EDUCATION
1979-1980 T.O.P. Art, Frankston Technical College
1981-1984 Visual Art, Gippsland Monash Campus
2003 Began private tuition with Brian Armstrong and Fiona Bilbrough
2019 Graduated, Angel Academy of Art Florence Italy

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2026 - Archibald Prize Finalist
2026 - Painting Acquired by the State Library of NSW collection
2021 - Awarded the Title “Living Master” by the Art Renewal Center
2021 - Selected for the Artists on the Moon Project 
2019 - Winner of the Art Renewal Center Purchase Award with artwork now in the Art Renewal Center collection.
2019 - Invited to exhibit at Artelibre exhibition at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona and Zaragoza, Spain
2018 - Winner of the Art Renewal Center Publication Award and featured in the Collection Magazine one of Chinas most prestigious Art magazines.
2016 - Selected for publication in Strokes of Genius Book 10, by Northlight books in the USA

AWARDS
2026 Winner of a Highly Commended in the Percival Portrait prize, Townsville, QLD
2026 Winner Special Merit Award, Art & Colour magazine, Spring p 51
2025 Winner of a Highly Commended in the Kennedy Prize, Adelaide, SA.
2025 Third Prize Winner, International Artists Magazine no.146 Still Life
2024 Winner of a Highly Commended Prize in The Lester Prize for Portraiture, Perth, WA
2024 Winner Boldbrush Award MAY, USA
2023 Highly Commended, Melbourne society of Women Sculptors & Painters Members Competition
2023 Awarded Finalist in Feb Boldbrush painting Competition
2022 Third Prize Winner, International Artists Magazine no.128 Favourite subjects
2022 Winner of Merit Award Immunisation Coalition
2021 Winner of the Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters Annie Davison Oliver Award
2021 Winner of the People’s Choice prize in the Hidden Faces Exhibition, Melbourne
2019 Winner of Art Renewal Center Purchase Award
2018 Winner of Art Renewal Center Collections Magazine Publication Award
2018 Highly Commended Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and painters Members competition
2017 Winner of the Second People’s Choice prize in the Jackson’s Mussini Oil painting Competition in London, UK
2017 Winner of the People’s Choice prize in the Naked and Nude Exhibition in the Manning Art Gallery, NSW
2017 Highly Commended, Sorrento Rotary Art Show
2016 Third prize people’s choice in Jackson’s “Drawn In" Competition London
2016 Honorable Mention MSWPS Member Exhibition Changing Perspectives
2016 Winner, A Singular Creation, Feeling Blue 5 International Competition
2016 Winner Equine Prize, Flinders Art Show
2015 Winner , Constance Wu Prize Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters
2013 Winner of the People’s Choice Prize,Hidden faces of the Archibald Hilton South Wharf Melbourne
2013 Highly Commended Camberwell Art Show
2011 Winner Best in Show “Alla Prima” Morning Sun Vineyard Art Exhibition
2011 Winner “Mario’s Choice Prize “ Morning Sun Vineyard Art Exhibition

