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Alison Murphy
Artist Statement
The soft blue-grey distance and colours of the Australian landscape and atmosphere challenge me to create artwork that conveys Australia’s unique light. A land of extreme contrasts, I also aspire to share its harsh colourful beauty and its history. I enjoy creating works that show space and distance or tell a story of relationships, freedom or exploration. My work is traditional in style using oil on board or canvas. I also enjoy creating florals and beach scenes in pastel and working with graphite or pen to create detailed works.
Biography
Alison is a Toowoomba based artist who has been painting and drawing for over twenty years. Experienced in a variety of media, early works were commissions of buildings and rural subjects to preserve these structures in art form for future generations. She was awarded the Australia Day Cultural Award for Mundubbera Shire for services to Art and has won multiple prizes in the Region for her artworks using oils, pastels, acrylics and pen and ink. Her work has been acquired by Shire and City Councils, Government Departments as well as by private collectors nationally. She has been selected multiple times as an Exhibiting Finalist in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, The Doyles, Brisbane Rotary Art Show and Camberwell Art Show Melbourne. 2026 Exhibiting finalist Tattersall's Club Landscape Prize. She currently has an artwork touring with Flying Arts Qld Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Exhibition. One of her soft pastel works was chosen as cover artwork on a soon to be published Novel.
Influences
Australian Artist John Wilson, whose atmospheric paintings portray the Australian Landscape in all its moods. Warwick Fuller for his light filled textural works. The Heidelberg School. I had a print of a Frederick McCubbin work on my wall as a child and could relate to the colours and the feel of the Australian bush which surrounded my home at the time. I also admire the Impressionists. I find the pastel works of Lyn Diefenbach and Harley Brown inspirational.
Awards
2026 Achievements Bell Art Show – Dalby Regional Arts Council Choice Award Bell Art Show – Paul Haslem Memorial Trophy - Best overall Traditional Artwork. Bell Art Show – 1st Prize Class 1 - Landscape or Seascape, any approach, any medium Aspects Art Show Goondiwindi – Highly commended Landscape section Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize – Exhibiting Finalist The Doyles Art Award – Exhibiting Finalist with two artworks. Queensland Regional Art Awards - Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Touring Exhibition. Cover Art for novel – “And in the morning” released July 2026.
Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions: Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Award Lethbridge Landscape Award Rotary Brisbane Camberwell Melbourne The Doyles Grammar Art Show Fairholme Art Show Bell Art Exhibition Maryborough Warehouse Gallery Kingaroy Shire Gallery Wondai Shire Gallery Trevenan House Gallery New Farm Aspects Art
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