About the Artist...
PROUDLY REPRESENTED BY FLINDERS LANE GALLERY, MELBOURNE. AUST. PH: 03 96543332 info@flg.com.au
Janne Kearney, Geelong, Australia: Proudly represented by Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne. I’m an internationally recognised realist artist, winning international and national awards. I have been a finalist in over 80 prestigious International and National Art Prizes, exhibiting in Italy, Spain, USA, and throughout the UK. I was a finalist in the important BP Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, they received over 2,700 entries from 93 countries, only selecting the top 50, the award is regarded as the worlds ‘Portraiture Oscars’. In addition, I was awarded the prestigious San Diego, FWSD Fashion Week San Diego ARC Award, an international traveling award, visiting prestigious galleries in LA (Southeby's), New York (Salmagundi Gallery), San Diego, MEAM, (European Museum of Modern Art), Barcelona, only 7 artists chosen from 3750 entries from 69 countries. The ARC is the most important realist painting prize in the US and the Americas.
And most recently ... winner of the Lethbridge 20000 Queensland’s largest small-scale art prize, and winner of the National Capital Art Prize, Canberra, 2021.
Janne Kearney, Geelong, Australia: Proudly represented by Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne. I’m an internationally recognised realist artist, winning international and national awards. I have been a finalist in over 80 prestigious International and National Art Prizes, exhibiting in Italy, Spain, USA, and throughout the UK. I was a finalist in the important BP Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, they received over 2,700 entries from 93 countries, only selecting the top 50, the award is regarded as the worlds ‘Portraiture Oscars’. In addition, I was awarded the prestigious San Diego, FWSD Fashion Week San Diego ARC Award, an international traveling award, visiting prestigious galleries in LA (Southeby's), New York (Salmagundi Gallery), San Diego, MEAM, (European Museum of Modern Art), Barcelona, only 7 artists chosen from 3750 entries from 69 countries. The ARC is the most important realist painting prize in the US and the Americas.
And most recently ... winner of the Lethbridge 20000 Queensland’s largest small-scale art prize, and winner of the National Capital Art Prize, Canberra, 2021.
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Selected Short listings and awards
2022 FINALIST: Portia Geach Portrait Prize. S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
FINALIST: Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
2021 WINNER: NATIONAL CAPITAL ART PRIZE, AARWUN GALLERY, CANBERRA. 2021 $15000 prize money
FINALIST: Portia Geach Portrait Prize. S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
FINALIST: National Capital Art Prize
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Kennedy Art Prize, Adelaide. SA
2020 WINNER: Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
FINALIST: The Lester Prize, Western Aust Art Gallery
FINALIST: Portia Geach Portrait Prize. S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
FINALIST: Semi-finalist in the 15th ARC Salon
FINALIST: Shirley Hannan Art Prize
2019 FINALIST: Clayton UTZ Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize, Calleen, NSW.
2018 FWSA ARC AWARD WINNER.
Major International Art Prize, Traveling award, LA, New York, San Diego, & MEAM,
European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona.
FINALIST: ARC Salon 13th International Art Prize, New York.
FINALIST: Black Swan Art Prize, Western Aust Art Gallery.
FINALIST: American Portrait Society Members Only Competition.
FINALIST: Clayton UTZ Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham.
FINALIST: Percival Tucker Portrait Prize. Townsville.
EXHIBITION INVITATION: Painting the Figure Now. Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin. USA
COMPETITION INVITATION: Brisbane 2018 Rotary Art Spectacular.
2017 FINALIST: BP Portrait Award, London Portrait Gallery, London
WINNER: Corangamarah Art Prize *WINNER Small Scale Art Prize, Colac.
FINALIST: QAPA: Queer Art Prize Australia, Melbourne.
FINALIST: Clayton Utz Art Prize, Queensland.
Semi-finalist: Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney.
Exhibited: Hidden Faces. Docklands Melbourne.
2016 FINALIST: Clayton Utz Art Prize, Queensland.
FINALIST: Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Sydney.
FINALIST: Clifton Art Prize, Brisbane.
WINNER: Corangamarah Art Prize *WINNER Small Scale Art Prize, Colac.
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe, QLD.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize, Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: Percival Portrait prize, Northern Territory.
FINALIST: Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee. Vic
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe, QLD.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize, Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: Percival Portrait prize, Northern Territory.
FINALIST: Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee. Vic
2015 Semi-finalist: Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney.
Semi-finalist: BP Portrait Prize UK, London.
