BIO

Established Australian artist, Nicole Southworth, grew up in southern Sydney in the Sutherland Shire and developed a love of visual art as a young child.

By the age of 19, she was exhibiting her oil paintings in prominent galleries in Sydney. Nicole held her first solo exhibition at the age of 21 in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, and has had many solo exhibitions since.

“I am predominantly a landscape oil painter, enjoying bush and coastal scenes. My landscapes are influenced by many past and present Australian landscape artists, as well as the impressionist and post-impressionist movements.. Of particular interest to me, is the use of colour, light and movement in our unique Australian landscape - often the natural landscape but just as often with glimpses of the presence of urbanisation within the landscape”.

Commission include: The Spanish Embassy in Sydney, Colonial First State, GIO, Qantas,  Ansett, Sutherland Hospital, Trinity Grammar School, Inaburra School, Shire Christian School, Australian Consulates in Toronto, Canada and New York, USA.

Artwork has been shown in Australian Artist Magazine and has featured in multiple articles in the StGeorge and Sutherland Shire Leader. 

Private commissions have been undertaken for many worldwide and domestic clients. 

Selected exhibitions and shows

2024 - Named Feature Artist at Oyster Bay Art Show

2023 - Solo exhibition Titled “The land on which we live” at Hazelhurst Art Centre

2023 - Solo exhibition titled Blue Views at Traffic Jam Galleries, Neutral Bay

2023 - Finalist - Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Landscape Prize

2023 - Scarborough Art Show - selected for group show

2023 - Winner - Major prize - Oyster Bay Art Show

2017 – Solo exhibition at Articles Gallery, Stanwell Park

2015 - Solo exhibition at Cronulla Art Gallery, Cronulla

2016 - Winner - Figurative Price Oyster Bay Art Show

2002 - Winner - Contemporary Prize - Sans Souci Art Show

1998 - Solo exhibition at Gallery 101, Cronulla

1997 - Solo exhibition at Rydges Hotel, Cronulla

1997 - Solo exhibition at Hazelhurst Cottage (now Hazelhurst Art Centre)

1996 - Solo exhibition at Valerie Cohen Gallery, Paddington

1995 - Solo show at Pepperwood Gallery in Toronto, Canada.

1995 - Finalist in the Nassegewayer Art Prize, Toronto Canada.

1993 - Solo exhibition at Graphis Gallery, Woollahra.

1992 - Group exhibition at Edgecliff Art Gallery