Born 1962, Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
Education
2008 MA of Fine Art (Research), Monash University, Melbourne
1989 BA Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1984 BA Graphic Communication, Chisholm Institute of Technology, Dandenong, Victoria
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Second Lesson, mother’s tankstation, London
2023
Drawings & Studies, Fine Arts, Sydney
2022
Conditions for Sprouting Seeds, Fine Arts, Sydney
2021
The Call, mother’s tankstation, London
2020
The Wish, Fine Arts, Sydney
2019
The Visit, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2018
The Wake, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2017
Bedsit, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2015
Baby, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2014
Travel Agent, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2013
Cut on the Cross, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2012
Ukulele, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Bird Park, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2010
World Map, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Partly Cloudy Day, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2007
Four Wheel Drive, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2005
The Library Series, The Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
2003
A Fine Romance, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2000
The Company You Keep, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Pleasure Beyond Price, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993
Paintings, Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2025
The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2023
NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2020
Dwelling is the light, Timothy Taylor Online
ME: An exhibition of Contemporary Self-Portraiture, High Line Nine, New York
2019
FEM-aFFINITY, Touring exhibition curated by Catherine Bell, 2019 – 2021
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2018
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
St Kevin’s Art Show, St Kevin’s College, Melbourne
Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, Queensland
2017
Doug Moran National Portrait Art Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, New South Wales
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Home, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2016
Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Paul Guest Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
2015
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, The Gallery @ BACC, Melbourne
2014
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
Portia Geach Memorial Award (Highly-Commended), S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
Sunshine Coast Art Prize (Highly-Commended), Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
2013
Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2012
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne
R & M McGivern Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Maroondah, Victoria
Moment, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2011
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney
2010
Paul Guest Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Beleura National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Nellie Castan Gallery @ The Depot Gallery, Sydney
2009
Nothing Out of The Ordinary, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Salon Des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
R & M McGivern Prize Exhibition, Maroondah Art Gallery, Maroondah, Victoria
2008
National Works on Paper, MPRG
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2007
Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
DLAP, City of Darebin & La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Eye to I – the self in recent art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
2006
Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
Lexicon, curated by Martina Copley, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
2005
Portia Geach Memorial Award, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
The Influence of Anxiety, Blindside Artist Run Space Inc, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2004
Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (WINNER), State Library of NSW, Sydney
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Smorgan Steel Contemporary Art Prize, Customs Wharf Gallery, Williamstown
2003
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2002
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2001
Darebin~La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora, Melbourne
2000
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1999
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Gallery
Darebin~La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora
1998
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
1997
Geelong Contemporary Prize Show, Geelong Gallery
1995
Lovers, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1994
Aesthetic Illusions, Arts Victoria
Lineage, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1992
Objects Of Desire, Panorama
Selected Bibliography
2024
‘Painting A Picture’, The Dreaming Machine, Art Monthly Australasia, Issue 341, Summer 2024/25
Burnard, Elle, ‘Artist Prudence Flint chats about dogs, the female gaze and ngv’s newest exhibition, frankie, 31 October
‘Prudence Flint: Second Lesson’, Juxtapoz, 9 October
‘About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting in Australia and New Zealand’, edited by Amber Creswell Bell, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 9781760763992, September
Handelszeitung cover, Nr.22, 30 May
Francesca, Vanessa, ‘Inside and out: Notions of interiority at the NGV Triennial’, Art Monthly Australasia, 6 March
2023
Percival, Lindy, ‘Prudence Flint’, The Edge, 9 December 2023
Grishin, Sasha, ‘The amazing NGV Triennial 2023 makes us question our world and forces us to see it differently’, The Conversation, 4 December
Lai, Gladys, ‘From Schiaparelli to Yoko Ono: an exclusive first look inside the NGV Triennial 2023’, Vogue Australia, 1 December
Pelz, Ellinor, ‘Holding Ground’, Artist Profile, Art Collector Magazine, Issue 104, April – June
2022
‘Artists at Home: Inside the creative spaces of 32 female artists in Australia’, edited by Karina Dias Pires, Thames & Hudson, October