FINALIST: Kennedy Art Prize, Adelaide. SA
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane. QLD
FINALIST: She, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong. Vic
FINALIST: Geelong College Art Prize, Geelong. Vic
WINNER: ArtIs 12x12 Art Prize, Geelong. Vic.
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Corangamarah Art Prize*
2013: Exhibiting - Faces of Diversity: Turin Italy
WINNER: ArtIS 12x12 Art Award WINNER *Cavalier Prize, Geelong. Vic.
2012 FINALIST: The Flanagan, St Patrick’s Art Prize, Ballarat
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize. Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway estate
FINALIST: Mortimore Art Prize, Sydney. NSW.
2011 FINALIST: Lethbridge International Small Scale Art Prize, Brisbane. QLD
FINALIST: Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway estate *Brewers Choice Award
FINALIST: She, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize. Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: The Flanagan, St Patrick’s Art Prize, Ballarat. VIC
Group Exhibition BSG Small Painting Prize, Melbourne. Vic
2010 FINALIST: The Flanagan, St Patrick’s Art Prize, Ballarat.
FINALIST: Mortimore Portrait Prize, Sydney. NSW.
FINALIST: Blackswan Portrait Prize, Perth. WA.
FINALIST: Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway Estate. Vic
FINALIST: Cancer Council Art Award, Melbourne
FINALIST: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
FINALIST: She, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong.
Opening speaker, Tafe Women’s Access Art Exhibition,
Mornington Peninsula Art Prize (Invitation Only)
Linden postcard show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda.
Selected Exhibitions
2019: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2018: Flinders Lane Gallery Solo Exhibition Perception
Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2017: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
In your face. Group exhibition
14 February - 4 March 2017. Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
2015: Geelong After Dark. Travelling exhibition
July 17- August7: Boom Gallery Geelong.
2013: Exhibiting - Faces of Diversity: Turin Italy
July: Artist in Residence Mortimer Art Prize/Travelling
2012 Solo Exhibition. The 7 Deadly Sins,
Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood. Melbourne. Vic.
Publications and Professional
Professional Development Grant, Geelong City Council, 2010,2013 and 2018
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST MAGAZINE. 2010, 2012, 2013 Schiffers publication ‘Contemporary Painters’
Numerous newspaper and magazine publications, including Beautiful Bizarre
LIST OF PRIZES AND EXHIBITIONS:
2021: WINNER National Capital Art Prize 2021: Open category
2020: WINNER Lethbridge 20000
2018: WINNER of the, FWSD Fashion Week San Diego ARC Award, an international traveling award, exhibiting in LA, New York, Sotheby's San Francisco, San Diego, MEAM, (European Museum of Modern Art), Barcelona.
2017: National Portrait Gallery, London, BP Portrait Prize, Travelling exhibition.
2017: Added to the private collection of renowned UK art collector Mervyn Metcalf, London.
2017: WINNER Corangamarah Small scale Art Prize
2016: WINNER Corangamarah Small scale Art Prize
2013: WINNER ArtIS 12x12 Art Award Cavalier Prize
2019: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2018: Flinders Lane Gallery Solo Exhibition Perception: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2017: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition: In your face. Group exhibition
2015: Geelong After Dark. Travelling exhibition
2015: Solo Exhibition Boom Gallery Geelong
2022 FINALIST: Portia Geach Portrait Prize. S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
FINALIST: Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
2021 WINNER: NATIONAL CAPITAL ART PRIZE, AARWUN GALLERY, CANBERRA. 2021 $15000 prize money
FINALIST: Portia Geach Portrait Prize. S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
FINALIST: National Capital Art Prize
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Kennedy Art Prize, Adelaide. SA
2020 WINNER: Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
FINALIST: The Lester Prize, Western Aust Art Gallery
FINALIST: Portia Geach Portrait Prize. S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
FINALIST: Semi-finalist in the 15th ARC Salon
FINALIST: Shirley Hannan Art Prize
2019 FINALIST: Clayton UTZ Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize, Calleen, NSW.
2018 FWSA ARC AWARD WINNER.
Major International Art Prize, Traveling award, LA, New York, San Diego, & MEAM,
European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona.
FINALIST: ARC Salon 13th International Art Prize, New York.
FINALIST: Black Swan Art Prize, Western Aust Art Gallery.
FINALIST: American Portrait Society Members Only Competition.
FINALIST: Clayton UTZ Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham.
FINALIST: Percival Tucker Portrait Prize. Townsville.
EXHIBITION INVITATION: Painting the Figure Now. Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin. USA
COMPETITION INVITATION: Brisbane 2018 Rotary Art Spectacular.
