Pamela is primarily a mixed media painter. Her subject matter draws on her affinity with the Australian bush, social activism, history and personal experience. Her paintings have been selected in major juried art prizes including The Glover (Tas), The Sulman (AGNSW), The Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Bay of Fires Art Prize (Tas) and The Mission to Seafarers (Vic). Her work is shown at The Blenheim Gallery, Tas. She has volunteered as the Exhibitions Coordinator at The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Poatina, Tasmania for the past eight years.

 

Prize Finalist and Awards

Student Scholarship, Ausglass Conference, Poatina, Tas (2025)

Art Trails Tasmania, Deloraine, Tas (2023) Certificate of Achievement

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2023)

3D @ the Tree, The Poatina Tree Gallery, Tas (2021) Winner.

The Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Tas (2020)

Glover Art Prize, Tas (2019)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2019, 2 works selected)

Mission to Seafarers Art Prize, Docklands, Vic (2018)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2017)

The Poatina Short Film Festival, Tas (2017) Winner.

Praxis, Worldview Creative Arts Competition, Tas (2017) Special Mention Judge’s Choice, Painting.

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2016)

The Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney (2012)

Create to Advocate, Parliament House, Canberra (2008) Honourable Mention.

 

Solo Exhibitions

Poatina Meditations, The Hall Gallery, Poatina, Tas (2026)

A Brush with Eden, The Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2024)

Out of the Woods, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2023)

Big Island – Little Island, Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2022) 

Life in the Bush, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2021)

Otherworldliness, Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery, Tas (2019)

Moving On, Sawtooth ARI Gallery, Launceston, Tas, (2017)

So Far from Country, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tas (2016)

Near and Far, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2016)

Van Dieman’s Land to Port Phillip, Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2015)

Adventuring with the Liardets, The Gasworks, Melbourne (2014)

 

Group Exhibitions

Aspects of the Landscape, The Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2025)

Country Speaks, The Hall Gallery, Ausglass Conference, Poatina, Tas (2025)

Summer Salon, Poimena Gallery, Launceston Grammer School, Tas (2024)

Director’s Choice, The Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2025)

The Minds Do Matter, QVMAG, Inveresk, Tas (2023)

Artist in Residence Trail Tasmania, Deloraine, Tas (2023)

African Safari, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2023)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas, (2023)

Art Trails, Tasmania, Deloraine, Tas (2022)

Floating Lands (with Jane Giblin), The Wilderness Gallery, Tas (2021)

Floating Lands (with Jane Giblin), The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2021)

3D @ the Tree, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2021)

Here and Beyond, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2020)

In The Round, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2020)

Artworks by Poatina Artists, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2020)

Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Tas (2020)

Water, The Poatina Tree Gallery, Tas (2020)

Those Creative Liardets, Port Melbourne Town Hall Gallery, Vic (2019)

Collective Chemistry, Blenheim Gallery, Tas (2019)

The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2019, 2 works selected)

Glover Prize, Tas (2019)

Mission to Seafarers Art Prize, Docklands, Vic (2018)

A New Season, The Poatina Tree Art Gallery, Tas (2018)

UTAS First Years Art Exhibition, Launceston, (2018)

Powerhouse Art Prize, UTAS, Inveresk, Tas (2018)

Praxis, Worldview Centre for International Studies, Tas (2017)

Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2017)

Powerhouse Art Prize, Tas (2017)

Worldview Creative Arts Competition, Launceston, Tas, (2017), honourable mention

Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas (2016)

Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tas, (2016)

REVIVE, Sustainable Art Tasmania, QVMAG, Inveresk, Tas (2016

Executed in Franklin Street, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall (2016) (invited artist)

Emerge (Albert Hall, Launceston, Tas 2014)

Emerge, Interactive Installation, City Park, Launceston, Tas (2014)

Heart Beat, M16, Canberra (2013)

Something about Canberra, M16, Canberra (2013)

Ten, Watson Gallery, Canberra (2012)

The Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney (2012)

Art of Resistance, Annandale Arts Centre, Sydney (2012)

Create to Advocate, Parliament House, Canberra, (2008), (Honourable Mention)

Riverstone Art Exhibition, Belgrave Heights, Vic (2011)

 

Selected Arts Training

Bachelor of Fine Arts, UTAS, (Launceston, Tasmania), Current

Idris Murphy and Ross Lawrie workshop, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby, NSW, (2019)

Nick Collison painting workshop, Jarvis Bay, NSW, (2018)

Idris Murphy and Ross Laurie Painting workshop (Fowler’s Gap, NSW), (2017) 

Bronze Sculpture, Strathnairne, Canberra, (2013)

Advanced Life Drawing, Life Drawing, Painting, ANU, ACT, 1990s

Batik Painting, Pia Pia Gallery, Nairobi Kenya, 1975

Wood block printmaking, portraiture, water colour, painting, FATA (2011-2024)