Bill McSwain
Artist & Potter
Bill McSwain
Artist & Potter
My Career
Bill McSwain
Artist & Potter
Site Owner: Bill McSwain
Last Updated in October 2011
•Solo Exhibitions in Melbourne & Adelaide
•Group Exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide
•Exhibited with Victorian Artists’ Society since 1970
•North Melbourne Watercolour Prize in 1971, 1972
•Camdem Landscape Prize 1972
•Exhibited with Australian Water Colour Institute since 1973
•Painted at the National Gallery, London, UK – copied Old Masters 1975
•Protege to Tom Gleghorne in Master Protege Exhibition, Adelaide Festival of Arts Exhibition, 1976
•Commended Prize in West Lakes Prize, Adelaide, 1980
•Commended Prize for Portraiture, Sydney Show, 1981
•Exhibition ‘Olympic Games’, Australian Post Office, Adelaide 1988
•Hilton International Grand Prix Exhibition, 1989
•The Sherbrook Shire Watercolour Award, Melbourne, 1991
•Commended Prize for Landscape Painting, Glen Waverly, Rotary Arts Show, 1991
•Commended Prize for Oil & Acrylic Painting, Flagstaff Hill, Rotary Arts Show, 1992
•Commended Prize for Mixed Media Drawing, Flagstaff Hill, Rotary Arts Show, 1992
•Hub Tavern Merit Award for Acrylic Painting, Rotary Club of Flagstaff Hill Art & Photographic Exhibition, 1993
•Premier Art Supplies Merit Award to Mixed or Alternative Medium, Rotary Club of Flagstaff Hill Art & Photographic Exhibition, 1993
•Represented in the La Trobe Gallery
•Represented in private collections throughout Australia and overseas including; Sun River, Oregon, USA; Gothenburg, Sweden; Tonga; Vaiaku Lagu Hotel, Tuvalu
•Represented in literary work; Australian Watercolour Painters 1780 to Present Day, Author, Jean Campbell; Artists & Galleries of Australia Volume II M-Z, Author, Max Germaine