Chrissy Dwyer

Chrissy Dwyer is an acrylic painter who aims to depict reality through a lens of saturated
colour. Her style is an overlap of semi-realistic to impressionistic modern pop. Her practice
mainly explores still life and landscapes. She is inspired by where she lives, a sub-tropical
and semi-arid environment of the Darling Downs countryside. Her landscapes have an iconic palette of earthy colours and cool blues and greens with pops of colour while her still lifes are pop pastels. She is currently interested in the interplay between light and shadows, exploring aerial perspective, the genre of house plants, and has in interest in the liminal space between landscape and still life.

Notable achievements include being selected as a finalist in the Salon des Refuses [Online]
Lethbridge 20 000 Small Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery (2024), and in the Lethbridge 10 000
Small Scale Award in 2016 and 2015; a Finalist in the Open Category, Independent
Education Union Awards in Excellence for Art and Design (2027); the Moreton Bay Regional
Art Awards in 2014 and 2013, and Queensland Regional Art Awards and Boarder Art Prize
in 2011. As well, I have had a feature articles published in Artist Palette in 2010, Australian
Artist Magazine and Fine Art and Decorative Painting magazine in 2012 and 2011.