Cleo WILKINSON

Born 1959, Melbourne, Australia

Lives and works in Indooroopilly, Australia

“Cleo has taken this complex delicate and most physically demanding of all art forms to great heights and diversity. Each image shows a great range of tonal depth which is only obtained through painstaking burnishing of the paint and many trial paintings.”

Biography

1977-1981       BA, Fine Arts, Elam Art School, Auckland University, New Zealand

1988                Graduate Diploma Information Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Awards          

2019                1^st Prize, Print Inter into Art, Cologne, Germany; Honorable Mention, 12^th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Norwalk, USA; Honorable Mention, 10^th International d’Art Miniature, Lévis, Québec, Canada

2018                1^st Prize, 6^th Biennial FOOTPRINT International Exhibition, Norwalk, USA; 1^st Prize, Biennale Internationale d’Art Miniature, Ville Marie, Québec; Special Award for Remarkable Contribution in Graphic Art, International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia; 1^st Prize, @nd International Biennial of Paper Works, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2017                Prize, 8^th International Exhibition Art in Miniature, MajdanArt, Majdanpek, Serbia

2016                1^st Prize, 5^th International Printmaking Competition, Istanbul, Turkey; 1^st Prize, 19^th Miniprint International, Ithaca, New York, USA; 2^nd Place, 5^th Biennial FOOTPRINT International Exhibition, Norwalk, USA

2015                1^st Prize, On Paper, Printmaking Contest, Barcelona, Spain

2014                Medal of Honor, 15^th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Lodz, Poland; 1^st Prize, 2^nd International Biennial of Small Prints, Nis, Serbia; Award, 3^rd Guangzhou, International Ex libris and Mini Print Biennial, China

2013                1^st Prize, International Contemporary Mini Print, Kazanlak, Bulgaria

2012                Award, 11^th Biennale Internationale d’Art Miniature, Ville Marie, Québec, Canada; 1^st Prize, 1^st International Salon of Mini Print and Ex Libris, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Printmakers Council Award, 8^th British International Mini Print Exhibition, London, UK

2011                1^st Prize, 5^th Miniprint Internacional Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina; 1^st Prize, 8^th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Norwalk, USA

2009                Honorable Award, 7^th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Norwalk, USA

2007                Grand Prize, Guanlan International Print Biennial, Shenzhen, China; Purchase Prize, Biennale Internazionale per l’Incisione, Acqui Terme, Italy

Over 500 juried solo and group exhibitions, artist in residence and visiting artist in over 40 international locations.

Workshops     New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, New York, SUA /2010/; Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK; Art Students League of New York, USA /2011/; Grand Central Academy of Art, New York, USA /2012/; Atelier of Realist Art, Barcelona, Spain /2016/

Collections      90 internationally significant collections, galleries and museums worldwide.

www.cleosart.com