. Her practice encourages
people to be inspired and grateful for our natural environment, and I have received many compliments and
comments of appreciation from my customers.
In addition to the creation of beautiful artwork, you will find Trudy to be a generous and thoughtful person
who is always a pleasure to work with.

Regards,