March 2025
‘Birdsounds’ is touring Queensland with The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Tour 2025. Exhibition dates and places are as follow:
Cairns Courthouse Gallery 7 March – 27 April
Texas Regional Art Gallery 10 May – 20 June
Roma on Bungil Gallery 22 August – 10 October
Judith Wright Art Centre 27 October – 7 November
February 2025
Forest Fringe 2025 81cm x 101cm acrylic ink and gesso on canvas
Fresh Perspectives, an exhibition by gallery artists, opens at Lethbridge Gallery on 7 February with the opening function at 5.30pm. My new drawing ‘Forest Fringe’ will be part of the show.
November 2024
This painting, ‘One Day’ is to be included as a finalist in the Redland Art Awards exhibition at Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland from 8 December 2024 until 28 January 2025. The opening event is on 6 December 2024 6-8pm.
August 2024
My painting ‘Forest Songs’ has been selected as a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize, an acquisitive prize for Landscape Painting held at Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria. The exhibition continues until 24 November 2024.
March 2024
Please refer to my artist page on the Lethbridge Gallery website http://www.lethbridgegallery.com for available works from my recent February 2024 show and for other works in their stockroom.
February 2024
An exhibition of new work, ‘Forest Sounds’ runs until 27 February at Lethbridge Gallery in Paddington, Brisbane.
November 2023
Forest Sounds has been selected as a finalist for the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting which is exhibited at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane from 30 November 2023 until 11 January 2024.
September 2023
One Day has been awarded highly commended at the Clayton Utz Art Award 2023.
August 2023
I am very pleased to say that my painting One Day has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Clayton Utz Art Prize.
April 2023
Coming Soon –
I am thrilled that this painting, Lush Garden has been selected for the Lethbridge Landscape Prize exhibition 2023. The exhibition opens on 6 May 2023 with an opening event at 6pm
Lush Garden 61cm x 77cm oil on linen
April 2023
Exhibiting at Caloundra Regional Gallery!
Through Leaves is showing in Local Artists Local Content at Caloundra Regional Gallery until 7 May.
March 2023
The Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition is on until 10 June!
My drawing Under the Bower is showing in the Dobell Drawing Prize #23 exhibition at The National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney from 31 March 2023 until 10 June 2023.
January 2023
I have two paintings in ‘More Than The Sum Of Its Parts’ showing at Noosa Regional Gallery from 23 January 2023 until 6 April 2023.
November 2022
I am so pleased to say that my drawing Under the Bower has been selected as one of 64 finalists out of 1062 entries to the Dobell Drawing Prize #23.
The exhibition runs from 31 March 2023 until 10 June 2023 at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
May 2022
My exhibition Platypus Creek runs from 20 May to 7 June 2022 at Lethbridge Gallery, 136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD. There is an opening from 5pm to 7pm on Friday 20 May and from then the gallery opening hours are:
Tues 12pm – 6pm
Wed Thur Fri 9am – 6pm
Sat 10am – 5pm
or by appointment
P: (07)3369 4790
M:0407 005 800
E: gallery@lethbridgegallery.com
April 2022
Through Leaves was highly commended in the 2022 Lethbridge Landscape Prize.
My artist statement about the subject reads as follows:
There is a creek which wends its way through the trees in the valley. A path leads down through the lush and varied forest to the edge of the water, where palms grow. When it rains the stream quickly changes from still and restful to a rushing pale-yellow watercourse.
Through Leaves 2022 oil on canvas 76cm(H) x 92cm(W)
March 2022
Platypus Creek was selected as one of 40 finalists in the exhibition Local Artists Local Content at Caloundra Regional Gallery, open for viewing from 25 March 2022 to 8 May 2022.
January 2022
My ink and gouache drawing At the Edge has been selected as a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2022. Judge Dr Andrew Frost, art critic, lecturer and broadcaster, shortlisted 46 works from 400 entries and I am delighted to have my drawing in this excellent company.
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, in its 17th year, is an annual $25,000 acquisitive prize held at Adelaide Perry Gallery, Presbyterian Ladies College, Croydon, Sydney. The exhibition is open to the public by appointment only from 26 February – 25 March 2022. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 4.00pm and Saturday 11am to 4.00pm.
Below is my statement for At the Edge.
Nature is ‘…a presence that seems intimate yet other, within and everywhere, immediate and endless. You feel it.’ (Janine Burke 2021 My Forests p. 114)
One year ago I moved to live on the Sunshine Coast hinterland where I am surrounded by forest. This rich, leafy landscape is dense and complex, endlessly varied and lush. It sometimes seems quiet, but if you listen, it pulses and breathes, sighs, cracks, rustles, chirrups and screeches. This drawing was completed en plein air. I placed my prepared card flat on the ground in a clearing and using a long extension on my brush, drew what I could see, hear and feel in front of and around me.
August 2021
Coming up in August is a group exhibition Home running from 20 August until 7 September 2021 at Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane. My work Lily Dam (below) will be showing.
‘The dam at home lies at the bottom of a steep slope and is edged with ferns, reeds and palms. On summer evenings it is loud with the songs of croaking frogs. These animals’ sounds, evidence of abundant life, contrast with the surface stillness of the dark water in the pond.’
May 2021
The Collection (below) is to be included in the Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award exhibition which is showing at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane from 18 – 26 June 2021.
May 2021
Dianella has been awarded best painting at the Immanuel Arts Festival, Buderim.