Public Art Magazine cover, Issue no. 194, ISSN 1975 – 6437, November
‘Prudence Flint’, featured by mother’s tankstation, International Galleries Alliance, 16 November
Martin-Chew, Louise, ‘Prudence Flint: From Beauty to Complexity – And Back’, art guide Australia, 7 March
2021
Walton, Millie, ‘Subversive Women: Prudence Flint’, Trebuchet Magazine, 10 November
Pricco, Evan, ‘The Call: Prudence Flint @ mother’s tankstation, London’ Juxtapoz Magazine, 25 October
Scott, Issey, ‘mother’s tankstation: Prudence Flint The Call’, Let’s make lots of Mon*t, 18 October
Bishop, Alice, ‘Woolgathering’, commissioned essay for NGV Magazine Issue 22, National Gallery of Victoria, 28 May
Broujean, Anna, Club Sandwich Magazine, HORS D’ŒUVRE #1 – The Watermelon Issue, ISSN 978-2-957185-71-9
2020
Barnes, Mollie E,’ Prudence Flint’, she curates, 10 December
Ashby,Chloë, ‘In the Studio with Prudence Flint, TOAST Magazine, 22 October
Beudel, Saskia, ‘Prudence Flint’, Cover feature, Artist Profile, Issue 51, May
Pesa, Melissa, ‘Prudence Flint: The Wish’, Art Almanac, 20 May
Miekus, Tiarney, ‘Where intimacy happens’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May
Cowan, Katy, ‘Paintings by Melbourne artist Prudence Flint of strong female characters deep in thought’, Creative Boom, 27 January
Pyatt, Charlotte, ‘Prudence Flint: Portrait of the Unnamed’, Juxtapoz Magazine, Issue 212, Winter 2020, 13 January
2019
Parlane, Anna, FEM-aFFINITY Arts Project Australia memo review, 20 July
Grishin, Sasha, ‘From the Archibald to Duchamp GAB 43’, Grishin’s Art Blog 43, 30 June
O’Sullivan, John P, ‘The Best Of What’s On This Week’ The Visit review, The Sunday Times, 16 June
Bogojev, Sasha, ‘The Visit: The Quiet Loud of Prudence Flint @ mother’s tankstation in Dublin, Ireland’, Juxtapoz Magazine, 14 June
Wilson, Emma-Kate, ‘Prudence Flint, The Visit, mother’s tankstation’, CIRCA Art Magazine, 5 June
Kadison, Dan, ‘Rabit and the Mood – A Review of Art Basel Hong Kong 2019’, NewsWhistle, 8 April
Araya, Nicole, ‘An Interview with Prudence Flint’, The Harvard Advocate: Special Issue The Women’s Issue
2018
Snape, Alice, Feature, Oh Comely, Issue 44
Grishin, Sasha, The Archibald 2018 – What’s in a name?, Grishin’s Art Blog
Frost, Andrew, ‘Archibald Prize 2018: what the award means in 2018 and how to game it.’, The Guardian, 4 May
2017
Nelson, Robert, ‘Archibald Prize 2017 Review: A difference between male and female portraitists’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November
Fulleylove, Rebecca, ‘Artist Prudence Flint paints “powerful and mysterious” female protagonists in oil.’, It’s Nice That magazine, Autumn/Winter
Shi, Diana, ‘The artist channels Hopper and Katz in her images of everyday women’, Vice, 3 July
2015
Grishin, Sasha, ‘Archibald Prize Review’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August
2014
A Collaborative project by ARTAND Australia and The Red Room Company, Prudence Flint and Elizabeth Campbell, Jenny Watson and Ken Bolton, Issue No 514
2012
Nelson, Robert, ‘Spraying the Façade Of Realism’, The Age, 7 November
Murray, Phip, ‘What Now?’, Australian Art Collector, Oct-Dec
2011
‘Art Nation’, ABC TV, 26 June
Cheney, Jacqui, ‘Women in isolation – serene or lonely?’, Canberra Times, 9 May
Dawkins, Urszula, ‘Journey beyond the ordinary’, Canberra Times, 30 April
Sorensen, Rosemary, ‘Painting still the best’, Bendigo Weekly, 24 March
Nelson, Robert, ‘Fazed, dazed and enthused’, The Age, 22 December
2010
Gaston, Vivian, ‘Portraits on Paper; face-making as graphic experience’, Beleura National Works on Paper Catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Meacham, Steve, ‘Portia Geach winner comes out of her shell’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 September
Nelson, Robert, ‘Change engulfs the archetypes’,The Age, 21 April
2009
Vernay, Jean-Francois, ‘A Fine Romance #6’, cover of Panorama Du Roman Australien
Allen, Christopher, ‘About face’, The Weekend Australian, 21-22 March
2008
‘Four Wheel Drive #2’, Cover of Antipodes, North American Journal of Australian Literature, Volume 22
Wallis, Geoffrey J, ‘Eye to I-the self in recent art’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Nelson, Robert, ‘To the variables of tone and hue’, The Age, 7 March
2006
Nelson, Robert, ‘The art of Australian mockery’, The Age, 10 June
2005
Morrow, Christine, ‘The Influence Of Anxiety’, Catalogue
Walwicz, Anja, The Library Series, Catalogue Text, Gallery @ City Library
2004
Thomas, Daniel, ‘Anti–Archibald: Doing the Doug Moran’, Art Monthly, No.173, September
2003
Nelson, Robert, ‘Art Smart’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 26, October– December
2000
Nelson, Robert, ‘Thick and Thicker’,The Age Review, 31 May
1998
Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Vol. 35, No. 3
1995
Fenner, Felicity, ‘Meditations Beyond Sphere of the Domestic’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 April
Exhibition Commentary, Art & Australia, Vol. 32, No. 3
Engberg, Juliana, ‘Love Tokens’, Catalogue Essay
1994
Kent, Rachel, ‘Paintings’, Catalogue Essay
Wilson, Kevin, ‘Lineage’, Catalogue Essay
Sierra, Marie, ‘Timeless Burial’, Herald Sun Review, 2 November
Rooney Robert, ‘Lovers’, The Australian Review, 22 December
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2019
Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydeny
2018
Winner, St Kevin’s Art Show
2016
Winner, Len Fox Painting Award
2014
Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, Highly Commended
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Highly-Commended
2012
Postcard Show Award, Palais Theatre Management Artist Support, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
2010
Winner, Portia Geach Memorial Award. S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Studio Residency, Shakespeare Grove Studios
2005
Recipient Of City Of Melbourne Arts Grant Projects
2004
Winner, Doug Moran Portrait Prize,State Library of NSW, Sydney
1994
Studio Residency (1994 – 1996), Temple Studios
1992
Studio Residency (1992 – 1994), Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
1991
The Self Portrait Show, Highly Commended, McPherson Art Prize
St Kilda Council Postcard Collection, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
The Bennet Collection
Port Phillip Collection
BHP Billiton
Doug Moran Portrait Collection Artbank
City of Port Philip
Gold Coast City Gallery Collection University of Wollongong
Artemisia Collecting Group Tasmania