Roger Murphy

Tasmanian Watercolour Artist
Maria Island

ROGER MURPHY

Exhibitions & Prizes

Roger Murphy exhibits at Huon Art Gallery Cygnet,Strickland Gallery Grand Chancellor Hotel Hobart,Saddlers Court Gallery Richmond Tasmania and Waubs Gallery Bicheno Tasmania.

He also shows paintings at his home at Kingston Beach.

PRIZES

  • Derwent Festival Art Prize, 1967
  • Inaugural Wrest Point Casino Art Prize (watercolour section), 1996
  • Wrest Point Casino Art Prize, 2007

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • 1977 – “Four at One”
    Gallery One, Hobart.
  • 1978 – “Drawings, Prints and Paintings”
    Art Centre, Hobart.
  • 1978 – “50 years of watercolour painting in Tasmania 1928-1978”
    Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania.
  • 1986 – “Italy, Turkey and Greece”
    Freeman Gallery, Hobart
  • 1989 – Exhibition for the Australia China Friendship Society,
    Fujian Province, China
  • 1993 – “Greece, Ireland
    and France”

    Strickland Gallery, Hobart
  • 1996 and 2000 – “Tuscany and Greece”
    Handmark Gallery, Hobart
  • 2002 – “Italy and Greece”
    Handmark Gallery, Hobart
  • 2004 Australian Watercolour Institute Annual Exhibition
    Mosman Gallery, Sydney
  • 2005 – “Winter light”
    Handmark Gallery, Hobart