May 2021
I am extremely pleased that my painting Forest has been highly commended in the excellent Lethbridge Landscape Prize which is showing at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane until 9 May 2021.
‘The forest landscape is dense and complex, endlessly varied and lush. It is made up of the darkest shadows and myriad greens, with sparks of brightness where light finds its way through the canopy above. It sometimes seems silent but it pulses and breathes, sighs, cracks, chirrups and screeches.’
April 2021
Near Distance (below) has been shortlisted for the 2021 Milburn Art Prize at the Brisbane Institute of Art.
April 2021
Forest (below) has been selected as a finalist in the inaugural Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2021.
October 2020
My work Ithaca Creek has been Highly Commended in the Clayton Utz Art Prize 2020! The exhibition is held each year in the offices of Clayton Utz in the Riparian Plaza, 71 Eagle St, Brisbane. The award is managed by Lethbridge Gallery and viewing of the exhibition, which continues until September 2021, can be arranged by appointment.
October 2020
October 2020
This painting is available through Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane.
Ithaca Creek forms on Mt Cootha, the water rushing down the mountain in rivulets after a storm. On this lower stretch of its course it still flows rapidly after rain, but as time goes by it dries up until just shallow pools of dark water remain.
September 2020
This painting Ithaca Creek is a finalist for exhibition at the Clayton Utz Art Prize 2020. The award is announced on 16th October.
June 2020
Dark Fruit has been selected for exhibition this month in the Lethbridge 20,000 award at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane.
January 2020
My work The Memory (below) has been selected for inclusion in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020, to be exhibited at the Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC, Croydon, Sydney from 29 February 2020 to 27 March 2020.
The making of this drawing preceded the recent bushfires, but the signs were already clear that native wildlife and vegetation were under threat from escalating environmental catastrophe. I wanted to express my appreciation of the beauty and delicacy of the melaleuca in flower, while the blackness of the background portends trouble.
November 2019
This small painting Harpullia is included in the Saving Toondah; Artists for Moreton Bay exhibition at Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane 19 – 30 November 2019. All works are donated by contributing artists and all proceeds of sales go to Birdlife Australia for their campaign to preserve the wetlands of Toondah Harbour. The Moreton Bay wetland habitat of migratory and other wetland birds is under threat from a major development.
June 2019
I am delighted that my painting Dianella has been selected to show at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane as part of the Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award 2019. The exhibition, running from 27 June until 6 July, will be shown across both of the Lethbridge galleries at Paddington and Bulimba. The opening event and announcement will be at 6pm on 29 June at the Paddington gallery.
April 2019
My show Wandering at Lethbridge Gallery, Bulimba runs until 5 May 2019.
‘From the drama of the storm cloud about to release its power, to the imperceptible but constant movements of a growing tree as it stretches towards the sky, the world is awe-inspiring. I am interested in how our primal psychology responds to the forces of nature.’
March 2019
Coming up on 5 April 2019 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm is the opening celebration for my exhibition Wandering at Lethbridge Gallery, 11 Wambool Street, Bulimba. I am exhibiting alongside Michelle Caitens, and the show continues through until 5 May 2019.
February 2019
I am currently preparing for a show at Lethbridge Gallery in Wambool Street, Bulimba, Brisbane, opening 5 April 2019 and continuing through to 5 May 2019.
October 2018
August 2018
The latest edition of Indulge magazine (#16 Spring18) contains this article about my work and the Lethbridge 10,000 prize.
August 2018
The exhibition Artists to Watch is showing at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane from 18 August 2018 until 3 September 2018. I have four paintings in this show including Ghostly Garden and Pandorea (below).
July 2018
In the latest July news, my painting Grizelle Vase has been awarded winner of the Lethbridge 10,000 small scale art award 2018!
July 2018
Grizelle Vase is included in the Lethbridge 10,000 show at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane opening on July 14.
June 2018
My exhibition, Shifting Worlds was held in June 2018 at Graydon Gallery, 29 Merthyr Road, New Farm, Brisbane.
March 2018
Scape to Scape is opening on Friday the 6th of April 2018, 6 – 8 pm at Lethbridge Gallery, 11 Wambool Street, Bulimba, Brisbane. The exhibition runs for a month from April 6 until May 6 2018. This is a group show with two other artists and it includes my painting below ‘Quietly’.
October 2017
Big Cloud (above) has been highly commended in the finalist group of the Clayton Utz Art Award 2017 at Clayton Utz, Brisbane.
August 2017
New Flower is part of the exhibition for the Lethbridge 10,000 award at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane.
September 2016
Into Blue is a finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Award 2016 in Brisbane.
This painting’s cloudy image could be read either as the merging pattern of river with ocean, as the plume from a chimney or as smoke from an explosion.
April 2016
Closer has been selected for the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize exhibition 2016 held at the South Australian Museum, Adelaide.
The painting could be variously read as a storm cloud, as industrial emissions, a dust storm, smoke from a bush fire, or as ash pouring from a volcano. Cloud symbolises the nebulous, the uncertainty of knowing how to pace the use of natural resources against the environment’s natural rate of recovery. My intention is in no way didactic or to seek objectivity. I aim for ambiguity rather than to make a statement or declare an answer.
November 2015
My painting Flutter/Lurk has been acquired by Jupiters Hotel, Surfers Paradise as part of the refurbishment of their suites.
Lindy Sale 