2017 FINALIST: BP Portrait Award, London Portrait Gallery, London
WINNER: Corangamarah Art Prize *WINNER Small Scale Art Prize, Colac.
FINALIST: QAPA: Queer Art Prize Australia, Melbourne.
FINALIST: Clayton Utz Art Prize, Queensland.
Semi-finalist: Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney.
Exhibited: Hidden Faces. Docklands Melbourne.
2016 FINALIST: Clayton Utz Art Prize, Queensland.
FINALIST: Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Sydney.
FINALIST: Clifton Art Prize, Brisbane.
WINNER: Corangamarah Art Prize *WINNER Small Scale Art Prize, Colac.
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe, QLD.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize, Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: Percival Portrait prize, Northern Territory.
FINALIST: Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee. Vic
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane.
FINALIST: Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe, QLD.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize, Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: Percival Portrait prize, Northern Territory.
FINALIST: Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee. Vic
2015 Semi-finalist: Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney.
Semi-finalist: BP Portrait Prize UK, London.
FINALIST: Kennedy Art Prize, Adelaide. SA
FINALIST: Lethbridge 10000, Brisbane. QLD
FINALIST: She, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong. Vic
FINALIST: Geelong College Art Prize, Geelong. Vic
WINNER: ArtIs 12x12 Art Prize, Geelong. Vic.
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Corangamarah Art Prize*
2013: Exhibiting - Faces of Diversity: Turin Italy
WINNER: ArtIS 12x12 Art Award WINNER *Cavalier Prize, Geelong. Vic.
2012 FINALIST: The Flanagan, St Patrick’s Art Prize, Ballarat
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize. Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway estate
FINALIST: Mortimore Art Prize, Sydney. NSW.
2011 FINALIST: Lethbridge International Small Scale Art Prize, Brisbane. QLD
FINALIST: Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway estate *Brewers Choice Award
FINALIST: She, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong.
FINALIST: Calleen Art Prize. Calleen, NSW.
FINALIST: The Flanagan, St Patrick’s Art Prize, Ballarat. VIC
Group Exhibition BSG Small Painting Prize, Melbourne. Vic
2010 FINALIST: The Flanagan, St Patrick’s Art Prize, Ballarat.
FINALIST: Mortimore Portrait Prize, Sydney. NSW.
FINALIST: Blackswan Portrait Prize, Perth. WA.
FINALIST: Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway Estate. Vic
FINALIST: Cancer Council Art Award, Melbourne
FINALIST: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
FINALIST: She, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong.
Opening speaker, Tafe Women’s Access Art Exhibition,
Mornington Peninsula Art Prize (Invitation Only)
Linden postcard show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda.
Selected Exhibitions
2019: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2018: Flinders Lane Gallery Solo Exhibition Perception
Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2017: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
In your face. Group exhibition
14 February - 4 March 2017. Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
2015: Geelong After Dark. Travelling exhibition
July 17- August7: Boom Gallery Geelong.
2013: Exhibiting - Faces of Diversity: Turin Italy
July: Artist in Residence Mortimer Art Prize/Travelling
2012 Solo Exhibition. The 7 Deadly Sins,
Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood. Melbourne. Vic.
Publications and Professional
Professional Development Grant, Geelong City Council, 2010,2013 and 2018
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST MAGAZINE. 2010, 2012, 2013 Schiffers publication ‘Contemporary Painters’
Numerous newspaper and magazine publications, including Beautiful Bizarre
LIST OF PRIZES AND EXHIBITIONS:
2021: WINNER National Capital Art Prize 2021: Open category
2020: WINNER Lethbridge 20000
2018: WINNER of the, FWSD Fashion Week San Diego ARC Award, an international traveling award, exhibiting in LA, New York, Sotheby's San Francisco, San Diego, MEAM, (European Museum of Modern Art), Barcelona.
2017: National Portrait Gallery, London, BP Portrait Prize, Travelling exhibition.
2017: Added to the private collection of renowned UK art collector Mervyn Metcalf, London.
2017: WINNER Corangamarah Small scale Art Prize
2016: WINNER Corangamarah Small scale Art Prize
2013: WINNER ArtIS 12x12 Art Award Cavalier Prize
2019: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2018: Flinders Lane Gallery Solo Exhibition Perception: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition
2017: Flinders Lane Gallery Group exhibition: In your face. Group exhibition
2015: Geelong After Dark. Travelling exhibition
2015: Solo Exhibition Boom Gallery Geelong