FINALIST & EXHIBITIONS
2026 Semifinalist in the Target Painting prize
2026 Finalist in the Archibald Prize, Sydney, NSW
2026 Semi Finalist in the FIVKA International painting prize
2026 Finalist in the Percival Portrait Prize, Townsville, QLD
2025 Semi Finalist in The Almanara prize, Cordoba, Spain
2025 Highly Commended in The Kennedy prize for Beauty, Adelaide, SA 2025 
2025 Highly Commended in The Lester Prize, Perth, Western Australia
2025 Finalist in the International FIVKA Award for Painters, Antwerp, Belgium
2025 Women Painting Women llll, Burrinja Upwey, VIC
2024 Finalist in The 17th Art Renewal Center Salon
2024 Solo Exhibition, Frankston Art Center
2024 Finalist in the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
2024 Finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Prize, Sydney NSW
2024 Highly Commended in The Lester prize, Perth, Western Australia
2024 Solo Exhibition The Convent Gallery Daylesford, VIC
2024 Plein Air Salon top 100 Feb 
2023 Finalist, Almanara Art Prize, Cordoba, Spain
2023 MEAM Hall Exhibition, European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona Spain,
2023 Highly Commended, Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors & Painters Member exhibition
2022 Finalist A.M.E. Painting Award
2022 Semi Finalist Doug Moran prize for Portraiture
2022 Finalist Kennedy Prize, Adelaide, South Australia
2022 Finalist Salon De Refuse, SH Ervin Gallery,Sydney, NSW
2022 MEAM Hall exhibition, European museum of modern Art, Barcelona Spain
2021 Artelibre 20×20 exhibition at Art Rome Gallery in Zaragoza, Spain
2021 Finalist Naked & Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery Taree, NSW
2021 Women Painting, All over the World ,MEAM,European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Winner of the People’s Choice prize in the Hidden Faces Exhibition, Melbourne
2021 Women Painting Women x3, Burrinja Cultural Center Upwey, Victoria
2021 Invited for the Australasian Local’s exhibition, Outr’e Gallery Fitzroy, Victoria
2021 Finalist in The Art Renewal Center Salon,
2021 Finalist in the AME Bale Competition, Caulfield, Victoria
2020 ARC International Salon Exhibition,Sotheby’s, New York, USA
2020 Finalist in The Lethbridge small scale art award, Brisbane, QLD
2020 Finalist in The Percival Portrait Prize, Townsville, QLD
2020 Storytellers Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2019 14th International ARC Salon, MEAM European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona Spain
2019 29th Abend Gallery Miniature exhibition, Denver Colorado, USA
2019 Winner of Art Renewal Center Purchase Award
2019 Finalist Kennedy prize for Beauty, Adelaide South Australia
2019 Invited to exhibit in Galleria Artelibre 20×20 Edificio Bantierra in Zaragoza & European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona Spain
2019 Finalist in “I Observe”, REHS Contempory Gallery New York, NY USA
2019 Finalist in Pintado Hoy, European Museum of Modern Art {MEAM} Barcelona
2018 Women Painting Women, Men painting Men, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York ,USA
2018 Finalist Jacaranda Aquisitive Drawing Prize Grafton Regional Gallery, N.S.W.
2018 Finalist in the Kennedy Prize, Adelaide, SA
2018 Finalist in the Aussie Rules-Passion and Pain Exhibition, Caulfield, Vic
2018 Women Painting Women, Burrinja cultural Center
2018 Winner of Art Renewal Center Publication Award
2018 Finalist in the Percival Portrait Prize,Townsville, QLD
2017 Winner of the second People’s Choice prize in the Jacksons Mussini Oil painting competition in London, UK
2017 Winner of the People’s Choice prize in The Manning Art Prize, Naked and Nude exhibition N.S.W.
2017 Highly Commended in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane QLD
2017 Finalist in The National Equine Art Prize, Mansfield Victoria
2016 Finalist Alice Bale Painting prize
2016 Finalist Alice Bale Drawing prize
2016 Finalist Art Renewal Center 2015/2016 International Salon
2016 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize Grafton Regional Gallery
2016 Portraits Sullivan and Bilbrough ,Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2016 Finalist Rick Amor Drawing prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat
2016 Women Painting Women Exhibition, Burrinja cultural Center Upwey, Vic
2016 First Prize, A Singular Creation, Feeling Blue 5 International Competition
2015 Winner ,Constance Wu Prize, Melbourne society of women Painters and Sculptors
2015 Finalist Black Swan Portrait Prize, Perth WA
2015 Finalist Gallipoli Art Prize
2015 Finalist Art Renewal Center 2014/2015 International Salon
2014 Awarded Title of Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center
2014 Angel Academy OF Art exhibition, Florence, Italy
2014 Finalist Portrait Artists Australia Exhibition Australian Embassy Washington USA
2014 Finalist Alice Bale Travelling Scholarship
2014 Finalist Alice Bale painting award
2014 Finalist Alice Bale Drawing Award
2014 Finalist Hidden Faces of the Archibald Salon De’s Refuse, Melbourne, Victoria
2013 Semi finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2013 Finalist "Mortimer Prize Exhibition"
2013 Finalist Inglis Equine Art Prize, Randwick NSW
2013 Highly Commended Award Camberwell Art show
2013 Finalist Portrait Artists Australia “Multicultural Australia” Parliament House NSW
2013 Finalist Black Swan Portrait Prize
2013 Finalist Hidden Faces” Victorian Salon De’s refuses of the Archibald
2013 Finalist Art Renewal Center 2011/2012 International Salon
2012 Finalist Alice Bale Painting Prize Caulfield, Vic
2012 Finalist Alice Bale Travelling Scholarship Caulfield Vic
2012 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Exhibition 
2012 Finalist “Mortimer Prize” Exhibition
2012 Finalist “Hidden Faces” Salon De’s Refuses of the Archibald Exhibition Melbourne
2012 Finalist “Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award “ Bega Regional Gallery
2011 Finalist Len fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Regional Gallery
2011 “Mario’s Choice Prize “ Morning Sun Vineyard Art Exhibition
2011 First Prize Best in Show “Alla Prima” Morning Sun Vineyard Art Exhibition

CORPORATE & PRIVATE  COLLECTIONS 
2025 Collection of the State Library of NSW.
2025  Pharmacy Guild of Victoria, Melbourne
2024 Collection of Ryman Healthcare, John Flynn Village, Burwood Vic
2023 Collection of Ryman Health Care, Deborah Cheetham Village, Ocean Grove, Vic
2023 Collection of Focus Group Investments, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Collection of Mentone Grammar, Mentone Victoria
2021 Collection of East End Court, Riverhead, Long Island, NY, USA
2021 Collection of Swinburne University, Portrait of former Vice Chancellor, Linda Kristjanson
2020 Collection of Victoria University ,Portrait of former Vice Chancellor Peter Dawkins, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Collection of Arthur D Magazu
2019 Collection of the Art Renewal Center, U.S.A.
2019 Collection of Pymble Ladies College, Pymble NSW
2019 Swinburne University, Portrait of former Chancellor Graham Goldsmith
2018 Deborah Cheetham, {Opera singer} Collection
2017 Kevin Cosgrave Collection, Former Australian Trade Commission
Consul General, Auckland, New Zealand, and retired Businessman
2017 Kerry Armstrong, {Actor} Collection
2016 Jane Alexander Collection, former Director of Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2016 Liane Keegan, Opera Singer} Collection
2015 Andrew and Cynzia Burnes Collection CEO of AOT Group
2015 Luisa Mancini and Giovanni Morra Collection, Venice Italy
2014 John Waters, {Actor}, collection
2013 Steve Bastoni collection
2011 Robbie Brozin founder of “Nando’s” Global
2007 Tim Buckingham, Partner in International Law Firm DLA Piper, UK
2003 John Ihan

Vicki’s work has won awards in Australia, the USA, China and the UK. Vicki has been invited to be on the Jury of judges for Art Competitions in Australia, The USSR and France and Denmark.
Vicki is a member of Portrait Artist’s Australia, the Art Renewal Center, The Portrait Society of America & Poets & Artists.